The Avenue leading from Brookwood Cemetery

World War I Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial, within the grounds of Brookwood Cemetery

Brookwood Cemetery is a burial ground in Brookwood, Surrey, England. Also known as the London Necropolis, it was established by the London Necropolis Company in 1852 to house London's dead, since the capital was finding it difficult to accommodate its increasing population, both of living and dead. Landscaped by architect William Tite, by 1854 it was the largest cemetery in the world (it is no longer) and over 240,000 people have been buried there. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (3072 × 2304 pixel, file size: 3 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Suzanne Knights, my photo, Jan 2007 I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (3072 × 2304 pixel, file size: 3 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Suzanne Knights, my photo, Jan 2007 I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File links Brookwood_American_Cemetery_and_Memorial. ... Image File history File links Brookwood_American_Cemetery_and_Memorial. ... Brookwood is a town (or village, as it likes to be known) in Surrey, located about 5 km west of Woking, in a semi-rural location. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Unified  -  by Athelstan 967 AD  Area  -  Total 130,395 km²  50,346 sq mi  Population  -  2007 estimate... The London Necropolis Company, also London Necropolis & National Mausoleum Company, was set up in 1850, and established by Act of Parliament in 1852. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... An architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person who is involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction. ... William Tite (1798-1873) was a British architect. ... 1854 (MDCCCLIV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Castle Ashby Graveyard Northamptonshire A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. ...

It is situated close to Woking, Surrey, and was accessible by rail from a special cemetery station – the London Necropolis railway station – next to Waterloo. The original station was relocated in 1902 but its successor was demolished after suffering bomb damage during World War II. Woking is a large town in England, in the west of Surrey. ... The London Necropolis railway station was a special railway station constructed by the London Necropolis Company for funeral trains, specifically to serve their Brookwood Cemetery. ... London Waterloo railway station is a major railway station and transport interchange complex in London, England. ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

A military cemetery was added in 1917 and contains some of the dead from World War I and World War II. A military memorial was built in 1958. Memorialised here too is Edward the Martyr ([1]), King of England, whose relics are kept nearby in St Edward the Martyr Orthodox Church. 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... King Edward the Martyr or Eadweard II (c. ... St. ...

Brookwood American Military Cemetery and Memorial

This 4-acre site lies to the west of the civilian cemetery. It contains the graves of 468 American military dead and a further 563 with no known grave are commemorated. It is administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission. Close by are military cemeteries and monuments of the British Commonwealth and other allied nations. The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) is a small independent agency of the Executive Branch of the United States federal government. ...

Source

• Brookwood cemetery, American Battle Monuments Commission site
• Brookwood cemetery, American Battle Monuments Commission video

Brookwood Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery and memorials

Brookwood Military Cemetery covers about 37 acres is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom. The land was set aside during World War I to provide a burial site for men and women of Commonwealth and American armed forces who died in the United Kingdom of wounds. It now contains 1,601 Commonwealth burials from World War I and 3,476 from World War II. Within this, there is a particularly large Canadian section, which includes 43 men who died of wounds following the Dieppe Raid in August 1942. The cemetery also has 786 non-Commonwealth war graves, including 28 unidentified French. It also contains Polish, Czech, Belgian and Italian sections. The United Kingdom 1914-1918 Memorial stands at the north-eastern end of the 1914-1918 Plot. “The Great War ” redirects here. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Combatants Canada United Kingdom Germany Commanders Louis Mountbatten J. H. Roberts Gerd von Rundstedt Strength 6,086 1,500 Casualties Canada: 950 dead, 2,340 captured wounded or not; United Kingdom: 600; United States:4+; 311 dead, 280 wounded The Dieppe Raid, also known as The Battle of Dieppe or...

The Brookwood Memorial stands at the southern end of the Canadian section of the cemetery and commemorates 3,500 Commonwealth men and women who died during the Second World War and have no known grave. This includes commandos killed in the Dieppe and St Nazaire Raids; and Special Operations Executive personnel who died in occupied Europe. Combatants Canada United Kingdom Germany Commanders Louis Mountbatten J. H. Roberts Gerd von Rundstedt Strength 6,086 1,500 Casualties Canada: 950 dead, 2,340 captured wounded or not; United Kingdom: 600; United States:4+; 311 dead, 280 wounded The Dieppe Raid, also known as The Battle of Dieppe or... This article is about the 1942 raid on St Nazaire. ... The Special Operations Executive (SOE), sometimes referred to as the Baker Street Irregulars after Sherlock Holmess fictional group of spies, was a World War II organization initiated by Winston Churchill and Hugh Dalton in July 1940 as a mechanism for conducting warfare by means other than direct military engagement. ...

