Langdon Posted 15 November , 2015 Share Posted 15 November , 2015 This photo was tweeted earlier today - does anyone know the source? It was used on the front of the paperback edition of Fiona Reid's "Broken Men, Shell Shock, Treatment and Recovery in Britain". Unlike the Grinning Man photo, this doesn't feel right.. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth Davies Posted 15 November , 2015 Share Posted 15 November , 2015 Isn't that from Bovington's trench? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth Davies Posted 15 November , 2015 Share Posted 15 November , 2015 Yep, it's a model in the Tank Museum's GW trench exhibit. https://www.flickr.com/photos/megashorts/with/4292955523/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Langdon Posted 15 November , 2015 Author Share Posted 15 November , 2015 Thanks, much obliged! Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul swann Posted 15 November , 2015 Share Posted 15 November , 2015 Hell on earth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEW Posted 16 November , 2015 Share Posted 16 November , 2015 Langdon, By 'Grinning man' do you mean this man (bottom left): http://globalnews.ca/news/1575276/trench-life-in-wwi-dreary-dangerous/ TEW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Langdon Posted 18 November , 2015 Author Share Posted 18 November , 2015 Yes that's the one. I meant only that it's a genuine WW1 photo - associated as it is with shell shock - but I imagine you're going to say there's no evidence of shell shock and that he's just a "cheery old card.." Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw Posted 18 November , 2015 Share Posted 18 November , 2015 Yes that's the one. I meant only that it's a genuine WW1 photo - associated as it is with shell shock - but I imagine you're going to say there's no evidence of shell shock and that he's just a "cheery old card.." Mike He is out of the firing line and has managed to cock his helmet for the photographer and he may well be having treatment for what he knows is a Blighty. A "cheery old card" he may well be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEW Posted 19 November , 2015 Share Posted 19 November , 2015 Well, He did appear on another website and was discussed here And I did say then that his crazed look maybe a grateful one rather than evidence of his traumatic shell shocked experiences. He does look a bit more crazed when his surroundings are cropped out but the un-cropped version seems to me to show a different man. HERE TEW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian J Posted 11 March , 2016 Share Posted 11 March , 2016 The close up shows the man looking up at the guy standing next to him who may have just said something funny causing the sitting man to smile. Is that the case or would we rather see shell shock? - Jordan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kath Posted 11 March , 2016 Share Posted 11 March , 2016 I think he's looking at (us) the photographer - perhaps he's got a Blighty. Kath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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