Brookwood Cemetery

Sequoia trees in Brookwood cemetery (2010)

World War I American Heroes Cemetery

Brookwood Cemetery (dt. Cemetery Brookwood ) is a cemetery for the residents of London , the lack of space in the city in Woking in Surrey , was built 48 km southwest of London. It was also known under the name London Necropolis ( city ​​of the dead , see Necropolis ) and was established in 1852 by the private corporation London Necropolis Company . The station architect William Tite was responsible for the landscape planning (gardens etc.) . Brookwood was the largest cemetery in the world for many years. A total of over 240,000 people were buried there. Funerals are still held there today.

In 1854, the London Necropolis station was built right next to Waterloo station specifically for traffic with the cemetery, allowing the coffin and funeral party to be transferred to the funeral.

Military cemetery

Later, two military cemeteries ( Brookwood American Military Cemetery (468 dead) and Brookwood Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery - 1,601 dead of the First and 3,476 of the Second World War and 786 graves of other soldiers of other nationalities) were connected with memorials. Fallen soldiers from both world wars are also commemorated there, for whom there were no more graves anywhere. Veterans from the Royal Hospital Chelsea who have died in the meantime are also buried here.

Graves of famous people

• Robert Knox (1791–1862), Scottish anatomist
• Charles Bradlaugh (1833-1891), atheist and political activist
• Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner (1840–1899), Anglo-Hungarian orientalist
• Dugald Drummond (1840-1912), locomotive engineer
• Edith Thompson (1893-1923), justice victim
• John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), American artist
• Syed Ameer Ali (1849–1928), British-Indian lawyer
• Cosmo Duff Gordon (1862-1931), athlete and Titanic survivor
• Dorabji Tata (1859-1932), Indian philanthropist
• William Robertson (1860–1933), British Field Marshal and Chief of the Imperial General Staff
• Marmaduke Pickthall (1875–1936), Western Islamic scholar
• Louis Bernacchi (1876–1942), Australian-British polar explorer
• Mechtilde Lichnowsky (1879–1958), German writer
• Edward Yeo-Thomas (1902–1964), British agent in World War II
• Said Bin Taimur (1910–1972), Sultan of Oman
• Rebecca West (1892–1983), writer and feminist
• Naji al-Ali (1938–1987), Palestinian cartoonist
• Hamid Mirza (1918–1988), heir to the Qajar dynasty
• Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll (1912-1993), society lady
• Muhammad al-Badr (1926–1996), Yemeni king
• Dodi Al-Fayed (1955–1997), film producer (later reburied in his father's private property in Oxted)
• Zaha Hadid (1950–2016), architect

Literature and citations

• Clarke, JM, (1995), The Brookwood Necropolis Railway , Locomotion Papers No. 143, The Oakwood Press, ISBN 0-85361-471-7

See also

• List of burial places of famous people
• Commemoration of the dead of war victims: in the former British Empire (now the Commonwealth of Nations ), November 11th was introduced as a national day of remembrance after the First World War . It's called Remembrance Day . Remembrance Day Weekend is celebrated in the UK , Memorial Day in the USA, and Memorial Day in Germany
• Remembrance of civil deaths of the past and earlier years

Web links

Commons : Brookwood Cemetery  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Official website of the cemetery
• The Brookwood Cemetery Society
• Brookwood cemetery, American Battle Monuments Commission
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Brookwood
• The city of the dead in London in " The Gazebo " from 1855

Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 52 ″  N , 0 ° 37 ′ 54 ″  W.