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Shot at Dawn: The Fifteen Welshmen Executed by the British Army in the First World War

Robert King

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Description:Amid the carnage of the battles of the First World War a small number of Welsh soldiers made the fateful decision to abscond from their units: under the Army Act, if found guilty of the offences they were charged with, they could suffer the ultimate penalty, to be Shot at Dawn. A handful of men serving in Welsh regiments absconded and despite mitigating circumstances and with derisory field trials, usually without respresentation or a 'soldier's friend' to speak on their behalf they were found guilty and sentenced to detah by firing squad. This book documents the cases. In 2006 a motion was put forward to pardon those men, except in cases of murder. This was successful and 305 men, albeit nearly a hundred years later, were exonerated.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shot at Dawn: The Fifteen Welshmen Executed by the British Army in the First World War. To get started finding Shot at Dawn: The Fifteen Welshmen Executed by the British Army in the First World War, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Amid the carnage of the battles of the First World War a small number of Welsh soldiers made the fateful decision to abscond from their units: under the Army Act, if found guilty of the offences they were charged with, they could suffer the ultimate penalty, to be Shot at Dawn. A handful of men serving in Welsh regiments absconded and despite mitigating circumstances and with derisory field trials, usually without respresentation or a 'soldier's friend' to speak on their behalf they were found guilty and sentenced to detah by firing squad. This book documents the cases. In 2006 a motion was put forward to pardon those men, except in cases of murder. This was successful and 305 men, albeit nearly a hundred years later, were exonerated.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shot at Dawn: The Fifteen Welshmen Executed by the British Army in the First World War. To get started finding Shot at Dawn: The Fifteen Welshmen Executed by the British Army in the First World War, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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Shot at Dawn: The Fifteen Welshmen Executed by the British Army in the First World War

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