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Aldershot Garrison

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Aldershot Garrison, also known as Aldershot Military Town, is a major garrison in South East England, located between Aldershot and Farnborough in Hampshire. [1]

73 relations: Albert, Prince Consort, Aldershot, Aldershot Command, Aldershot Military Cemetery, Aldershot military prison, Aldershot Military Stadium, Aldershot Observatory, Arborfield, Army Catering Corps, Army School of Physical Training, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Barbed wire, Basingstoke Canal, Bloody Sunday (1972), Bordon and Longmoor Military Camps, British Army, Car bomb, Catholic Church, Chobham Common, Christchurch, Dorset, Colchester Garrison, Crimean War, Deepcut, Derry, English Channel, Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, Aldershot, Evelyn Wood (British Army officer), Farnborough, Hampshire, Future of the British Army (Army 2020 Refine), Garrison, Government House, Aldershot, Government of the United Kingdom, Grenadier Guards, Hampshire, Hounslow, Keogh, Letter from Aldershot, List of British Army Garrisons, List of British Army installations, Middlesex, Minley, Napoleonic Wars, North Camp railway station, Official Irish Republican Army, Open plan, Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom), Pirbright, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Prince Consort's Library, Princess Royal Barracks, Deepcut, ..., RAMC Memorial, Aldershot, Regional Command (British Army), Reigate, Royal Army Medical Corps, Royal Army Physical Training Corps, Royal Corps of Transport, Royal Garrison Church, Aldershot, Royal Logistic Corps, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Royal Military Police, Royal Pavilion, Aldershot, Rushmoor, Scots Guards, South East England, The Rifles, War of the Spanish Succession, Winchester, Worthy Down Barracks, 10 Queen's Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment RLC, 101st Logistic Brigade, 11th Infantry Brigade and Headquarters South East, 145th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom), 2nd Medical Brigade (United Kingdom). Expand index (23 more) »

Albert, Prince Consort

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel; 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband and consort of Queen Victoria.

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Aldershot

Aldershot is a town in the Rushmoor district of Hampshire, England.

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Aldershot Command

Aldershot Command was a Home Command of the British Army.

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Aldershot Military Cemetery

Aldershot Military Cemetery is a burial ground for military personnel, or ex-military personnel.

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Aldershot military prison

Aldershot military prison, known as the Glasshouse on account of its glazed roof, was the military prison in Aldershot in Hampshire from 1870 until it was burned down during riots in February 1946 and was finally demolished in 1958.

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Aldershot Military Stadium

Aldershot Military Stadium is a sports complex in Aldershot, England comprising a combined football and athletics stadium and a smaller adjoined rugby stadium.

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Aldershot Observatory

Aldershot observatory is a circular red-brick building with a domed roof standing on Queens Avenue in Aldershot Military Town near Aldershot, England, home to the British Army since circa 1854.

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Arborfield

Arborfield is a village in Berkshire about south-east of Reading, about west of Wokingham.

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Army Catering Corps

The Army Catering Corps (ACC) was a corps of the British Army, responsible for the feeding of all Army units.

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Army School of Physical Training

The Army School of Physical Training (ASPT) is the headquarters of the Royal Army Physical Training Corps (RAPTC) and the central training establishment for physical education, physical fitness and sports instructors in the British Army.

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as Prime Minister.

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Barbed wire

Barbed wire, also known as barb wire, less often as bob wire or, in the southeastern United States, bobbed wire, is a type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strand(s).

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Basingstoke Canal

The Basingstoke Canal is a British canal, completed in 1794, built to connect Basingstoke with the River Thames at Weybridge via the Wey Navigation.

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Bloody Sunday (1972)

Bloody Sunday – sometimes called the Bogside Massacre – was an incident on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, when British soldiers shot 28 unarmed civilians during a peaceful protest march against internment.

