I'm with you Fergus. And I stand by my statements about the British teatment of the rank and file.

The afterward from "Justice Hall":
On June 21, 2001, the Shot at Dawn memorial was unveiled at the Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire England. It depicts a seventeen-year-old private who was condemned to death, without defence, in the summer of 1915. Behind the blindfolded figure stands a forest of 306 wooden stakes, each representing an executed Commonwealth soldier.

The death penalty for desertion and cowardice was abolished in 1930. In 1997 a review of the cases of the 306 Great War condemned men was begun. In 1998 it was suggested that the names of the executed soldiers might now be added to the country's war memorials. On Rembrance Day 2000 relatives and supporters of the executed soldiers joined the and the two minutes' silenceat the Cenotaph in Whitehall. However the Secretary of State for Defence later stated there would be no posthumous pardon for the men and boys who were shot at dawn."

Many of these soldiers were boys who were accepted into the military even though they were underage, to be cannon fodder, and were shot to make an example to the other soldiers, without benefit of a trial.