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8 unusual facts about Aldershot


Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood

In 1917 The Aldershot community came under the leadership of Mother Colette, received permission to take postulants.

Land Force Atlantic Area Training Centre Aldershot

Only a single building from the First World War was retained, while water and sewer systems were installed in the camp's headquarters area (which was named Aldershot for postal purposes), firing ranges and parade squares established and various support buildings and barracks.

Louis Capazza

He started from Harvest (Seine-et-Oise) and piloted the airship (of which he was also the engineer) across the Channel where he landed in Aldershot.

Matthew Cotes Wyatt

Wyatt also sculpted the enormous bronze equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington which originally stood on the top of the Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner.

Old Dean

A bus service (Number 1) connects the Old Dean with Camberley Town Centre and Aldershot

Rubens mare

Matthew Cotes Wyatt used Recovery as a model for the Duke of Wellington's deceased horse Copenhagen, when creating the Wellington Statue in Aldershot.

The Adventures of Jack Ransom

The story takes place in the fictional universe of Megawhamville, a city much to the style of Aldershot in Hampshire, UK.

West Nova Scotia Regiment

The regiment recruits volunteers from all over the province of Nova Scotia and has its headquarters at LFAATC Aldershot, near the community of Aldershot, Nova Scotia.


1889–90 St. Mary's F.C. season

The penultimate match of the season was against the Aldershot-based Royal Engineers who had recently won the Hampshire Senior Cup for the second successive year.

2002 Bristow Helicopters Sikorsky S-76A crash

The wreckage, which included the helicopter's flight data recorder, was brought ashore at Great Yarmouth on 21 July, and transferred to an Air Accidents Investigation Branch facility near Aldershot, Hampshire, where it was examined by investigators from the AAIB, the US National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration, the aircraft manufacturer, and the operator.

Abba Kyari

He attended the 12th Regular Officers’ Training School, Teshia, Ghana (March 1959 - September 1959) and then the Mons Officer Cadet School, Aldershot, England (October 1959 - March 1960).

Albert Goldsmid

At the departure of the Aldershot staff with Sir Redvers Buller in the conflict with the Boers in 1899, he acted as chief staff-officer at the camp at Aldershot, and was entrusted with the duties of mobilization.

Aldershot Command

After the success of the Chobham Manoeuvres of 1853, a permanent training camp was established at Aldershot in 1854 on the recommendation of the Commander-in-Chief, Viscount Hardinge.

Aldershot Garrison

Aldershot Garrison will serve as the hub for the future South East Super Garrison, which will include satellite establishments at Minley, Bordon, Sandhurst, Pirbright, Deepcut, Keogh, Arborfield, Winchester and Worthy Down.

The Army selected Aldershot garrison as the hub of the new South East Super Garrison, which will include satellite establishments at Minley, Bordon, Sandhurst, Pirbright, Deepcut, Keogh, Arborfield, Winchester and Worthy Down.

Barbara Inkpen

She trained at Aldershot, Farnham & District AC and represented Great Britain at two Summer Olympics (1968 and 1972), and won the gold medal at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Bradley Bubb

He also spent a loan spell at Woking, and after leaving Aldershot, played in Belgium for Royal Antwerp.

Colin J. McInnes

'HIV/AIDS and national security', in Nana K. Poku, Alan Whiteside and Bjorg Sandkjaer (eds.), AIDS and Governance (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007).

Edgar Babou

He also played for the African Leopards, in a 20-10 win over the British Army Senior XV, at 23 November 2006, at the Aldershot Military Stadium, in Aldershot.

Emelia Gorecka

She attended Howard of Effingham School and now runs for Aldershot, Farnham and District Athletic Club and lives in Bookham, Surrey.

Franz Schmidt

Peter Watchorn: Isolde Ahlgrimm, Vienna and the early music revival (Ashgate, Burlington Vermont; Aldershot UK; 2007), ISBN 978-0-7546-5787-3

Garrison

In the United Kingdom, "Garrison" also specifically refers to any of the major military stations such as Aldershot, Catterick, Colchester, Tidworth, Bulford, and London, which have more than one barracks or camp and their own military headquarters, usually commanded by a Colonel, Brigadier or Major-General, assisted by a Garrison Sergeant Major.

