Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 26, 2025
It is important to remember, in recalling the events which led up to this case, that Penreath was invalided out of the Army suffering from shell-shock, and that two nights before the scene at the hotel there was an air raid at Durrington. Shell-shock victims are always prejudicially affected by air raids.
"I just lay there and my arm hurt and my ears buzzed and there was a funny kind of a pain in the back of my neck. That's how shell-shock begins. I heard that fellow say, 'Are you all right? I couldn't speak because my throat was all trembling, like. But I could feel my sleeve was all wet and my arm throbbed.
"They'll give you an expensive training, and send you into the trenches, and in any time from a day to a month you'll be in hospital with shell-shock. Then you'll be discharged as unfit, having wasted everybody's time and made a damned nuisance of yourself....I suppose I ought to say it's splendid of you to want to go out. But it isn't splendid. It's idiotic.
That's the curious thing about shell-shock: after it a motor back-firing or a tyre bursting will reduce a man to tears, but in face of danger he will probably find himself in full possession of his wits as long as there is no sudden and violent noise connected with it. Brief as the sounds without had been, I was able on reflection to identify that gasping gurgle, that rapid patter of the hands.
Middleheath called an official from the War Office to prove formally that Lieutenant James Penreath had been discharged from His Majesty's forces suffering from shell-shock. "I understand that, prior to the illness which terminated his military career, Lieutenant Penreath had won a reputation as an exceedingly gallant soldier, and had been awarded the D.S.O," said Mr. Middleheath.
I packed a small handbag, and told the hotel-keeper on my way downstairs that he could keep my things until I paid my bill. Then I walked to Leyland Hoop, where I had an appointment with Peggy, as you know. I seem to have acted as a pretty considerable ass all round," said the young man, with a rueful smile. "But I had a bad gruelling from shell-shock.
They were in a pitiable condition, every last one of them, pitiable." "I do not say that all of them were shamming, but I am convinced that a great many of them were." "The doctors report that the shell-shock cases " "Ah, the doctors!" he broke in, shrugging his shoulders. "They were all jolly good fellows.
And when James went far more willingly to stay opposite the Germans, until an interesting visit was short-circuited by shell-shock, he showed himself so wonderfully at home in dug-outs and shell-holes and mine-craters, so completely undisturbed by the weariful lack of any green on the course over which his battalion was playing, that he rose from Second-Lieutenant to Lieutenant with almost unheard-of celerity in the space of two years and nine months.
"Is epilepsy an hereditary disease?" "Yes." "And if both parents, or one of them, suffered from epilepsy, would there be a great risk of the children suffering from it?" "Every risk in the case of both persons being affected; some probability in the case of one." "What do you think would be the effect of shell-shock on a person born of one epileptic parent?"
I have since been informed that Penreath was invalided out of the Army recently, suffering from shell-shock." "In Sir Henry's opinion the shell-shock has aggravated a tendency to the disease." "Has Penreath ever shown any previous signs of epilepsy?" "Not so far as I am aware, but his mother developed the disease in later years, and ultimately died from it.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking