Cambridge
American Cemetery and Memorial is a cemetery and chapel between the
villages of Coton and Madingley in Cambridgeshire, England. It was
opened in 1956, and commemorates the American servicemen who died in
World War II. Wikipedia
The cemetary website states
The cemetery contains the remains of 3,812 of our military dead; 5,127 names are recorded on the Tablets of the Missing.
Click HERE for the Cemetery website
The Cemetery was dedicated in 1956. We noticed that some of the names on the 'Tablets of the Missing' had small rosettes next to them. When we visited the new Visitor Center (Opened recently) we found out that there are 18 rosettes and these mark the names of service people that have been subsequently found. The very helpful person in the Visitor Center told us that there is a possibility of a 19th rosette being put up soon once a recently recovered body has been fully identified.
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