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Shot at Dawn - The Fifteen Welshmen Executed by the British Army in the First World War (Paperback)
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Shot at Dawn - The Fifteen Welshmen Executed by the British Army in the First World War (Paperback)
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Thousands of British soldiers lie in cemeteries clustered around
the battle sites of the First World War. Many of these volunteered
for war, not realising trench warfare would be far from a grand
adventure, nor that they would never return home. But not all of
these were killed by the enemy. Over 3,000 soldiers were sentenced
to death by Army Law, for desertion or other petty crimes, and more
than 300 of these were blindfolded and shot by their own battalion.
Many of the 'men' were still teenagers, and faced judgement in a
time where shell shock was seen as an excuse for cowardice. They
were branded traitors, their deaths covered up and their names
forbidden from memorials. Only in 2006, nearly 100 years later,
were they finally pardoned. Robert King was part of the campaign to
pardon these forgotten men. Here he touches on the lives of fifteen
Welshmen history has tried to ignore, and explores what it really
meant to be led out and shot at dawn.
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