“He was not eager to die,” Michael Korda writes of Siegfried Sassoon ... as shell shock. For Sassoon, it was an alternative preferable to court-martial. At the hospital, he came under the ...

Siegfried Sassoon’s protesting voice had been silenced ... Instead of being court-martialled, he was declared mad and sent to Craiglockhart Hospital, a newly-established treatment centre ...

In autumn 1917 Wilfred Owen was treated for shell shock at Craiglockhart Hospital in Edinburgh ... With help from the poet and fellow patient Siegfried Sassoon, Owen wrote one of his most famous ...