Tag Archives: Siegfried Sassoon

Poets at the Craiglockhart War Hospital

May 25, 2023

JMS Pearce Hull, England, United Kindom   Wilfred Owen (left) and Siegfried Sassoon (right; source). In the First World War, the writer Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) (Figs 1 and 2) received the Military Cross for bringing back wounded soldiers under heavy fire.1 He was admitted to the Craiglockhart War Hospital, Edinburgh in 1917,2,3 where he befriended […]

William Halse Rivers Rivers

May 19, 2021

JMS Pearce Hull, England   Figure 1 WHR Rivers in public domain, from Wikimedia William Rivers MD FRCP FRS (1864-1922) William Rivers (Fig 1) was a most unusual man, a polymath with careers in neuroscience, ethnology, and psychology. But above all—notwithstanding or perhaps because of personal nervous constraints—he was a man of originality and great […]