Antedating of "Shell-Shocked"

[Hugo]

"shell-shocked" (OED 1918, TJ&UMFWW 1916)

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New Zealand Papers Past:

FIGHT FOR ACHI BABA
Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 215, 11 September 1915, Page 2

[Begin]
In a few weeks the shell-shocked, nerve-shaken soldier would be all right again, and back in the firing line.
[End]


http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=MEX19150911.2.7&srpos=1&e=-------10--1-byDA---0shellZz-shocked--

The same story printed the same day in:

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16020, 11 September 1915, Page 4
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZH19150911.2.6&srpos=2&e=-------10--1-byDA---0shellZz-shocked--
Grey River Argus , 11 September 1915, Page 3
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=GRA19150911.2.10&srpos=3&e=-------10--1-byDA---0shellZz-shocked--
Otago Daily Times , Issue 16486, 11 September 1915, Page 7
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT19150911.2.44&srpos=4&e=-------10--1-byDA---0shellZz-shocked--
Wanganui Chronicle , Issue 20459, 11 September 1915, Page 8
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=WC19150911.2.51&srpos=5&e=-------10--1-byDA---0shellZz-shocked--

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Australian Trove:

Shepparton Advertiser (Vic. : 1914 - 1918) Thursday 11 November 1915 Edition: EVENING. p 4 Article

[Begin headline]
SHELL-SHOCKED SOLDIERS.
CONVALESCENT HOME OPENED.
[End]

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Hugo



> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Sat, 19 Oct 2013 01:15:44 +0000
> From:    "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
> Subject: Antedating of "Shell-Shocked"
>
> shell-shocked (OED 1918)
>
> 1916 _Northern Mudguard_ 1 July 179 (Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of =
> the First World War)  Pte. Shiell was not hurt, but, he says, a few of the =
> lads who went with him from the N.C.B. "have caught it, and 'Kitchener' (Pt=
> e. Downing) was a bit shell-shocked, but is all right again."
>
> Fred Shapiro

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