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

Aldershot Military Cemetery Part Two

Posted on May 11, 2024 by Magicfingers

There are around seven hundred Great War graves in this cemetery, seventy of which are to be found among the burials here in Plot R. 

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Aldershot Military Cemetery Part One

Posted on April 21, 2024 by Magicfingers

Aldershot – ‘The Home of the British Army’.  At the start of 1855, with the Crimean War still more than a year from its conclusion, the Army began constructing its first bespoke, as we might say today, training camp in … Continue reading →

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Brookwood Military Cemetery – The American Memorial Chapel

Posted on February 24, 2024 by Magicfingers

We’ve looked around the graves in the American Military Cemetery at Brookwood before, but we’ve never been inside the chapel. 

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Brookwood Military Cemetery – The Royal Hospital Burial Ground

Posted on February 12, 2024 by Magicfingers

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.

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Brookwood Military Cemetery – The Canadian Second World War Plot

Posted on February 8, 2024 by Magicfingers

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. 

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Brookwood Cemetery – The Nurses of Brookwood

Posted on February 3, 2024 by Magicfingers

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

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Brookwood Cemetery – The Victoria Cross Holders

Posted on January 28, 2024 by Magicfingers

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. 

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