BBC7 年
The shell shock epidemic of WW1
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 ...
BBC6 年
KS3 / KS4 History: Life as an officer in WW1
In 1917, Charles Carrington took part in the Passchendaele offensive as an Acting Captain, and finding himself cut off in a shell hole with his men had to find a way of coping with looming shellshock.
BBC4 年
Unexploded WW1 artillery shell found in Newark
The bomb was found when a marina worker was dredging the water An unexploded World War One artillery shell has been found in a river by a marina worker. James Wilkinson, who works at Newark Marina ...
The Washington Post1 个月
A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy’s death
They had clung to the sides of the same shell hole under a fierce artillery barrage at Soissons and charged uphill against machine-gun fire on the chalky slopes of Blanc Mont Ridge. Through five ...