Remembering the men
who died

A memorial to the men of the British and Commonwealth veterinary services who died during the First World War or afterwards as a result of their service.

Loading a horse into an RSPCA ambulance at No. 10 Veterinary Hospital, Neufchâtel near Étaples, France, 2 March 1916. Ernest Brooks · Imperial War Museums, Q553 · Public domain.

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Hugh McColl JOHNSTON

Captain

British Army Veterinary Corps

Original portrait of Hugh McColl JOHNSTON

Died 4 April 1918 · Aged 30

He served with the British Army Veterinary Corps. Like his father, Hugh worked as a joiner before qualifying as a veterinary surgeon in 1911.

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Samuel BATTERSBY

Shoeing Smith

British Army Veterinary Corps

Photograph identified as Samuel Battersby in the published family history

Died 25 October 1918 · Aged 36

He served with the 23rd Field Veterinary Section, service number SE/26261. By 1911, he was working as a colliery labourer, having previously been a wheelwright and an Army shoeing smith.

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Henry Oswald OLIVER

Private, service number 6856A

35th Australian Infantry Battalion

Henry Oswald Oliver as a veterinary officer at Maadi, Egypt, 1915. Australian War Memorial C02578; public domain.

Died 20 August 1918 · Aged 41

He served with the 35th Australian Infantry Battalion, under service number 6856A. He first went to war as a veterinary officer, then enlisted again in 1917 as an infantry private.

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