His ship was torpedoed but he was rescued and after the war, suffering from shellshock, he returned to Carrick-on-Suir.

For Morsi's supporters, once they recover from their shellshock, the whole episode will most definitely feel like a coup.

Many in the security community fear that sort of "worm" is the inevitable result of the shellshock bug.

For 80 years there has been concern that brave men, suffering from shellshock after months in the trenches, had been wronged.

At first their sense of shellshock was enhanced as, despite a generally abject spell, they managed to squander two outstanding chances.