The BBC has done a follow up to the story of Private Joseph Bateman, whose name was added to his local memorial in Wordsley, nearly ninety years after he was shot by a firing squad for desertion. Recently the historian who campaigned for Bateman’s name to be added to the memorial met up with the soldier’s granddaughter.
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Posts Tagged ‘Shot at dawn’
The hidden history of those shot at dawn
Posted in In the news, tagged Shot at dawn, WW1 on 18 February, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘Shot at dawn’ soldier remembered on Wordsley memorial
Posted in In the news, tagged Shot at dawn, WW1 on 18 January, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We’ve reported before about the recent increase in adding the names of those ’shot at dawn’ for cowardice and desertion in the First World War to war memorials and how many of these men were actually already named on memorials.
One that wasn’t was Private Joseph Bateman. He volunteered soon after the First World War began but, by [...]
Remembering those shot at dawn
Posted in FAQs, In the news, tagged Shot at dawn, WW1 on 6 December, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There was an article on the BBC website recently that referred to a successful campaign to add the name of a soldier shot duing the the First World War for desertion to his local war memorial.
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It is a very common misconception that people who were executed for desertion or cowardice were not commemorated [...]
