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00:14:50Have you been wounded?
00:14:52Not properly, sir.
00:14:54I was bleeding a few times, and there was one time I got sent down to a GCS.
00:14:58But it was nothing much, so they sent me back the next day.
00:15:02Of course, you hear the fellas wishing they could lose an arm or a leg.
00:15:07Same as everybody else, I've heard of some of the lads that have tried it on themselves.
00:15:11Have you tried it?
00:15:15Sir?
00:15:16Have you tried it?
00:15:18Oh, no, sir, no.
00:15:20Me and Willie, uh, Bryson, we was thinking of trying it once, but we never did.
00:15:27It wasn't long after that that Willie's number came up.
00:15:34When here?
00:15:36Oh.
00:15:38Oh, sir, I'm so sorry, sorry.
00:15:40I've got to go someplace.
00:15:42Go, bro!
00:15:45Sir!
00:15:46Latrines.
00:15:47Yes, sir.
00:15:48Go on.
00:16:00Come on, Hat.
00:16:03Right, Will.
00:16:04Sergeant, get the rest of your platoon outside with their gear.
00:16:07Pretty lousy.
00:16:08Yes, sir.
00:16:09Come on, Hat.
00:16:10Right, sir.
00:16:11Now, tune up, pretty lousy!
00:16:13All out, pretty lousy!
00:16:15Come on!
00:16:20Come on outside, pretty lousy!
00:16:22Outside with all your gear.
00:16:24Pretty lousy.
00:16:25Come on, Hat.
00:16:27Captain Hargreaves.
00:16:29Prisoner's friend.
00:16:30Prisoner's friend.
00:16:31Fair trial.
00:16:32Fair trial and a quick death.
00:16:33Very funny.
00:16:35Didn't you think it was funny?
00:16:37Not funny if you're in hampshoes.
00:16:57Ready for you, sir.
00:16:59I told you he was a strange one, sir.
00:17:03Attend to that, will you?
00:17:09I wouldn't be in hampshoes if I'd done it.
00:17:13I wouldn't have got caught.
00:17:16Right!
00:17:17Get your picks and shovels!
00:17:19I've got a job for you!
00:17:21Place to hang him when he's good.
00:17:23Place to hang him when he's good.
00:17:27Oh, God!
00:17:29Place to hang him.
00:17:32Hang him by what?
00:17:38Thanks for the smoke, sir.
00:17:49Did you expect to get away with it?
00:17:53Well, I wasn't really thinking about it, sir, one way or the other.
00:17:58I just couldn't stand it anymore.
00:18:00Not the first time, sir.
00:18:02What?
00:18:03Well, I nearly did it once before.
00:18:05I mean, I thought of it.
00:18:07Time of Warren Court.
00:18:10I got sent back on a water party.
00:18:12I was thinking I'd get away, but an MP got his eye on me, so I didn't.
00:18:18And that was all?
00:18:19Yes, sir.
00:18:21Supposing the others had cleared off and left you on your own at Luce or Crone's Wood?
00:18:28I don't think it could have been much worse, sir.
00:18:33Fine, well, forget about that.
00:18:36Tell me about the last time, the time you said you couldn't stand it anymore.
00:18:40What about that?
00:18:43The time this really started going in my head.
00:18:46I got blown into a shell out.
00:18:49Two of the lads pulled me out with their rifles.
00:18:53Well, I'd seen it happen to a bloke a couple of days before.
00:18:57He slips off the duckboards into the hole.
00:19:00You see, and he's bobbing up and down in the mud.
00:19:03You know, like an egg boiling in water with his pack on and everything.
00:19:07Well, I didn't help him, nobody did. He slid down.
00:19:09So, of course, when I gets in the mud, I thought that was my lot, see.
00:19:13I'm going to drown in it like he did.
00:19:15Sucked into it, fighting it, drowning in it.
00:19:19Oh, after that, I couldn't stand it anymore.
00:19:24But the battalion was relieved.
00:19:27You came back here for a rest.
00:19:29Yes, sir.
00:19:31And you waited ten days until you went.
00:19:34Yes, sir.
00:19:35Why?
