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- On 7 July 1916, Arthur Hubbard painfully set pen to paper in an attempt to explain to his mother why he was no longer in France. He had been taken from the battlefields and deposited in the East Suffolk and Ipswich Hospital suffering from 'shell shock'.
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Jul 22, 2022 · The soldiers who saw the condition of their fellow men having their psyches breached and broken coined a term to describe this phenomenon: “shell shock.” The symptoms included tremors, confusion, fatigue, being stuck in a dazed thousand-yard stare, nightmares, and more physical manifestations like impaired hearing and sight, hysterical ...
Mar 10, 2011 · By Professor Joanna Bourke. Last updated 2011-03-10. By the end of World War One the British Army had dealt with 80,000 cases of shell shock, including those of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred...
One of the most tragic and lasting legacies of the First World War was the phenomenon of shell shock. This term, coined during the war, descried a range of symptoms exhibited by soldiers exposed to the horrors of trench warfare, including disorientation, tremors, and emotional numbness.
Dec 15, 2014 · This was a Shell Shocked Soldier from the 5th marine battalion I just found him sitting on a wall, he’d got to a point in the battle, or in his life, that he couldn’t take any more of it. And I asked somebody ‘what’s the matter with him’, and he said ‘he’s shell shocked.’
Jul 13, 2015 · One hundred years ago, the army and medical science were just beginning to understand shell shock and starting to link the ferocity of massed artillery attacks to the debilitating condition...
Nov 17, 2021 · A shell shocked soldier in a trench during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette during the Somme Offensive in September 1916. His eyes express the madness of the war. The soldier looks like he has gone insane from what he has seen.
Dec 6, 2017 · British soldiers suffering from shell shock were put on trial for cowardice and desertion. It was considered if you “claimed” shell shock, and it continued for longer than was usual, you were suffering from a lack of character or manliness.
