Memorial Day UK 2021 Brookwood American Military Cemetery left to right: Angelo Munsel, Superintendent of the American Cemetery; Chief Master Sergeant Michael J. Venning; Colonel Jon T. Hannah Commander 422nd Air Base Group; Brigadier General Jefferson J. O'Donnell, Defence Attache; Mrs Caryn R. McClelland, A/Deputy Chargé d'Affaires of the Mission to the United Kingdom & an Officer of the Ceremonial Association of Surrey Police (CASPER)

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Memorial Day services are held at Brookwood American Military Cemetery each year on the Sunday immediately preceding the Monday of the national holiday in the USA. This Cemetery is the only UK resting place of Americans who died in WW1. The Brookwood American Cemetery has its own acres in the heart of the Commonwealth War Graves Commissions principal UK cemetery. The US Cemetery was laid out in 1921 by the London Necropolis Company. The Chapel was inaugurated in 1937. Covid restrictions affected the conduct of the service and numbers invited.

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Location: Brookwood American Military Cemetery, Dorney Hill, Brookwood, Surrey, UK
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