WW1
Millions of men came home without a leg, arm, or they were blind, or deaf. Some where even mentally broken due to the things they had to live through in the trenches. Others had their lives cut short through the effects of poison gas and injurys due to blast, with collasped lungs.
Shell Shock
Shell Shock even put some men
in mental hospitals
Death.
Military troops were basically told to expect to die. Day after Day men watched the death of their friends.The fact that they were told to be ready to die scared them and made them try and runaway to escape their deaths, instead if they ran from the German guns they would be shot by British ones (their own sides). They didn't take their responsibility to fight so, they were killed. This is what they called "Military Justice".
They also did these executions because they served a dual purpose - to punish the deserters and to plant in their comrades heads what could happen to them.
The military death penalty was outlawed in 1930!
Military Justice
Military Justice was harsh, but so was life back then. Capital punishment was still used in Great Britain. The military law used was written for previous campaigns, and perhaps not appropriate , every single one of the soldiers signed up for those regulations.
"We don't want our pardons for villains. We want justice for people who were shot for insubordination because they refused to wear a hat, or fell asleep at their post, or were just so terrified they simply could not cope."
Psychological effect on soldiers fighting in
Some soldiers go into shell shock.
Soldiers that had shot men in the face
developed hysterical tics in their own
faces. Men that had stabbed a man in
the abdomen had constant stomach cramps.
Some of the snipers even lost their eye sight.
and this happens mostly to soldiers
Executions..
on the front line. They become mentally
confused, upset or exhausted as a result
of excessive stress.
When the time came for these executions
the men were tied to a stake and a medical officer placed a white cloth over their hearts and a priest prayed for them. Then the firing lines usually made up of 6 soldiers would all fire, one of the rounds was routinely blank so that no man would know who fired the fatal shot.
Many of the soldiers that fought in
WW1 had experienced some form of
shell shock. If not had gone completely mad.
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