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Brookwood Cemetery, also known as the�London Necropolis, is the largest cemetery in the United Kingdom and one of the largest in Europe. The cemetery is Grade I Listed.�The original cemetery�opened to the public on 13th November 1854 when its first burials took place. See�Link� for the full history of Brookwood Cemetery, including the military cemeteries.�
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There is an enormous area of war graves including British, American, Canadian, French, Polish, Czech, Italian and German sections, as well as a separate section for Chelsea Pensioners.�Brookwood Military Cemetery�covers about 37 acres and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom. The land was set aside during the First World War to provide a burial site for men and women of Commonwealth and American armed forces who died in the United Kingdom of wounds and other causes.�

The Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial�contains the graves, from�the First�World War I�of 468 American military dead and a further 563 with no known grave are commemorated. After the entry of the United States into the�Second World War�the American Cemetery was enlarged, with burials of US servicemen beginning in April 1942. By August 1944 over 3,600 bodies had been buried in the American Military Cemetery. At this time burials were discontinued, and US casualties were from then on buried at�Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial�- see�Link. On the authority of the�Quartermaster General of the United States Army, the US servicemen buried at Brookwood during the Second World War were exhumed between January and May 1948. Those whose next of kin requested it were shipped to the United States for reburial, and the remaining bodies were transferred to the new cemetery at Madingley outside Cambridge.

This is the American section. The photograph was taken on Remembrance Sunday 2024 when each country had its own service and it�was the American Battle Monuments Commission Veterans Day.�This was during the service with each grave decorated with the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack. The official military Taps is played by a single bugle or trumpet at dusk, during flag ceremonies and at military funerals by the United States Armed Forces. It is the equivalent of The Last Post.