Forged in Conflict: Francis Buckley, the First World War, and British Prehistory

Terror Weapons: The British Experience of Gas and Its Treatment in the First World War.

Chemical weapons accounted for only 1 per cent of the 750,000 British troops killed in the First World War and yet caused disproportionate casualties (estimated at 180,100). The considerable investment in the development of new toxins and methods of delivery was designed to maintain the elements of surprise and uncertainty as these accentuated their psychological effect. Soldiers were continual...

The british military hospitals in macedonia during the first world war.

The paper focusses its attention to the medical work of the British Military hospitals stationed in Macedonia during the First World War, the surgical work carried out under very heavy conditions in improvised operating theatres as well as the treatment of the wounded and sick solders brought from the battlefields on the Macedonian Front.

Psychiatry in the British Army in the Second World War

The author can be criticised on several grounds. First, for what he has left out. Many people would have liked more on what they knew, as for instance (dare I say?) when the efforts of the psychiatrists in forward psychiatry in the Far East?which in some ways were unique?are dismissed in 5 pages. But this is perhaps unfair, when there is so much which has obviously to be omitted, and the author...

Geospatial Science and the Archaeology of the First World War: Context for Conflict

This paper examines the role of geospatial technologies in the development of non-invasive archaeological research methods and relates this development to the expansion of an innovative sub-discipline: ‘conflict archaeology’. Archaeology is predicated on the principle that human behaviour leaves behind physical evidence that is patterned, recoverable and interpretable; while warfare and conflic...

A pilot in the first world war.