The British military family: The experiences of British Army wives before, during, and after deployment, their satisfaction with military life, and their use of support networks

2015 ◽  
pp. 129-149
Keyword(s):  
Support Networks ◽  
Military Family ◽  
British Army ◽  
Army Wives ◽  
Military Life ◽  
British Military

Conclusion: Legal and Constitutional Legacies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William E. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
American Revolution ◽  
Constitutional Change ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
Military Life ◽  
American States ◽  
Historical Literature ◽  
British Military ◽  
Reign Of Terror ◽  
Property Destruction ◽  
The Revolution

The conclusion makes two arguments. First, it takes the position common in the historical literature that the American Revolution was a comparatively placid one, with few killings of civilians, little property destruction, and no reign of terror. It argues that the placidity was a consequence of legal continuity—the same courts, judges, and juries that had governed the colonies in 1770 in large part continued to govern the new American states in 1780. During the course of the War of Independence itself, legal and constitutional change occurred almost entirely at the top, and, except in the few places occupied by the British military, life went on largely as it always had. The conclusion also argues that old ideas of unwritten constitutionalism persisted during and after the Revolution, but that a new idea that constitutions should be written to avoid ambiguity emerged beside the old ideas.

Posted to Germany: Early Cold War Canadian Military Policy and Its Impact on One Family’s Experience

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayne Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Hospital Setting ◽  
Military Hospital ◽  
Military Policy ◽  
The North ◽  
Military Life ◽  
British Military ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
Canadian Military

In the summer of 1954, military surgeon Major Robert Elliott was posted to the British Military Hospital in Iserlohn, Germany, to provide medical care to Canadian soldiers, members of the 5,500-strong Canadian Brigade that had earlier been stationed there as part of Canada’s commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Like many other military families, Elliott’s family had to remain behind until suitable accommodation for them could be found. Based on the letters that Elliott wrote home to his wife during their eight-month separation, this article provides a glimpse of how both old and new Canadian military policies during the early Cold War period had an impact on his work and his family. The Canadian government’s decision to place the Brigade under British control reflected, in part, the long-standing attachment to Britain, but Elliott was often frustrated with how imperial/colonial relations played out in the hospital setting. And the military’s initial reluctance to officially allow dependents to join their loved ones overseas, a new phenomenon in Canadian military life, undoubtedly contributed to his confusion and anxiety over when family quarters would finally be finished.

Kishida, Kunio (1890–1954)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Jortner
Keyword(s):  
French Literature ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Military Family ◽  
Modern Drama ◽  
Psychological Realism ◽  
Military Life ◽  
One Act

Kishida Kunio is considered to be one of the founders of Japanese shingeki drama and one of the most important modern Japanese dramatists. Through his use of imagistic language and psychological realism, Kishida established the "literary" school of shingeki theatre. Kishida was born in 1890 in Tokyo to a military family. He was commissioned as an officer in the Japanese army in 1912 but left two years later, disillusioned by military life. He entered Tokyo Imperial University in 1917 in order to study French literature. In 1919 he traveled to Paris to study with the French playwright Jacques Copeau. Kishida returned to Japan in 1923 and introduced many of the ideas Copeau had shown him to the shingeki stage. From 1924 to 1929 he wrote numerous one-act plays for both performance and publication; these works included Kami fūsen [Paper Balloon] (1925), Buranko [The Swing] (1925), and Ashita wa Tenki [Tomorrow it Will Be Fine] (1928). These plays examined the emotional lives of their characters as they focused on issues of domesticity. From 1929 to 1936 Kishida shifted toward writing multi-act plays for the theater. With actor Tomoda Kyōsuke and actress Tamura Akiko he founded the Tsukijiza (Tsukiji Troupe) in 1932. This was the first shingeki company based on Kishida’s literary form of modern drama. He also founded Gekisaku [Playwriting] magazine in the same year, which became a platform for Kishida to articulate and promote his apolitical view of theater as well as a splace in which to promote new Japanese playwrights such as Tanaka Chikao and Uchimura Naoya.

