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'''1916'''
 
'''1916'''
*[[William Francis Cohn]] 20 Nov - 20 Dec 1916 - Codford General Hospital
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* [[Samuel Buckland]] 12 Feb 1916 - 4 Jul 1917
*[[Charles Blunt]] 3 Dec 1916 - 24 Jun 1917 - 13th Training Battalion
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* [[Ernest Clifford Noyce]] 12 Aug - 29 Sep 1916 - 4th Training Battalion
*[[James Edward Grabham]] 16 Nov 1916 - 9 Dec 1918 - 13th Training Battalion & 12th Training Battalion cadres.
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* [[James Edward Grabham]] 16 Nov 1916 - 9 Dec 1918 - 13th Training Battalion & 12th Training Battalion cadres.
*[[Victor Emanuel Durling]] 18 Nov - 1 Jul 1917 - 13th Training Battalion
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* [[Victor Emanuel Durling]] 18 Nov - 1 Jul 1917 - 13th Training Battalion
*[[Patrick Francis Fitzgerald]] 29 Dec 1916 - 14 Feb 1917 - 12th Training Battalion
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* [[William Francis Cohn]] 20 Nov - 20 Dec 1916 - Codford General Hospital
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* [[Charles Blunt]] 3 Dec 1916 - 24 Jun 1917 - 13th Training Battalion
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* [[Archibald Shepherd]] 3 Dec 1917 - 4 Feb 1918 - 11th Training Battalion
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* [[William Wright Casterton MM]] 13 Dec 1916 - 3 Feb 1917 - 11th Training Battalion
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* [[Albert Tom Milton]] 26 Dec 1916 - ?? - Codford General Hospital
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* [[Patrick Francis Fitzgerald]] 29 Dec 1916 - 14 Feb 1917 - 12th Training Battalion
  
  
 
'''1917'''
 
'''1917'''
*[[Robert Prior Bailey]] 11 Jan - 4 May 1917 - 4th Training Battalion
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* [[Robert Prior Bailey]] 11 Jan - 4 May 1917 - 4th Training Battalion
*[[George Mouatt Dow]] 4 Mar - 28 May 1917 - 12th Training Battalion
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* [[Charles Leonard Lockhart]] 11 Jan - 8 May 1917 - 3rd Training Battalion
*[[James Peter Henderson MM & Bar]] 27 Mar - 30 May 1917 -  
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* [[George Mouatt Dow]] 4 Mar - 28 May 1917 - 12th Training Battalion
*[[Henry (Harry) Butcher]] 30 Apr - 10 May 1917 - 51st Battalion reinforcement cadre
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* [[William Percival Nairn]] 4 Mar - 1 Jul 1917 - 12th Training Battalion
*[[Alfred Gittins]] 26 Aug - 2 Oct 1917 - 4th Training Battalion
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* [[Patrick Joseph O'Brien]] 4 - 12 Mar 1917 - Codford General Hospital
*[[Victor Norman Chandler MM]] 3 Sep - 10 Oct 1917 - 13th Training Battalion
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* [[James Peter Henderson MM & Bar]] 27 Mar - 30 May 1917 - 4th Training Battalion
*[[Eugene Anthony Gillespie]] 15 Sep 1917 - 22 Jan 1918 - 4th and 13th Training Battalions
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* [[Stanley Thomas Marsh]] 28 Mar - 24 Jun 1917 - 13th Training Battalion
*[[Victor Norman Chandler MM]] 11 Oct 1917 - 29 Jan 1918 - Instructional staff
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* [[Henry (Harry) Butcher]] 30 Apr - 10 May 1917 - 51st Battalion reinforcement cadre
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* [[Harold Percival Martin]] 9 Jul 1917 - 15 Jan 1918 - 4th Training Battalion
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* † [[John James Gill]] 26 Aug - 3 Dec 1917 - 4th Training Battalion
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* [[Alfred Gittins]] 26 Aug - 2 Oct 1917 - 4th Training Battalion
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* [[John Harold Coffen]] 28 Aug - 5 Oct 1917
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* [[Victor Norman Chandler MM]] 3 Sep - 10 Oct 1917 - 13th Training Battalion
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* [[Eugene Anthony Gillespie]] 15 Sep 1917 - 22 Jan 1918 - 4th and 13th Training Battalions
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* [[Lancel Butcher]] 25 Sep - 26 Nov 1917
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* [[Victor Norman Chandler MM]] 11 Oct 1917 - 29 Jan 1918 - Instructional staff
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* [[Frank Myales]] 29 Oct - 30 Nov 1917 - Codford General Hospital
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'''1918'''
 
'''1918'''
*[[George Emanuel Harber]] 4 Jun 1918 - 18 Mar 1919 - Instructional staff
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* [[Leonard George Morgan]] 5 Jan - 30 Mar 1918 - 4th Division Signals School
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* [[James Owen Horrocks]] 28 Mar - 28 Aug 1918 - 4th Division Signals School
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* [[Harry Simpson Francis]] 5 Apr - 30 May 1918
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* [[George Emanuel Harber]] 4 Jun 1918 - 18 Mar 1919 - Instructional staff
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'''1919'''
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* [[Alfred Arthur Martin]] 7 - 27 Feb 1919 - 2nd Training Brigade
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* [[Lewis George Martin]] 3 Apr - 31 May 1919
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* [[Thomas Frederick McDonough]] 7 Apr - 5 Jun 1919
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* [[James Arnold]] 8 Apr - 31 May 1919
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* [[William Edwin Cousens MM]] 8 Apr - 31 May 1919
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* [[Percy Fleming]] 8 Apr - 31 May 1919
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* [[Thomas McGow]] 8 Apr - 5 Jun 1919
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* [[Bruce Leslie Logan]] 19 Apr - 14 Jun 1919
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* [[Albert John Harris]] 14 May - 28 Jul 1919
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Latest revision as of 20:47, 17 September 2021

Codford camp.jpg
Codford Camp and Australian soldiers
Codford No 1 camp St Marys.jpg
Number 1 Camp at Codford St Mary's

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With its easy rail and road access to Warminster and Salisbury, during the First World War, there were no fewer than 15 different camps built in and around Codford. Initially this was to accommodate British troops before their deployment to France but after 1916 for New Zealand troops. The Australian No. 4 Command Depot (for the men who had been evacuated from the front line and were not yet fit to return to the front) arrived from Wareham in Dorset, remaining at Codford until November when it moved to Hurdcott.

During World War I large training and transfer camps were established in the surrounding area for the tens of thousands of Australian troops waiting to move to France. Codford also became a depot in 1916 for the men who had been evacuated from the front line and were not fit to return to the front.

  • No 4 camp in winter
  • No 4 Camp

The remains of rows of temporary wooden huts can be seen to the north of St Mary's church stretching along the eastern side of the Chitterne Road. Also clearly visible are the earthworks associated with the Codford Camp Railway that linked the civilian station with the camp sites.

Codford's 'Anzac Badge' was the idea of an Australian Brigade Commander during World War I, who wished to leave a visible memento of his brigade when it departed. This consists of a gigantic Rising Sun badge (measuring 53 x 45 metres), carved in 1916 into the grass of a hillside to expose the underlying bright white chalk. The soldiers of 13 Trg Bn AIF who maintained the badge as a form of punishment named the site 'Misery Hill'.

  • Codford St Marys church
  • Huts on right, bath house and wash house on left

The meticulously maintained Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery nearby is the second largest New Zealand War Grave Cemetery in the UK, and contains the graves of 97 Anzac troops, 66 New Zealanders, and 31 Australians.

  • Anzac Graveyard at Codford

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