The term shell-shock was given medical credibility by C.S. Meyers in a Lancet paper published in February 1915. Eventually, military readership conceded that it was psychological in origin after much debate on the subject. Aviators were not spared the horror of this...

The VAD Organisation Following the end of the Boer War, the War Office was concerned that in the event of another war, the medical and nursing services wouldn’t be able to cope. The peacetime needs of a standing army, in relation to medical care, were very small and...