Aldershot Cemetery

Sign post at Aldershot Cemetery

Aldershot Cemetery (actually the Redan Road Cemetery, but also known as Aldershot Civic Cemetery) is the main public burial ground for the town of Aldershot in Hampshire.

The cemetery is located near Redan Hill in Aldershot and was formed in 1860, at a cost of £1,700, and enlarged in 1894, at a cost of £1,050. Originally it was under the control of a burial board of 9 members. Today the cemetery is made up of 13 acres of burial ground, with two chapels, one for the Church of England and another for Nonconformists.[1] Attached at the bottom of the hill is a small separate Jewish cemetery.[2][3] In November 2004 10 of the headstones in this cemetery were daubed with swastikas and other Nazi symbols in an anti-Semitic attack. In January 2005 15 were vandalized in a further attack.[4][5]

Although most military burials take place in the nearby Aldershot Military Cemetery, there are in fact 57 men buried in Aldershot Cemetery who died on active service during World War I and World War II.[6]

Today the cemetery is maintained by Rushmoor Borough Council.[7]

Notable burials

See also

Gallery

References

  1. ↑ Aldershot Records on the Forebears website
  2. ↑ Aldershot Jewish Cemetery on the Find a Grave website
  3. ↑ Aldershot Jewish Cemetery on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website
  4. ↑ 'Jewish graves defaced by vandals' - BBC News website - 17 January 2005
  5. ↑ 'Jewish cemeteries hit by 117th attack in 15 years' - The Guardian 16 June 2005
  6. ↑ Photographic record of the military burials at Aldershot Cemetery
  7. ↑ Cemeteries maintained by Rushmoor Borough Council

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Coordinates: 51°14′58″N 0°44′52″W / 51.24944°N 0.74778°W / 51.24944; -0.74778

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