Combat Stress

Tyrwhitt House
Oaklawn Road
Leatherhead
Surrey
KT22 OBX

Tel: 01372 841 600
Web: www.combatstress.org.uk

Combat Stress (the Ex-Services Mental Welfare Society), exists to serve the men and women of our armed forces. For over 80 years, they have been the only services charity specialising in helping those of all ranks from the Armed Forces and the Merchant Navy suffering from psychological disability as a result of their service.

Through their national network of 12 regional welfare officers, they visit veterans at home in order to establish how best they can improve their quality of life and support them. These individuals and their support teams are usually the first contact the veteran has with Combat Stress, their sympathetic ear and understanding manner can be great solace to the anxious or nervous veteran at the other end of the telephone.

Through Combat Stress' three specialist short-stay treatment centres, in Shropshire, Surrey and Ayrshire, they provide rehabilitative and remedial treatment which aims to help the victim cope with his or her disabilities and to enjoy a better quality of life.

In over 80 years of operation, the Society has provided for some 75,000 veterans of the two World Wars and the many conflicts since with a unique lifeline. Currently, the Society takes about 700 veterans onto its books each year, the youngest in their early twenties, the oldest in their nineties. There are people in receipt of help who between them represent service in every campaign which the British Armed services has been engaged from the start of World War II to the present day.