by John Nichol
Jews 52
Johnson, Sergeant Major Tommy 14
Jolly, Surgeon Commander Rick 166–9, 175–80, 210–14
cleaning up 234
Goose Green bodies 199
moments of grief 196–7
searing memory from Ajax Bay 187–8
tots of rum called for 192
useful life, a 389–90
Jones, David 72
Jones, Lieutenant Colonel ‘H’ 187, 193
Jones, Sergeant John ‘Jonah’, 284–7
Julius Caesar 28
Junkers planes 40, 94
Jura mountains 128
Kajaki Dam 340–6
Chinook brought down 356
getting the wounded to hospital 368
Hale at 372, 390
hills overlooking 326
insurgent attacks 324
medics recurrent anxieties 386
Keble, Major Chris 193
Keegan, Private Peter 250, 255
Keogh Barracks xix, 292
Kevlar helmets 255
KIA (Killed In Action) 362
Kingsmen 403
Kipling, Rudyard 19, 27
Kiszely, Major John 230
Kitchener, Field Marshal 32
Knights of St John of Jerusalem 28
Koran 259
Korea 158, 188
Kosovo 248–50
Kuala 67, 68
Kuwait 241, 245, 347
La Baule 44
La Panne 49–51
Laffin, John, 33
Lancashire Loyals 54, 56
Lancaster bombers 125
Larrey, Baron, 31
Lauda, Niki 212, 400
Lawrence, Lieutenant Bob 232–3, 235
Lawrence, Lance Corporal Gary ‘Loz’ 1–7, 11–15, 18–20, 22, 375–6
Leath, Corporal Norman 64
Lee Enfield rifles 38
Leong, Sergeant Major Zac 309
Levadia 89
Liberation, The 134
Libya 244
Lister, Joseph, 32
Liverpool 94
Llewellyn, Sergeant Adam 261–2
Lloyd, Stoker Ernest 395
Long, Major L. J. 51
Long Range Desert Group 100
Lovat, Lord 116
Lucero, Lieutenant Ricardo 179
Lyon 134
M*A*S*H 158–9, 252
Maasbracht 144, 148
Maastricht 141
MacCarthy, Squadron Leader Aidan 62, 80–3, 153–4
maggots 44
Maginot line 37, 44
Mahdi army 261, 263, 270, 277, 288
Maid of Kent 41
Main, Lieutenant Colonel T. F. 378–9, 385
Majar-al-Kabir 260, 262, 273
Malaya 65, 66
Malvinas- see Falkland Islands
Manchester Ship Canal 94
maquis- see Resistance
Markowitz, Captain Jacob 76–7
Mason, Dick 147–8, 150
‘Max Factor’ procedures 93
May and Baker pharmaceuticals 45
Mayhead, Major John 277–8
Maysan 259, 262
McDonald, RAF Sergeant Rachel 304, 347–57
McGregor, Surgeon Bill 192
McGrigor, James 30
McKay, Sergeant Ian 223
McManners, Captain Hugh 161–2, 238–9
Medical Emergency Response Teams (MERTs) 15, 245, 317, 338, 363
Mentions in Dispatches 230
Merlin helicopters 275
Mesopotamia 257
Messerschmitts 90, 95
Messina, Straits of 105
Meuse, River 141
Middlesex Hospital 108
Military Crosses (MCs) 290–1, 296, 321–2
Military Medals 208, 380
Military Police 246
Miller, Private B. C. 47–8
Milne, Corporal Brian 217–19
Mincher, Flight Sergeant Frank 243, 254, 255, 267–76
minefields 323, 326–41
Minimi light machine guns 326
Ministry of Defence 6, 312, 345, 346
Mirage jets 172, 174, 202
Mole, Dunkirk 49, 50, 53–5
Montague, Corporal R. H. 38–9, 41–2, 48–9, 52–4
Montgomery, Field-Marshal 84, 92, 102, 107
morphine 34, 164, 170–2, 218, 336, 384
mortar bombs 124
Mount Harriet 230
Mount Longdon 216–17, 219–23, 225, 229, 240, 382–3
mujahedin 8
Muntok internment camp 71
Musah Qala 324
Musgrave Park Hospital, Belfast 238, 246–7
Nagasaki 83, 153–4
Napoleon Bonaparte 30–1
National Health Service 156, 379
Navy Seals 266
Naya, Sergeant Peter ‘Pierre’ 204–6, 208, 214, 380
NCOs 162
Neame, Major Philip 165
New Britain 80
Newman, Philip 51
Nightingale, Florence 31
Nixon, Gunner Adam 373, 374
Norland 163, 166, 170
Normandy (Afghanistan) 324, 327, 338
Normandy landings 107, 130, 159, 170- see also D-Day
Norris, Michelle 288–92, 296–7
North Africa 91, 107, 242, 244
Northern Ireland 159, 163, 219, 273, 299
Norway 160
Novocain 77
Now Zad 299, 324
Nutbeem, Kathryn 215, 387–8
Nutbeem, Patricia 202, 215, 388
Nutbeem, Major Roger 202, 215, 387, 388
oflags 63
