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| Description and Date | Remarks | Protection | Grid Ref. and Punchcard No. | |
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Fountain and circular garden. Built to commemorate the original Royal Engineer's Yard site of 1854. Now part of Princes Gardens. Three plaques adorn fountain, Aldershot Coat of Arms, Royal Military Arms and one describing presentation on 5th June 1955. Marks centenary of camp and town 1854. | SU 861 508 0104 99 |
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1914-18 War Memorial, Hospital Hill Road. Dedicated to the 2nd Division. World War 1 divisional sign in base. Stone pillar and cross. Unveiled 1923. Designed by Capt. Scott. Ref: The Story of Aldershot, (Cole), pp.322-3. | SU 861 513 0104 37 |
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R.A.M.C. South African War Memorial. Junction of Gun Hill Road and Hospital Road. Column with bronze figures dedicated to the Royal Army Medical Corps. Unveiled May 1905 by King Edward VII. Ref: The Story of Aldershot, (Cole), pp.326-7. | SU 865 512 0104 38 |
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| Monument C.20 |
War Memorial, 1914-18. Facing headquarters south east district, off Queen's Avenue. Stone pillar surmounted by bronze lion dedicated to the 8th (new Army) Division. | SU 865 517 0104 39 |
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Heroes' Shrine War Memorial 1939-45, Aldershot Manor Park, off Church Hill. Sunken garden containing rock garden constructed of fragments of bombed buildings from fifty cities and boroughs in England. An illuminated record of the places of origin and the circumstances, is preserved in a glass case in the old parish church nearby. Stone figure of Christ unveiled May 1950. Ref: The Story of Aldershot, (Cole), pp.265-7. | SU 870 499 0104 40 |
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On the eastern boundary of the Parade Ground, north of Browning Barracks. Obelisk of polished marble to Lt. R. A. Cammell of Air Battalion, Royal Engineers. Killed in air crash at Hendon in 1911. Ref: The Story of Aldershot, (Cole), p.339. | SU 866 519 0104 41 |
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Small stone drinking fountain alongside Farnborough Road. Memorial to Captain Beresford, Royal Engineers, killed trying to stop a runaway horse May 1910. Ref: 1. The Story of Aldershot, (Cole), p.362. Ref: 2. The Origins of Military Aldershot, (Cole), p.32. | SU 859 517 0104 42 |
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