Veteran’s Day Ceremony Published Nov. 9, 2012 501st Combat Support Wing Public Affairs RAF ALCONBURY, United Kingdom -- A Veteran's Day Remembrance Ceremony is scheduled for 11 a.m., Nov. 12, at the Cambridge American Cemetery at Madingley. The ceremony will be held in commemoration of Veteran's Day and to honor Americans buried there who died during World War II. The World War II Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial is located three miles west of Cambridge on the A1303. The 30.5 acre site was donated by the University of Cambridge and established Dec. 7, 1943, as a temporary military cemetery. The American Cemetery at Madingley was dedicated as the only permanent World War II American burial ground on the British Isles in 1956. There are 3,812 American military dead buried there. On the wall running from the entrance to the chapel are inscribed the names of 5,127 Americans who gave their lives in the service of their country, but whose remains were never recovered or identified. Most of these died in the Battle of the Atlantic or in the strategic air bombardment of Occupied Europe during World War II. The ceremony will feature members of the U.S. Military and the Royal Air Force. Guest speakers will be U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Craig Franklin, Commander, 3rd Air Force, and Royal Air Force Air Commodore Steve Shell, Assistant Chief of Staff Operations, Headquarters Air Command, and Dr. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Commissioner, American Battle Monuments Commission.