... many cases prevented them from interfering in what was, after all, private mail. The failure of censorship in some cases led to difficult circumstances, for example, Wilfred Owen wrote a piece on the conditions in the trenches and his feelings about the matter, which was published, and raised a public outcry, as an officer, ... gentleman, and receiver of both the MM and MC, it would have been impossible to accuse him of cowardice. Despite this, Owen later admitted he had expected to be "shot by firing squad" instead, they pronounced him as mad, and sent him to Craiglockart, Scotland, whe...

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