Omaha beach 111, 115
OMLT (Operations Mentoring Liaison Team) 392
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest 377
O’Neill, Corporal Kris 293–4, 297
Onions, Tom 167, 170, 173, 220, 226–9, 382
OPAs (oral pharyngeal airways) 284
Operation Blackcock 14
Operation Dynamo 56
Operation Mutay 305
Orne, River 114, 115
Osprey body armour 369
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 45–7, 114
Page, Sergeant Ian 288–91
Parachute Regiment (Paras)- see also 2 Paras; 3 Paras
Afghanistan 3, 299–300, 305–9
Belize 378
berets 318
Falklands 159, 184, 193, 221
foundation 138
mates together 300, 315
more battle honours 230
Mount Longdon 221
outsiders 167
video at recruiting centre 322
‘Paramedic of the Year’ awards 356
Parit Sulong 65
Parker, Major Geoffrey 128–34
Parker, Lieutenant Colonel Paul 21–3, 256–7, 357–8, 361, 368, 405–6
Parkinson, Private Maiki 84–5
Pasteur, Louis 32
Pavillard, Captain Stanley 74, 77
Pearson, Jim 169
Pearson, Corporal Stuart 325, 328, 330–2, 334–6, 339
penicillin 99, 107–8, 113, 127
Pentothal 48
Percival, Private Holly 281–7
Percy, Baron 30–1
Philippson, Captain Jim 2, 5, 6, 12, 305, 392
phosphorus grenades 321
Pietersen, Kevin 355
Pizzo 105
‘Plasticuffs’ 12, 13
Platoon 16
Pleydell, Malcolm 95–102
Dunkirk 52, 85, 383–4
North Africa 91, 244
penicillin 107
Poland 142
Poll, Corporal ‘Prig’ 314
Poole, Andy 204, 206, 235, 255
Port Stanley 201–2, 216, 229, 233, 240–2
Powell, Enoch 384–5
Preston, Kenny 209
Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment 261, 288
Priority 1s, 350, 363
Priority 2s 310, 350
Priority 3s 350
Pristina 249, 250
Probets, Phil 218, 223–6, 234
Proctor, Corporal Simon ‘Si’, 282–6
Prosser, Dave 335, 339
prosthetic limbs 374
PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) 344, 376–9, 383
Pucaras 172, 179, 188
Puma helicopters 242, 254
Pynn, Caroline 311–12
Pynn, Captain Harvey 301–13, 315–20
quick reaction force 283
QuikClot 279, 302
Rapier missiles 174, 179
‘Red and Green Life Machine’ 178–9, 187
Red Army 236, 327
Red Caps 260–2, 273
Red Cross 42, 120, 198, 201
Reeves, Ann 60–1
Reggio 105
Reid, John 392–3
Rennes 57, 58
Republican Guards 241
Resistance (French) 128–34
Rew, Lieutenant Colonel David 244, 245, 251, 253, 366
Reynolds, Surgeon Major James 307
Richard I, King, 28
Richmond, Duchess of 39
Rigg, Corporal Jay 230–3, 236
roadside bombs 268
Roberts, Captain Hilarian Roberts 203, 206
rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), 1, 9, 12, 17, 314, 319
Roer triangle 144
roll-up stretchers, xxii
Rommel, Field Marshal 84, 92, 94, 102
Rorke’s Drift, Battle of 307
Rosell, Lieutenant Colonel Philip 252, 358–65, 367
Royal Army Medical Corps
cuts after First World War 36
field ambulance units 38
field hospitals 33
most decorated doctor 85
1941 prospectus, 25–6
‘open sespis’ surgery 131
QuikClot and other innovations 279
Second World War report 94
tourniquets 11
Royal Artillery 80
Royal Horse Artillery 263
Royal Marines 116, 138, 230
Royal Protection Squad 382
Russell, Miss 68
Russians 142- see also Soviet Union
Ryan, Jim 237–8, 240
Sahara 91
Saladin 28
Salerno 106
Salesian Mission, Hong Kong 63–4
saline drips, 14, 165, 170
Samuel, Captain Ian 39–41
San Carlos Bay 170, 173, 181
sangars 306, 308, 318
Sangin 1, 4, 8, 309, 313, 318–20
SAS 98, 270, 271, 328
Saudi Arabia 242, 243
Savridi, Joanna 87
Scheldt, River 135
Schmidt, Major 115
Scots Guards 230, 232
Scott, Colonel R. 401
Scrivens, Ian 223–4
Scud missiles 242
Scutari, 31
‘search and cordon’ missions 299
Second World War 35–154- see also Allied Armies; D-Day; Dunkirk; France; Germans; Japanese