00:19:38Like I said, sir, I can't say anything different, I couldn't stand it anymore.
00:19:41What, even out of battle?
00:19:42It didn't matter where I was, the only place I could hear guns.
00:19:45That's never the only way you can't hear them.
00:19:47Yes, sir.
00:19:49Mr. Webb, he knew, he knew.
00:19:51He gave me extra rum.
00:19:54Did you say anything to him about it?
00:19:55Oh, not much.
00:19:56There's nothing I could expect a gentleman in his position to do, except what he did.
00:20:00Give him the extra rum.
00:20:02Wouldn't have made any difference to what I did on you, I wasn't going to come back.
00:20:07You mean you planned it?
00:20:09No, sir, no.
00:20:10I didn't have a plan, I haven't got the sense, have I?
00:20:14Maybe one time I would have had the sense, but not...
00:20:20No, it was like being dead, sir.
00:20:22And why did you wait ten days?
00:20:24Oh, I don't know, sir, I didn't have a plan.
00:20:27I went to the M.R. that time, yes.
00:20:31And what did Dr. O'Sullivan say to you?
00:20:33He gave me a number nine, sir, for me bowels.
00:20:36But I spit it out and he wasn't looking.
00:20:39Maybe there was some sort of medicine that would have helped me,
00:20:41but one thing I didn't have any need of was a number nine.
00:20:45And did he give you any other advice?
00:20:47Well, he said I've got cold feet, sir.
00:20:49He said I was a soldier and I should be a bloody soldier.
00:20:52Mind you, I didn't expect any different, I didn't expect him to say anything, except what he did.
00:20:59And why did you go?
00:21:00Well, I thought he might give me some sort of tonic, something to...
00:21:05stop me diarrhoea, stop me shaking, help me sleep.
00:21:10Wouldn't have made any difference to what I did, I knew I wasn't going to go back up the line.
00:21:14Did you know the term was going back into the line before you went?
00:21:17Yes, sir.
00:21:20Is that what finally decided you?
00:21:22No, sir.
00:21:23Then what did decide you?
00:21:26I don't know, I just started walking.
00:21:29Walking away from the guns.
00:21:31Did you know where you were walking to?
00:21:33No, no.
00:21:35After I'd got a few miles away from the guns, I got it into my head that I was making for home.
00:21:41Islington, you know.
00:21:42Home.
00:21:45Didn't make any sense, but that's what I'd got in my head.
00:21:50I must have walked a long way, cos I remember.
00:21:53I took me boots off and me big toe was bleeding.
00:21:57Then I was in a car, sitting on some potatoes.
00:22:02Then I was in a train, and some fellas was playing cards.
00:22:09And I was walking again.
00:22:12And I was talking to this priest, but he was foreign, I didn't know what he was talking about.
00:22:19It was like a dream, sir, I didn't know what I was talking about.
00:22:24It was like a dream, sir, I didn't know what was really happening or what wasn't.
00:22:30Weren't you ever challenged?
00:22:32Only when they picked me up.
00:22:34Not till then?
00:22:35Oh, no.
00:22:37Didn't you hide in ditches and things too?
00:22:42Avoid them?
00:22:43Oh, no, sir, no.
00:22:46Did they say anything to you when they arrested you?
00:22:48Well, just about me being a deserter.
00:22:51And I heard one of them saying to the other about it being a shooting job.
00:22:58Nothing else?
00:23:00You see, there's nobody left in my company that's been out here as long as me, so he can't shoot me.
00:23:07It's likely that you'll be found guilty of desertion.
00:23:11And I'd be failing in my duty if I left the least shadow of doubt in your mind as to the consequences.
00:23:15Well, I don't reckon I'll get off, sir, but they can't shoot me.
00:23:19Unless I can convince the court that you were acting under extraordinary strain at the time that you committed this crime,
00:23:26you will almost certainly be sentenced to death.
00:23:30This was the first time, sir.
00:23:32Mr. Webb, sir, he said I hadn't been a bad soldier.
00:23:35He might say the same to them if he was asked.
00:23:39Yes, he might.
