Brookwood Military Cemetery

While wandering through the CWGC site for the above cemetery I found an AAC casualty I did not know about! so I have to go back (again I hear you cry).

So as I have to go, and Thursday is the day in mind, dependent on the weather and how I feel healthwise (still recuperating you see!) I will also be getting the following:

Diane-
Welsh Guards =8
Scots Guards = 8
Coldstreamers = 12 (England Phil your man included here)
Grenadiers=9

I am also aware of the two in the main cemetery but that is the other side so will have to wait for another day!

If you have any extras or want to PM/email me the names you do have so I dont miss any!


Paul -Reccemitch
Recce x 1 (Harwood)
Also found one in the main cemetery but above applies!

and of course my Army Air Corps chap



If anyone else wants/needs any others please note that I will be doing the military side only (Brookwood altogether is 500 acres so would take days to find any in the main cemetery), details of plot, row and grave etc and who is required by tomorrow evening at latest by PM preferably

Regards

Andy

 

Just incase you wasn't aware Jim (Verries ish) is now collecting DLI's if there's any there

 

I kept an eye out, but didnt spot any!

Andy

 

Cheers Andy, will double check I pnly have the one outstanding when I get home later

 

While wandering through the CWGC site for the above cemetery I found an AAC casualty I did not know about! so I have to go back (again I hear you cry).

So as I have to go, and Thursday is the day in mind, dependent on the weather and how I feel healthwise (still recuperating you see!) I will also be getting the following:

Diane-
Welsh Guards =8
Scots Guards = 8
Coldstreamers = 12 (England Phil your man included here)
Grenadiers=9

I am also aware of the two in the main cemetery but that is the other side so will have to wait for another day!

If you have any extras or want to PM/email me the names you do have so I dont miss any!


Paul -Reccemitch
Recce x 1 (Harwood)
Also found one in the main cemetery but above applies!

and of course my Army Air Corps chap



If anyone else wants/needs any others please note that I will be doing the military side only (Brookwood altogether is 500 acres so would take days to find any in the main cemetery), details of plot, row and grave etc and who is required by tomorrow evening at latest by PM preferably

Regards

Andy

Cheers Andy

 

Andy, my apologies for intruding, but it sounds as if you haven't used the Cemetery option on the CWGC site and opened up the Brookwood Military Hospital entry. From there you can click on the Cemetery Reports and check through the alphabetical listings..... Sorry, it sounds as if I'm teaching you to suck eggs, hat coat, exit......

 

KevinW
Not intruding at all, i did indeed open up the cemetery list and went through over 5000 names in all, one by one! Dont know why I hadn't checked this cemetery before really, as I thought I had all my 'Airborne' casualties listed,, obviously not eyt, still have to use Geoffs search engine, Soldiers died CD and even while Im off work, not enough time to do it all!

Regards

Andy

 

Just bumping this up, I will be leaving early in the morning but will check my PMs before leaving, please do NOT send me an email on my ntlworld.com address as I cannot acces them at all!

Andy

 

Just to let you know I did NOT go down to Brookwood yesterday as planned, as got up feeling like c**p!!

I won't have the time before I have to go back to work but am planning a couple of
days off near the end of the month when I will be able!

Andy

 

Does anyone have all the memorial names photographed?

 

I have to go back there later this year, so maybe I could have a go. It's not the easiest to do due to the size of the panels and I will take a step ladder this time.

By the way Andy, I took photos of 10 WW2 RCS Headstones in the actual Military Cemetery. Would you like them?

 

Does anyone have all the memorial names photographed?

Andy
I am presuming you mean the WW2 Memorial to the Missing?
If so I have a fair number of pics, but last time I was there I took video clips of each panel, cant say they are brilliant but not too bad....

interested?

Andy

 

Hi Andy, I've forgotten why I asked now

I think it may have been for a chap called Pakenham but I can't remember what I was going to do with it (I must start writing everything down).

Whilst I'm here can anyone get me this chap?

CWGC :: Casualty Details

Able Seaman Henry Taylor 14 E 13

Cheers
Andy

 

Hi Andy, I've forgotten why I asked now

I think it may have been for a chap called Pakenham but I can't remember what I was going to do with it (I must start writing everything down).

Whilst I'm here can anyone get me this chap?

CWGC :: Casualty Details

Able Seaman Henry Taylor 14 E 13

Cheers
Andy

Andy

Is this him?
CWGC :: Casualty Details
if so I probably have him on a pic, got all the guards chaps for diane!
and he will be on a vid clip, now just have to transfer it from my laptop to interent enabled laptop and bobs your fathers brother
and I dont think i have you chap above---- and im afraid i wont be going back anytime soon, as im over 140 miles away from brookwood now i think

Andy

 

Cheers Andy and no worries-I'm in Kent for two weeks in Sept so may go there for the day seeing as I've never been.

Andy

 

I've just checked the cemetery on CWGC. I was aware of the size of the memorial, similiar in quantity to the Dunkirk Memorial but I never realised there was nearly 7,000 buried there too.

Anyone know the reason for such a large concentration of graves at that location?

Edit:

It appears to be casualties from the London area
CWGC :: Cemetery Details

 

These are some of your RCS guys on the Brookwood Memorial. I'd complied them before you said you did not want them.

Column 7, Panel 3

BROWN, ERIC
FINN, VICTOR LEONARD
FOX, FREDERICK JOSEPH LE BROCQ
FYFE, CHARLES KEMP, ALBERT HORACE
KISCH, OLIVER CECIL
McCREETH, PERCY WILLIAM

Column 8, Panel 1

ADAMS, JOHN DONOVAN
ASHWORTH, ARTHUR BERNARD NORTON
BARNES, JOHN BRACK
BELL, THOMAS CARRUTHERS
BESTON, DENNIS WILLIAM
BIRD, WILLIAM EDWIN
BLACKSHAW, STANLEY
BOOTH, GEORGE
BURDEN, GEORGE GODFREY
CAUSEBROOK, WILLIAM CHARLES
CAVENEY, ARTHUR PATRICK
CLARK, RICHARD JAMES
COOMBES, ARTHUR EDWIN DENNIS
COOPER, JOHN
CRANE, BASIL WALTER
DAVIES, WALTER EDWIN
DILLIWAY, REGINALD FRANCIS
DONNELLY, VINCENT PATRICK
DRUMMOND, ALEXANDER
FORD, CYRIL
FREEBORN, ALFRED ROBERT
GIBB, JAMES STALKER ROSS
GILL, FRANK
GORE, HAROLD
GRAHAM, THOMAS
GRANT, PETER
HARDS, HENRY THOMAS WILLIAM
HARLOW, EDGAR
HAWKINS, SIDNEY ALLEN JOHN
HONEY, WILFRED GEORGE
HOWITT, DAVID
JAMES, WILLIAM ARTHUR
JELF, WILLIAM WALTER
KERR, A W
LEEK, THOMAS ARTHUR
LOWRY, ANDREW
LUSTIG, NORBERT

 

Cheers Rob,

After my last trip to France and re visiting the same cemeteries for the third/fourth time in some cases I've decided now that when I go to a cemetery I'm photographing all the headstones/memorials hence the next trip to hit the Nord Pas des Calais region for a few days.

Andy