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Bordon and Longmoor Military Camps

Bordon and Longmoor Military Camps are British Army training camps and training area close to the A3 and A325 roads in and around the settlements of Bordon, Longmoor, Liss and Liphook in Hampshire, England.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces.

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Car bomb

A car bomb, lorry bomb, or truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an improvised explosive device placed inside a car or other vehicle and detonated.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Chobham Common

Chobham Common is a area of temperate lowland heath, a globally rare and threatened habitat due to rare soil type, in Surrey, England.

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Christchurch, Dorset

Christchurch is a town and borough on the south coast of England.

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Colchester Garrison

Colchester Garrison is a major garrison located in Colchester in the county of Essex. Eastern England It has been an important military base since the Roman era.

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Crimean War

The Crimean War (or translation) was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain and Sardinia.

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Deepcut

Deepcut is a 20th-century military village in Surrey Heath, Surrey, southeast of Camberley, its post town and only town in the borough – it was from 1866 until 1894 part of Frimley, before which it was part of Ash.

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Derry

Derry, officially Londonderry, is the second-largest city in Northern Ireland and the fourth-largest city on the island of Ireland.

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English Channel

The English Channel (la Manche, "The Sleeve"; Ärmelkanal, "Sleeve Channel"; Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; Mor Bretannek, "Sea of Brittany"), also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France and links the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.

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Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, Aldershot

The Wellington statue in Aldershot is a monument to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, victor at the Battle of Waterloo and later prime minister of the United Kingdom.

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Evelyn Wood (British Army officer)

Field Marshal Sir Henry Evelyn Wood, (9 February 1838 – 2 December 1919) was a British Army officer.

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Farnborough, Hampshire

Farnborough is a town in north east Hampshire, England, part of the borough of Rushmoor and the Farnborough/Aldershot Built-up Area.

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Future of the British Army (Army 2020 Refine)

Army 2020 Refine, formerly known as Future Army Structure (Next Steps) or FAS (Next Steps), is the name given to an ongoing restructuring of the British Army, and in particular its fighting brigades.

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Garrison

Garrison (various spellings) (from the French garnison, itself from the verb garnir, "to equip") is the collective term for a body of troops stationed in a particular location, originally to guard it, but now often simply using it as a home base.

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Government House, Aldershot

Government House is a building in Aldershot Garrison near Aldershot, Hampshire, England.

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Government of the United Kingdom

The Government of the United Kingdom, formally referred to as Her Majesty's Government, is the central government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Grenadier Guards

The Grenadier Guards (GREN GDS) is an infantry regiment of the British Army.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated Hants) is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom.

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Hounslow

Hounslow is a large commercial town and district in west London, England, west-southwest of Charing Cross.

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Keogh

Keogh, usually pronounced, is an Irish surname.

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Letter from Aldershot

Letter from Aldershot is a nine-minute 1940 Canadian documentary film, made by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as part of the wartime Canada Carries On series.

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List of British Army Garrisons

A list of British Army Garrisons in the United Kingdom.

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List of British Army installations

This is a list of British Army Installations in the United Kingdom and overseas.

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Middlesex

Middlesex (abbreviation: Middx) is an historic county in south-east England.

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Minley

Minley is a village in the Hart District of Hampshire, England.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions, financed and usually led by the United Kingdom.

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North Camp railway station

North Camp railway station is situated in the civil parish of Ash in Surrey, England.

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Official Irish Republican Army

The Official Irish Republican Army or Official IRA (OIRA) was an Irish republican paramilitary group whose goal was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and create a "workers' republic" encompassing all of Ireland.

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Open plan

Open plan is the generic term used in architectural and interior design for any floor plan which makes use of large, open spaces and minimizes the use of small, enclosed rooms such as private offices.

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Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom)

The Parachute Regiment, colloquially known as the Paras, is an elite airborne infantry regiment of the British Army.

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Pirbright

Pirbright is a village in Surrey, England.

