Hospitals
Veterinary hospitals and the men who served with them.
Explore the men’s units, mobile veterinary care and treatment routes in Workplaces.
This directory covers British numbered hospitals, Nos. 1–30: 26 hospital accounts and four brief entries. Australian and Canadian establishments have separate entries below and retain their own identities. A hospital could move between stations; service with a hospital does not necessarily mean a man died there.
Start with the men of No. 3 or the men of No. 7.
Dominion veterinary hospitals
These entries link the establishments to the men whose service records name them. Canadian and British hospital numbers are separate.
Australia · Veterinary hospital
Australian Veterinary Hospital
John Burrell, Edwin Abraham, John Dickson and Ernest Reinmuth at the Calais hospital.
Canada · Veterinary hospital
No. 1 Canadian Veterinary Hospital
A teamster, a carpenter and a steamfitter recorded with the Canadian hospital.
Canada · Veterinary hospital
No. 2 Canadian Veterinary Hospital
William Hales, a labourer, and Charles Walry, a saddler, connect two civilian trades to the hospital.
Hospital directory
Counts include the men named on each hospital page, including entries awaiting a full biography. They are not total staff numbers; a man may appear under more than one hospital.
| British veterinary hospital | Location | Men commemorated on this site |
|---|---|---|
| No. 1 Veterinary Hospital | Lachapelle-aux-Pots; later several bases in Italy | 6 |
| No. 2 Veterinary Hospital | Le Havre, France | 5 |
| No. 3 Veterinary Hospital | Pont-de-Briques, near Boulogne, France | 10 |
| No. 4 Veterinary Hospital | Peuplingues, near Calais, France | 8 |
| No. 5 Veterinary Hospital | Rouen and Nantes; later Abbeville, France | 2 |
| No. 6 Veterinary Hospital | Rouen, France | 4 |
| No. 7 Veterinary Hospital | Forges-les-Eaux, France | 14 |
| No. 8 Veterinary Hospital | Forges-les-Eaux, France; later Cologne, Germany | 2 |
| No. 9 Veterinary Hospital | Dieppe; later Abbeville, France | 10 |
| No. 10 Veterinary Hospital | Neufchâtel-Hardelot, France | 5 |
| No. 11 Veterinary Hospital | Egypt; later Salonika | 9 |
| No. 12 Veterinary Hospital | Neufchâtel-Hardelot, France | 3 |
| No. 13 Veterinary Hospital | St-Léonard near Boulogne; later Neufchâtel-Hardelot, France | 3 |
| No. 14 Veterinary Hospital | Abbeville in March 1918 | 4 |
| No. 15 Veterinary Hospital | Salonika; later Rouen, France | 13 |
| No. 16 Veterinary Hospital | Cape Helles, Gallipoli; later Egypt | 4 |
| No. 17 Veterinary Hospital | Egypt; later Lembet near Salonika | 12 |
| No. 18 Veterinary Hospital | Mustapha, Alexandria; later Salonika | 11 |
| No. 19 Veterinary Hospital | Petit-Quevilly, Rouen, France | 4 |
| No. 20 Veterinary Hospital | Eastern Mediterranean | 2 |
| No. 21 Veterinary Hospital | Egypt | 1 |
| No. 22 Veterinary Hospital | France; later Cremona, Italy | 4 |
| No. 23 Veterinary Hospital | St-Omer; later Calais area, France | 15 |
| No. 24 Veterinary Hospital | Gournay-en-Bray, France; later Cologne, Germany | 0 |
| No. 25 Veterinary Hospital | Location not established.Recorded dates and source3 March–14 April 1917: listed with the British Expeditionary Force’s Lines of Communication in Graham Hodgkins’s reading of the deployment return, The National Archives, WO 95/5498. A unit diary and station have not yet been identified. | 0 |
| No. 26 Veterinary Hospital | Mustapha, Alexandria, Egypt | 0 |
| No. 27 Veterinary Hospital | Location not established.Recorded dates and source3 March–14 April 1917: listed with the British Expeditionary Force’s Lines of Communication in Graham Hodgkins’s reading of the deployment return, The National Archives, WO 95/5498. A unit diary and station have not yet been identified. | 0 |
| No. 28 Veterinary Hospital | Location not established.Recorded dates and source27 January–14 April 1917: listed with the British Expeditionary Force’s Lines of Communication in Graham Hodgkins’s reading of the deployment return, The National Archives, WO 95/5498. A unit diary and station have not yet been identified. | 0 |
| No. 29 Veterinary Hospital | Location not established.Recorded dates and source3 March–14 April 1917: listed with the British Expeditionary Force’s Lines of Communication in Graham Hodgkins’s reading of the deployment return, The National Archives, WO 95/5498. A unit diary and station have not yet been identified. | 0 |
| No. 30 Veterinary Hospital | Salonika; later transfer to France | 1 |
Explore hospital accounts
No. 4 Veterinary Hospital
Tents, water and transport: the practical work of establishing a hospital.
No. 5 Veterinary Hospital
A difficult voyage to France and the beginnings of hospital service overseas.
No. 8 Veterinary Hospital
Mange treatment and an artist’s record of veterinary work.
No. 14 Veterinary Hospital
Tracing an infection through animal movement records.
No. 23 Veterinary Hospital
Hospital work at St-Omer and a cluster of staff deaths in May 1918.