Category Archives: Surrey

Brookwood Military Cemetery – The Muslim Burials

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Magicfingers

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.

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Brookwood Military Cemetery – The Non-Commonwealth Nations

Posted on January 11, 2024 by Magicfingers

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 →

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Brookwood Military Cemetery – The Memorials, Past & Present

Posted on January 5, 2024 by Magicfingers

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.

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Grayswood – All Saints Church & Churchyard

Posted on April 9, 2023 by Magicfingers
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Bill’s House

Posted on March 11, 2023 by Magicfingers

Spotted this blue plaque the other week.  Wasn’t there last time I passed by. Alfred William (Bill) Bedford O.B.E., was a World War II fighter pilot and later, in the 1950s & 1960s, chief test pilot at Hawker Siddeley.  It … Continue reading →

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Esher War Memorial

Posted on March 8, 2023 by Magicfingers

Never assume that your war memorial will always be where you think it is.  This is Esher war memorial, these first few pictures taken some fifteen years ago. The Great War panels (above & below),… …and the Second World War … Continue reading →

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Hersham War Memorial – A Return Visit

Posted on November 25, 2022 by Magicfingers

Some more recent photos of Hersham war memorial, the first ones I published taken well over decade ago now (but still available to view here).  So why this shot to start? Well, there was a Great War German field gun … Continue reading →

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