. 13th Royal Welsh Fusiliers Joseph Naphtali was born in 1881 in Manchester. Prior to the war he was a schoolmaster in Eccles. He was assigned to the 13th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers as a lance corporal in October 1914. He received his commission as second lieutenant in February 1915. He was admitted to a convalescent hospital in Blackpool in 1916, suffering from neurasthenia. He was released from army service in 1919. Neurasthenia is a psychiatric term that refers to a broad range of symptoms including chronic fatigue, malaise, anxiety and depression. Emotive and potentially contentious,
. 13th Royal Welsh Fusiliers Joseph Naphtali was born in 1881 in Manchester. Prior to the war he was a schoolmaster in Eccles. He was assigned to the 13th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers as a lance corporal in October 1914. He received his commission as second lieutenant in February 1915. He was admitted to a convalescent hospital in Blackpool in 1916, suffering from neurasthenia. He was released from army service in 1919. Neurasthenia is a psychiatric term that refers to a broad range of symptoms including chronic fatigue, malaise, anxiety and depression. Emotive and potentially contentious, it is a term also referred to as 'soldier's heart' and is associated with shell shock. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at This image is from IWM Collections. The Museum released this image on a custom licence - IWM Non-Commercial license. However where the photograph has no known author, these are public domain under the 70 rule and where they were owned by the Ministry of Information, any other government department or agency, taken by a member of the military during their service or by a photographer commissioned by the services, these are now out of copyright restriction.
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