00:23:40Yeah, I thought that was worth mentioning, sir.
00:23:43Can you think of anything else that was worth mentioning?
00:23:48No, sir, no.
00:23:51Did I tell you about Willie?
00:23:53Bryson, yes, you told me about the letter.
00:23:55Well, about when Willie was killed.
00:23:58You told me that he'd been killed.
00:24:00Well, I don't know if you can tell him about something like that.
00:24:04Well, it's important for you to tell me.
00:24:07Well, see, I was alongside of him when it happened.
00:24:10Same as many a time before, five, six yards away.
00:24:16It wasn't the first time I'd seen a man blown to bits, of course.
00:24:20It wasn't even as if Willie was anything special to me.
00:24:23Well, just a bit, you know, because he came from up our street, but that's all.
00:24:26I mean, nothing special.
00:24:29One thing about Willie, it was quick.
00:24:31See, I never saw it.
00:24:32I'm five or six yards away, I turned around, and now Willie's nowhere.
00:24:36Except over me.
00:24:38Oh, I'll tell you, I had to get me a new uniform.
00:24:48This is a question that I may have to ask you in court, sir.
00:24:53I shall ask you now.
00:24:56If they were lenient enough to send you to prison,
00:25:02could you be relied upon to do your duty when you came out?
00:25:06I'll try my best, sir.
00:25:07I don't mean that.
00:25:10Could you be relied on to go up the line and stay up the line?
00:25:17I mean that exactly, nothing less.
00:25:22Do you understand me?
00:25:24Yes, sir.
00:25:26Well.
00:25:28Do I have to tell you the truth, sir?
00:25:31Could you?
00:25:33Can you tell me, sir?
00:25:36No.
00:25:39Can you tell me anyway, being sure?
00:26:06The prisoner's ready, sir.
00:26:07It shouldn't take long, sir.
00:26:08It's a bad business.
00:26:11Who's in charge of the later formalities, sir?
00:26:14One thing at a time, Sergeant Major.
00:26:16Yes, sir.
00:26:35Give us some water.
00:27:03Give us a hand with this?
00:27:04What is it, horse or mule?
00:27:06Pig.
00:27:12If we was left to ourselves now, we'd all be home in bed, haven't we?
00:27:15Yeah, but I didn't say anything about that.
00:27:17How was we? You can't win a war lying in bed, can you?
00:27:20No, but...
00:27:21So you do what you're told.
00:27:25It doesn't make sense.
00:27:27That's not our fault, is it?
00:27:30Keep an eye open, Kop. It's a pity to waste it on that lot.
00:27:33The best bit?
00:27:34This bit.
00:27:35Chopper.
00:27:40Knife.
00:27:45Mmm. Dixie.
00:27:50Right.
00:27:51Well, now we'll see what we can do for our officers.
00:27:55How's that, Gavin?
00:27:58How's that?
00:27:59I'd have got him all spruced up like for his wedding.
00:28:02No shaving, of course.
00:28:03Well, if they shoot him, we won't have to belly him.
00:28:06We just push him over and watch him sink.
00:28:08They won't do it.
00:28:10Do you have any gill, sir?
00:28:11No, I think he's had it.
00:28:13Oh, I'm afraid he's had it, you know.
00:28:23He's going to get the silly bastard off, don't you think?
00:28:27You think so?
00:28:28I hope he's right.
00:28:29I'll certainly do my best.
00:28:30Oh, don't misunderstand me. My interest is purely personal.
00:28:33I don't want my men used as a firing squad.
00:28:35And I certainly don't want to be their jazzy, bloody sabre master.
00:28:38Shall I fire?
00:28:39Why you?
00:28:40Oh, I'm number one on the colonel's sweat list at the moment.
00:28:43I see.
00:28:44Now, when it comes to my turn, I'll perjure myself in the manor, if you like.
00:28:48Truth be told.
00:28:50Good luck, my learned friend.
00:28:52Good luck, my learned friend.
00:29:05Here we are.
00:29:07At my time.
00:29:09Present arms.
00:29:11Halt.
00:29:13The right turn.
00:29:15I am Campbell.
00:29:23Corporal.
