_Facts in “Sheffield Telegraph,” September 3, 1915_
Three wounded soldiers at Oxford were overcome by four bottles of rum smuggled into the hospital by visitors, and one of the men died.
_Records of Oxford Coroner, January 1916_
A wounded soldier asked for two hours’ leave, came back in four hours drunk with whisky, and died after a terrible night in the hospital.
Two limbless soldiers were found helplessly drunk on the pavement at Brighton. A publican was fined £20.
_Facts in “Daily Chronicle,” November 25, 1916_
A wounded soldier, mentioned in despatches, was charged with causing the death of a soldier with whom he had been drinking. Reeling under a heavy blow, the injured man was helped to bed, but when the bugle sounded in the morning he was dead.
_Facts in “Daily Mail,” December 21, 1915_
A soldier, aged 29, with a gunshot wound in his arm, died from alcohol at Oxford. One Sunday night he and two other wounded soldiers consumed four bottles of rum brought into the hospital.
_Records of Oxford Coroner, January 10, 1916_
Three soldiers in hospital uniform were found lying helplessly drunk on the tramlines of Sheffield. Two were back from the Dardanelles.
_Facts in “Sheffield Star,” March 2, 1916_
Seamen on a ship bringing wounded to England from Boulogne were so drunk that they interfered with the stretcher bearers, and one fell across a wounded soldier lying on deck.
_Police Records of Southampton, May 14, 1915_
There was a paralysed and helpless man who was found hopelessly drunk in hospital after his friends had visited him.
_Statement by Lieut.-Col. Sir Alfred Pearce Gould_
An officer who has trained hundreds of men for the ambulance corps declared that a large percentage of wounded are in a very nervous condition, in which alcohol means collapse and almost certain death.
Lying helpless at a London station, moaning on the ground in drunken delirium, was a lad in hospital blue who had, in truth, been wounded by his friends. Drink was taking him again through the worst of his experiences, and his mental pain was pitiable to see.
Two drunken soldiers from Gallipoli made what a doctor described as the most savage attack he ever saw on a civilian. They held a young man’s head against a wall and pounded him unmercifully.