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Combat Stress Reaction
(redirected from Shell-shock)

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Combat Stress Reaction
The acute psychological trauma experienced in combat environments which can lead to combat fatigue


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Mr Hipkin, the founder of the Shot At Dawn campaign to pardon the servicemen, has always argued that many of those executed were suffering from shell-shock.
Blue, a German shepherd, is also suffering from shell-shock after being mortared while on patrol in the north of Helmand province.
A total of 306 British soldiers were shot for cowardice during the First World War ( including seven serving with the Durham Light Infantry and eight with the Northumberland Fusiliers ( but even though many of them were suffering from shell-shock at the time, none has been pardoned.
 
 
 
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