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Shot at Dawn memorial
By jmb | May 9, 2008
Wikiepdia: Shot at Dawn memorial
I don’t have time to post more about this (there’s so much I want to say), but it is a sad and mostly untold story. I was especially moved by reading the story of Harry Farr and also seeing the pictures of the memorial itself which has a statute of Hurbert Burden who was only 17 years old when he shot by a firing squad for the “crime” of desertion.
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May 9th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1526437/Pardoned-the-306-soldiers-shot-at-dawn-for-‘cowardice’.html
Daily Telegraph: Pardoned: the 306 soldiers shot at dawn for ‘cowardice’
The pardon happened in 2006. (this story is very good, especially because of the very good picture of the memorial)
May 10th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
There’s something wrong with the link. Here’s (I hope) a working one.