Category Archives: Hampshire

Hound (St. Mary) Churchyard Extension & War Memorial

Posted on September 21, 2024 by Magicfingers

Now that’s a cute little church if ever I saw one. 

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Aldershot Military Cemetery Part Six

Posted on June 6, 2024 by Magicfingers

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. 

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Aldershot Military Cemetery Part Five

Posted on June 1, 2024 by Magicfingers

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

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Aldershot Military Cemetery Part Four

Posted on May 24, 2024 by Magicfingers

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

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Aldershot Military Cemetery Part Three

Posted on May 17, 2024 by Magicfingers

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. 

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Aldershot Military Cemetery Part Two

Posted on May 11, 2024 by Magicfingers

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. 

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Aldershot Military Cemetery Part One

Posted on April 21, 2024 by Magicfingers

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 →

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