by John Nichol
Alexandra Hospital, Singapore 66, 67
Alexandria 90, 92
Allied armies
advance into France 128
attitude to the individual soldier’s survival 236
blood supplies 113
Caen 121
D-Day begins 115
Normandy landings 130
north through Italy 106
penicillin 107, 108
Sicily 105
Siegfried line 144
skills compared to Germans 127
Allied expeditionary force 89, 90
Altman, Robert 158
Ambulance Service Institute 356
American Civil War 32, 306
American Red Cross 45- see also Red Cross
Americans 106, 159, 163, 251- see also United States
Ammunition Technical Officers (ATOs), 332
amputations 156, 358, 362–3
Anckorn, Gunner Ferguson 67
Andersonstown 273
Antelope, HMS 179
anti-personnel mines 28
antiseptics 32
Antrim, HMS 174
Antwerp 141
Apache gunships 18, 300, 303
Ardennes 140
Ardent, HMS 174–6
Argentinians- see also Falkland Islands
airforce 175, 212
Ajax Bay 238
artillery 225
beginning of the end for 229
Belgrano 168
casualties treated 193–5, 228
gunners 186
military dictatorship 159
prisoners of war 199, 200
San Carlos settlement 172–3
surrender 193–4, 230, 233
Army Blood Transfusion Service 45 -see also blood transfusion
Army Manual 97
Arnhem 85, 161
arnica 28
Athens (Afghanistan), 326–8
Athens (Greece) 89, 90
Atlantic Conveyor 238
Atlantic Ocean 57, 160, 176
atom bombs 153–4
Axis 91, 94, 95
B-29s 153
Ba’athists 259
Baghdad, 244, 257, 259, 265–6
Bahrain 244
Baker Street 128
Balkans 248, 250
Banfill, Captain Martin 64
Barcelona 35, 86
Barlow, Fusilier Andy 334, 339
Barnett, Mrs 69
Basra
British attempts at goodwill 271
British role, 255, 257, 259
Eleanor Dlugosz 293, 295
Holly Perceval 282
hot encounter, a 263, 264
relations with British plummet 275
road into 245
serious incidents multiply 277
Battle of Britain (film), 288
Bayeux 125
Belcher, Bill 188
Belfast 246–7
Belgium 38–9, 48
Belgrano, 168
Belize 378
Belsen concentration camp 85, 251
Benghazi 100
Bennett, Sergeant Major Harry 150
Bentley, Lance Corporal Bill ‘Basher’ 189–91
artillery shells 182
searching for missing friend 193
Sir Galahad 207
terrible memories of action 234, 380, 386
Benzedrine tablets 113
Bergen rucksacks 171
biological weapons 241, 242
Birmingham University 280
Black Hawk Down 16, 303
Black Hawk helicopters 338, 339, 368
Black Watch 265–7
Blair, Tony 265, 297, 374, 387
BLESMA (British Limbless Ex-Service Men’s Association) 374
Blitz 137
blood transfusion 45, 76, 93, 113, 127, 360
Bloom, Bob 54
Blowpipe missiles 171
Bluff Cove 202, 211, 234, 240, 380, 386
Blythe, Sergeant Joe 72, 79–80
Boer War 32, 157
‘Bomb Alley’, 170, 174
Boulogne 51, 57
Bournemouth 138
Brachterbeek 145
Bradley, Major David 263–4
Bradley, Lara 264
Bradley, Lorna 107
Brat Camp 292
Bridge Too Far, A 365
Brigade of Guards 95
Bristol 45, 85
British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 38, 40, 47, 59
British Red Cross 87- see also Red Cross
Brize Norton 404
Brooke, Major Ralph 35–7, 43–4, 57, 58, 393
Brooke, Rupert 389
Broome, Sergeant Chris 262
Brown, Gordon 6, 297–8
Brown, Len 53, 110, 111
Brussels 38–9, 43, 157
Bulge, Battle of the 140
bullet wounds 362
Bullingham, Chief Petty Officer Terry 174
