Standing up for victims of moral injury and injustice.
Fundraiser by Ceri Marsh : Help victims of moral injury and military sexual trauma
Since 2020, Ceri Marsh and Michelle Harding have represented Britain’s nuclear test veterans on an individual and collective level.
Ceri and Michelle are the daughters of British nuclear test veterans, Michael Marsh (RAF) and Michael Peter White (Royal Navy), respectively. Their work is in remembrance to their fathers and the lifelong changes they endured after witnessing the Commonwealth nuclear blasts at Operations Buffalo and Grapple.
Ceri has met multiple times with senior government and Armed Forces Commissioning officials to work on what could be done about the physical, psychological and ethical betrayal – moral injury – of nuclear test veterans and their families.
Notable achievements included the publication of a two-page flyer about physical, psychological and ethical issues concerning the nuclear test veterans which was placed in every GP surgery in England.
Breached (Biological Radiological Ethical Abuse, Chemical Harm and Environmental Damage) was the brainchild of Ceri as she immersed herself in the deeply emotive subject of moral injury. Moral injury reveals the damage done to an individual’s moral compass/conscience when the person witnesses, perpetrates or fails to prevent acts that transgress one’s moral beliefs, values or ethical code.
Ceri advocated for nuclear test veterans multiple times on BBC Breakfast, ITV, Radio 5 Live, and on BBC SouthEast for Breached.
Michelle trained with the Oral History Society and has since collated histories from dozens of veterans in a sensitive manner. If you would like your story recorded by Michelle, please get in touch.
The moral injury experienced by the nuclear test veterans is just the tip of the iceberg. Many civilians and armed forces personnel endure negative lifelong effects of ethical violations – the Rawalpindi mustard gas experiments, dubious vaccinations including squalene during the Gulf Wars, the MOD’s continued use of mefloquine and its deadly neurobiological effects, endemic military sexual trauma and the Post Office Horizon scandal, to name a few.
Breached CIC addresses these themes and speaks out for people impacted by brokenness caused by the events that rupture their very being. It tackles ethical questions arising from informed consent (or lack thereof), cover ups and the neglect of leaving an individual in an unwarranted vulnerable position.
Breached investigates any prior institutional knowledge from those that knew better concerning human suffering caused by the neglect of quality assurance or by turning a blind eye.
An army victim, who nearly died during sarin testing at Porton Down, approached with his story. He continues to live with PTSD from his horrific experience in a gas chamber – the same gas chamber where 20-year-old Ronald Maddison died – the government luring veterans into volunteering for research into “a cure for the common cold”. Some of these veterans had already been subjected to the nuclear testing in the Pacific.
Michelle and Ceri delved into multiple governments’ use of biological and chemical testing facilitated by Porton Down, Fort Edgewood in the USA and Suffield Experimental Station in Canada; also, Australian testing of Agent Orange in Innisfail, Queensland. They were horrified at the testing of so many toxins, not only on their own armed forces, but also on the civilian population, including Gruinard Island and the Biological Warfare Trials of e-coli spores in the 1966 Lyme Bay trials in Dorset, England.
Breached explores ethical implications of human augmentation bio-adaptations of the MOD’s “future soldier”.
Ceri and Michelle, psychology graduates, listen, empathise, support, safeguard and assist individuals and communities who experience moral injury, and link peer to peer support. They are already co-producing work with victims of military sexual trauma, and creatives. Breached has an increasing presence on social media including LinkedIn.
Contact us
Fundraiser by Ceri Marsh : Help victims of moral injury and military sexual trauma
To get help or support our work contact us:
Email ceri@breachedcic.org
Tel 07510404034
Email michelle@breachedcic.org
Tel 07597282585
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