Made in the Trenches, Composed Entirely from Articles and Sketches Contributed by Soldiers

Excerpt from Made in the Trenches, Composed Entirely From Articles Sketches Contributed by Soldiers: Edited by Sir Frederick Treves and George Goodchild
The primary object of this book is to assist the funds of the "Star and Garter" Home for totally disabled soldiers and sailors. The present temporary building gives a Home to sixty-five soldiers and sailors, all of whom have been paralysed by being shot through the spine or brain with the exception of two seamen whose backs were broken when their ships were torpedoed. The Home is always full and many are waiting for admission.
In the aftermath of this grievous war there is no more lamentable and pathetic figure than the soldier who, by reason of his wounds, is paralysed and left utterly helpless. One is apt to associate such helplessness with extreme old age or with the final phase of some exhausting illness; but here is a man in the very flower of his youth, bedridden possibly for life, unable to move hand or foot, and dependent, at every moment of the day, upon the ministration of others.
In the paralysis of old age there is usually, coincident with the loss of power, a merciful decay of the brain, a loss of mind that merges into mere apathy and oblivion.
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