Siegfried Sassoon

Shell Shock

 

 

After he was injured In 1917, Siegfried Sassoon started protesting against the war.  He was sent to Craiglockhart Hospital, suffering from shell shock. He met another war poet, Wilfred Owen, at Craiglockhart.

Shell shock victims were traumatised by war.

The First World War upset 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 battlefields and trenches of the First World War traumatised from the sheer horror of the conflict.

By the end of the war, 20,000 men were still suffering from shell shock. Thousands more had experienced its symptoms during their military service.

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