Shot at Dawn
As accurate as I can be.....
"Shot at Dawn" a work by Andy De Comyn, based on the shooting of Private Herbert Burden at Ypres 1915... he was sadly only 17 years old.
When the government released the secrecy act some 75 years later the Shot at Dawn campaign was started to get pardons for the men and "Boys" in 2006 they won and all 306 British and Commonwealth Soldiers shot for Cowardice and an array of other offences received Posthumous pardons.
Some of the ages of those shot do not have an age to their stakes as they lied about being old enough to join up.
Post traumatic stress is now a known disorder thankfully.
Shot at Dawn
As accurate as I can be.....
"Shot at Dawn" a work by Andy De Comyn, based on the shooting of Private Herbert Burden at Ypres 1915... he was sadly only 17 years old.
When the government released the secrecy act some 75 years later the Shot at Dawn campaign was started to get pardons for the men and "Boys" in 2006 they won and all 306 British and Commonwealth Soldiers shot for Cowardice and an array of other offences received Posthumous pardons.
Some of the ages of those shot do not have an age to their stakes as they lied about being old enough to join up.
Post traumatic stress is now a known disorder thankfully.