Tracing The Ancestors Of Soldiers Executed By Firing Squad.

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During World War I, 306 British soldiers were shot for desertion. Find my past this week's episode delves deeper into the stories of those affected and involved by this order, tracing the ancestor of one soldier who was shot for cowardice.The trailer can be viewed at [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIcHs0_HH4o"]Find My Past: Firing Squad - YouTube[/ame]

The episode airs on tonight on Yesterday at 9pm and is repeated daily throughout the following week. Yesterday can be found at Sky channel 537, Virgin TV channel 203 and Freeview channel 12 and there is more info about the series at http://uktv.co.uk/yesterday/homepage/sid/8995 and their Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/YesterdayTVChannel?sk=app_271762479512251
 
It should be remembered that it was a different world then and you could get hung, shot or flogged for many different things and one should not compare the military from those days to the present set up. If some on fell asleep while on sentry this could caused large loss of life and any one caught asleep in the front lines was dealt with severely
 
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