Gerard Weston

Seven days later, Father Weston drew up in his Morris Traveller car at the car-park of the Officers' Mess of the 16th Parachute Brigade in Aldershot.

H. Jones

His name is also on the South Atlantic Task Force Memorial in St Paul's Cathedral, London, on the wall with the names of the fallen in the Falklands Memorial Chapel at Pangbourne College, and the Parachute Regiment Memorial at their headquarters in Aldershot; he also has a memorial in the cloisters of Eton College and a plaque on a footpath at Kingswear, Devon.

Joe Jopling

Jopling worked on South Shields shipyards, playing football at a junior level in Tyneside, before he signed professional contracts with Aldershot in August 1969.

Johnny Berry

His first job after retiring from football was with Massey Ferguson at Trafford Park, but in 1960 he was asked to leave the Manchester United-owned house to accommodate new signing Maurice Setters, and he left the Manchester area to return to Aldershot.

Kevan Brown

Aldershot finished the 1989–90 season third from bottom of Fourth Division, but were by now in serious financial difficulties, narrowly avoiding being wound up by the High Court in the summer of 1990.

Land Force Atlantic Area Training Centre Aldershot

During the 1890s and the lead up to the Boer War, the British Army, which was responsible for Canada's defence until 1906, established Military Camp Aldershot (also shortened to Camp Aldershot) as a training area on land in the western part of Kings County between the villages of Aylesford and Kingston.

Len Walker

On 31 July 1990, Aldershot was wound up in the High Court due to six-figure debts that had rendered the club "hopelessly insolvent", and it looked as though Walker and everyone else at the club would soon be without a job.

Mohammed Inuwa Wushishi

Wushishi joined the army on 21 April 1961, and attended the Nigerian Military Training College, Kaduna and then the Mons Officer Cadet School, Aldershot in the United Kingdom.

New Sculpture

, Sculpture and the Pursuit of a Modern Ideal in Britain, c.1880–1930. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.

Royal Army Ordnance Corps

During the period from the 1860s to 1914, in addition to a new depot for mobilisation in Aldershot, various depots were established to support the Army throughout the world (with the notable exception of India where the Indian Army managed its own parallel organisation, the Indian Army Ordnance Corps (IAOC).

Sam Jepp

Jepp was born in Northtown, Aldershot, Hampshire and played his youth football with Aldershot Athletic before joining the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Stan Cullis

During the conflict, he served as a PT instructor in both Britain and Italy, and also managed 34 wartime appearances for Wolves in regional competitions, as well as guesting for Aldershot, Fulham and Liverpool.

The Ambassadors of Death

Location filming took place during January and February 1970 at Blue Circle Cement in Kent, Marlow Weir in Buckinghamshire, Southall Gas Works in Middlesex, and various sites in Aldershot, Hampshire.

Theophylact of Ohrid

Margaret Mullett, Theophylact of Ochrid: Reading the Letters of a Byzantine Archbishop, Aldershot, Ashgate Variorum, 1997.

Two-Way Stretch

The prison scenes were filmed at the West Cavalry Barracks at Aldershot, and the security van robbery at Pirbright Arch in the village of Brookwood in Surrey.

Wellington Statue, Aldershot

Local tradition says there is a bottle of Guinness and a packet of sandwiches sealed up inside the base, left by a forgetful workman called Albert Barber when the statue was moved from London to Aldershot.

Winnersh

Golden Globe-winning BBC sitcom The Office namechecks Winnersh when Ricky Gervais as David Brent muses on his future: "My world does not end with these four walls. Slough's a big place, and when I'm finished with Slough, there's Reading, Aldershot, Bracknell, you know, I've got – Didcot, Yateley. You know. My – Winnersh, Taplow. And because I am my own boss, I can.. Burghfield."


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