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Medic: Saving Lives - From Dunkirk to Afghanistan

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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

 

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