1st Australian Dermatological Hospital

Bulford Military Hospital (1ADH)
History
Name	1st Australian Dermatological Hospital
Where formed	Bulford
Date formed	November 1916
Capacity	1,500 patients
Locations	Codford, England

General Information

The British Army had started to build training camps and garrisons on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire in the late 1890’s. Once such location was at Bulford which was greatly expanded during the war, becoming home to a number of the New Zealand Regiments. The site also included a hospital and this was passed to the jurisdiction of the Australians who established it as a specialist hospital for venereal diseases, becoming known as 1ADH. At its peak 1ADH was able to accommodate over 1,500 patients, some of which were under guard. Security however was not tight and going absent without leave relatively simple. Eventually criminal patients were treated at Lewes Prison in Sussex.

The Codford Anzac Cemetery contains the graves of 31 Australians and 66 New Zealanders.

Today Bulford Camp is one of the main garrisons for the British Army.

Patients

• John Alexander Adamson 13 Oct 1916 - 21 Apr 1917 total 193 days
• Charles Blunt 10 - 20 Mar 1917 total 69 days
• William Bowman 31 Mar - 8 Aug 1917 total 131 days
• Beverley Loxton Bennett Oct/Nov 1917
• Henry Ogilvie Allom (Jnr) Nov- Dec 1917 total 38 days
• Hubert Maitland Armstrong MM 13 - 25 Apr 1918 and - 6 May 1918 (total 17 days)
• Lyndon Vivian Brady 16 Jan - 15 Feb 1919 (31 days)
• Henry Ogilvie Allom (Jnr) Apr 1919 total 3 days
• George Charles Unwin May 1919