Aldershot Cemetery

They moved quickly to obtain a site for a town cemetery, and before the end of the year the Board had acquired land formerly known as "Bedford’s Field" at the foot of Redan Hill at a cost of £1,700.

[3] In 1871 the Burial Board approached the War Office to request the purchase of the strip of land on the opposite side of Redan Road up to the railway line.

This had been agreed by Lord Grey on 20 April 1864, but formal steps could not be taken to ratify it until the Congregation had been properly constituted.

The application put forward a new approach and asserted that as rate payers and residents in the parish the members of the Congregation had a right to a space for this purpose.

Michael Adler said: "The Jewish Soldiers have lost one of their best friends in the passing away of Mrs. N. Solomon, who for many years acted as Hon.

Her interest in the welfare, moral and material, of the Jewish regular who was stationed at the barracks near her home, was unceasing.

During the negotiations with the Headquarters' Staff that resulted in the present synagogue being given by the authorities to the Aldershot military and civil community.

"[7] The Aldershot Gazette said in its long account of the funeral: "Crowds of people had assembled at the graveyard and followed with the deepest interest and sympathy the somewhat brief service of committal, rendered in Hebrew and English.