attitude to individual life in, 236
battlefield order 245
field dressings 280
pocket booklet issued 367
surgeons working hours before breaks needed 357
triumph for medical services 155, 156
Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham 25, 341–4
Semtex 246
Serbia 248, 250
Shaiba 264–6, 268, 276–8
Shatt-al-Arab Hotel 268, 282, 286
Sheffield, HMS 168
Shia 261
Sicily 103, 105, 106, 111
Siegfried Line 144
‘significant contacts’ 309
Simpson, Sergeant W. 51–2
Singapore 66–7, 70, 71
Sir Galahad 202–15, 234, 241, 380, 386
Sir Tristram 202, 211, 212
Skyhawk jets 172, 179
Slim, Field Marshal Sir William 157
Smith, Kingsman Adam 293
Smith, Andy 243, 245–6, 390
Snake Pit, 2, 4
Snatch Land Rovers 257, 281, 283
Soldier 279
Solferino, Battle of, 29
Somalia, 5
‘Somewhere along the Road’ (Steeleye Span), 388
Somme, Battle of the 253
Soviet Union, 8, 236, 239, 247, 327 -see also Russians
Spanish Civil War 35, 36, 86
Special Air Service Brigade- see SAS
Special Boat Section (SBS) 100
Special Forces 364, 368
Special Operations Executive (SOE) 128
Spencer Wells 101
Squadronaires, The 242
SS 47, 129
St John Ambulance Brigade 63, 137, 138, 152
St Nazaire 58
St Stephen’s College, Hong Kong 64–5
stalags 63
Steeleye Span 388
Steer, Staff Sergeant Bob 252, 257–8, 260, 264–7, 361, 389
Stinger missiles, 17
Stockton, Sergeant Major Andy, 7–15, 18–26, 28, 371–3, 390
Stockton, Emma, 10–11, 22–5
stretcher bearers 50, 55, 113, 119, 124, 242
stretchers xxii, 392
Stukas 95
Suda Bay 86
Sudan 32
Suez 156
sulphonamides 45, 77, 107
Sumatra 70
Sunni 261
surgeons, 4, 28, 81, 357–8, 366
Sword beach 110, 115
Syracuse 103
Talamba SS 104
Taliban 299–306, 324–7
ambushing from behind 364
American target after 9/11 251
biggest weapon 309
downing a helicopter 17, 356
locals trained to fight 3
Helmand River 5
RPGs 1, 17, 314, 319
tactics against 320
Task Force 160, 162, 170, 182, 234
Taylor, Private Nick 189
Teal Inlet 228
Tegtmeyer, Major Charles 111, 112
Temple, Private George 62, 72, 78
Territorial Army (TA) 36–7, 250, 252, 361
Thatcher, Margaret 159–60, 387
Tibbs, Lieutenant David 119–20, 134–5
Tigris, River 257
Tobruk 95
Tobruk splints 117
‘Tommy’ (Rudyard Kipling), 27
Tootal, Colonel Stuart 338, 345–6, 404
Toughill, Trooper Thomas 155–6
tourniquets
advantages and disadvantages 359–60
debates over use of 11, 401
example of use in action 13, 14, 22
first use of, 29
‘T’mark 111
US special forces 280
windlass-operated 59
‘trench foot’ 171, 202
Triangle of Death 265
Tripoli 85
Trueta, Josep 35, 40, 43, 77, 99, 198
Tumbledown, 233, 235
Tunis 84
Turner, Sister Margot 67–71
Twin Towers 251
Uganda 202, 213–14, 238
United Nations 168, 241, 251
United States 28, 106, 107, 280
V-2 rockets 140
Vaughan, Dr John 114–15
Vaughan, Keith 59
Veck, Lionel 292, 295
Veck, Sally 295, 388–9
Victoria Crosses, 31, 141, 151–2, 307
Vietnam 28, 158–9, 163, 239, 364, 378
Wales, Marine 145, 148
Warrior armoured vehicles 261–3, 266–7, 271–2, 274–6, 288–91, 295–6
Waterloo, Battle of 39
Watts, Captain J. C. 93, 116–19
weapons of mass destruction 251
Weeks, Sergeant Major John 217
Wehrmacht 47, 127
Welfare 399
Wellington, Duke of, 30
Welsh Guards 201, 202–3, 209, 213
Wessex helicopters 175–7, 196, 197
Western Front 37
Weston, Guardsman Simon 211–13, 380–2, 385
Wheeler, Marine 145, 147
Wilkinson, Sergeant David 385–6
William, Prince 373
William the Conqueror, 28
Wilson, Lieutenant 66
Wireless Ridge 230
women, xx, xxii, 242, 243, 281, 347
Women’s Royal Air Force (WRAFs), 62
Wood, David 187
Woodham, Major James 271–2, 275
Wright, Corporal Mark 327–8, 330–6, 338–41, 344–6, 386, 404
Yamashita, General 71
Zulus 307
