Brookwood Cemetry Guildford/Farnborough area (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Thursday, August 02, 2012, 07:10 (4499 days ago) @ unknown

Rowland was submitted as a forgotten casualty of the Great War by the In From The Cold Project. He died from a fractured skull resulting from a fall from a horse. It is known that he was from the Coleford area. Wonder if anyone on this forum could help with finding a grave please

Cheers

Chris

Year: 1917
Month: Mar
Day: 5
Surname: BENNETT
Forenames: Roland George
Residence: Berry Hill
Age_at_death: 48
Officiating_Minister: C Barnes vicar
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda: died at Aldershot
Notes:
Register_Reference: P82 IN 1/15
Page_No: 100
Parish_Chapel: Christchurch

Rank:Serjeant
Service No:7055
Date of Death:01/03/1917
Age:45
Regiment/Service:Royal Garrison Artillery
Panel ReferenceAddenda Panel
Memorial BROOKWOOD (UNITED KINGDOM 1914-1918) MEMORIAL

BROOKWOOD (UNITED KINGDOM 1914-1918) MEMORIAL
Country:United Kingdom
Locality:Surrey
Identified Casualties:400

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Location Information
Brookwood is 30 miles from London (M3 to Bagshot and then A322). The main entrance to Brookwood Military Cemetery is on the A324 from the village of Pirbright. There is a direct train service from Waterloo to Brookwood Station from which there is an entrance to the cemetery.

The United Kingdom 1914-1918 Memorial stands at the north-eastern end of the 1914-1918 Plot.

Historical Information
BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY is owned by the Commission and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom, covering approximately 37 acres.

In 1917, an area of land in Brookwood Cemetery (The London Necropolis) was set aside for the burial of men and women of the forces of the Commonwealth and Americans, who had died, many of battle wounds, in the London district.

This site was further extended to accommodate the Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War. There is a large Royal Air Forces section in the south-east corner of the cemetery (which also contains the graves of Czech and American airmen who served with the Royal Air Force) and the Air Forces shelter building nearby houses the register of the names of those buried in the section. A plot in the west corner of the cemetery contains approximately 2,400 Canadian graves of the Second World War including those of 43 men who died of wounds following the Dieppe Raid in August 1942. The Canadian Records building, which was a gift of the Canadian government, houses a reception room for visitors and other offices.

In addition to the Commonwealth plots, the cemetery also contains French, Polish, Czech, Belgian and Italian sections, and a number of war graves of other nationalities all cared for by the Commission. The American Military Cemetery is the responsibility of the American Battle Monuments Commission.

Brookwood Military Cemetery now contains 1,601 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 3,476 from the Second World War. Of the Second World War burials 5 are unidentified, 3 being members of the R.A.F. and 2 being members of the R.C.A.F.

The war graves of other nationalities in the Commission's care number 786 including 28 unidentified French.

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