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Author: Norman G. Gooding Publisher: ISBN: 9781902366395 Category : Awards Languages : en Pages : 228
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Until comparitively recently, the recipients of orders, decorations and medals have been almost exclusively male. Towards the end of the ninteenth century this bergan to change as women became more closely identified with the military, and the rewards of participation were extended to the nurses. This book looks at the contribution women made to the campaigns where they did not receive awards, and at the medals that were awarded before the First World War. It will be of obvious interest to the medal collector and researcher, but will also be of interest to those interested in the acceptance of women into the military.
Author: Norman G. Gooding Publisher: ISBN: 9781902366395 Category : Awards Languages : en Pages : 228
Book Description
Until comparitively recently, the recipients of orders, decorations and medals have been almost exclusively male. Towards the end of the ninteenth century this bergan to change as women became more closely identified with the military, and the rewards of participation were extended to the nurses. This book looks at the contribution women made to the campaigns where they did not receive awards, and at the medals that were awarded before the First World War. It will be of obvious interest to the medal collector and researcher, but will also be of interest to those interested in the acceptance of women into the military.
Author: Christine Hallett Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 1784996327 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 289
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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The First World War was the first ‘total war’. Its industrial weaponry damaged millions of men and drove whole armies underground into dangerously unhealthy trenches. Many were killed. Many more suffered terrible, life-threatening injuries: wound infections such as gas gangrene and tetanus, exposure to extremes of temperature, emotional trauma and systemic disease. In an effort to alleviate this suffering, tens of thousands of women volunteered to serve as nurses. Of these, some were experienced professionals, while others had undergone only minimal training. But regardless of their preparation, they would all gain a unique understanding of the conditions of industrial warfare. Until recently their contributions, both to the saving of lives and to our understanding of warfare, have remained largely hidden from view. By combining biographical research with textual analysis, Nurse writers of the great war opens a window onto their insights into the nature of nursing and the impact of warfare.
Author: Peter Duckers Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0747811717 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 117
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Britain has issued medals rewarding war service since at least the early nineteenth century, and increasingly through the period of its imperial expansion prior to 1914, but examples of many of the early types are now scarce. However, few families escaped some involvement with “the Great War” of 1914 18, and many still treasure the medals awarded to their ancestors for wartime service. Today, with a growing interest in British military history and particularly in family history and genealogy, more and more people want to trace their ancestors' past. This book looks in detail at the origin, types and varieties of the British medals awarded for general war service between 1914 and '18, and gives advice on researching the awards and their recipients.
Author: Barry Blades Publisher: Casemate Publishers ISBN: 1473873894 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 332
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The Great War was the first 'Total War'; a war in which human and material resources were pitched into a life-and-death struggle on a colossal scale. British citizens fought on both the Battle Fronts and on the Home Front, on the killing fields of France and Flanders as well as in the industrial workshops of 'Blighty'. Men, women and children all played their part in an unprecedented mobilisation of a nation at war. Unlike much of the traditional literature on the Great War, with its understandable fascination with the terrible experiences of 'Tommy in the Trenches', Roll of Honour shifts our gaze. It focuses on how the Great War was experienced by other key participants, namely those communities involved in 'schooling' the nation's children. It emphasises the need to examine the 'myriad faces of war', rather than traditional stereotypes, if we are to gain a deeper understanding of personal agency and decision making in times of conflict and upheaval. The dramatis personae in Roll of Honour include Head Teachers and Governors charged by the Government with mobilising their 'troops'; school masters, whose enlistment, conscription or conscientious objection to military service changed lives and career paths; the 'temporary' school mistresses who sought to demonstrate their 'interchangeability' in male dominated institutions; the school alumni who thought of school whilst knee-deep in mud; and finally, of course, the school children themselves, whose 'campaigns' added vital resources to the war economy. These 'myriad faces' existed in all types of British school, from the elite Public Schools to the elementary schools designed for the country's poorest waifs and strays. This powerful account of the Great War will be of interest to general readers as well as historians of military campaigns, education and British society.
Author: Matthew J. Lord Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000382400 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 139
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This book examines the relationship between concepts of heroic "gallantry," as projected by the British honours system, and the sociocultural, political, military and international transitions of the supposed Sixties "cultural revolution." In so doing, it considers how a conservative, hierarchical and state-orientated concept both evolved and endured during a period of immense change in which traditional assumptions of deference to elites were increasingly challenged. Covering the period often defined as "The Long Sixties," from 1955–79, this study concentrates on four distinct transitions undergone by both state and non-state gallantry awards, including developments within the welfare state, class and gender discrimination, counterinsurgency and decolonisation. It ultimately sheds fresh light upon the importance of postwar decades to the continued evolution of concepts of gallantry and heroism in British culture using a range of underexplored government and media archives. It will be of interest to scholars, students and general researchers of heroism in modern Britain, the Sixties revolution, postwar military history and both the social and political evolution of British honours, decorations and medals.
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