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- Editorial
Authors: Richard S Grayson, Erica Wald
Pages: 1 - 1
PubDate: 2023-03-22
DOI: 10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v9i1.1684
Issue No: Vol. 9, No. 1 (2023)
- Bosworth Field: a battlefield rediscovered'
Authors: Jack Shaw, Peter Shaw
Pages: 2 - 23
Abstract: The Bosworth Project concluded that the deciding battle in The Wars of the Roses was fought entirely at Fenn Lane and the site proposed is the only feasible candidate. However, the authors suggest that the narrative provided overlooks or downplays key aspects of contemporaneous accounts to support those conclusions. It is instead proposed that the primary site of battle was in a nearby location and an alternative narrative is offered that matches more of, and better accommodates, the contemporary accounts of battle events.
PubDate: 2023-03-22
DOI: 10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v9i1.1685
Issue No: Vol. 9, No. 1 (2023)
- From ‘Sick Comforts’ to ‘Doctor’s Garden’: British Naval
Hospital Ships, 1620 to 1815
Authors: Edward J Wawrzynczak, Jane V S Wickenden
Pages: 24 - 48
Abstract: British hospital ships of the seventeenth century were hired vessels providing ‘sick comforts’, and safe conveyance for sick and wounded men. Even after the establishment of Admiralty regulations in the eighteenth century, the medical staffing of hospital ships varied in quantity and quality. Nonetheless, these ships extracted sick and wounded men from warships, cared for them, conveyed them to Naval hospitals, accommodated them when convalescent, and repatriated them when invalided out. Under the Physician to the Fleet, hospital ships became part of the Navy’s efforts to ensure that fresh provisions – the ‘doctor’s garden’ – and medical necessities kept seamen fighting fit.
PubDate: 2023-03-22
DOI: 10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v9i1.1687
Issue No: Vol. 9, No. 1 (2023)
- First World War Canadian Operational Research
Authors: Brendan Hogan
Pages: 49 - 75
Abstract: This article examines the operational research conducted by the Canadian Corps Gas Services and the Canadian Machine Gun Corps during the First World War. It develops the initial inquiry completed by scholars J.S. Finan and W.J. Hurley and finds that the staff officers of these two specialised Corps conducted operational research with varying degrees of rigour. While none of them ever used the term ‘operational research’ to describe their work, they were undoubtedly its practitioners through their innovation, trials, experimentation, and subsequent dissemination of knowledge. This article offers a new interpretation of their adoption of a new scientific approach to operations and learning within the Canadian Corps during the First World War.
PubDate: 2023-03-22
DOI: 10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v9i1.1688
Issue No: Vol. 9, No. 1 (2023)
- The Battle of Hamel: An ‘All Arms Battle’ or ‘AIF Small Arms Fire
Superiority’'
Authors: Greg O'Reilly
Pages: 76 - 108
Abstract: This paper examines the origins and evolution of Australian Imperial Force (AIF) overhead machine gun fire tactics and how success correlated not just with its presence, but failure in its absence, throughout the First World War. The machine gun tactics used in the capture of the northern half of the Hamel objective on 4 July 1918 are used as an example as to why this correlation may also be causal.
PubDate: 2023-03-22
DOI: 10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v9i1.1689
Issue No: Vol. 9, No. 1 (2023)
- The actions of the tanks at the Battle of Bullecourt, 11 April 1917
Authors: Brenton J Brooks, David Brown
Pages: 109 - 137
Abstract: The First Battle of Bullecourt, 11 April 1917, is principally remembered for an action in which tanks played a prominent part during the initial stages of the assault. The action of the tanks, their movements and final resting place on the battlefield has often been neglected as accurate sources are limited. This has led to conjecture and confusion as to their accomplishments during the battle. By using Bullecourt as an early exemplar of their use as a primary weapon, a better understanding of their ability on the battlefield can be achieved. Overall, Bullecourt identified the limitations of tanks, and the need to develop and refine tank doctrine for future assaults.
PubDate: 2023-03-22
DOI: 10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v9i1.1690
Issue No: Vol. 9, No. 1 (2023)
- Hitler’s Willing Soldiers: Austrian Mountain Troops at Narvik 1940
Authors: Simon Blount
Pages: 138 - 155
Abstract: The Austrian post-war narrative of service in the Wehrmacht was that Austrian troops were either unwilling participants in German aggression or were motivated by a sense of anti-Bolshevism. This article, drawing on a number of German language accounts of the Narvik land campaign, suggests that Austrian officers and soldiers absorbed into the Wehrmacht were enthusiastic, efficient and dependable members of the German armed forces. The article concludes that, at least for the early German campaigns in Poland and the West, the Austrian post-war rationalisation of participation in German military aggression was false.
PubDate: 2023-03-22
DOI: 10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v9i1.1691
Issue No: Vol. 9, No. 1 (2023)
- American Prisoners & Britain’s Caribbean War 1780-1783
Authors: Robert S Davis
Pages: 156 - 171
Abstract: This Research Note illustrates the American Revolution as part of a worldwide conflict through the seldom remembered British impressment and recruitment of American prisoners of war in Charleston and New York for service in Honduras and Nicaragua. Lord Charles Greville Montagu (1741-1784) had intended to recruit from the Loyalists of the South Carolina frontier, but the American Revolutionary war had by then deteriorated into a bloody civil war. Men were recruited from the prison hulks in Charleston and New York for a Central America campaign but became the defenders of Jamaica instead, and some of them later joined the post-war Black and White American Loyalist diaspora across the British Empire.
PubDate: 2023-03-22
DOI: 10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v9i1.1692
Issue No: Vol. 9, No. 1 (2023)
- Luke Reynolds, Who Owned Waterloo' Battle, Memory & Myth in
British History, 1815-1852
Authors: Máire MacNeill
Pages: 172 - 174
PubDate: 2023-03-22
DOI: 10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v9i1.1693
Issue No: Vol. 9, No. 1 (2023)
- Spencer Jones (ed.), The Darkest Year: The British Army on the Western
Front 1917
Authors: Joshua Bilton
Pages: 174 - 176
PubDate: 2023-03-22
DOI: 10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v9i1.1694
Issue No: Vol. 9, No. 1 (2023)
- Ross Reyburn, Eyewitness at Dieppe: The Only First-Hand Account of
WWII’s Most Disastrous Raid
Authors: Stuart Crawford
Pages: 177 - 178
PubDate: 2023-03-22
DOI: 10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v9i1.1695
Issue No: Vol. 9, No. 1 (2023)
- Robert Forsyth, To Save An Army: The Stalingrad Airlift
Authors: Phil Curme
Pages: 178 - 180
PubDate: 2023-03-22
DOI: 10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v9i1.1696
Issue No: Vol. 9, No. 1 (2023)
- Andrew Wheale, Ham & Jam: 6th Airborne Division in Normandy – Generating
Combat Effectiveness: November 1942-September 1944
Authors: Matthew Powell
Pages: 181 - 183
PubDate: 2023-03-22
DOI: 10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v9i1.1697
Issue No: Vol. 9, No. 1 (2023)
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