The links below may be of interest. More links will be added over time, and if you would like to suggest one, please contact TACA.
- The British Army: http://www.army.mod.uk
- The Ministry of Defence: http://www.mod.uk/defenceinternet/home
- The Army Families Federation (AFF) acts as the independent voice of army families and works hard to improve the quality of army family life. Visit its website at: http://www.army.mod.uk/aff/index.htm
- The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association (SSAFA) Forces Help provides support for the serving men and women in today's armed forces and for those who have served, also caring for the needs of their families and dependants. For more information, visit: http://www.ssafa.org.uk
- The Army Benevolent Fund (ABF) provides financial and practical support to soldiers, former soldiers and their families in times of need by means of grants made to appropriate individuals and charities. Learn more by visiting its website: www.armybenfund.org
- The Royal British Legion (http://www.britishlegion.org.uk) provides financial, social and emotional support to those who have served, and who are currently serving, in the armed forces, and to their dependants.
- The Forces Children's Trust is a charity devoted to helping dependent children who have lost a parent while serving with the armed forces. Discover more at http://www.forceschildrenstrust.org
- The King's Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR), a joint initiative of the Institute of Psychiatry and the Department of War Studies at King's College London, is primarily a research centre focusing on war and health; war and psychiatry; personnel issues and social policy. To access a wealth of information, much of it pertinent to the lives of army children, regarding associated research, reports and publications, as well as useful links and resources, visit: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kcmhr/information/links.html
- Veterans-UK encompasses a variety of different veterans' services provided by a range of organisations from the Ministry of Defence, other government departments and voluntary-sector organisations. For further information on the Service Personnel and Veterans Agency (SPVA) and services and organisations aimed at helping veterans, visit the Veterans-UK website at: http://www.veterans-uk.info
- The main aim of the Armed Forces Friends (AFF) website is to help former service or serving personnel in the British armed forces to regain contact with old friends. It is also home to many useful army-related links, forums and articles, as well as a dictionary of military slang. It can be found at http://www.armedforcesfriends.co.uk
- The focus of Forces Reunited (http://www.forcesreunited.org.uk) is on the veterans' community. As well as enabling members to make contact with old forces friends online, it hosts forums and chat rooms and displays memories, memorials and images submitted by members.
> For links regarding the places where army children have lived, see 'Postings'.
> For links concerning army children's education, see 'Schooling'.
> For links relating to genealogical research into specific army children, see 'History matters'.
> For links that provide historical background information regarding many army children's lives and times, see 'History matters'.
. . . & LITERATURE
The following publications all help to put the history, lives and times of the children of serving British soldiers into context in some way. Can you recommend any other titles that you feel may merit a place on the list? If so, then please e-mail details to TACA.
- Browne, William A, An Account of the Life of a Military Misfit, 1937, see: http://www.achart.ca/hibernian/misfit.htm
- Chandler, David (ed), The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Army, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994.
- Cockerill, A W, The Charity of Mars, Black Cat Press, Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, 2002.
- Cockerill, A W, Sons of the Brave, Leo Cooper in association with Secker & Warburg, London, 1984.
- Forty, George and Anne, They Also Served: A Pictorial Anthology of Camp Followers Through the Ages, Midas Books, Spelhurst, 1979.
- Freeman, Bob, The Soldier Boy, George Mann Books, Maidstone, 1996.
- Gibson, Clare, 'Children of the Regiment', Practical Family History, March 2007.
- Gibson, Marianne, How the Army Wife Gained Status and a Voice in 1982, Canterbury, 2002.
- Holmes, Richard, Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket, HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2001.
- Holmes, Richard, Sahib: The British Soldier in India, 1750-1914, HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2005.
- Jessup, Chris, Breaking Ranks: Social Change in Military Communities, Brassey's (UK) Ltd, London, 1996.
- Jolly, Ruth, Military Man, Family Man, Crown Property? Second Edition, Brassey's, London, 1992.
- Longyear, Michael, Malta, 1937-1942: Some Childhood Memories, 2006.
- Longyear, Michael (ed), A New Life: Some Pupils' Accounts of the First Full Year in the Life of Prince Rupert School, Germany, 2007.
- Longyear, Michael (ed), Prince Rupert School: The Creation of a Boarding School for Service Families in Post-war Germany, 2006.
- May, Trevor, Military Barracks, Shire Publications Ltd, Princes Risborough, 2002.
- Mays, Spike, The Band Rats, Peter Davies, London, 1975.
- McGuffie, Tom Henderson, Rank and File: The Common Soldier at Peace and War, 1642-1914, Hutchinson, London, 1964.
- Neuburg, Victor, Gone for a Soldier: A History of Life in the British Ranks from 1642, Cassell Publishers Ltd, London, 1989.
- Parker, Tony, Soldier, Soldier, William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1985.
- Trustram, Myna, Women of the Regiment: Marriage and the Victorian Army, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1984.
- Venning, Annabel, Following the Drum: The Lives of Army Wives and Daughters Past and Present, Headline Book Publishing, London, 2005.
- White, A C T, The Story of Army Education, 1643-1963, Harrap, London, 1963.
- Williams, Noel St John, Judy O'Grady & the Colonel's Lady: The Army Wife and Camp Follower Since 1660, Brassey's Defence Publishers Ltd, London, 1988.
- Williams, Col N T St John, Tommy Atkins' Children, HMSO, London, 1971.
