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From: "evans-gunther" <>
Subject: [WW1] Shot at dawn!
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 00:20:40 +0900

Dear Listers,
Just joined at what seems a rather interesting time. I have some query
concerning my family but will come back to that at a later date. Meanwhile,
may I make a comment on the Shot at Dawn discussion.

Living in Japan I haven't seen anything of the programme but can imagine
some of what would have been said. May I ask how many officers were shot at
dawn? Simon Bull's statements were interesting.

I found what John M. Chapman said rather strange.

"The other point is that you should never try to change history - it
happened, there were undoubtedly some miscarriages of justice but at the
time Britain and the free world were fighting for their lives - it was not a
cosy picnic."

Is he talking about the First World War? Who were the "free world"? I
could understand this statement if it was about the Second World War when
Nazism and Fascism were threatening the world, but the nations who fought in
the First World War were hardly much different from each other.

I've had my say and my next letter will be asking about how my grandfather
could have ended up in France instead of going with the rest of his fellow
North Walians to Galipolli and how another member of my family could have
been awarded the Military Medal at Mametz Wood. (Unless cousin Ken is
monitoring this Digest and has found out some more on the latter.)

Best wishes from a really hot Japan - 39.5 degrees C.,
Charles W. Evans-Gunther

Interests
EVANS in France
GUNTHER in Galipolli, Egypt, Palestine and at sea
JONES in France
JONES (a different one) in France, too

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