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.

Further men recorded with this hospital
  • John DRISCOLL — Private · SE/2847 · died 15 December 1917 · CWGC
  • Thomas GOLDING — Private · SE/8566 · died 6 December 1917 · CWGC
  • Leonard STEPTOE — Private · SE/18484 · died 12 October 1918 · CWGC
  • Frederick Edward WILKIN — Private · SE/27634 · died 7 January 1918 · CWGC

Read the wider context of veterinary work and treatment routes.

Brief history

No. 17 Veterinary Hospital left Aldershot in March 1915 and reached Alexandria on 30 March. It later served at Lembet near Salonika, where its diary covers 1916 to 1919.

Private John Ford was among the men who served with the hospital. He died on 23 August 1917.

Hospital chronology
  1. 30 March 1915

    Earlier diary chronology places arrival at Alexandria.

  2. 23 August 1917

    Private John FORD dies of malaria while recorded with No. 17.

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.