Aldershot Military Cemetery

Aldershot Military Cemetery is a permanent military cemetery. The Commission is responsible for the care of graves of both world wars within the cemetery. There are 690 First World War graves and 129 Second World War graves in the cemetery. There are also many graves from the Falklands War.

This military cemetery is one-of-a-kind in the United Kingdom. There are currently 17,000 graves of fallen soldiers and war veterans of different conflicts, including the world wars and the Falkands War.

Aldershot Military Cemetery contais the grave of Field Marshal Sir Henry Evelyn Wood, VC, GCB, GCMG (1838-1919), who served his country in may campaigns in including the Crimean War and as commander in the First Boer War (1880-1881). He was awarded the Victoria Cross.

Aldershot Military Cemetery contains the graves of the following people, who fought for the United Kingdom and who gave their lives in the War in Afghanistan and/or Operation Enduring Freedom:

29 July 2008 , Private Peter Joe Cowton, aged 25
07 May 2009 , Corporal Kumar Pun, aged 31
12 June 2009 , Lieutenant Paul Daniel Mervis, aged 27
12 August 2010 , Rifleman Remand Kulung, aged 27
02 October 2010 , Rifleman Suraj Gurung, aged 22

The burial place Aldershot Military Cemetery contains the grave of the following person, who fought for the United Kingdom and who gave his life in the war in Iraq and/or Operation Iraqi Freedom:

9 August 2007 , Lance Corporal Christopher John Casey, aged 27

Aldershot Military Cemetery also contains non-Commonwealth war graves:

USSR: The grave of a Soviet soldier who died on May 23, 1945.
Poland: Ten Polish war graves from World War II.
Netherlands: Four Dutch war graves from the Second World War.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Mark Mitchell (1), Andrew Mathewson / Aldershot Military Cemetery / CC BY-SA 2.0 (2)