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Photograph showing rows of wounded WW1 soldiers
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WW1 postcard embroidered with flowers and the words 'Forget me not'
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Handwritten back of postcard
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WW1 army biscuit
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WW1 soldiers in a trench watching an explosion near them
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WW1 troops in battle in a wood, under shell fire
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Group photograph, sepia, of group of wounded soldiers and nurses
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External Site Links
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IWM learning resource on recruitment and conscription
BBC website: article on Pals Battalions
IWM resources on the Battle of the Somme
BBC website: Article on shell shock by Joanna Bourke
Wellcome Library: ‘War Neuroses’ film of shell shocked soldiers at Seale Hayne Hospital, 1917
Oxford University WW1 educational resource on shell shock
British Library resource: The sensory experience of the trenches in WW1
Combat Stress Reaction article on Wikipedia
TES website: KS4 teaching resource entitled ‘Tracing the meaning of Shell Shock over Time’
Viewable copy of the Hydra magazine created by shell shocked patients at Craiglockhart Hospital