Laclede in Linn County, Missouri — The American Midwest (Upper Plains)
Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial
| | First World War Commemorative Garden | |
Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, September 22, 2025
1. Brookwood American Cemetery Marker
Brookwood American Cemetery honors the American sailors and civilians lost at sea and those who died in England away from the battlefields. When the U.S. entered World War I in April 1917, the Navy took command of the U.S. Coast Guard for the duration of the war. The Navy assigned 23 Coast Guard cutters to the Atlantic Fleet to guard convoys of cargo ships and troop transports from German U-boats. By the end of the war, German U-boats sank several U.S. Navy ships with 1,105 service members killed.
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Brookwood American Cemetery includes graves of 468 members of the American Expeditionary Forces who died in hospitals in England from wounds or illness.
A German U-Boat sank U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tampa in 1917 while on her way to Milford Haven, Wales. All hands, 111 officers and men, were lost at sea.
The cemeterys chapel displays a plaque with the names of 563 American soldiers, sailors, and Coast Guardsmen lost a sea during World War I.
Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial
Dedicated: 1937
Location: Surrey, United Kingdom
Burials: 468
Missing in Action: 563
Acres: 4.5
Missourians:
Horace Whitaker, GunnersMate 3rd Class, US Navy
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USS AL-3
June 6, 1918 (Lost at Sea, MIA)
Missouri
Paul B. Schwegler, Seaman, US Coast Guard
US Coast Guard Cutter, Tampa
September 26, 1918 (Lost at Sea, MIA)
Missouri
Erected 2018 by Missouri State Parks.
Topics. This historical marker and memorial is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Patriots & Patriotism • War, World I • Waterways & Vessels. A significant historical month for this entry is April 1917.
Location. 39° 47.366′ N, 93° 10.257′ W. Marker is in Laclede, Missouri, in Linn County. It is on Prairie Street just west of Olive Street, on the right when traveling west. The marker is in the First World War Commemorative Garden at the General John J. Pershing Boyhood Home State Historic Site. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 905 Pershing Drive, Laclede MO 64651, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker and memorial is in North Missouri. It is also in the American Midwest, in the Lewis & Clark Corridor, and in the Corn Belt. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere.
2. Marker detail: Brookwood American Cemetery location
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial (here, next to this marker); Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Somme American Cemetery and Memorial (a few steps from this marker); First World War Commemorative Garden (a few steps from this marker); Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); Saint-Mihiel American Cemetery and Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Laclede.
Related markers. Click here for a list of markers that are related to this marker. First World War Commemorative Garden
Also see . . .
1. The U.S. Coast Guard & Lighthouse Service in World War I (U.S. Coast Guard History).
Excerpt:(Submitted on February 26, 2026, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)It was on Friday, April 6th, 1917, the day Congress declared war on Germany, that the U.S. Navys communications center in Arlington, Virginia, transmitted the code words Plan One, Acknowledge to Coast Guard cutters, units and bases initiating the Coast Guards transfer from the Treasury Department to the Navy and placing the Service on a wartime footing.Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, September 22, 20253. Brookwood American Cemetery MarkerThe marker is near the southeast corner of the First World War Commemorative Garden.
During the wars nearly nineteen months, the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Service would lose almost two hundred men and five ships. These ships included two combat losses. On August 6th, 1918, U-140 sank the Diamond Shoals Lightship after her crew transmitted to shore the location of the marauding enemy submarine, but no lives were lost. However, on September 26th, 1918, after completing her convoy escort duty from Gibraltar to Milford Haven, England, Cutter Tampa was torpedoed by UB-91. The cutter sank killing all 131 persons on board, including four U.S. Navy men, sixteen Royal Navy personnel and 111 Coast Guard officers and men. It proved Americas greatest World War I naval loss of life due to combat.
Nearly 9,000 Coast Guard men and women would participate in the war. This number included over 200 Coast Guard officers, many of whom served as warship commanders, troop ship captains, training camp commandants and naval air station commanders. In all, Coast Guard heroes received two Distinguished Service Medals, eight Gold Life-Saving Medals, almost a dozen foreign honors and nearly fifty Navy Cross Medals, dozens more than were awarded to Coast Guardsmen in World War II.
2. Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial (Wikipedia).
Excerpt: It is the only American Military Cemetery of World War I in the British Isles. Located approximately 28 miles southwest of London, Brookwood American Cemetery contains the graves of 468 American war dead, including the graves of 41 unknown servicemen, from World War I.(Submitted on February 26, 2026, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)
The cemetery lies to the west of the civilian Brookwood Cemetery, built by the London Necropolis Company and opened in 1854. The American cemetery is flanked by the much larger Brookwood Military Cemetery, maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which contains more than 5,000 war dead from the two world wars.
Credits. This page was last revised on February 26, 2026. It was originally submitted on February 21, 2026, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. This page has been viewed 37 times since then. Photos: 1. submitted on February 25, 2026, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. 2, 3. submitted on February 26, 2026, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
