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In 2018, research by a Scottish newspaper demonstrated that a former member of the forces takes their own life in Scotland every six days. The following month 18-year-old Highlander Alistair McLeish died by suicide at Catterick Garrison in York. In March 2019, Scottish warrant officer Robert McAvoy, a veteran of 20 years’ service, took his own life. But military charities argue that this is not enough – particularly as focused statistical recording and analysis of veteran suicide cases only began in earnest after 2001.
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The Ministry of Defence spends £22m a year on mental healthcare for veterans, with a further £6m annually for support within the NHS. At the turn of the 21st century, both the military and governments in the UK have come to recognise the issue of military-related suicide.īut despite the increase in mental health awareness and support campaigns for both serving soldiers and veterans over the past two decades, concerns over deaths continue. Sixty-four years later, fortunately much has changed. My brain was filled with images of suffering that were to haunt me for the next 40 years… The final gift from a grateful country was a civilian suit, a train ticket home and about £100 of back-service pay. Victor Gregg, a serviceman in World War II, recounted in an interview in 2015 how psychological aftercare for demobilised men in 1945 was non-existent, lamenting: Due to the stigma, controversy and inflammatory nature of the topic, discussions surrounding mental health and suicide in the British military were limited for much of the 20th century.
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