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The Gallipoli Campaigns petered out in early 1916, but Lancaster had ended his military service before this, resigning his commission with effect from 22 December 1915.<ref name=Percival-quit>{{ cite journal |title=Corps of Royal Engineers |journal=Birmingham Daily Post |issue=Wednesday 22 December 1915 |pages=3 |date=1915-12-22 }}</ref> As stated in an obituary, "his health became affected" during his war service.<ref name=Percival-Obit>{{ cite journal |title=Obituary: Mr. P Lancaster |journal=New Zealand Herald |issue=14222 |pages=14 |date=1938-12-08 }}</ref>

The Gallipoli Campaigns petered out in early 1916, but Lancaster had ended his military service before this, resigning his commission with effect from 22 December 1915.<ref name=Percival-quit>{{ cite journal |title=Corps of Royal Engineers |journal=Birmingham Daily Post |issue=Wednesday 22 December 1915 |pages=3 |date=1915-12-22 }}</ref> As stated in an obituary, "his health became affected" during his war service.<ref name=Percival-Obit>{{ cite journal |title=Obituary: Mr. P Lancaster |journal=New Zealand Herald |issue=14222 |pages=14 |date=1938-12-08 }}</ref>

On 28 August 1916, Lancaster was brought by the Police to Chelsea Workhouse for observation.<ref name=Workhouse-entry>{{ cite book |last=Ancestry.com |title=London, England, Workhouse Admission and Discharge Records, 1764-1930 |chapter=London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: CHBG/188/068 |pages=150 |date=2014 |publisher=Ancestry.com |location=Provo, Utah }}</ref> Section 45 of the 1834 Poor Law effectively sanctioned the use of the workhouse as a holding centre between community and asylum.<ref name="ReinarzSchwarz2013">{{cite book|author1=Jonathan Reinarz|author2=Leonard Schwarz|title=Medicine and the Workhouse|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1TCQAQAAQBAJ|accessdate=21 March 2020|year=2013|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=978-1-58046-448-2|page=106}}</ref> On 5 September 1916 Lancaster was discharged as insane from the Chelsea Workshouse to Colney Hatch Asylum.<ref name=Workhouse-exit>{{ cite book |title=London, England, Workhouse Admission and Discharge Records, 1764-1930 |chapter=London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: CHBG/188/068 |pages=158 }}</ref> His father later said that he spent four months in the Asylum in 1916.<ref name=Court-June>{{ cite journal |title=Shell Shock and Drugs: A Sad Story |journal=Middlesex County Times |issue=Wednesday 27 June 1917 |pages=3 |date=1917-06-27 }}</ref>

On 28 August 1916, Lancaster was brought by the Police to Chelsea Workhouse for observation.<ref name=Workhouse-entry>{{ cite book |last=Ancestry.com |title=London, England, Workhouse Admission and Discharge Records, 1764-1930 |chapter=London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: CHBG/188/068 |pages=150 |date=2014 |publisher=Ancestry.com |location=Provo, Utah }}</ref> Section 45 of the 1834 Poor Law effectively sanctioned the use of the workhouse as a holding centre between community and asylum.<ref name="ReinarzSchwarz2013">{{cite book|author1=Jonathan Reinarz|author2=Leonard Schwarz|title=Medicine and the Workhouse|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1TCQAQAAQBAJ|accessdate=21 March 2020|year=2013|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=978-1-58046-448-2|page=106}}</ref> On 5 September 1916 Lancaster was discharged as insane from the Chelsea Workshouse to Colney Hatch Asylum, <ref name=Workhouse-exit>{{ cite book |title=London, England, Workhouse Admission and Discharge Records, 1764-1930 |chapter=London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: CHBG/188/068 |pages=158 }}</ref>[[Friern Barnet]]. His father later said that he spent four months in the Asylum in 1916.<ref name=Court-June>{{ cite journal |title=Shell Shock and Drugs: A Sad Story |journal=Middlesex County Times |issue=Wednesday 27 June 1917 |pages=3 |date=1917-06-27 }}</ref>

By 1917 Lancaster had found employment with the Munitions Ministry. On 2 April Lancaster was found in the Great Western Railway station in Glocester in unspecified "suspicious circumstances". He was found to be in possession of an out-of-date munitions pass, and was arrested. He was apparently under the impression that he was to conduct an inspection at a nearby munitions works.<ref name=Shock>{{ cite journal |title=Shell Shock |journal=Western Daily Press |issue=Thursday 12 April 1917 |pages=3 |date=1917-04-12 }}</ref> The court heard that Lancaster had shell shock, but also had later complications from a blow to the head. He was discharged into the care of a Ministry official who undertook to take him to London to put in the care of his wife.<ref name=Arrested-one>{{ cite journal |title=Gloucester City Petty Sessions |journal=Gloucester Journal |issue=Saturday 14 April 1917 |pages=7 |date=1917-04-14 }}</ref>

By 1917 Lancaster had found employment with the Munitions Ministry. On 2 April Lancaster was found in the Great Western Railway station in Glocester in unspecified "suspicious circumstances". He was found to be in possession of an out-of-date munitions pass, and was arrested. He was apparently under the impression that he was to conduct an inspection at a nearby munitions works.<ref name=Shock>{{ cite journal |title=Shell Shock |journal=Western Daily Press |issue=Thursday 12 April 1917 |pages=3 |date=1917-04-12 }}</ref> The court heard that Lancaster had shell shock, but also had later complications from a blow to the head. He was discharged into the care of a Ministry official who undertook to take him to London to put in the care of his wife.<ref name=Arrested-one>{{ cite journal |title=Gloucester City Petty Sessions |journal=Gloucester Journal |issue=Saturday 14 April 1917 |pages=7 |date=1917-04-14 }}</ref>