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Thread #133984   Message #3599739
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
09-Feb-14 - 08:57 AM
Thread Name: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
Subject: RE: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
Sixteen concientious objectors from Richmond in Yorkshire were held in Richmond Prison and eventually transferred to Belgium to serve at the front.
They refused to fight and were all executed by firing squad because they had been transferred from civil to military jurisdiction.
The interview with the relative of one of them - filmed in the prison in which they were held), formed a major part of the second programme.
What ***** planet do you live on?


The sentences were commuted and they spent the war in prison.
It was all explained in the programme.

No British conscientious objectors were ever executed.
Once again you are wrong and I am right.