Little was known about shell shock at the start of the First World War and, as a new book reveals, it led to some horrific treatments for patients. Chris Bond reports. Did you know with a Digital ...

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 Wilfred Owen ...

“They appear to constitute a definite class among others arising from the effects of shell-shock.” Early medical opinion took the common-sense view that the damage was “commotional,” or related to the ...

Young Eastbourne-based actor Tom Page plays a war veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder in this one-man show. EDWIN GILSON met Page and director Tim Marriott. AT ONE point in Kurt Vonnegut’s ...

STANLEY F. DOWN: We were relieving men of the 28th division, and as they passed us, they would ask where we were from. And when we said we were from Somerset, they said, "You'll soon be glad to be ...

Scientists have been perplexed by the symptoms - that include anxiety, facial tics as well as terrible nightmares - ever since but, after more than a century of research, the mystery may have been ...

The First World War devastated the lives of a generation of young men. But the trauma of war didn't end when the guns stopped firing... Thousands of soldiers returned from the battlefield shell ...

During Sean Jones’ second tour of Afghanistan in 2008, an incident occurred that continues to affect him to this day. Jones, then a colour sergeant in the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment, witnessed ...

At its peak Summerdown Camp could house 3,000 injured soldiers In 1915, a camp opened at the foot of the South Downs to treat soldiers damaged by trench warfare. Its aim was simple - make them well ...

Most of the 9.7 million soldiers who perished in WWI were killed by the conflict's unprecedented firepower. Many survivors experienced acute trauma. Hulton Archive / Getty Images In September 1914, at ...

The pen is truly mightier than the sword. I can say this with confidence as I have wielded both in my 28 years. It is also true that the experiences of the latter have fed into the former. That being ...