The nearby Brookwood (Russia) Memorial was erected in 1983 and commemorates forces of the British Commonwealth who died in Russia in World War I and World War II. “The Great War ” redirects here. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

Source

• Commonwealthwealth War Graves Commission Brookwood site

Notable graves

• Dr Robert Knox (1791–1862), notable anatomist involved with the West Port Murders ([2])
• Charles Bradlaugh (1833–1891), atheist and political activist ([3])
• Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner (1840–1899), Anglo-Hungarian orientalist ([4])
• Dugald Drummond (1840–1912), Scottish locomotive engineer
• Edith Thompson (1893–1923), executed in Holloway prison in 1923 ([5])
• John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), American artist ([6])
• Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon (1862–1931) baronet, sportsman and Titanic survivor ([7])
• Sir Dorabji Tata (1859–1932), Indian philanthropist
• Marmaduke Pickthall (1875–1936), Western Islamic Scholar
• Said Bin Taimur of Muscat (1910–1972), Sultan of Oman 1932–1970
• Rebecca West (1892–1983), novelist, feminist and journalist ([8])
• Naji al-Ali (1937?–1987), Palestinian political cartoonist
• Margaret, Duchess of Argyll (1912–1993)
• Muhammad al-Badr (1926–1996) was an Imaam of Yemen.
• Dodi Al-Fayed (1955–1997), film producer, (original burial site, subsequently moved to the Al-Fayed estate in Surrey)

Robert Knox (4 September 1791 — 20 December 1862) was a doctor, natural scientist and traveller. ... William Burke (d. ... Charles Bradlaugh (26 September 1833 _ 30 January 1891) was a political activist and one of the most famous English atheists of the 19th century. ... Gottlieb Von Leitner (1840/1841 - 22 March 1899) was an Anglo-Hungarian orientalist. ... Dugald Drummond (1 January 1840 -8 November 1912) was a Scottish locomotive engineer. ... Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters Edith Jessie Thompson (December 25, 1893 – January 9, 1923) and Frederick Edward Francis Bywaters (1901 – January 9, 1923) were a British couple who were executed for the murder of Thompson’s husband Percy. ... Self Portrait, oil painting, 1907 John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was the most successful portrait painter of his era, as well as a gifted landscape painter and watercolorist. ... Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff Gordon, 5th Baronet (July 22, 1862 - April 20, 1931), the son of the Hon. ... Sir Dorab Tata, known as Sir Dorabji, was the elder son of Jamshedji Tata. ... (Mohammed) Marmaduke William Pickthall, (1875–May 19, 1936), a Western Islamic scholar, noted as a poetic and accurate translator of the Quran into English. ... Said Bin Taimur (1910-1972) was the sultan of Muscat and Oman (the country later renamed to Oman) from 1932 to 1970. ... Dame Rebecca West, DBE (December 21, 1892–March 15, 1983), whose real name was Cicely (she later changed it to Cicily) Isabel Fairfield, was a British-Irish feminist and writer famous for her novels and for her relationship with H. G. Wells. ... Naji al-Ali Naji Salim al-Ali (c. ... Margaret Whigham, photographed in 1933 on the occasion of her marriage to Charles Sweeny Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, (December 1, 1912 - July 25, 1993), was best known for her divorce case which featured salacious photographs and scandalous stories. ... H.M. Muhammad al-Badr (1926 – 1996) (Arabic: المنصور محمد البدر بن أحمد) was the last king of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen (North Yemen), and leader of the monarchist regions during the North Yemen Civil War (1962-1970). ... Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed (Arabic: عماد الدين محمد عبد المنعم الفايد ) (April 15, 1955 – August 31, 1997), better known as Dodi Fayed, was the son of the Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed (Arabic: محمد الفايد), owner of the British department store Harrods, Fulham Football Club and the Hôtel Ritz Paris. ...

References

See also

• List of famous cemeteries

This is a list of famous cemeteries, mausoleums and other places people are buried, world-wide. ...

Gallery

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External links

• Brookwood Cemetery – Official website
• Brookwood Cemetery – History (The Brookwood Cemetery Society)
• The Cemetery Railway – History (The Brookwood Cemetery Society)
• Brookwood Cemetery – Brookwood War Memorial
• Brookwood Cemetery – Haunted Brookwood Cemetery
• Brookwood Cemetery – Four galleries of images from UKGraves.info
• BRH: Asides
• Map sources for Brookwood Cemetery

Coordinates: 51.29783° N 0.63162° W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...