Mary Seacole

Much has been written about the Crimean war, numerous accounts point to praise the heroism of Florence Nightingale. One of the sad facts of the war was the many of the soldiers died from Cholera and poor medical attention than died in the actual fighting.

Historians have recorded of the woefully inadequate supplies, military command (as exemplified by the charge of the Light Brigade) was woeful, and the care of sick and wounded patients was barbaric and medieval in its operation. Wounded soldiers regularly had their entire limbs amputated when simple surgery may have sufficed and many soldiers actually died from the medical knife. Continue reading “Heroes part 2”

Taking inspiration from Boa with her ‘on this day‘ series I have a for a while been contemplating doing a ‘hero‘ series. The way this works is every so often I would put together a post relating to a personal hero of mine. The choices may well surprise some of you, the chosen ones will reflect varying lifestyles, ideoligies etc. Some of the choices will be political, some will be from the world of sports, music, film, education etc …. some will prove controversial whilst others may well find strong support.

As many of you will be aware I have always gone to great pains at not commenting over weekends, that time is sacred …. family and friends time and initially I had intended to wait till Monday to post this, however today saw the loss of a hero of mine thus it was fitting I not wait till Monday but pay tribute to him today. Continue reading “Heroes”