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God punishes England - German slogan 1918
Ian Campbell's mother's family - Clague - lived in Lowestoft
Postcards showing bomb damage in 1916
Morthoe lighthouse where Ian's grandfather worked
80,000 Shell Shock cases were reported during the conflict. Symptons included facial tics, stomach cramps, nightmares and diarrhoea. Shell Shock was never recognised as a medical condition. The difficulty was there was no sign of physical trauma in those afflicted, so those men who suffered were given a few days rest then sent back into the line.
By 1918 around 126,000 women from mainly the upper and middle classes had volunteered as Voluntary Aid Detached Nurses and Auxiliaries, including the Testament of Youth author Vera Brittain
PLASTIC SURGERY
Harold Gillies, a New Zealand doctor pioneered facial reconstruction at a special plastic Surgery unit in Sidcup Kent, treating 2,000 wounded patients after the Battle of the Somme.
Ambulance Train 1914 -18
1918 The wounded at Roehampton Hospital
Rehab of blind soldiers
Lloyd George
Embroidered cards
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