FINALLY - The shell-shocked soldiers shot for desertion receive pardons.

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    RE: Pen and Sword

    We do a lot of work for all the books in our office, i've even scanned in a painting by Hitler a few years back. We've even had SAS in the office with guns on em. One of the Great Escape blokes was in not long since.
     
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    REDSTAR - That Kitchener poster !

    Did you know it is one of the most common examples of memory playing tricks on you ?
    Vast numbers of veterans from all over the UK in later years cite that poster as being the single motivation to join up; however the poster was only ever used in the centre of London at a few railway stations / recruiting offices !! It was NEVER on show anywhere else in England and only became famous in the years after 1918 !!
     
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  4. Gue

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    RE: My view.

    It's such a shame that the reluctance of successive governments to do anything about this has meant that so many wives, parents, sons and daughters have gone to their graves with the matter unresolved.</p>



    I'd like to see some sort of monument erected. After all it wasn't this government's fault. I don't think they should be uncomfortable about apologising for the actions of one long gone.</p>
     
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    Do you work at P&S ?
     
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    There is a monument (of sorts) in Lichfield. Do a search on National Arboretum (or something like that)
     
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    He moved

    Not sure of the exact details, but he was told in no uncertain terms ever to go near Bradford again. Think he ran an orchard or farm in Kent !
    Some of the C.Os were however well respected in these battalions.
     
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    RE: Do you work at P&S ?

    Pen & Sword is part of the Chronicle Group for who i work for, it's all the same company but split into different bits. I work for the printing section of the company, so we do all the scans for the books, there's bloody hundreds that get done.
     
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    Really?

    I never knew that. Still ought to be banned!!
     
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    Well if you ever get any ......

    ..... "freebie" WW1 books (lets call them "samples"), then I know a good home for them !!

    ;-)
     
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    Here's an extract .....

    www.bradlibs.com/bradfordpals/Appendix%202%20(142%20-%20148).pdf

    Quite moving really. Well it always moves me anyway.
     
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  13. Gue

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    Nice one, cheers Andy.
     
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    And the Australians !!

    Who served so well with the New Zealanders through the war, only offered to help the Commonwealth cause if they had assurances from the British Government that their soldiers would not be subject to execution.
    No Aussie was executed for cowardice / desertion in WW1
     
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  15. Gue

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    aye

    studied a hell of a lot of WWI at Uni. It's similar to a lot of veterans who claimed that they were stuck in trenches none stop for months on end (a la blackadder goes forth) when in fact troops were rotated fom front line trench duty every 2 days
     
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  16. Gue

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    war of attrition

    when the pace of the german offensive slowed each army searched for the breakout that would enable them to get back to relatively mobile warfare. never happened although the germans came close in 1917 to achieving that. the only solution each army saw was to throw endless troops and artillery into the fray to overwhelm the defending forces (similar to russian offensives on the eastern front in WWII).

    only problem was that even if any did achieve a breakout they would have outpaced their supply lines in no time
     
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    RE: war of attrition

    Correction - Germans came close in 1918, using reserves pulled away from Russian Front (Russians having signed a ceasefire to due to Revolution/Civil War).
     
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  18. Gue

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    lasts night beer is destroying my memory

    you;re right it is 1918,
     
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