"Sixteen conscientious 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."

Ah Christmas, sorry to tell you but you are wrong again, just the same as you were with regard to Mons, about Kitchener being forced to resign, about the wrong sized shells and generally about everything.

Not one single man was shot for being a Conscientious Objector - in that Keith is perfectly correct.

The sixteen men you are referring to were:

William Law
Herbert Law
John 'Bert' Brocklesby
Norman Gaudie
Alfred Martlew
Clarence Hall
Horace Eaton
C Cartwright
E C Cryer
C R Jackson
Alfred Myers
C A Senior
E S Spencer
Leonard Renton
J W Routledge
The name of the sixteenth conscientious objector isn't known.

They were transferred to France and they were court-martialled and sentenced to death on 14th June 1916. But all sixteen numbered among the 2,654 of 3,000 who were sentenced to death but whose sentences were commuted - the sixteen men you referred to as having been shot all served 10 years hard labour - all survived it, so how come you peddle the lie that they were executed?

Basic research Christmas, basic research - how come you seem so incapable of doing any of it.