Bullwinkel, Sister Vivien 70–1
Burgess, Captain John
Canberra 168
Mount Longdon 219, 220, 222
return home 237
San Carlos settlement 172–3
trench foot 399
Burma 72, 75, 157
Burt, Jas 218, 223
Bush, George W. 257
Bushidō 63
C Company, Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment 288
Cable and Wireless 215
Caen 114, 121, 125–6, 141
Cairo 92, 103
Calais 53, 57
Cameron Highlanders 38
Camiers 37, 38, 43, 51
Camp Bastion
‘deadliest place on earth’ 348
description 3, 15–16
dirt tornadoes 302
life-changing decisions at 358
major trauma 366
Stockton at 371
transfers to by Chinook 339, 340
Camp Cherokee 262, 263
Camp Coyote 252
Camp Dogwood 265–7, 371
Canadians 104–5
Canberra, 165–8, 178, 228, 238
Canea 86
cannulas, 20, 338
Cantlie, Lieutenant General Sir Neil 157
Carrapiett, Flight Lieutenant Damien Van 16–20, 24, 26, 350–1
Carter, Major Phil 293–5
CATs (Combat Application Tourniquets) 321, 329, 335 – see also tourniquets
Catering Corps 167
CCPs (Casualty Collecting Posts) 122–3
Centre for Defence Medicine 280
Chain, Ernst 108
Chalker, Jack 74
Changi 71–2
Channel 62, 108
Chapeau Rouge chateau 51
Charles, Prince 387
chemical weapons 241, 242
Chinook helicopters 16–18, 331–3, 347–51
as air ambulance 20
Black Hawks and, 368
Camp Bastion 339, 340
description 16–17
lack of winches and hoists 345, 404
Majar al-Kabir 260
potential death trap 299–300
Taliban bring down 356
time needed to transfer wounded to ambulance 357
worst case scenario 307
chloroform 32, 33
Chungkai hospital 76
Churchill, Winston 102
Clitheroe, Ed 365, 366
Coates, Lieutenant Albert 75
Cold War 157, 247, 253
Coldstream Guards 56, 66
Cole, Bob 190
collaborators 134
Cologne 141
Colorado 373
Combat Stress 375, 382
Cooper, David 201
Coote, Major James 262
Coronation Point 184
Cory, Annette 150, 151
Cory, Lieutenant Robert 145–8, 150
Coventry, Captain Dudley 146, 149
Coventry, HMS 180
Craig, Lance Corporal Alex 329–34, 337–8, 340–1, 343–4, 386
Crete
86, 90–1, 101, 102, 175
Crimean War 31, 77, 159, 161
CT body-scanners 254, 361, 405
Dagenham 45
Dakota aircraft 157
D-Day
begins 114–15
consolidation 120
Falklands and 159, 160
in the Falklands 170
Montgomery’s address 107
some of the first ashore 139
Debenham, Robert 86–8, 92, 94–5, 107, 126
‘debriding’ 43–4
‘decompression’ time 383
Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre 371
Defence Medical Services Training Centre xix
Delayed Primary Closure 198
Dent, Chris 187
Desert Hawk UAVs 4, 8
Desert of Death 2
‘Desert Rats’ 84, 242
deserters 97
Dieppe 41, 393
digital X-ray machines 361
diptheria 78, 79
Dlugosz, Eleanor ‘Ella’ (DZ) 292–7, 388–9
Docherty, Captain Phil 321
Dodsworth, Mark 220
Doll, Richard 54–6
Dornier fighter-bombers 89
Dover 56, 59
Drennan, Captain Sam 230–3, 236
Drummond, Irene 71
Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment 293
Dunant, Henry 29–30
dunes 99
Dunkirk 47–57
MacCarthy at 80
medics surrendering at 63
one of a series of defeats 102
outer defensive ring 45
Pleydell at 52, 85, 383–4
Dunkirk Mole 49, 50, 53–5
Dunlop, Lieutenant Colonel Edward ‘Weary’ 73–4, 79
Dyer, Second Lieutenant Joanna Yorke 293
