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Thread #160877   Message #3822078
Posted By: Teribus
22-Nov-16 - 11:03 AM
Thread Name: BS: No poppies for me
Subject: RE: BS: No poppies for me
WHAT claims of summary executions Jom?

Claims of summary executions made by whom?

Any names of those executed? - No of course there aren't any names

Any inkling as to where and when these people were executed? - Not the slightest whisper on that score either is there Jom?

Any information as to who had carried out those executions? - None whatsoever.

Any actual eye-witnesses? - Nary a single one

By the way Raggy I do not have to provide a link regarding the Court Martial of Private James Crozier and the involvement in those proceedings of Frank Percy Crozier who was young Private Crozier's Commanding Officer as - GUESS WHAT? - Your pal Jim Carroll had already posted the link and not one single word in it contradicts a single thing I have said.

Frank Percy Crozier was only ever involved in three executions in his entire military career, one in Northern Nigeria just after the Boer War, that of Private James Crozier during the First World War, and finally that of Kevin Barry during the Irish War of Independence.

Much as Jim Carroll would like to infer otherwise, Frank Percy Crozier did not carry out any summary executions during the First World War, and no sentries serving in units under his command were ever shot out of hand for falling asleep at their posts.

And while Jom loves to broadcast incredibly misleading statements that he thinks he understands but doesn't. Over 38,000 soldiers were charges with desertion during the First World War the vast majority of those offences took place in Britain prior to deployment overseas. Of that number only 3,080 of then were sentenced to death - only 1 in 10 cases was the sentence ever carried out.