" Your qualifications for pontificating about matters historic are the say so of someone you don't really know or like on a forum about folk music."

I have not mentioned anything about qualifications your pal Raggy did. What does Modette hold a Doctorate in? Neither you or I have a clue and I frankly couldn't care less, particularly after her little lecture on the study of it which was the biggest load of bollocks that I have read for some time.

Jom - sorry I didn't wade through your latest badly written, punctuated and presented offering - quite frankly I can no longer be arsed, as they are only ever rehashes of the crap you came out with before that was shot down at the time. You'll be telling us that Kitchener was forced to resign next, and that the wrong ammunition was sent to France, all the work of a hate filled, tooth-sucking, spiteful, little clown who for reasons best known, and best kept, to himself hates and loathes the country of his birth, who uses this Forum to attack it at every opportunity.

There were no summary Drumhead Courts Martial Jom the Courts Martial records for every Court Martial held are available - perhaps you should restrict yourself to the ones involving Death Sentences you will see that all such Courts were duly constituted in accordance with Army Regulations and that after the verdict had been passed the findings of the court were passed up the Chain of Command for review and IF the death sentence was verified the papers then went to the Commander of the Army in the Field for his authorisation to carry out the sentence - Haig only signed off on 1 in 10 cases RECORDED FACT