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Medic: Saving Lives - From Dunkirk to Afghanistan

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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

 

 

 


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