Longbridge Deverill

Head Quarters of the Overseas Training Brigade

Longbridge Deverill village Photo State Library Vic

Remarks

Longbridge Deverill is a village and civil parish about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of Warminster in Wiltshire, England.

From mid-1917, those ill or injured that were deemed fit enough to resume active service were then sent from the Command Depots to the Overseas Training Brigade to harden them up for life back in the trenches. The Overseas Training Brigade for the AIF was formed in Perham Down in June 1917 and then moved to Longbridge Deverill near Sutton Veny in October 1917. The camp was also known as Sand Hill camp.

Soldiers who passed this way

They were posted to the Overseas Training Brigade unless otherwise noted.

1917

• Walter Hayward 12 Sep - 14 Nov 1917
• Alfred Arthur Martin 29 Sep - 19 Oct 1917
• Alfred Gittins 20 Oct 1917 - 29 Jan 1918
• Frederick Edwin Murphy 5 - 26 Nov 1917
• William James Allen ? Dec 1917 - 12 Mar 1918
• Edward Dudley Mann 28 Dec 1917 - 16 Jan 1918

1918

• Richard Evans MM 1 - 9 Jan 1918
• Leslie James Godfrey 26 Jan - 12 Mar 1918
• Robert Frank Bickford 16 Mar - 16 Apr 1918
• Frederick Fancote 28 Mar - 4 Jun 1918
• Norman Sedrick Tonkin 9 Apr - 7 May 1918
• Thomas Hesketh 11 May - 4 Jun 1918
• Alfred Arthur Martin 16 May - 4 Jun 1918
• Daniel Adkins Lewis 29 May - 18 Jun 1918
• Claude Francis Cooper 11 Jul - 7 Aug
• Edward Dudley Mann 27 Jul - 21 Aug 1918
• Charles Fielder 30 Aug - 3 Oct 1918

*Norman Sedrick Tonkin 18 Sep - 9 Oct 1918

• Charles John Mitchell 24 Oct - 20 Nov 1918

1919

• Albert John Egan MID - 29 Jan - 27 Feb 1919
• Cecil Walter Challis 25 Apr - 1 Jun 1919 - No 1 Group