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.
Daniel HORSLEY
Occupation recorded: Clerk in Army
Read his storyJohn MATTHEWS
Occupation recorded: Coal Miner Hewer
Read his storyRead the wider context of veterinary work and treatment routes.
Brief history
Sergeant Major Daniel Horsley and John Matthews both served with No. 20 Veterinary Hospital. Horsley died on 26 August 1915 and was buried at East Mudros. Matthews died in Egypt in 1918. The hospital’s sequence of stations has not yet been established.
Hospital chronology
- 26 August 1915
Sergeant Major HORSLEY dies; East Mudros burial.
- 1918
John MATTHEWS is recorded with the unit and dies in Egypt.
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.