scholarly journals “A forgotten generation”: medical care for disabled veterans of the First World War in independent Ireland

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Anthony Farrell
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Disabled Veterans ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

'We Will Never Forget You': Christian Charities and the Rehabilitation of Disabled ex-Servicemen in Inter-War Leeds

2018 ◽  
pp. 47-63
Author(s):  
Bethany Rowley
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
First World War ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
Disabled Veterans ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

The unprecedented number of disabled ex-servicemen is one of the evident, but often forgotten, legacies that the First World War left to Britain. For these men, and the organisations created to rehabilitate and reintegrate them back into civil life, the war did not end with the 1918 armistice. By using parish records, this paper will argue that disabled veterans were largely forgotten by religious charities within inter-war Leeds, despite attempts made by clergymen to help servicemen during the war. The impact that this had on male and religious identity is also examined, as any help available disappeared with distance from the conflict. This lack of Christian aid in Leeds challenges the wider historiographical perspective that the Great War favourably altered social attitudes to disability and disability care, whilst supporting the narrative that disabled ex-servicemen were overlooked by the nation they fought to protect.

scholarly journals Reforming the veteran: propaganda and agency in the First World War Reconstruction hospitals

2019 ◽  
Vol 107 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
First World War ◽  
Veterans Health ◽  
World War ◽  
Hospital System ◽  
Disabled Veterans ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Us ◽  
First World

The United States’ entry into the First World War prompted progressives to reform veterans’ entitlements in the hopes of creating a system insulated from corruption and capable of rehabilitating disabled veterans into productive members of society. The replacement of pensions with medical care for wounded and disabled soldiers through the Reconstruction Hospital System was originally intended as a temporary measure but resulted in establishing the foundations of the modern veterans’ health care system. Yet, these reforms would not have been possible without the support from the community of war veterans to which these reforms applied. By examining the communal values expressed in publications produced by and for soldiers, this paper explores the ways in which the Great War’s veteran community expressed agency in the process of reforming the US veteran entitlements.

scholarly journals The Content and Treatment of Prisoners of war During the First World War (on the example of the Kostroma and Yaroslavl provinces)

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 184
Author(s):  
Anna M. Chapaeva
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
First World War ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
First World

This article is devoted to the content of prisoners of war in the Kostroma and Yaroslavl provinces during the First World War. The international and Russian legal framework for the detention of prisoners of war is indicated, which prescribes the conditions for providing medical care, the use of labor and the treatment of officers and lower ranks. Examples of the content of prisoners of war and the attitude of the local population to military prisoners are given. The approximate expenses for the maintenance of prisoners of war in the specified provinces are shown. The generaliter information concerning equipment with medical and disinfection equipment is given. The analysis of archival documents and publications concerning the maintenance of prisoners of war is carried out.

Drugs for the Tengatenga, 1861–1919

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-47
Author(s):  
Luke Messac
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
First World War ◽  
Health Facilities ◽  
World War ◽  
Government Health ◽  
The First World War ◽  
War Effort ◽  
First World

Chapter 1 draws a link between the conscription of hundreds of thousands of Nyasaland’s Africans into the British military’s carrier service during the First World War and the first efforts to provide some measure of government health care to rural colonial subjects during the 1920s. Prewar colonial civilian medical care was poor. During the First World War, hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly conscripted into the British war effort. For the most part, this experience consisted of brutal and often deadly labor. However, the experience of even threadbare medical care during the war years did lead to calls for better civilian government health facilities during the 1920s.

scholarly journals Trust and National Belonging: Welfare for Disabled Veterans in Bohemia (1914–1918)

Administory ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 218-234
Author(s):  
Thomas Rohringer
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Administrative Reform ◽  
World War ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Disabled Veterans ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World ◽  
Specific Concern

Abstract This contribution examines the role of trust in disabled veteran welfare in Bohemia during the First World War. It places this concern for disabled veterans’ trust in a wider political context as trust emerged as a specific concern in Cisleithanian political discourses on administrative reform around 1900. In the context of welfare for disabled veterans in Cisleithania, trust gained novel importance. Medical and occupational experts deemed it imperative to gain disabled veterans’ trust to maintain their role as experts and developed specific strategies of emotionally engaging with disabled soldiers to gain their trust. Karl Eger, a military official, emerged as an influential actor in Bohemian welfare for disabled veterans. He propagated a welfare administration based on local welfare boards, which would supposedly possess disabled veterans’ trust. His idea of trust was, however, based on concepts of national communities and he implemented it to re-organize disabled veteran welfare based on nationality.

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