00:29:27Bring the escort.
00:29:28To the left turn.
00:29:30Quick march.
00:29:31Left.
00:29:45Right view.
00:29:47Back toward him.
00:29:49Bring the escort.
00:29:52Halt.
00:29:54Left turn.
00:29:58873-426, Private Hampton.
00:30:00Sir.
00:30:01Is that your name and number?
00:30:03Yes, sir.
00:30:04Mr. Prescott, would you pass me that?
00:30:09The accused, number 873-426, Private Hampton, Arthur James.
00:30:13Soldier of the regular forces.
00:30:16You're charged with, when on active service,
00:30:19attempting to desert his majesty's service,
00:30:23in that you absented yourself from duty without orders from your superior officer
00:30:27for approximately 0700 hours on October the 10th this year
00:30:31at a place called Jackdaw Tunnel
00:30:34until October the 11th of this year
00:30:36when you were arrested by the military police near Calais.
00:30:39Guilty or not guilty?
00:30:42Not guilty, sir.
00:30:43Speed up.
00:30:45Not guilty, sir.
00:30:47Very well.
00:30:48I have to ask you if you object to any members of the court.
00:30:51Myself or either of these two officers.
00:30:55I'm surprised, sir, that as convening officer you're also president of the court martial.
00:30:59There are no other field officers available, Captain Hargraves.
00:31:01I must appoint myself.
00:31:03Are you making a formal objection?
00:31:05No, sir.
00:31:07You may stand at ease, Private Hampton.
00:31:09I've, uh, I've spurned the captain miserly
00:31:11and we've agreed that I won't dispute the facts of the case.
00:31:14So all the witnesses will be called by the defense.
00:31:16Good. That'll save the court's time.
00:31:22I submit that the prisoner absented himself at a time
00:31:25when because of his mental health
00:31:27he was not fully responsible for his actions.
00:31:29Mental health, Captain Hargraves?
00:31:31Do you mean that the prisoner is lunatic?
00:31:33No, sir.
00:31:34Or mentally deficient?
00:31:35No, sir.
00:31:37There must be hundreds of thousands of men
00:31:39who are in an unhappy mental state
00:31:41but who have not absented themselves from their duty.
00:31:44I realize that, sir, fully.
00:31:46I assure you.
00:31:48Are you ready for your first witness?
00:31:51Yes, sir.
00:31:55Call Corporal Hamilton.
00:31:57Corporal Hamilton!
00:31:58Sir!
00:32:02Out!
00:32:05Hold the book in your right hand.
00:32:07I swear by Almighty God
00:32:09that the evidence I forgive before this court
00:32:11shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
00:32:14I swear by Almighty God
00:32:15that the evidence I forgive before this court
00:32:17shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
00:32:19Corporal Hamilton, I believe that you apprehended the prisoner.
00:32:21Yes, sir.
00:32:22What did he say to you?
00:32:23Not much, sir.
00:32:24Only...
00:32:26Well, he tried to tell us he was going on leave, of course.
00:32:29Yes.
00:32:30A soldier going on leave
00:32:31is required to carry with him a full pack and equipment,
00:32:33is he not?
00:32:34Yes, sir.
00:32:35And the prisoner was carrying?
00:32:37Gas helmet, rifle, and bandolier, sir.
00:32:40Wouldn't have stood very much chance
00:32:41of getting on board a leave ship in that gear, would he?
00:32:43No, sir.
00:32:44Rather a silly story, wasn't it?
00:32:46Yes, sir.
00:32:48And how do you account for it?
00:32:50Well, sir, he could have.
00:32:52For all I know, he could have been just stupid.
00:33:11...
00:33:14...
00:33:18...
00:33:22Gives us a day off though, doesn't it.
00:33:24...
00:33:28...
00:33:31...
00:33:36...
00:33:40I'm not going up to the front and leave that bloody bastard behind me alive!
00:33:47Hold on!
00:33:48Bloody, bloody rat!
00:33:50Come on!
00:33:51Execute it!
00:33:52Get him!
00:33:57Corporal Hamilton, I presume that during the course of your duty,
00:34:00you have arrested other deserters,
00:34:02other men who have absented themselves from service.
