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.
George DENYER
Occupation recorded: Labourer
Read his storyAlbert MUNDAY
Read his storyEdward Omega TOWNSEND
Occupation recorded: Soap Van Guard
Read his storyFurther men recorded with this hospital
Read the wider context of veterinary work and treatment routes.
Brief history
No. 6 Veterinary Hospital was based at Rouen. No. 8’s diary records sending it 140 mange cases on 14 March 1918. No. 7’s diary records a dispatch of 329 horses and 79 mules to No. 6 on 31 March, during the German spring offensive. The latter movement has not yet been reconciled with No. 6’s receiving diary.
Hospital chronology
- 14 March 1918
No. 8 records sending 140 mange cases to No. 6.
- 31 March 1918
No. 7 evacuates 329 horses and 79 mules to Rouen.
Sources and further reading
- The National Archives, WO 95/4157/5, 31 March 1918. Read the dispatch entry on the No. 7 page.
- Graham Hodgkins’s hospital articles and war-diary research, including No. 8’s 14 March 1918 dispatch.
- Individual CWGC records linked from the biographies above.