Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial
| Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial | |
|---|---|
| American Battle Monuments Commission | |
Memorial chapel and headstones | |
| Used for those deceased 1918 | |
| Established | 1918 |
| Location | near |
| Designed by | Egerton Swartwout and H.B. Cresswell |
| Total burials | 468 plus 563 commemorated |
Unknowns | 41 |
| Burials by nation | |
United States | |
| Burials by war | |
| Statistics source: ABMC Brookwood web page | |
Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial is the only American Military Cemetery of World War I in the British Isles. Located approximately 28 miles (45 km) southwest of London, Brookwood American Cemetery contains the graves of 468 American war dead, including the graves of 41 unknown servicemen, from World War I.
Maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission, the cemetery of 4.5 acres (1.8 ha) lies to the west of the civilian Brookwood Cemetery, built by the London Necropolis Company and opened in 1854. The American cemetery is flanked by the much larger Brookwood Military Cemetery, maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which contains more than 5,000 war dead from the two world wars.