Nothing desperate about what I have posted Raggy. YOU have posted the Regimental History of the North Staffordshire Regiment - indicate what offensive operations they were involved in on the Western Front in the period January 1916 to June 1916. Good luck with that Raggy - 1916 as far as the war went was a year of German offensive operations the largest of them being the attack on the French at Verdun - Falkenhayn's attempt to bleed the allies white. The only British offensive operation that year was the Battle of the Somme, which was too late in the year for the time frame given in the article. The Somme was an offensive operation forced upon Haig and mounted to relieve pressure on the French at Verdun. It worked, by the end of the battles of Verdun and the Somme it was the German Army that had been bled, their commander was relieved of his command and the German High Command acknowledged that with the forces they had available they could not defeat France and Britain on the western front. The accusation that British soldiers were summarily executed by their own officers and by "special squads" of Military Police remains unsubstantiated and unproven. So Raggy are you really trying to tell me if your best friend was shot and killed at close quarters right in front of your eyes by someone you knew and worked with, you would not be able to remember: - Name of your best friend - Name of his murderer - The date on which your best friend was murdered - The time of day your best friend was murdered - The place where your best friend was murdered Like all other previously proffered examples - Your link and the story told has got too many holes in it to be credible.
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