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EARLY RELEASE: BLACKADDER GOES FORTH - Ep: 6
🕑 Added 2025-01-22 21:15:52 +0000 UTCHey guys! Sorry this is late (again.) Still feeling a bit ill, but feeling better than I was a couple of days ago. Blackadder really cheered me up, though! (Well, until the end... 😢)
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Megan Ruth
No I don't think it was! Thanks for the info. I'm glad they were pardoned :)
Gareth
If it wasn’t mentioned in the comments for episode 4x2, there is a monument in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, called the Shot at Dawn Memorial, commemorating the 309 men and boys who were executed for “cowardice”, now believed to be PTSD. They were posthumously pardoned by Parliament under the Armed Forces Act 2006.
Gareth
On the note of being shot for going mad; accounts tell of soldiers that were diagnosed as mad, self-diagnosed, diagnosed by a fellow soldier, or lying about it, were dragged out without question and executed, the sentiment being “put the poor soul out of his misery.”