dysentry, 91–2
Edgell, Warrant Officer Simon 385–6
Edward I, King 28
Edwards, Private ‘Eddie’, 320–1
Eisenhower, General 127
Egypt 157
Elliott, Toby 375
emergency medicine 247
Entenox gas-and-air machines 286
Exocets 238
Eyles-Thomas, Private Mark 169, 216, 217–18, 223–5
Falaise 126
Falconer, Sergeant Major Dave 261
Falkland, Lord 399
Falkland Islands 155–240- see also Ajax Bay; Argentinians
after effects for combatants 377–85
attitudes to survival 236, 239
casualties 162
close call, a 237
D-Day 170
digging in 172
First World War and 237
introduction 159–60
lessons learned from used in Iraq 245
Mick Jennings’s feelings about 241
topographical considerations 163
trench foot 171
two islands of 170, 213
Falkland Sound 175
Fallujah 265, 266
Farnborough Air Show 378
Faulkner, Sergeant Brian 162, 218–23, 226–9
FFI (Free From Infection) inspections 62
field dressings 280
Field Surgery Handbook (Kirby and Blackburn) 238
Finney, Colonel C. M. 49, 51
Finney, Trooper Chris 254–5
First World War 32–4
chemical and biological weapons 241
chlorine gas, effects of, 28
dying and the wounded, the 46
Falklands and, 237
gas gangrene 44
medical service dismantled after 36
Second World War similarities 124, 125
survival comparisons 156
Thomas splints 94
trench foot 171
Fisher, Surgeon Captain A. R. 59
Fitzroy 202, 209, 214, 232
Flamazine 211, 213
Fleming, Alexander 107
Florey, Howard 107
Folkestone 54
Forfar, Dr John 135
Forward Advanced Resuscitation Teams (FARTs) 244, 245
Forward Operating Base (FOB) Price 385–6
Forward Operating Base (FOB) Robinson 2, 5–6, 8, 19, 348–51, 356 Forward Operating Base (FOB) Zeebrugge 324
Fox-Russell, Captain John 141
France
clearing stations and hospitals 51
D Day 114
end of World War II in 133
Falklands and 159
old carbines 42
RAF in 43
Resistance guerrillas 128
Franco, General 35
Franco-Prussian War 32, 306
Fukuyama, Francis 402
Full Metal Jacket 364
Galahad- see Sir Galahad
Gallipoli 160, 257
Garmsir 363
gas gangrene 44, 107, 198
Gazelle helicopters 172–3, 175, 222
Geddes, Corporal Johnnie 159, 170, 200
Geneva Convention
enemy wounded 194, 301
German attitudes 41, 42, 52
Japan ignores 63, 65
Taliban disregard 6
Tobruk hospital bombing 95
George VI, King 152
George Medals 344
Gereshk 302, 385
Germans
Battle of the Bulge 140
Belgium invaded 38–9
blood transfusion service, lack of 45, 113, 127
Brussels taken 43
Caen 125–6
Calais taken 53
D-Day 115
defending the Fatherland 141
Dunkirk 63
evacuation of wounded 94
fighter planes 95
Geneva Convention 41, 42, 52
MacCarthy flees just ahead of 62
Maginot line 37, 44
medical shortcomings 127- see also Germans: blood transfusion service, lack of; Germans: penicillin, lack of
Nazi threat 37
penicillin, lack of 107, 108, 127
phoney war with 35
retreating 131
Sicily 105
sickness rates 91–2
Talamba attacked 104
trigger happy or correct behaviour 52
Walcheren 135
Gestapo 129, 130, 132
Gettysburg, Battle of 32
Gibbens, Lieutenant Trevor 45–7
Giles, Corporal Stu 299–301, 304, 313–16, 320–3
Gliddon, Sid 150
Goat Ridge 231
Goose Green
Ajax Bay receives bodies 198
Argentine wounded 194
