What couragious people there are in this world.
The stories on this blog are a memorial to my fifteen courageous great uncles who bravely served with New Zealand's forces during The Great War, 1914-1918. Lest we forget.
Wednesday 26 August 2015
Field Punishment Number 1
After hearing that one of my student's great grandfathers recieved Field Punishment Number 2 for sharing confidential information during World War 1, I became curious about what field punishments were. This led me to find the film about a New Zealand conscientious objector, Archibald Baxter, who was repeatedly given Field Punishment Number 1 and who suffered numerous other abuses for believing that war is wrong.
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