Fargo Military Hospital

Fargo Military Hospital ward 1918

Brief History

An artillery training camp was constructed at Fargo in 1904, and just prior to the commencement of WW1, a 1,200 bed Military hospital was constructed to cater for the 35,000 or so men based in the Larkhill complex of camps. It was central to many of the Australian camps at Perham Downs, Codford, Durrington, Larkhill and Sutton Veny as well as the Australian HQs at Tidworth. As a result many ill and injured Australians were admitted to this hospital during WW1.

Patients

1916

• Herbert Fuhrmann 5 Jul - 31 Aug 1916
• Keith Herbert Sloan 13 - 20 Jul 1916
• † Frederick William Scott 5 - 10 Aug 1916
• † John Terrence O'Neil 19 - 29 Aug 1916
• † Ernest Clifford Noyce 16 Aug 1916
• Samuel Buckland 29 Aug - 8 Sep 1916
• George Harris 1 - 8 Sep 1916
• Aleck (Alex) Charles Gale 23 - 31 Oct?? 1916
• Alfred James Hansen MM ?? Nov 1916
• William Michael Bowman 26 Nov - 5 Dec 1916

1917

• Keith Herbert Sloan 6 - 19 Jan 1917
• James Henry Davidson 25 Jan - 6 Feb 1917
• William Atkins 4 Mar - 10 May 1917
• David Alexander Sayer 8 - 23 Mar 1917
• John Flynn 10 Mar - 20 Apr 1917
• † Alfred Parker 11 - 29 Mar 1917
• George Henry Holroyd 12 Mar - 2 May 1917
• Albert Thomas Myers 17 Mar - 17 Apr 1917
• Patrick Joseph O'Brien 20 - ?? Mar 1917
• Thomas Alfred Osborne Apr 1917 for 1 week
• † Robert Melville Salter 13 - 30 Jul 1917
• Joseph Charles Joshua Farnell 8 - 20 Jul 1917
• † Beverley Loxton Bennett 24 Jul 1917
• Cecil Herbert McKeown 7 Sep - 5 Oct 1917
• Terry de Bohun Helm 3 Oct 1917 - 20 Jan 1918