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
Read the wider context of veterinary work and treatment routes.
Brief history
No. 8 Veterinary Hospital was based at Forges-les-Eaux. In March 1918 it received animals from No. 7 for mange treatment, including fifty horses on 11 March.
Corporal John Edwin Noble served at the hospital. His drawings depicted Army animals and the work of the veterinary staff. The hospital later served with the British occupation force at Cologne.
Hospital chronology
- 11 March 1918
Fifty horses are sent from No. 7 for mange treatment.
- 28 February 1919
The earlier research chronology places the unit at Cologne.
Historical material
John Edwin Noble, The Silent Heroes of 1914–1918 — National Army Museum
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.