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Life as an officer during WW1

Returning home could be difficult for soldiers, as they found it difficult to explain what it was really like to go to war. In 1917, Carrington took part in the Passchendaele offensive as an Acting Captain, and finding himself cut off in a shell hole with his men had to find a way of coping with looming shellshock. His account also features the other dimensions of officer life: writing letters to the relatives of deceased soldiers and organising new companies ready to go off and fight again.

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