Cameron Telch, a member of the Richmond Hill Historical Society, PhD candidate in Educational Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University , a published historian, and a Richmond Hill resident.
He is writing an article on shell shock for the Royal Canadian Military Institute's journal SITREP.
Here is his request:
"The case that I seek to argue is that while historians know plenty about what happened to shell-shocked veterans in the immediate years after the Armistice, there is an absence in the historical literature that we do not know what happened to Great War veterans with shell shock 50 years after the end of the war. I would greatly appreciate it if you could participate by answering some of my questions about Great War veterans in your family with shell shock. Names can appear anonymous in my article if you would like."
His article aims to take place from 1967 onwards with the following questions:
1. How would you describe your loved ones with shell shock in 1967 and beyond?
2. What were their shell-shocked symptoms?
3 How did they act within your family?
4. Did they receive medical treatment in hospital?
5. What were mental health attitudes within the family or community?
6. What do you remember observing?
7. Did they ever recover or not?
The article needs to be completed by September 25.
He can be reached at [email protected]
