Ash Vale & Aldershot site for local and British & Canadian military history

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These pages are intended to give the history of Aldershot from it's early days as an agricultural village, right up to the modern day. Aldershot has always had strong ties with the British Army, and this is something that is covered within these pages. During the last World War, Aldershot's population was almost doubled by a huge influx of Canadian soldiers. Extracts from a recent book called "Aldershot's Canadians" have been reproduced here

Victorian Aldershot looking down Queens Avenue

Richard Hitchins from Queensland Australia has been kind enough to tell me of his memories from when he lived in Aldershot. Click on the "Local memories" link to take a look at his page and see these unusual and often undocumented facts.