Category Archives: U.K. Churches, Memorials & Cemeteries – Back in Blighty

Our tour of Aldershot Military Cemetery ends here in Plot AG, at the bottom of the hill that we have explored in some detail over the previous two posts. 

Immediately behind the Cross of Sacrifice, at the top of the hill of headstones we explored last post, is Plot AA. 

The majority of Great War burials in the cemetery, 454 in total, are to be found here, in Plot AF. 

We ended the last post paying our respects at the Great War graves up on the hill in the background of this shot, and this time we’ll take a brief look at the burials down here in Plot A. 

There are around seven hundred Great War graves in this cemetery, seventy of which are to be found among the burials here in Plot R. 

Aldershot – ‘The Home of the British Army’.  At the start of 1855, with the Crimean War still more than a year from its conclusion, the Army began constructing its first bespoke, as we might say today, training camp in … Continue reading →