scholarly journals Supplement use by UK-based British Army soldiers in training

2014 ◽  
Vol 112 (7) ◽  
pp. 1175-1184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Casey ◽  
Jason Hughes ◽  
Rachel M. Izard ◽  
Julie P. Greeves
Keyword(s):  
Military Personnel ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
British Army ◽  
Self Administration ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Supplement Use ◽  
Sports Drinks ◽  
British Military ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Army Soldiers

The use of supplements is widespread at all levels of civilian sport and a prevalence of 60–90 % is reported among high-performance UK athletes, including juniors. The prevalence of supplement use among UK-based British Army personnel is not known. The aim of the present study was to establish the point prevalence of supplement use in UK-based British Army soldiers under training (SuTs) and associated staff. A cross-sectional anonymous survey was carried out in 3168 British Army SuTs and soldiers, equating to 3·1 % of regular Army strength, based at eleven Phase 1, 2 and 3 UK Army training sites. Overall, 38 % of the respondents reported current use of supplements, but prevalence varied according to the course attended by the respondents. The number of different supplements used was 4·7 (sd 2·9). Supplements most commonly used were protein bars, powders and drinks (66 %), isotonic carbohydrate–electrolyte sports drinks (49 %), creatine (38 %), recovery sports drinks (35 %), multivitamins (31 %) and vitamin C (25 %). A small proportion of respondents reported the use of amphetamines and similar compounds (1·6 %), cocaine (0·8 %), anabolic androgenic steroids (1·1 %), growth hormone (2·0 %), and other anabolic agents, e.g. testosterone (4·2 %). Logistic regression modelling indicated that, for current users, younger age, being female, smoking and undergoing Officer Cadet training were associated with greater supplement use. This is the first study to investigate the prevalence of dietary and training supplement use in UK-based British military personnel. Self-administration of a wide range of supplements is reported by British military personnel in training, which is at least as great as that reported by those on deployment, and has implications for Defence policy and educational needs.

scholarly journals From Law and Order to Pacification: Britain's Suppression of the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936––39

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Methodological Problem ◽  
British Army ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
British Military ◽  
Official Records

This article examines British human rights abuses against noncombatants during the 1936––39 Arab Revolt in Palestine, contextualizing brutality in Palestine within British military practice and law for dealing with colonial rebellions in force at the time. It shows that the norms for such operations, and the laws that codified military actions, allowed for some level of systemic, systematic brutality in the form of "collective punishments" and "reprisals" by the British army. The article also details the effects of military actions on Palestinian civilians and rebels and describes torture carried out by the British on Palestinians. Finally, it highlights a methodological problem in examining these sorts of abuses: the paucity of official records and the mismatch between official and unofficial accounts of abuse during counterinsurgency.

Representations of The Gurkhas (Lahures) in Modernist Narratives

Unity Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 153-162
Author(s):  
Nagendra Bahadur Bhandari
Keyword(s):  
British Army ◽  
Personal Loss ◽  
British Military ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Military ◽  
Second World

The representation Gurkha soldier or Lahures in British military writings and Nepali modernist narratives vary drastically. The British writings expose their martial skill and strength with high degree of integrity and loyalty in different wars including the First and Second World Wars. For instances, Brian Houghton Hodgson’s “Origin and Classification of the Military Tribes of Nepal”, J. P. Cross’s In Gurkha Company: The British Army Gurkhas and John Pemble’s British Gurkha War reflect their gallantry and unconditional loyalty. On the contrary, Nepali modernist narratives unravel their personal loss, separation, unpatriotic feeling and irresponsibility. Such unpleasant connotations in Nepali literature appears in ‘Aamali Sodhlin ni’ (Mother May Ask), a song of Jhalak Man Gandharva, “Sipahi” (Soldier), a story of Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, Sisirko Phul (Blue Mimosa), a novel of Bishnu Kumari Baiba ‘Parijat’ and poems of Bhupi Sherchan. This article explores drastically different types of the representation of the Gurkhas (Lahures) in British military writings and Nepali narratives, and the socio-political contexts of their representation. The social, cultural and political contexts of representation and the motives of the writers render variations in their representations. This article unfolds the connection between the representation of the Gurkhas (Lahures) and the condition under which they are represented. While doing so, this paper supports an instance of the representation of Gurkha soldiers as an ideological construct on ground of political and sociological phenomena.

