25th County of London Cyclist Battalion
The London Regiment


 Herbert Woodward HARDING


In Memory of

Private Herbert Woodward HARDING

741937, 25th Bn., London Regiment (Cyclists)

who died age 20 on 23 November 1918

Son of Eleanor Elizabeth and the late John Clanmorris Minchin Harding, of 114, Prince of Wales Rd., Kentish Town, London.

Remembered with honour Aldershot Military Cemetery. Grave Ref. AF. 2139.


  
Commemorated in perpetuity by
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

During both wars, numerous regimental and corps depots were based in and around Aldershot . At the outbreak of The First World War, if was the headquarters of the Aldershot Command and of the 1st and 2nd Divisions, and the Depot of the Royal Army Medical Corps. The North and South Camps, divided by the Basingstoke Canal , remained in full activity throughout the War. During the Second World War, some 400,000 Canadian servicemen were trained there. Aldershot Military Cemetery is a permanent military cemetery, the property of the Ministry of Defence. The Commission is responsible for the care of graves of both world wars within the cemetery. There are 690 First World War graves in the cemetery, the earliest bears the date 5th August 1914, and the latest 11th August 1921. Many of these graves are in plot AF.

[Courtesy of Commonwealth War Graves Commission]


 

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