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Lt-General Sir Henry Goldfinch
(c1781-1854)
 Sir
Henry Goldfinch was a Royal Engineer who served with distinction
during the
Peninsular War (1808-13) and his battle honours are recorded
on the headstone. Goldfinch died in London on 21 November 1854,
and was buried here on 25 November, just two
weeks after Brookwood Cemetery opened. This is the oldest surviving memorial
anywhere within the cemetery, and it was tidied up and planted by volunteers
from the Brookwood Cemetery Society in 1998. Goldfinch is buried in plot 27.
Photograph
© Anthony Montan
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