From Whence They Came

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Dominy
Keyword(s):  
Class Structure ◽  
Internal Stability ◽  
Main Function ◽  
British Army ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
British Military ◽  
Army Officers ◽  
History Of ◽  
Established Order

This chapter examines the influence of the British military garrison at Fort Napier by tracing the history of the organization from whence the garrison came: the British Army. During the Victorian era, the British Army was a pillar of the established order. Its main function was to defend the realm in the United Kingdom, the Indian Empire, and the colonies, as well as the monarchy. In the period before the establishment of an organized police force, the army maintained internal stability in Britain and, even more significantly, in Ireland. The chapter first provides an overview of the administration and reform of the British Army before considering the “inherent” qualities that were inculcated into future army officers, along with the “other ranks” of the army. It shows that the Victorian-era army reflected and magnified the class structure of the society from whence it came, citing its emphasis on the concept of masculinity.

THE UNION AND THE MILITARY, 1801–c.1830

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 329-351
Author(s):  
Allan Blackstock
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
British Army ◽  
The Public ◽  
British Military ◽  
Military Background ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Church

AbstractWHEN writing his monumental history of the British army, Sir John Fortescue devoted just two paragraphs to the military implications of the Union. He noted that Union greatly simplified British military affairs in general and that this was an excellent thing for historians, driven to distraction by the confusing archival situation produced by the pre-Union military relationship of the two countries. The Irish military historian, Sir Henry McAnally, was equally succinct, merely remarking that `military matters had not bulked largely in the Union debates'. In ways they were both right. Although none of the eight articles of the Union refer to the army, it was understood that the assimilation principle, which regulated other branches of the public service and the church, would apply to the army. Yet, beneath and perhaps because of the delusive brevity of these bare facts, lies a seriously under-researched subject with wider ramifications, both in the short and longer term. Before these issues can be developed, it is first necessary to set the context by describing the pre-Union military background Ireland and then outlining the formal changes wrought by the Union.

Jomini versus Clausewitz: Hamley’s Operations of War and Military Thought in the British Army, 1866–1933

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-201
Author(s):  
Adam Dighton
Keyword(s):  
British Army ◽  
Dominant Position ◽  
British Military ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

Although Edward Hamley’s Operations of War was first published in 1866, it still occupied a dominant position in the British Army’s military thought in 1914. Despite this, historians have failed to explain why it was influential for so long. By considering how the volume was revised, this article demonstrates that it provided the army with a standard way to conceptualize war between 1870 and 1895, before being amended to reflect subsequent advances in military thought. Therefore, Hamley’s book provides an insight into how British military thought developed, particularly the way it transitioned from a Jominian to a Clausewitzian understanding of war.

Establishing an Imperial Presence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Dominy
Keyword(s):  
British Army ◽  
Military Involvement ◽  
British Rule ◽  
British Military ◽  
The Military ◽  
Permanent Presence

This chapter examines the circumstances under which British troops were initially deployed in Natal and the factors that led to the establishment of a permanent presence. To this end, the chapter describes the events preceding the arrival of a British column at Port of Natal in 1842. The first phase of British military involvement took place on the coast at Natal, or Durban, between 1842 and 1843. Thereafter the scene shifts to Pietermaritzburg, where the garrison established a fort in September 1843. The chapter discusses the military clashes at Natal in May and June 1842 between the British Army and the rebellious Trekkers. It also considers the diplomacy involved in trying to settle the issue of British control over Natal, the Trekker women's revolt against British rule, and the garrison's march on Maritzburg in 1843.

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