Men yet to be identified
No individual biography has yet been linked to this hospital.
Read the wider context of veterinary work and treatment routes.
Brief history
The hospital chronology used here dates its formation at the racecourse at Gournay-en-Bray to June 1917. In March 1918 it received animals from No. 7 for treatment, including eye cases. It moved to Cologne in April 1919 with the British occupation force. Its diary continues there into October.
Hospital chronology
- June 1917
Formation at Gournay-en-Bray in the earlier chronology.
- 11 March 1918
A transfer from No. 7 explicitly identifies ophthalmic cases.
- 14 April 1919
Earlier diary chronology records arrival at Cologne.
Sources and further reading
- Graham Hodgkins’s hospital articles and war-diary research for the hospital chronology below.
- Victor Walter Smith’s original grave-registration list, recording 24th Mobile Section.
- Smith’s original cemetery register and current CWGC record, recording 24th Veterinary Hospital.
- These conflicting descriptions qualify Smith’s association; they do not verify a posting to the later hospital at Gournay-en-Bray.
