Tag: Craiglockhart War Hospital
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The Craiglockhart War Hospital of Edinburgh
Georgina WeatherdonSHO NHS Lothian hospitals Was it the ghost of autumn in that smellOf underground, or God’s blank heart grown kind,That sent a happy dream to him in hell?—Where men are crushed like clods, and crawl to findSome crater for their wretchedness; who lieIn outcast immolation, doomed to dieFar from clean things or any hope…
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Craiglockhart Hospital, head above the parapet
Annabelle SlingerlandLeiden, the Netherlands You are in World War I, back in its notorious trenches, hearing uninterrupted shooting, deafened from the shells, smelling cordite and dead bodies, fellow soldiers fall back on you, wounded or dead, grey with mud. War neurosis, nervous breakdown, neurasthenia or “shellshock” follows you like your own shadow. How on earth can…