"306 British Soldiers were executed for desertion - the word according to Jim Carroll"
Nope - the word according to The Guardian,   date and quote given - please pay attention and read what is put up.
"Urban Myth"
How do you know - where has it ever been denied?
You claim that no summary executions took place - who sez so - only you so far, the authorities have never dienied it when the statement was made publicly - since when were you appointed as a spokesman for the British military establishment (you certainly strut around as if you were)
Yo fellers make a great fuss about the Commemoration, even to the extent that on;ly you Christians take part, yet when any of the veterans step out of line and tells it as irt was (first hand) you're happy to flush what he has to say down the pan - what king of two-faced twerps are you people??   
You've had the facts of the executions - respond to what #has been said by these people who have been remembered recently and who you choose to dismiss as liars
I ask for any evidence that the British authorities have denied it - you offer none and insist on speaking on their behalf
"Tell me Jim why is it that you can never get Donnellan's name right?"
Tell me - why do you always resort to misspellings and typos whenever you run out of ideas - why are you people so ***** predictable?
You waffle on about press accounts of numbers, typos etc. - but offer s.f.a in return.
By what authority do you dismiss out of hand what WW1 veterans have to say when even the establishment can't be arsed to do so.
Are you frustrated that you never made it in the military, as you once claimed to have done, and only made it as far as cooking bad fry-ups in a galley - I think they call it a Walter Mitty Complex!
Think we're done here - don't you?
Jim Carroll