Imperial Armies in the Period of Rearmament and Appeasement, 1933–1939

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas E. Delaney
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
British Army ◽  
General Staff ◽  
Far Eastern

European and Far Eastern threats made the 1930s more serious for the armies of the British Empire. In 1934, the Defence Requirements Sub-Committee (DRC) of the Committee of Imperial Defence recommended British measures to rearm and put the prospect of a continental commitment back to a place of prominence in British Army planning. But manpower problems continued to figure prominently in any general staff appreciation of possible army commitments, so Britain still looked to India and the dominions. The problem was that they were of very different attitudes politically, and generally unwilling to make commitments in advance of hostilities. Even so, generals across the empire had to plan for worst cases and they continued to pursue measures that would ensure reasonable cooperation when war came. Dominion and Indian officers still attended the staff colleges and the Imperial Defence College, and exchanges of periodical letters continued with renewed vigour.

Conference on the Limitation of Armament and Problems of the Pacific

1921 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-510
Author(s):  
James Brown Scott
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
British Empire ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Far Eastern ◽  
The City

A conference of a group of Powers heretofore known as the Principal Allied and Associated Powers (the British Empire, France, Italy, Japan and the United States), to discuss the limitation of armament, and of these Powers, and Belgium, China, the Netherlands and Portugal, to consider Pacific and Far Eastern problems, will open in the City of Washington on November 11, 1921.

William Boog Leishman: parasitologist and politician

Parasitology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 144 (12) ◽  
pp. 1582-1589 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. M. VINCENT
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Medical Officer ◽  
Early Research ◽  
Morbidity And Mortality ◽  
Causative Organism ◽  
British Army ◽  
Political Skills

SUMMARYFamous for the discovery of the parasite, Leishmania, named after him, and the invention of Leishman's stain, William Boog Leishman should perhaps be better known for his work in military and public health, particularly the prevention of typhoid. Leishman was a Medical Officer in the British Army from 1887 until his death in 1926. His early research was on diseases affecting troops posted to stations within the British Empire. He saw cases of Leishmaniasis while stationed in India, and was able to identify the causative organism from his detailed records of his observations. Leishman's most important contribution to public health, however, was his work with typhoid, a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the army. Leishman planned experiments and the collection of data to demonstrate the efficacy of anti-typhoid inoculation and, using his considerable political skills, advocated the adoption of the vaccine. He planned for the inoculation of troops in an emergency so, when war broke out in 1914, the vaccine was available to save thousands of lives. Leishman's colleagues and mentors included Ronald Ross and Almroth Wright. Leishman was less outspoken than either Ross or Wright; this paper shows how the different contributions of the three men overlapped.

Select documents XLVI: ‘Unofficial emissaries’: British army boxers in the Irish Free State, 1926

1996 ◽  
Vol 30 (118) ◽  
pp. 206-222
Author(s):  
David Fitzpatrick
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Free State ◽  
Internal Stability ◽  
British Army ◽  
Economic Dependence ◽  
The Troubles ◽  
Domestic Security ◽  
Fianna Fail ◽  
Irish Free State

By October 1926 the Irish Free State seemed to have emerged at last from the prolonged nightmare of the ‘Troubles’. Within three and a half years of the abandonment of armed insurrection by the republicans, Cosgrave’s government had proved unexpectedly effective in securing both internal stability and external reconciliation with its former antagonists. In May 1926 de Valera had committed his followers to parliamentary struggle by founding Fianna Fáil, thereby marginalising intransigent republicanism until it became a lingering irritant rather than an immediate menace to domestic security. The tripartite agreements of December 1925 had perpetuated partition and resolved some of the thorny fiscal problems raised by the Anglo-Irish treaty. The process of reconciliation with Britain was crowned during October and November 1926, when Kevin O’Higgins and the Irish delegation played a creative and enthusiastic role in remodelling the British Empire at the Imperial Conference in London. The consolidation of the Irish Free State as an autonomous dominion of twenty-six counties, comfortably acknowledging its strategic and economic dependence on Britain, seemed virtually assured.

The British Army and the British Empire

2012 ◽  
pp. 183-214
Author(s):  
Timothy Bowman ◽  
Mark Connelly
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
British Army
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