Shot at Dawn

Between 1914-1920, 3,080 British and Commonwealth soldiers were sentenced to death by courts martial for desertion, cowardice, striking an officer, disobedience, falling asleep on duty or casting away arms and even murder. Many sentences were commuted to years of hard labour and only 346 around 10% were executed. 309 British and Commonwealth Soldiers that were Shot at Dawn for offences other than murder in WW1 were eventually pardoned. “ALL GAVE SOME, SOME GAVE ALL” Lest We Forget
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3 Apr 1916 Private Nicholas Matthews 3rd Battalion South African Infantry Executed for murder and was not pardoned in 2006.
29 October 1916 - Private Cecil John “Jack” Braithwaite 31 years old (Picture from Roslyn Wednesday Association Football Team 1903)
23 Jul 1916 - 12396 Private James Cassidy, 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.

Photos and Obituaries

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8 September 1914 - Private Thomas Highgate 19 years Old
26 September 1914 - Private George Ward 20 years old
27 October 1914 - Private Edward Tanner 33 years old

1914

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11 Dec 1915 - 16734 Private Harry Salter, aged 24, 6th Bn. East Lancashire Regiment.
2 July 1915 - Private Thomas Davis, aged 21, 1st Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers.
12 January 1915 - Private Joseph Ball 20 years old

1915

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2 Jan 1916 - Sergeant John Robins, 5th Wiltshires
30 January 1916 - Private John James Dennis
7 February 1916 - Private James Grist Carr 21 years old

1916

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5 January 1917 - Sub-Lieutenant Edwin Leopold Arthur Dyett aged 21
8 January 1917 - Private James Tongue 21 years old
18 January 1917 - LCpl Peter Goggins 23 years old

1917

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24 January 1918 - Private John Seymour 21 years old
8 February 1918 - Private Wilfred Clarke 23 years old
24 February 1918 - Private Victor Manson Spencer, 21 years old

1918

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15 February 1915 - Private William Price 41 years old
15 February 1915 - Private Richard Morgan 32 years old
15 November 1915 - Private Charles William Knight 28 years old

Not Pardoned

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The Sepoy Mutiny of 1915 in Singapore By Royal Indian Army
Calendar - 1915 - Picture
Royal Garrison Artillery barracks at Pulau Blakang Mati (Sentosa)

Singapore Mutiny 1915

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Mazingarbe Communal Cemetery
Mazingarbe Communal Cemetery
Mazingarbe Communal Cemetert

Graves and Memorials

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Eddie-Slovik-Court-Martial-1

WW2 Pvt Eddie Slovik US Army

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‘I Could not look on Death, which being known, Men led me to him, blindfold and Alone.’ Thus, in two short, bitter lines, Rudyard Kipling summed up a series of events that are among the most shameful and inglorious in all British history: The executions by firing squad of some 350 members of the British and Empire forces during the First World War. Based on years of painstaking research, this is the first book to give complete details of all these executions.
Private Peaceful: A Bbc Radio Drama

Books, Films and TV

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