Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare Scan: 148 Volume 6: May 5, 1916 (Boxmoor) - December 10, 1916 (Sutton Veny)
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1916 November 11 - Sutton Veny - p.2 (Armistice Day Minus Two [years], you might say...)
"It is jolly hard luck for him, because its much more satisfaction to get a good old wound
and have done with it. People haven't much patience with nerves and are just beginning
toto realize that shell shock is quite as bad a mutilation on one sense as an amputation."
[Frustratingly, the only available records for Henry Bruce Attwood Conybeare are
Canadian records that end after a few months of 1915 because he was discharged to a
commission in the "New Army", that is "Kitchener's Army", British - and those records
exist but not digitized. So I'm not sure how Bruce's medical situation was - only that
he continued in service into 1919.]
Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare Scan: 148 Volume 6: May 5, 1916 (Boxmoor) - December 10, 1916 (Sutton Veny)