On 17 August 1917, the meeting of two traumatised soldiers at Craiglockhart Hospital near Edinburgh would come to define our image of “shell shock”. However, poets Siegfried Sassoon and ...

A shell-shocked soldier – played with great sympathy by Kevin McKidd (Kingdom of Heaven, Hannibal Rising) in only his third screen role – is repeatedly electrocuted on his tongue by Yealland ...

The grave of a soldier who died in World War One has been rededicated after his ... was reported as suffering from shell shock, although he returned to the Battalion soon afterwards.

She worked with soldiers who’d suffered shell shock through battle stress. ‘Symptoms included tremors, loss of sight or hearing and extreme fatigue. ‘Other WW1 mementos include necklaces ...