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The Brookwood Memorial stands within Brookwood Military Cemetery.
Brookwood is 30 miles from London (M3 to Bagshot and then A322). The
Memorial commemorates over 3,000 men and women of the land forces who,
during the Second World War, died at sea, in the campaign in Norway in
1940, as members of raiding parties that set out from the United Kingdom,
or as special agents or workers with Allied underground movements, and who
have no known grave. The Memorial is made of Portland stone and the names
of those commemorated are carved on panels of green slate. A separate
panel commemorates the loss at sea of 639 members of the African Pioneer
Corps, whose names are recorded individually on memorials in their home
countries of Lesotho and Botswana. The general inscription on the
Brookwood Memorial reads: 1939-1945 THIS MEMORIAL BEARS THE NAMES OF THREE
THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED MEN AND WOMEN OF THE FORCES OF THE BRITISH
COMMONWEALTH AND EMPIRE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY AND IN
MANY FOREIGN LANDS IN HOME AND DISTANT WATERS IN THE CAMPAIGN OF 1940 IN
NORWAY AND IN LATER RAIDS ON THE COAST OF EUROPE AND TO WHOM THE FORTUNE
OF WAR DENIED A KNOWN AND HONOURED GRAVE. Above the general inscription on
the inside of the parapet are carved the words: THE ETERNAL GOD IS THY
REFUGE AND UNDERNEATH ARE THE EVERLASTING ARMS
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