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Armed Forces

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 135 Collections and/or Records:

28.73 Male, Single, 25-34 yrs, Schizophrenia, September 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/27
Scope and Contents

"Recently demobbed from the army, won't go out, hates to meet people, very sensitive, seems shut in on himself. Illegitimate. Shares a single room with his mother, passably clean. [Male teacher] confirms that this boy was always lonely and odd. Was a Chindit."


Relatives in survey: 28.70, 28.140 Mother 28.58

Dates: Other: September 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 28

35.30 Male, Married, 25-34 yrs, Psychopathic personality, September 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/34
Scope and Contents

"Was in the army despite infantile paralysis which left one leg shorter. Not the best stuff - minister. Lack of grip about him. Has had several jobs, is now labouring."


Relatives in survey: 35.31, 35.32

Dates: Other: September 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 35

35.32 Male, Single, 15-24 yrs, Dull and backward, June 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/34
Scope and Contents

"IQ 71. Dr - soft but now in the army which suits him. Minister confirms - erratic and irresponsible. Drove a lorry and was in a collision. Improved since he was in the army."

Dates: Other: June 1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 35

35.47 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, Epilepsy, June 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/34
Scope and Contents

"This girl has petit mal. One brother recently discharged from the services on health grounds, meningitis?"

Dates: Other: June 1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 35

40.16 Male, Married, 35-44 yrs, Psychopathic personality, July 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/38
Scope and Contents "Drinks ++, cute and clever. Was in the army for a short time - was discharged? why - convicted of black market offences. Has a police record. Went off with the Rood Fair to Carlisle. At present labouring, is a good lorry driver. Also goes round the pubs singing songs. No. P.A. except when he was in prison. P.C. says he has been working for a a few weeks and may have reformed. Discharged from the army for stomach trouble- was operated on 7 times. Has been up for poultry stealing. ...
Dates: Other: July 1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 40

42.12 Male, Married, 35-44 yrs, High grade mental defective, Epilepsy, March 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/39
Scope and Contents

"Thought to have been in trouble with the police. Good worker but very lazy, just decides he won't go. Has moved about a lot. House not very clean. Discharged from the army for mental deficiency and went about boasting about it."


Relatives in survey: wife 42.11

Dates: Other: March 1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 42

16.107 Male, Single, 15-24 yrs, Dull and backward, Anxiety neurosis, March 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/15
Scope and Contents "Deaf in right ear. Imagined people were behind him in dark. Denies having heard voices. Does not remember having ever been afraid of certain colours. Was in army for 7 months. Discharged because of depression. Worried about trifles ever since his sister was killed. Has no parents, but has quite a few friends. Very sensitive about his discharge from the army and feels that people regard him as a shirker and try to find out in a round about way why he was discharged. On joining the army was...
Dates: Other: March 1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 16

28.116 Male, Married, 55-64 yrs, Head injury, September 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/27
Scope and Contents "This man is a queer specimen, MD and peculiar. Had a head injury in the last war and has an army pension. Queer and cute. A wee small article, looks 20 years younger than he really is. Works in a mill or in a skin yard. LE: Wounded in the last war and still swings it. Pretty poor specimen, not much of a brain. Pension now 46/- a week. Dr confirms - asthma too. Now has to look after his wife. Only one room."Relatives in survey: Wife 28.115Includes correspondence from...
Dates: Other: September 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 28

£350,000 for homosexuals (Daily Telegraph), 26 Oct 2002

 Item
Identifier: GD61/11/2/6/46
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

A collection of newspaper and magazine cuttings covering issues relating to the LGBTQ+ community.

Articles cover local, national and international news, however Scottish publications have the strongest representation with Edinburgh and Glasgow based publications being a specific strength within this sub-series.

Dates: 26 Oct 2002
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive / Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard (LGLS) / Information Resources / Press Cuttings / Press Cuttings

Administration files of the Service Arts and Technical Organization, 1943-1946

 Series
Identifier: PJM/SATO/A
Scope and Contents Administration files of the Service Arts and Technical Organization consists of: mixed correspondence to Percy Johnson-Marshall as General Secretary of SATO,1945 file of undeliverable letters returned to the General Secretary,1945-1947 file concerning "Reconstruction and the Services",1943-1944 correspondence with the United States Office of War...
Dates: 1943-1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Service Arts and Technical Organization (SATO)

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