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 an additional 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]

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.^[2]

Today the cemetery is maintained by Rushmoor Borough Council.^[3]

Jewish Cemetery

Graves in the United Synagogue Cemetery

Attached at the bottom of the hill is a small separate Jewish cemetery of the United Synagogue.^[4][5] 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.^[6][7]

Notable burials

• Richard Eve (1831–1900), Grand Treasurer of the United Grand Lodge of England in 1889
• Ada Field (1893-1922), murdered in Manor Park in Aldershot in 1922 by her jilted fiancé who then shot himself.^{[8][9][10][11]}

See also

• Aldershot Military Cemetery
• Aldershot Crematorium

Gallery

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  The chapels at Aldershot Cemetery
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  The monument to Richard Eve
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  Grave of Captain Micky Munn MBE
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  Graves in the Jewish Cemetery
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  Graves in the Jewish Cemetery

References

External links

• Aldershot Cemetery on Find a Grave

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