Aldershot

Aldershot is a town in the English county of Hampshire and is part of the district of Rushmoor. The city has about 62,000 inhabitants.

Garrison Aldershot

In England Aldershot is best known by the British Army, which has been there since the Crimean War, a garrison. In the 25 years the supreme command of Wellington there had been a stagnation in the development of the British Army. Therefore, the new commander in chief Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge of Prince Albert was asked to improve the training of the British Army. So the camp Aldershot was built (The Home of the British Army). The construction of the largest location to the British Army in this period were to a massive increase of population in the town. Thus, the population grew from 875 in 1851 to 16,000 in 1861 ( including 9,000 military personnel ). Aldershot was in Victorian England as a synonym for the formation of the British Army. In 1883 the equestrian statue of the first Duke of Wellington, victor over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, moved here after it had been in 1846 initially placed on the Wellington Arch in London.

By Army Order 324 of 21 August 1914, the so-called Kitchener's army was drawn up by Lord Kitchener, most of which were trained in Aldershot. So during a visit by King George V in September 1914 130,000 men were stationed here.

Commander of the Aldershot Command ( selection)

Geography

Aldershot is situated in the North Downs between Guildford and Basingstoke.

Sports

The company headquartered in the city football club Aldershot Town is since 2008 in the Football League Two, the fourth English top flight, active.

Sons and daughters of the town

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