Session Information
17 SES 14, Learning to be Disabled: Cultures of Care and the Emotional Responses of Disabled WWI Soldiers
Symposium
Contribution
Scotland gave a generation of young men who volunteered to fight for their country. The 1921 Census of Population estimated that 167,600 Scottish soldiers returned from war with physical injuries. After the initial convalescence that wounded soldiers received across Britain many Scottish disabled veterans returned to Scotland. This paper will focus on a series of case studies on individual Scottish disabled veterans that despite their war injuries reintegrated into the Scottish workforce. Considerations have been made about the location, class, education and previous employment of the individual. However the aims of this study are to discover: How these men re-trained for their previous or new job. How the physical obstacles of training and emotional stress hindered their re-integration into the workplace. To what extent local government initiatives and charities provided support for these men. And finally how was the Scottish disabled veteran’s identity in the workplace established in this time period. The sources used in this research have found the voice of the disabled veteran in the oral interviews of ex-servicemen (Imperial War Museum) and the minutes, diaries and letters of individual veterans and organisations found in Scottish regimental museums and the Scottish National Library.
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