The AFPU - The Origins of British Army Combat Filming During the Second World War

Film History ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 14 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 316-331
Author(s):  
Kay Gladstone
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
British Army ◽  
World War ◽  
Second World

Psychiatry in the British Army in the Second World War

1960 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Walter L. Wilkins ◽  
Robert H. Ahrenfeldt
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
British Army ◽  
World War ◽  
Second World

Editorial introduction to ‘Ownership’ by A. M. Honoré (1961)

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
GEOFFREY M. HODGSON
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Editorial Introduction ◽  
British Army ◽  
World War ◽  
Second World ◽  
Regius Professor

Antony (Tony) M. Honoré was born in London in 1921 but was brought up in South Africa. He served in the British Army during the Second World War and was severely wounded in the Battle of El Alamein in 1942. After the war, he continued his studies at New College, Oxford, and he has lived and taught in Oxford for well over half a century, holding fellowships at several Oxford colleges. From 1971 to 1988, he was Regius Professor of Civil Law and a Fellow of All Souls College in Oxford. He is internationally known for his work on ownership, legal causation, and Roman law.

scholarly journals “Not Only with Thy Hands, But Also with Thy Minds”: Salvaging Psychologically Damaged Soldiers in the Second World War

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-56
Author(s):  
Jane Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Mental Health Training ◽  
British Army ◽  
World War ◽  
Physical Trauma ◽  
Global War ◽  
Nursing Sisters ◽  
Second World

This essay breaks new ground in exploring the tensions in female nursing during the Second World War as the mental health needs of the injured were increasingly acknowledged. Advances in weaponry and transportation meant that the Second World War was a truly global war with mobile troops and enhanced capacity to maim and kill. A critical mass of female nursing sisters was posted to provide care for physical trauma, yet the nature of this uniquely modern war also required nurses to provide psychological support for troops readying for return to action. Most nursing sisters of the British Army had little or no mental health training, but there were trained male mental health nurses available. Publications of broadcasts by the Matron-in-Chief of the British Army Nursing Service detail the belief that the female nurse was the officer in charge of the ward when the patients had physical needs. However, that the nursing sister held this position when the patients’ requirements were of a psychological nature was at times tested and contested. Through personal testimony and contemporary accounts in the nursing and medical press, this essay investigates how female nursing staff negotiated their position as the expert by the psychologically damaged combatants’ bedside. The essay identifies the resourcefulness of nurses to ensure access to all patient groups and also their determination to move the boundaries of their professional work to support soldiers in need.

The British Army Unit Light Helicopter Project

1965 ◽  
Vol 69 (655) ◽  
pp. 489-492
Author(s):  
N. Crookenden
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Ground Effect ◽  
Second World War ◽  
British Army ◽  
World War ◽  
Full Responsibility ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The Many ◽  
Marginal Power ◽  
Second World

The revival of flying in the British Army dates from the Air OP flights of the Second World War, manned jointly with the RAF and highly successful in their limited role. In 1957 the Army took over full responsibility for its own aviation and in the previous year had already agreed with the Air Ministry and the Ministry of Supply to purchase the Saunders-Roe Skeeter. This two-seater aircraft had been under development since 1948. It was designed for worldwide use and with its 215 hp Gypsy Major engine it was supposed to have a service ceiling of 10 000 ft and an ability to climb at 180 ft/min outside ground effect at 4000 ft and ICAO + 30°. By 1958 the Skeeter had been accepted into service, but on its tropical trials in Aden in 1959 and 1960 it could produce only marginal power and the cylinder head and oil temperatures were above limits. It was therefore relegated to use in temperate climates and the Army was faced with the situation of still having no helicopters deployed in the Far East and Middle East. We had to make do there with the Auster, a fine, if rather senior reconnaissance aircraft, able to carry out only a few of the many roles required of an Army aircraft. A new aircraft, the Saunders-Roe P531, which became the Westland Scout, was ordered in 1959.

The ‘desertions crisis’ in the Irish defence forces during the Second World War, 1939–1945

2020 ◽  
pp. 096834452093296
Author(s):  
Joseph Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Large Majority ◽  
British Army ◽  
World War ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
Second World

Throughout the course of the Second World War, approximately 7,000 personnel serving with the defence forces of neutral southern Ireland abandoned their posts and absented themselves from duty. A large majority of these absentees successfully evaded capture by their authorities, crossing the border into Northern Ireland and arriving at British combined forces recruiting centres where they enlisted in the British army and the Royal Air Force. At the conclusion of the war, in August 1945, some 5,000 soldiers listed as ‘absent without leave’ were formally dismissed from the defence forces, deprived of all pension and gratuity rights, and legally prevented from obtaining any form of publicly remunerated employment for a 7-year period. This article investigates desertion from the Irish defence forces during the Second World War, producing fresh conclusions as to why it occurred on such a large scale.

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