The understanding of what we would not call PTSD during the First World War was minimal and fraught with a range of mostly inappropriate connotations about a person's mental and moral upbringing. Many of this blog's posts reference shell shock and one may find this article from the Daily Telegraph recorded in the June 5,... Continue Reading →
It’s Still In There
The case of Private John Henry Burr, with a little help from the book "Kiss the kids for dad. Don't forget to write.: The Wartime Diaries of George Timmins, 1916 - 18" combined with the digitize x-rays a more personal and relevant historical picture of this 18th Battalion soldier's experience comes to light. Private John... Continue Reading →
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 