Harold Candy

SOURCES AND FURTHER READING: This story draws on Harold Candy’s service dossier NAA: B2455, CANDY HJ; his repatriation file NAA: D363, R14615, CANDY, HAROLD JOSEPH; and the police report to the Coroner SRSA GRG 1/44, 242. The tragic death of Harold Candy was reported on widely in the press, and this story has drawn on contemporary newspaper articles. For further reading on postwar trauma see Jay Winter, ‘Shell shock’, in Jay Winter (ed) The Cambridge History of the First World War, vol. III (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 310–333. The authors gratefully acknowledge the work of A.C. (Sandy) MacFarlane and Malcolm Sim, whose work explores the intertwined physical and psychological effects of war.