The Garrison
In 2015 The Aldershot Garrison Herald magazine was re-launched. The magazine was published bi-monthly. Paul Vickers from the Friends of the Aldershot Military Museum writes an article for each publication. Paul has given the Friends the permission to publish the un-edited articles on this web site. Digital copies of the past issue are no longer available online.
In the Spring of 2019, the magazine was renamed to The Garrison and now gets published quarterly (Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter).
To be fair to The Garrison, the article for the current issue will not be published on this website until the next issue of the magazine is out.
Since the new magazine doesn’t have issue numbers, the pages on this site will numbered in this format:
Two Digit Year, followed by A - Spring, B - Summer, C - Autumn or D- Winter.
The articles currently published here are:-
- The Aldershot Garrison Herald Articles
- 001 - Victory celebrations in Aldershot, 1945
- 002 - Waterloo, Wellington and Aldershot
- 003 - The end of Montgomery Lines
- 004 - “A public-house without the drink”: the early days of Miss Daniell’s Soldiers’ Home
- 005 - Christmas in old Aldershot Camp
- 006 - The Volunteer Easter Manoeuvres at Aldershot
- 007 - The Aldershot Military Tournaments
- 008 - The Somme Cross
- 009 - Army Football in Aldershot
- 010 - The origins of Aldershot Camp
- 011 - The Victorian Soldier’s Christmas
- 012 - The First Permanent Barracks
- 013 - From Egypt to Aldershot: the story of the Mandora Mess tablets
- 014 - Creating the Classic Camp: the 1890s rebuilding
- 015 - The Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot
- 016 - The rebuilding of Aldershot Military Town in the 1960s
- 017 - Christmas in Wartime
- 018 - The Horses Swimming Pond
- 019 - Queen Victoria and Aldershot Camp
- 020 - The Royal Garrison Church of All Saints
- 021 - The Cathedral Church of Saint Michael and Saint George
- 022 - Aldershot and the end of the First World War
- The Garrison Articles
- 19A - Saint Andrew’s Garrison Church
- 19B - Aldershot and D-Day
- 19C - The Basingstoke Canal and Aldershot Camp
- 19D - Aldershot’s first Canadian visitors
- 20A - Signals and signalling in Aldershot
- Note: There was no Summer edition for 2020
- 20C - Aldershot and the Air War
- 20D - The Boyce Building and the Militia Barracks
- 21A - The Connaught Military Hospital
- 21B - Cricket in old Aldershot Camp
- 21C - The Government Sidings
- 21D - The Beresford Memorial
- 22A - The IRA bomb attack on Aldershot
- 22B - The Cammell Memorial
- 22C - Army Children’s Schools
- 22D - The 2nd and 8th Division Memorials
- 23A - Field Stores
- 23B - Coronation celebrations in Aldershot
- 23C - The RAMC Boer War Memorial
- 23D - Smith-Dorrien House
- 24A - The Sebastopol Bell
- 24B - The Royal Aldershot Officers’ Club
- 24C - Officer Training at Mons