For Honour's Sake - The AJEX Podcast
For Honour's Sake is brought to you by AJEX The Jewish Military Association.
The history of the Jewish contribution to Britain's armed forces begins at the moment of Resettlement, stretches through the Restoration, Georgian and Victorian eras, into the 20th Century, and right up until the modern day. Well over a hundred thousand Jews, from a community that has never numbered more than 400,000 have fought in all conflicts, in all places, at all levels, and in all ways.
For Honour's Sake recounts these stories and speaks to those who served.
For Honour's Sake - The AJEX Podcast
Sue Warner: from the Falklands to the NHS, from Afghanistan to the Invictus Games!
This week, Dan and Jonny hopped over to Belfast to interview Sue Warner (and husband Julian). There’s not many people whose military career spanned both the Falklands War and Afghanistan but Sue served as a Royal Navy nurse in the first and in the same trade as a Reservist in the second. With an NHS career overlapping, too.
We talked about leaving home at 16, the particular challenges of nursing on a hospital ship in a broiling sea, teaching her captain and crew to waltz, returning to service in Helmand, and her personal and professional experience of mental health treatment. She also swam at both the Invictus and Warrior Games for Team UK.
In 2022, she went to Argentina as part of the reconciliation ceremonies on the Falklands 40th anniversary, receiving a Rose of Peace sculpted from scrap recovered during the war.
This is a unique episode featuring one of the few women to have served in The Falklands War.
More details on R.A.I.N, mentioned by Sue, can be found here: https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-practice-rain/
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