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Notification of wound when shell shock


BaenandElspeth

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I have read the form the British army used to notify family of injury. What did they write after 'suffering from' when the condition was mental, i.e. blindness, deafness, tremors, tics, etc.

 

Thank you.

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Do you have a form and a word or words you can't read?  If so, post an image and Pals experienced at deciphering manuscript will try to help you.  Blindness and deafness are not per se forms of mental illness, but I assume you mean when attributable to psychological trauma, in which case mutism can be added to the spectrum.

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Neurasthenia was a relatively common phrase used in records but you see shell shock also being used.

 

I'd suspect the wording depended entirely on who was filling the firm in.

 

Craig

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