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
  • Albert Henry HARDY — Private · SE/27728 · died 13 October 1918 · CWGC
  • Frederick Balsom HULL — Private · SE/18325 · died 9 September 1918 · CWGC
  • Sidney Pratt LAWTON — Corporal · SE/10335 · died 14 October 1917 · CWGC
  • William Kirsop THOMPSON — Private · SE/20144 · died 19 February 1918 · CWGC

Read the wider context of veterinary work and treatment routes.

Brief history

No. 18 Veterinary Hospital left Britain in March 1915 and established itself at Mustapha, near Alexandria. Its diary recorded shortages of head collars, picketing equipment and farriery tools.

In July 1916 it moved to Salonika, where its diary continues into 1919.

Hospital chronology
  1. March 1915

    The unit reaches Alexandria and establishes itself at Mustapha.

  2. July 1916

    Moves to Salonika in the earlier diary chronology.

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.