Military Corporal Punishment

Some years ago I read a fictional story about a young female Israeli officer who was sentenced to a short period of confinement in a military prison along with 4 strokes of the cane. Terrific story. I do not know the title or the author!

I've not heard about this story, but years ago there were supposedly true stories going around about a female Womens Royal Air Force member who was caned in Malta or Aden or somewhere else in that area, either during World War II or in the 1950s. The stories varied slightly and it was suggested the practice was used more than once. For the life of me I cannot now find any information amongst my collection, but I'm sure someone on this site will have this information and probably details of a number of fictional stories based on this. Hope that helps.

I think that this might be what you're referring to:

https://voiceinthecorner.com/2009/09/05/dotes-wartime-romance-the-military-and-the-ca ne/

Look especially for the letter by Mavis Parker to the Sunday Telegraph.

Guyde has some stories here about military cp, see titles beginning with "Over".

Thanks for the feedback

I wrote a story about military discipline called "Naval Naughtiness" . It hasn't been validated here yet but you can read it in BL here

markuk
This sounds very much like a vivid imagination. As I recall, the British Navy abolished flogging in the 19th century. Hard to believe they would been authorizing any form of physical punishment in the 20th century

I agree, although there was often the suggestion these were unauthorised punishments or at best authorised in extreme war situations by not necessarily very senior commanders.

Some schools had cadet forces, and some offences certainly meant a cadet would be subject to school discipline, including the slipper or cane. Even some cadet forces not connected to schools did use similar punishments. Could something like this be the beginning of a story that then got blown up into something bigger?

It does seem that at least one national newspaper took it seriously. Did they know something?