Shot at Dawn?: A recreation of the Court Martial of Willie Stones and the 'DLI 6'

This is a recreation - by WFA volunteers - of two WW1 courts martial. The first is the case of Willie Stones (who famously claimed he blocked the trench with his rifle to stop pursuing Germans) and the second is a "mass" court martial of six men from the DLI. These two courts martial were recreated "back to back" and enable us to see how these 'Field General Courts Martial' were carried out.

This is not fictionalized but the exact, verbatim, account of the events at two 'trials' which took place in 1916 extracted from the transcipts of the courts martial.

At the end of the proceedings, we ask: would you consider the men on trial here were guilty? Should they have been executed?

If you are in any way interested in the subject of 'Shot at Dawn' cases, this is not to be missed.

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