Doctor for Friend and Foe

DOCTOR FOR FRIEND AND FOE - Britain's Frontline Medic in the Fight for the Falklands

A unique first-hand narrative of the Falklands war.

Rick Jolly was the Senior Medical Officer in the Falklands, setting up and running the field hospital at Ajax Bay, where he and his Royal Marine and Parachute Regiment medical teams treated a total of 580 casualties, of which only 3 died of wounds. The building itself was a derelict meat-packing factory, hastily converted to treat incoming wounded – both British and Argentine – even though two unexploded bombs lay at the back of the building.

Rick's diary of the campaign and its aftermath is a fast-paced and gripping account of war experience that covers the entire conflict from initial preparations and passage to the South Atlantic on the requisitioned liner Canberra to daily action reports, and observations and interaction with the key players of the conflict – Col. H. Jones, Brian Hanrahan, Julian Thompson and Max Hastings. Incredible human stories abound, as Rick, a trained commando, dangles from the rescue winch of a Sea King helicopter, saving lives on a daily basis. Yet he also confronts death in a thoughtful, reflective and considered way, helping others to deal with the trauma of war.

Now revised and brought fully up to date, this book is a unique first-hand narrative of a conflict that inspired individual and collective heroism among British armed forces, inspiring great pride in 'our boys' by the public back at home, but which also provoked – and continues to provoke – fierce debate.

Περιεχόμενα:

The Conflict: 1982

April

• Warned for war
• Initial actions
• Journey to Gibraltar and requisitioning of Canberra
• Conversion from liner to fast troopship in Southampton
• Deployment South begins
• Ascension Island

May

• Canberra leaves Ascension
• Preparation for battle
• Final orders
• D-Day (Friday May 21st 1982)
• Ajax Bay starts up
• First casualties
• HMS Antelope
• HM Hospital Ship Uganda
• Injured Argentine pilot
• HMS Coventry survivors
• Ajax Bay bombed
• First Battle: Goose Green
• Preparing the dead for burial
• The funeral
• Fight for Top Malo House

June

• Visit to Uganda
• Booby trap at Goose Green
• Canberra returns
• Sunday services
• 'Blue-on-blue'
• Argentine photorecce jet shot down
• Forward surgery at Teal Inlet
• Trench foot
• HMS Plymouth strafed
• Mass Casualty Situation: Disaster on Galahad
• Getting the casualties out to Uganda
• Some Swiss visitors
• Fitzroy forward surgical facility
• Final Battles I: Two Sisters and Mount Longdon
• Final Battles II: Tumbledown, Mount
• William and Wireless Ridge
• White flags over Stanley
• Gynae outpatients and Royal Navy help for Island ladies
• The Red and Green Life Machine closes
• Sorting out the chaos in Stanley
• Meeting General Menendez
• Getting the Argentine PoW medics going
• Letter from HRH The Red Dragon
• Helicopter solo
• Canberra sails for England
• Journey home

July

• Ascension again
• 'Up Channel' night
• Arrival at Southampton
• Home

Aftermath

1982

• South Atlantic Honours List Inquest

1983-95

• Subsequent naval career

1996

• Redundancy
• Ship's Surgeon RMS St Helena/MV Saga Rose

1997

• South Atlantic Medal Association (1982) founded

1998

• President Menem visits London

1999

• The Royal Visit to Buenos Aires
• Argentine decoration

2002

• SAMA82 Pilgrimage to the Falkland Islands
• An audience with Her Majesty theQueen

Appendix

• The Men of The Red and Green Life Machine
• Operations and surgical procedures performed at Ajax Bay
• Index
• Map
• Upper Falklands Sound & San Carlos Water

Συγγραφέας: Rick Jolly

Έκδοση: Osprey Publishing

Περιγραφή: Σελ. 288, μαλακό εξώφυλλο, 200 X 130 mm.

Κατάσταση: ΑΜΕΤΑΧΕΙΡΙΣΤΟ

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