Men remembered here
The linked biographies identify each man’s connection with this workplace. This is a partial list; the men may have served in different years.
William Labdon DAVEY
Occupation recorded: Labourer
Read his storyJoseph Dougles GRAHAM
Read his storyHarry HARDING
Occupation recorded: Groom
Read his storyReuben PINGREE
Occupation recorded: Labourer
Read his storyRead the wider context of veterinary work and treatment routes.
Brief history
No. 16 Veterinary Hospital left Avonmouth in February 1915 and served at Cape Helles on the Gallipoli Peninsula. After the evacuation it moved to Egypt, where it served into 1919.
Hospital chronology
- 26 February 1915
Leaves Avonmouth aboard HT Minnewaska in the earlier chronology.
- 1 January 1916
Diary notes approximately seven and a half months at Cape Helles.
Sources and further reading
Graham Hodgkins’s hospital articles and war-diary research.
Individual Commonwealth War Graves Commission records are linked from the biographies or beside any further names above.