Category Archives: U.K. Churches, Memorials & Cemeteries – Back in Blighty

The Royal Hospital Chelsea burials – Chelsea Pensioners to you and me – at Brookwood are to be found beyond the main Canadian Second World War Plot in the western corner of the military cemetery.

Two short(ish) posts coming up, just to show you the areas of Brookwood Military Cemetery that we haven’t yet visited.  First, this is the Canadian Second World War Plot – or at least some of it. 

Tucked away beneath these trees and bushes, this is the Brookwood Nurses’ Plot.

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 →