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American World War Memorial and Cemetery Section, Brookwood Military Cemetery, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Brookwood, Borough of Woking, County Surrey, ...
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American World War Memorial and Cemetery Section, Brookwood Military Cemetery, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Brookwood, Borough of Woking, County Surrey, England, UK. "Those who were abandoned by Country and Family."

The Brookwood American Cemetery contains the graves of 468 American dead, including 41 unknown burials. Another 563 names are inscribed upon the "Walls of the Missing" located inside the Memorial's Chapel who died at sea during World War I and whose remains were never recovered.

The Cemetery and Monument are overseen by the American Battle Monuments Commission, guardians of America's overseas commemorative cemeteries and memorials.

Brookwood Military Cemetery and Memorials, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Borough of Woking, County Surrey, England, UK.

Brookwood Military Cemetery covers about 37 acres (15 ha) and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom. The land was set aside during World War I to provide a burial site for men and women of Commonwealth and American armed forces who died in the United Kingdom of wounds. It now contains 1,601 Commonwealth burials from World War I and 3,476 from World War II (the latter including 3 unidentified British and 2 unidentified Canadian airmen). Within this, there is a particularly large Canadian section, which includes 43 men who died of wounds following the Dieppe Raid in August 1942. Two dozen Muslim dead were also later transferred here in 1968 from the Muslim Burial Ground, Horsell Common. There is a large Royal Air Force section in the southeast corner of the cemetery which includes graves of Czech and United States nationals who died serving in the RAF.

The cemetery also has 786 non-Commonwealth war graves, including 28 unidentified French, besides eight German dead from World War I and 46 from World War II. It also contains Polish (84 graves), Czech, Belgian (46 graves), Dutch (seven graves) and Italian (over 300 graves) sections. Except for Christmas Day and New Year's Day, this cemetery is open to the public from 8am to sunset Monday to Friday, and 9am to sunset Saturdays and Sundays.

The United Kingdom 1914–1918 Memorial stands at the northeastern end of the 1914–1918 Plot. Created in 2004, it currently (14 May 2016) commemorates 252 Commonwealth service personnel who died in the First World War in the United Kingdom but have no known grave. (Those whose graves are subsequently discovered become commemorated under the respective cemetery.)
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