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Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, (Arthur William Patrick Albert; 1 May 185016 January 1942) was a member of the British Royal Family who served as the Governor General of Canada, the tenth since Canadian Confederation.

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Prince Consort's Library

The Prince Consort's Library in Aldershot Military Town in the English county of Hampshire was founded by Prince Albert to contribute to the education of soldiers in the British Army.

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Princess Royal Barracks, Deepcut

The Princess Royal Barracks, Deepcut, commonly referred to as Deepcut Barracks, is the headquarters of the Royal Logistic Corps (RLC) of the British Army and the Defence College of Logistics, Policing and Administration.

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RAMC Memorial, Aldershot

The RAMC Memorial at Aldershot in Hampshire is a monument commemorating the men of the Royal Army Medical Corps who lost their lives during the Boer War of 1899 to 1902.

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Regional Command (British Army)

Regional Command (formerly Support Command) is a two-star command of the British Army.

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Reigate

Reigate is a town of over 20,000 inhabitants in eastern Surrey, England.

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Royal Army Medical Corps

The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all Army personnel and their families, in war and in peace.

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Royal Army Physical Training Corps

The Royal Army Physical Training Corps (RAPTC) is the British Army corps responsible for physical fitness and physical education and is headquartered in Aldershot.

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Royal Corps of Transport

The Royal Corps of Transport (RCT) was a British Army Corps established to manage all matters in relation to the transport of men and material for the Army and the wider Defence community.

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Royal Garrison Church, Aldershot

Royal Garrison Church of All Saints is a Church of England church in Aldershot Garrison, England.

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Royal Logistic Corps

The Royal Logistic Corps (RLC) provides logistic support functions to the British Army.

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Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS or RMA Sandhurst), commonly known simply as Sandhurst, is one of several military academies of the United Kingdom and is the British Army's initial officer training centre.

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Royal Military Police

The Royal Military Police (RMP) is the corps of the British Army responsible for the policing of army service personnel, and for providing a military police presence both in the UK and while service personnel are deployed overseas on operations and exercises.

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Royal Pavilion, Aldershot

The Royal Pavilion, also known as the Queen's Pavilion, was a royal residence located at Aldershot in Hampshire.

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Rushmoor

Rushmoor is a local government district and borough in Hampshire, England.

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Scots Guards

The Scots Guards (SG), part of the Guards Division, is one of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Army.

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South East England

South East England is the most populous of the nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.

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The Rifles

The Rifles is an infantry regiment of the British Army.

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War of the Spanish Succession

The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) was a European conflict of the early 18th century, triggered by the death of the childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700.

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Winchester

Winchester is a city and the county town of Hampshire, England.

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Worthy Down Barracks

Worthy Down Barracks is a British Army barracks near Winchester, Hampshire.

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10 Queen's Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment RLC

The Queen's Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment also known as 10 The Queen's Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment or 10 QOGLR is a regiment of the British Army's Royal Logistic Corps.

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101st Logistic Brigade

101 Logistic Brigade came into being during 1999 and was subordinate to HQ Force Troops Command.

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11th Infantry Brigade and Headquarters South East

The 11th Infantry Brigade and Headquarters South East is a regular British Army brigade formation that is part of the Army’s 'Adaptable Force' meaning it has operational units under command, as well as regional responsibilities across the South East of England.

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145th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)

The 145th Infantry Brigade was a regional brigade of the British Army that saw active service in both World War I and World War II, disbanding in 1943 and being reformed in the 1990s.

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2nd Medical Brigade (United Kingdom)

2nd Medical Brigade is a formation of the British Army formed under Force Troops Command.

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Aldershot Camp, Aldershot Military Town, Arnhem Barracks, Browning Barracks, Bruneval Barracks, Buller Barracks, Clayton Barracks, McGrigor Barracks, Rhine Barracks, Sam Domingo Barracks, Thornhill Barracks, Travers Barracks.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldershot_Garrison

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