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 ...

How did shell shock affect soldiers? videoHow did shell shock affect ... it had on them and their colleagues. Being a pilot in WW1. videoBeing a pilot in WW1 Cecil Lewis’ experiences reflect ...

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 ...

Staff and patients in 1917 posing in front of Craiglockhart hospital which was set up to treat shell-shocked soldiers in WW1 The horrors of World War One were expressed by many of the soldiers who ...

In the final days of WWI a shell-shocked soldier must lead a mission deep beneath the trenches to stop a German plot that could turn the tide of the war.

Jean Thomson's journal, dated 1917, gives an insight into how mentally-scarring conditions like shell shock ... other WW1 mementos including necklaces made by injured soldiers from beads and ...