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    Brookwood Cemetery, also known as the London Necropolis, is a burial ground in Brookwood, Surrey, England. It is the largest cemetery in the United Kingdom...
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    opened Brookwood Cemetery, 23 miles (37 km) southwest of London in Brookwood, Surrey. At the time the largest cemetery in the world, Brookwood Cemetery was...
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    London Necropolis Company (category Cemeteries in London)
    large tract of land in Brookwood, Surrey, around 25 miles (40 km) from London, and converted a portion of it into Brookwood Cemetery. A dedicated railway...
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    for the 500-acre Brookwood Cemetery, also called the London Necropolis. The village also gave its name to the former Victorian Brookwood Hospital, once...
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    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)...
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  • area Brookwood, Surrey, a village in Surrey, England Brookwood Cemetery, a place in England Brookwood Hospital near Woking in Surrey Brookwood Park,...
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    000. There is a Latvian section at the Brookwood cemetery near London. Latvian burials at the Brookwood Cemetery Entrance to the Latvian burial ground...
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    John Singer Sargent (category Burials at Brookwood Cemetery)
    home on April 14, 1925, of heart disease. Sargent is interred in Brookwood Cemetery near Woking, Surrey. Memorial exhibitions of Sargent's work were held...
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    Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England, designed by architect Stephen Geary. There are approximately 170,000 people buried in...
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  • and cemeteries. It aimed to use the recently developed technology of the railway to move as many burials as possible to the newly built Brookwood Cemetery...
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    Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll (category Burials at Brookwood Cemetery)
    husband, Charles Sweeny, who had died only four months earlier, in Brookwood Cemetery in Woking, Surrey. Margaret had asked Charles Castle in 1974 to write...
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    line station to serve two stations within the cemetery, Brookwood Cemetery North and Brookwood Cemetery South. In June 1863, the LSWR agreed to provide...
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    including 111 at Saint Peter Port (Fort George), Guernsey, and others at Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey. The remainder are interred in Commonwealth War Graves...
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    True Orthodox Church in Brookwood, Surrey, England. The monastic Saint Edward Brotherhood was established at Brookwood Cemetery in 1982 to prepare and...
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    and a G.P. medical centre. The Royal Hospital Burial Ground is at Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey. The Chelsea Pensioners were among the first to be included...
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    Michael O'Dwyer (category Burials at Brookwood Cemetery)
    escape and was arrested at the scene. O'Dwyer was later buried in Brookwood Cemetery, near Woking. At his trial, Singh told the court: I did it because...
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  • Necropolis may refer to: Brookwood Cemetery, also known as the London Necropolis London Necropolis Company, operators of Brookwood Cemetery London Necropolis...
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    Boris Berezovsky (businessman) (category Burials at Brookwood Cemetery)
    concern". Berezovsky was buried on 8 May 2013 in a private ceremony at Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey. The burial timing had been changed on several occasions...
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    Ratanji Tata (category Burials at Brookwood Cemetery)
    September 1918 at St Ives in Cornwall, England and was buried at Brookwood Cemetery, Woking, near London, by the side of his father (Jamsetji Tata). Through...
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    Edmund Hartley (category Burials at Brookwood Cemetery)
    and VC medal (Brookwood Cemetery) The Brookwood Cemetery Society (Known Holders of the Victoria Cross Commemorated in Brookwood Cemetery) Image of Edmund...
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    Abdullah Quilliam (category Burials at Brookwood Cemetery)
    Bloomsbury, London in 1932, and was buried in an unmarked grave at Brookwood Cemetery near Woking. The prominent Anglo-Muslims Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Muhammad...
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    Jamsetji Tata (category Burials at Brookwood Cemetery)
    Nauheim on 19 May 1904, and was buried in the Parsi burial ground in Brookwood Cemetery, Woking, England. Tata's iron and steel plant was set up at Sakchi...
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    Nowroji Saklatwala (category Burials at Brookwood Cemetery)
    the chairman of the company. He is buried in the Parsi section of Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey. "Obituary: Sir Nowroji Saklatvala". The Times. 23 July...
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    Dennis Wheatley (category Burials at Brookwood Cemetery)
    cremated at Tooting and his ashes interred at the South Cemetery section of Brookwood Cemetery, under a tall tree near the entrance. He is also commemorated...
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    William Kenny (VC) (category Burials at Brookwood Cemetery)
    received a new headstone in the Corps of Commissionaires plot at Brookwood Cemetery, arranged by The Gordon Highlanders London Association (Lt Col. M...
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    Zaha Hadid (category Burials at Brookwood Cemetery)
    between her father Mohammed Hadid and brother Foulath Hadid in Brookwood Cemetery in Brookwood, Surrey, England. In her will she left £67m, bequeathing various...
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    Edward the Martyr (category Burials at Brookwood Cemetery)
    Edward the Martyr, Brookwood, which had been established for the purpose. Historians are very sceptical that the bones in the Brookwood church are those...
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    Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters (category Burials at Brookwood Cemetery)
    othe Capital City ISBN 978-1-849-83292-2 p. 230 The Brookwood Cemetery Society: "The Brookwood Cemetery Society: Mrs. Edith Thompson (1893-1923)". Archived...
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  • buried at Highgate Cemetery. Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey, opened in 1852, designated approximately half of the original cemetery to non-Anglicans, including...
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    Necropolis Company to Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey. The railway service to Great Northern London Cemetery soon closed, but the cemetery has remained open...
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