Brookwood: Visiting The UK's Largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery | Forces TV

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During times of remembrance, many people will visit military cemeteries to pay their respects to the many British and Commonwealth servicemen and women who died in the First and Second World Wars and other conflicts. Often, that means a trip overseas to the battlefields of Passchendaele, D-Day or Arnhem. But there’s also the opportunity for people to show their appreciation in the UK.
Brookwood Military Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) cemetery in the United Kingdom and is the final resting place for more than 5,000 service personnel from Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa and the UK and Ireland. It also contains plots dedicated to other nations such as France, Belgium, Poland and Czechoslovakia. It is also the location of the Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial.
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10 июл 2024

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@williamdavidnew4719 9 месяцев назад

Salute from a retired USAF officer. Military members who pay that ultimate price for their country deserve respect and a place to lie in peace.

@dondouglass6415 8 месяцев назад

On the 13th of June 1978 as a 16yr old boy I got off at Brookwood station to be picked up in a Bedford MK. This was the start of a 10yr stint in the British Army. I have never visited the cemetery, but now for more than one I reason I will. A great poignant reason. Thank you for a great video.

@CantThinkofaCoolOne 4 года назад

I stumbled upon this site on a lunch break drive one day. I returned on many occasions since, though I no longer live in the UK. A beautiful and special cemetery.

@JohnDoe-kd5hq 4 года назад

Lest we forget we will remember them 🙏🏻🇨🇦🇬🇧

@captaincanuck4576 3 года назад

Don't forget the Australians,they're our brothers too.

@pauljeremy52 2 года назад

Brookwood Cemetery is the final resting place of twelve recipients of the Victoria Cross. In addition, a further three recipients are commemorated on memorials in the cemetery.

@walterbatch5296 4 года назад

A very moving presentation of the reminder of the price that was payed by the men and women of our COUNTRY AND COMMONWEALTH together with soldiers of the other countries who supported them. That sacrifice is the reason I am here to pay my own personal tribute. May they all be resting in peace in heaven.

@jenny8344 3 года назад

I grew up in Knaphill, just a mile or so from Brookwood. I was take, each week, as a child, to see my Grandfathers grave in the civilian part of the cemetery and visited the war graves often. It’s a beautiful place and both my parents are now buried alongside the military section.

@mikeycraig8970 Год назад

I grew up in Goldsworth park. Round the corner from Knaphill which I also lived in my teenage years in the 90s....I dont remember much of it 😉

@MsHorseracer 9 месяцев назад

With the going down of the sun we will remember them

@milaskilathelab 4 года назад

I used to live very close to here. It's extremely sobering when you enter this cemetery..

@nigelcarter9503 4 года назад

I have been to Brookwood. Very thought-provoking. Nicely kept as usual. The SOE is hardly named. The comments are true. The price is nothing compared to the price they paid.

@colfer222 Год назад

What a beautiful place of rest and so it should be.

@2394Joseph 3 года назад

I did my British army basic training not very far from here, however, this war graves cemetary was never spoken of or even mentioned. How good it would have been to take each platoon there to remember and pay respects to the soldiers who went before and gave their lives. Very sad, I would have loved to have visited it.

@LorenzoStoakes Год назад

that's sad, I live in Pirbright and we barely see the guys going through basic training other than when they're walking along a pavement (quite rarely). I believe they are quite strict about keeping people on the base in those early stages, but you'd think it'd be a good idea to take new recruits to the cemetery to pay respects. On the other hand, perhaps they are wary of bringing thoughts of death into the minds of young recruits early on? I do expect there are memorial services on base regardless so it doesn't seem a good enough reason not to do something.

@smudgerbugg 8 месяцев назад

@@LorenzoStoakesWe will be here tomorrow to take part in the remembrance service.

@richardtheeighth4431 4 года назад

Lest We Forget.🙏 Long live the Commonwealth.👍

@sarahb8727 4 года назад

lest we forget R.I.P

@rolandfelice6198 4 года назад

A very moving video of a place of which I was not previously aware. I am pleased to learn that it contains representatives of all allied forces regardless of nationality, gender, age, colour or faith. Thank you for presenting this.

