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.