© John Clarke 2014-
John Clarke
Historian of Brookwood Cemetery
The Brookwood Russia Memorial
The Brookwood Russia Memorial stood in the Brookwood Military Cemetery from 1983 to 2015.
It was completed in 1983 and was located near to the Brookwood Memorial to the Missing in the south-
1914-
1939-
IN HONOUR OF
SAILORS, SOLDIERS
AND AIRMEN
OF THE FORCES
OF THE
BRITISH
COMMONWEALTH
WHO DIED
IN RUSSIA
DURING TWO
WORLD WARS
THEIR NAME LIVETH
FOR EVERMORE
The memorial panels of Westmorland green slate bore the names of 662 casualties as follows:
(1) 155 Commonwealth dead of the First World War who lie buried in unknown graves in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Murmansk and Transcaucasia and are not commemorated elsewhere.
(2) 482 Commonwealth dead of the First World War who are also commemorated by name on graves or memorials in the Archangel Allied Cemetery, the Murmansk Russian Cemetery Extension and the Odessa Second Christian Cemetery.
(3) 25 Commonwealth dead of the Second World War who are also commemorated by name on graves or memorials in the Archangel Allied Cemetery, the Murmansk Russian Cemetery Extension and the Odessa Second Christian Cemetery.
In 1989 the Commonwealth War Graves Commission published its Brookwood (Russia) Memorial that listed further details of all the casualties commemorated on the memorial.
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