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6 unusual facts about Brookwood Cemetery


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In 1896 many bodies were disinterred from the churchyard and reburied at Brookwood Cemetery.

Brookwood railway station

It was constructed to serve the adjacent Brookwood Cemetery and was at one stage served by its own station in London (London Necropolis railway station) for the funeral trains.

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The only exception to this was during the four years of the German occupation of Ypres from 20 May 1940 to 6 September 1944, when the ceremony moved to Brookwood Cemetery in England.

Margaret Raine Hunt

Margaret's grave and those of her husband and daughter are in the Glades of Remembrance at Brookwood Cemetery.

Ratanji Tata

He died on September 5, 1918 at St Ives in Cornwall, England and was buried at Brookwood Cemetery, Woking, near London, by the side of his father (Jamsetji Tata).

Violet Hunt

Her grave and those of her parents are in the Glades of Remembrance at Brookwood Cemetery.


John Kenneth Macalister

Captain Ken Macalister is honored on the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey in Brookwood, Surrey, England and as one of the SOE agents who died for the liberation of France, he is listed on the "Roll of Honor" on the Valençay SOE Memorial in the town of Valençay, in the Indre département of France.


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