Unknown Person - Visit to Shell-shock Hospital in Hampstead, 5th

Photograph of a visit by King George V and Queen Mary to a specialist hospital for shell-shocked and neurasthenic patients, watching a game of bowls. VAD nurses and doctors stand behind the royal party, or look out of windows from inside the ward. There were at least four hospitals in Hampstead including the Hampstead Military Hospital. The specialist units were usually attached to the main hospital. Shell-shock is considered a form of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a reaction to the intensity of

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Shell Shock patient who is recovering. (see number 7705) One of

Shell Shock patients having a happy time fishing under the wall of

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Man went to hospital with World War I shell stuck up bum and

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