Geriaviator (your #9804, quoting Harry Hannah)
....We got over it fairly quickly, there was no counselling and in fact this modern craze for counselling strikes me as an undermining of morale because when things like this happen you have to get over it yourself, you have to sort out your fears and just go on. ..
Few years back, I had a (cheap) lawnmower pinched from toolshed. Called the cops to get Crime Report No. for Insurance claim. They sent a policewoman to ask whether I wanted "counselling" !!
At Advanced School in the States seems they lost three from my Class 42C. No memory of them at all. No point in grief in war: Johnnie was here yesterday, he's gone today, he's forgotten tomorrow,
c'ést la guerre.
Danny42C.
EDIT: For "Harry Hannah" above read "Rupert Parkhouse".