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Brookwood Cemetery is vast.  Not the military cemetery, which, at 37 acres, is big enough, but the civil cemetery, a small part of which you can see above. 

Who knew that there was a Turkish Second World War burial ground down here in leafy Surrey? 

Tucked away in the very north eastern corner of Brookwood Military Cemetery there’s a small plot of twenty four headstones, officially entitled Plot 2A, that we have visited once before, although some years back now.

I’m afraid to say that I fibbed last post.  I did mention that we would see what’s what in the civil cemetery this time, but it subsequently occurred to me that I could show you some of the less well-known … Continue reading →

We shall start the New Year with the first in a series of posts about Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey and the adjoining, and much smaller – a mere 37 acres – Brookwood Military Cemetery, which is where we begin.