flashbacks for veterans 377, 380
lessons learned 240
2 Para advance on 181–2
survivors 197
Grant, Private Chris 268–9
Gray, Lieutenant Colonel 149
Gray, Private Dave ‘Chopsey’, 190–2, 197
Greece 89–91, 102
Greenham Common 243
Greenwich Mean Time 98
Grenade, HMS 54
Grenadiers 66
Grigg, Sir John 152
Griffiths, Colonel 17
Grose, Neil 223–5
Guernica 40
Gulf War (first)- see Iraq
Gulf War (second)- see Iraq
Gunner B 80
Gurkhas 3, 230, 231, 300
Hale, Shannon 325, 342–3, 372, 374
Hale, Lance Corporal Stuart 324–31, 339, 341–3, 372, 390
Halifax bombers 125
hallucinations 342
Hamburger Hill 16
Harden, Bobby 137, 142, 143, 149, 152
Harden, Lance Corporal Eric 126, 137–44, 146–53
Harden, Julie 140, 142, 152, 387, 398
Harden, Maud 137–44, 149–52
Hardie, Dr Robert 79
Harrison, Mark 45, 113, 393
Harry, Prince 373
Hartley, Lance Corporal Paul ‘Tug’, 326–41, 344
Harvey, Private ‘Ja
rhead’, 327–8
Haville, John 145–8
Haw, Revd Reginald 149, 151
Headley Court 371, 373
Helm, Dr Bill 108–10, 122–5
Helm, Dr Cyril 125–6, 397
Helmand 2, 3
Helmand River 5, 8, 306, 324
Hemcon bandages 279 368
Henry V, King 28
Hercules transporters 243
Herford, Martin 85, 89–91, 103–6
Hermes 168, 169
Hesco blast walls 349
Hickey, Sergeant Chris 277–8
Hitler, Adolf 35, 140, 144
Hodgetts, Colonel Tim 246–9, 254, 280–1, 368–9, 374
Holmes, Richard 260, 275
Hong Kong 64, 66
Hoon, Geoff 265
Horsa gliders 114
Horse Guards Parade 387
Horsley, Sir Victor 257
Hôtel Haute Maison 38
House of Commons 152, 156
Howard, Corporal Tom 195, 235
Hughes, Captain Steven 161–6, 182–91, 199–202
Argentinian wounded 194–5
first aid training 280
Goose Green survivors 197
later panic attacks, 376–7, 379
reaction to end of Falklands War 234
return of the troops to England 383
Sir Galahad 207, 208
supplies ration of morphine, 170–2
Hurricanes 95
Hussein, Saddam 241, 251, 252, 259
‘I Vow to Thee, My Country’, 362
IEDs (improvised explosive devices) 243, 264–5, 281, 283, 362
Immediate Response Teams 254
Imperial Guard 66
In Arduis Fideles 390
Intel 293
International Red Cross 30
Intrepid 169
Invincible 168
IRA 246
Iraq 241–98- see also Basra
abandons Kuwait 245
Blair on 374
booby traps 245
British leave 298
British wind down involvement 297
close fighting 242
‘decompression’ time 383
descent into chaos 274
immediate aftermath of successful invasion 257
main British base 264
medical priorities 34
militias 271
PTSD 383
senior surgeons on front line 357–8
stabilisation 258
violence in 260, 275
Israel 164
Italy 85, 89, 106
Iwo Jima, Battle of 171
Jackson, Private Damien 313–18, 321
Japanese
disease in POW camps 77–8
Geneva Convention disregarded 63, 65
Imperial Guard 66
MacCarthy and 80–3, 153–4
Malaya 65, 66
on the march 62
Singapore 66–8, 71
Slim’s jungle army 157
St Stephens College 64–5
Sumatra 70–1
Thailand-Burma railway 72–3
Jarvie, Sergeant Dan 313, 314, 318, 320–1
Java 80, 82
Jeffrey, Major J. S. 44–5
Jennings, Sister Margaret 103
Jennings, Lance Corporal Mick
Ajax Bay 174, 175, 212
Falklands opinion 160
Iraq 241–2
looking at a battle 181
Normandy landings and Falklands 170
surrender of Port Stanley 233, 241–2
