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Fargo Military Hospital Larkhill Salisbury Plain If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. We are currently building a database of patients treated in this hospital, if you know of anyone who was treated here, please enter their details via this form Patient Reports. (This section is under construction)   18th Sep 1916 Those known to have worked or been treated at Fargo Military Hospital Larkhill Salisbury Plain during the Great War 1914-1918. Kerslake MiD.. Reginald Thomas. Pte. Richings George Edward. Pte. Schofield Frank. CSM. (d.14th Oct 1917) All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of Fargo Military Hospital Larkhill Salisbury Plain from other sources. 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There are:-1 items tagged Fargo Military Hospital Larkhill Salisbury Plain available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. 241393 Pte. Reginald Thomas Kerslake MiD. 34th Battalion Reginald Kerslake was the son of John Charles Kerslake and Alice Maude Wolrich. He enlisted on 14th of December 1915 and was assigned to the 34th Battalion. He sailed on the HMAT Horatio which left Sydney on 2nd of May 1916, arriving at Plymouth on 23rd of June 1916. He was admitted to Fargo Military Hospital on 18th of September 1916 suffering from bronchitis, until he rejoined his unit on 15th of October 1916. He was promoted to Sergeant, then 2nd Lieutenant, then Lieutenant. He was mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig's despatch of 16th of March 1919 which was promulgated in the London Gazette No. 31448 of 11th of July 1919. His brother was Charles William Kerslake, Regimental No. 3580 (33rd Australian Battalion,11th reinforcement. Both returned home. Joan Nichols Add to this record. 240306 Pte. George Edward Richings 8th Battalion George Richings was my grandfather, and my mother was the sixth of his seven children. He worked as a winchman labourer when he enlisted on 11 October 1916 at Melbourne, when he was 42 years of age. On 19th of February 1917 he embarked on HMAT Ballarat. The troopship was torpedoed by a German submarine as it entered the English Channel but all 1725 souls on board were rescued. The ship sank off The Lizard at the southern tip of Cornwall. By 16th of September 1917 George was a patient at the Fargo Military Hospital, suffering from lumbago, and was discarged to the 2nd Trig Depot at Weymouth ten days later. On 8th of November 1917 he was returned to Australia on HMAT A68 for discharge, due to suffering from chronic rheumatism, and on 5th of February 1918 he received his discharge certificate from the Australian Imperial Force. Add to this record. 239959 CSM. Frank Schofield 18th Btn. (d.14th Oct 1917) Company Sergeant Major Frank Schofield (801) was a tailor from Linthwaite in Huddersfield who had previously served 8 years with the Royal Marines. Whilst in Sydney, Australia he enlisted in the 18th Battalion Australian Imperial Force on the 15th January, 1915 at the age of 32 years and 6 months. He served on Gallipoli and then with the Australian 5th Training Battalion in England. Frank Schofield died of tuberculosis at the Fargo Military Hospital on the 14th October 1917 and was buried with a Military funeral in the Linthwaite Churchyard Cemetery, Huddersfield on the 17th October, 1917. He was survived by his wife Elizabeth and daughter Bessie. Warren Baker Add to this record. 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