Very good Jim, now tell your pal Raggy that at no time in his three months in France did Harry Patch ever see an officer summarily shooting any British Soldier. His mention of it amounts to pure hearsay, he doesn't know and cannot vouch that it ever happened with any degree of certainty at all, you suggest he talked about it and heard the story from "someone" who may or may not have seen such an act as they too could have talked about it to someone else, etc, etc - Not really all that convincing is it - 100% supposition. So much for Harry Patch who just because he was the last WWI Veteran to die does not convey any crown of infallibility on his shoulders, I say that because scores of other soldiers (And I MEAN soldiers, not officers, not Generals) wrote their memoirs and autobiographies, lots of them covering the entire span of what to them was known as the Great War, not just three months and guess what Jim? - NOT ONE mentions anything about summary executions in the field - funny that isn't it with all that talking going on, like a said "The Indian Rope Trick" and "Urban Myths" everybody has heard of them and none are real or true.