Collective and Corporate Memory in the Defence Medical Services

David A Rew TD MA MB MChir FRCS
Consultant Surgeon, Southampton University Hospitals
And to the Defence Medical Services Reserve

Introduction
The lessons of history are rarely learned. It would be comforting to think that each new military operation that we undertake is created upon the solid foundations of our collective experience. In reality, lessons and observations are repeatedly at risk of being forgotten and are in need of being relearned down the generations; we often fail to analyse sufficiently critically and contemporaneously the information and experience which slips through our fingers like grains of sand.

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