@davidhunt3808 4 года назад

I lived in Surrey for many years and I never knew about this cemetery . Lest we forget .

@eddisonfoncette9103 4 года назад

At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them. We thank them for their service and their sacrifice .

@jefferss1639 3 года назад

It`s well worth a visit. Honour them.

@kelton8861 4 года назад

The video length is 11:11. Good touch

@ben2e0omr 4 года назад

For our Green and Pleasant land we Thank you.

@randomhumanoidblob4506 2 года назад

Brookwood Cemetery is beautiful overall with a truly fascinating history, including a special train that ran from Waterloo just to service it, carrying only cemetery-related paraphernalia. The military part is unearthly, serene, sobering - everybody should visit a military cemetery once in their lives just for humanity's sake. The riders did me in though. Friend was killed on the perimeter road of the cemetary. Ride safe, guys.

@gingeristhebest21 4 года назад

I have seen the cwgc cemeteries in Tobruk in Libya and Cassio in Italy as well as in Belgium and France THEY FELL FACING THE ENEMY WE WILL NEVER FORGET THEM

@MrEdmontonman 4 года назад

Very Beautiful video. Thank you for sharing.

@nigelfelangue2295 3 года назад

My father,Lt E.F.Levene (Felangue) S.O.E.French Section , is listed on the Rotunda ; he was executed on the personal orders of Hitler on 29th March ,1945 at Flossenburg C.C.with other SOE French Section Agents. Always Remembered.

@bencassidy3736 4 года назад

I give my entire life to these men

@airhabairhab 4 года назад

I don't they have much use for it sadly.

@philipnorris6542 6 месяцев назад

Lest we forget, and I never will.

@ClarkeKentNI 4 года назад

Great video. Lest we forget

@travelgaming5422 4 года назад

Beautiful place. I live 20 mins down the road from here and went for walks through there to the woods. Lovely scenery and very peaceful. Lots of respect for the fallen men and women who gave their lives for the freedoms we have... Probably not how they visioned their country would turn out.

@eldios831 Год назад

We have four commonwealth cemeterys in Kenya

@HartDoug 4 года назад

How do I say this? I have to respect these graves of United Kingdom soldiers (& sailors, marines, and airmen) but my respect must also ‘extend’ to the citizenry of the Commonwealth too... I once saw a ‘documentary’ about the death of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. He was forced to kill himself by the Nazi Government but they then made a travesty of his death by holding an elaborate funeral procession. From all I have read, Field Marshal Rommel was a brave and honorable man who followed his orders hoping to spare his wife and son and a spiritually bankrupt Nazi Government took advantage for their own ends. I can respect an ‘honorable enemy’ but not the morally bankrupt government he serves. This video serves to remind us all that the British Commonwealth has (and has had) brave soldiers/sailors/marines/airmen ‘defending her borders’ for well over a hundred years. From one American Master Sergeant (Retired), Salute! Both to the people and their armed forces!

@HartDoug 4 года назад

TMA, The British Empire did have moral and ethical shortcomings but I will dispute to my dying breath ANY similarity to the Nazi Party of Germany! The British did cause some cruel and vicious things but I don’t remember ever... EVER reading or hearing that they tried to perform Genocide!

@SS-hw1ou 4 года назад

Many people don't know, but Bundeswehr was professional unlike SS.

@HartDoug 4 года назад

Saurav, Someone once explained to me that the Bundeswher was the name given the re-designed German Army after World War II. During the war, they were known as the Wehrmacht...

@SS-hw1ou 4 года назад

@@HartDoug yea my bad

@lilyjones9564 4 года назад

Lest we forget 🇬🇧

@AS-zk6hz 4 года назад

How many children did they not get to father. Never had a chance to live. War is terrible. But it keeps happening over and again

@kylebarratt240 4 года назад

lest we forget

@hannecatton2179 4 года назад

Have just watched 2 Dutch lads visiting Ysselsteyn . Nearly 35,000 German soldiers buried there. No matter what nationality these places are very , very moving.