00:34:05Yes, sir. Quite a few, sir.
00:34:06Did any of them behave in the same way as this prisoner?
00:34:09Much the same, sir.
00:34:10In particular, did some of them, to use your own words,
00:34:13did some of them appear to you to be stupid or behaving as if in a daze?
00:34:17Yes, sir, I suppose so.
00:34:19In short, was there anything remarkable or extraordinary
00:34:23about this prisoner compared with others?
00:34:26I mean, if there had been something extraordinary,
00:34:28you would have thought about it, wouldn't you?
00:34:30The thing that surprised me, sir, was how he got so far as us.
00:34:34By rights, he shouldn't have had a hope.
00:34:37He must have been through places thick with patrols,
00:34:40like Popper Injun, that.
00:34:42Perhaps he wasn't quite as simple as he seemed.
00:34:44No, sir, I didn't mean...
00:34:45After all, he did get very close to an embarkation point, didn't he?
00:34:49That's all, corporal. No more questions. Thank you, sir.
00:34:53Look at that. There must be dozens of them in there.
00:34:56And two full, they'll be nippy.
00:34:58Shall I jump on in?
00:34:59No.
00:35:23Right.
00:35:25When I say now,
00:35:27thump the belly.
00:35:30Now!
00:35:39Captain O'Sullivan, do you remember the prisoner
00:35:41reporting sick to you on or about October the 8th of this year?
00:35:44On the 7th, yes. I looked it up.
00:35:46And what did he complain?
00:35:48I remember quite clearly.
00:35:50He complained of nerves.
00:35:53Nerves.
00:35:54He didn't tell you that he was finding it impossible to sleep?
00:35:57He may have. Yes, I believe he did.
00:36:00But you didn't take this very seriously?
00:36:02No. It's not uncommon.
00:36:04It certainly isn't uncommon for me to be told such things.
00:36:07You mean you didn't believe him?
00:36:09No, I didn't say that.
00:36:11Every medical officer hears this kind of thing five or six times a day.
00:36:14Did you believe this man?
00:36:17No.
00:36:18Why not?
00:36:20It seems a permissible question.
00:36:22Why not?
00:36:23Why didn't you believe him when he said he couldn't sleep?
00:36:25I didn't say I didn't believe that.
00:36:28Very well.
00:36:30What other symptoms did he complain of?
00:36:32I said he was off his food. I said he was feeling a bit shaky.
00:36:35Shaky.
00:36:36Uncontrollable bouts of trembling?
00:36:39I don't know about uncontrollable bouts of trembling.
00:36:42You don't know about it, but did you bother to find out?
00:36:45Are you challenging my competence?
00:36:47I don't want to interfere with your defence, Captain Hargraves,
00:36:49but must you attack the witness?
00:36:51It's not Captain O'Sullivan's competence which is at stake, sir.
00:36:54It's this man's life.
00:36:56You said you didn't believe him.
00:36:58What didn't you believe?
00:37:00Oh, damn it, Charlie. I knew what he was after.
00:37:02Did this man lie to you? And if so, what did he say?
00:37:04I knew what he wanted. To be sent down the line.
00:37:07I knew what he wanted.
00:37:09I knew what he wanted. To be sent down the line.
00:37:12Did he say so?
00:37:14Did he what?
00:37:15Did he ask to be relieved from duty?
00:37:17Not in so many words. Of course he didn't.
00:37:26And how long did this interview last for you?
00:37:31Five minutes, ten minutes.
00:37:33And after that, you lost interest in the man?
00:37:36Don't expect me to do it. I haven't got time for everyone's emotional problems.
00:37:39But you were sure that an interview of five or ten minutes was sufficient for this case?
00:37:44Yes.
00:37:46Why were you so sure?
00:37:48Experience. My own judgement, of course. Experience.
00:37:56And you usually prescribe the same treatment?
00:37:59More or less. More or less.
00:38:02Laxative pills?
00:38:04I've never hurt anybody.
00:38:05Is that the only relief you can offer a man? Laxative pills?
00:38:08I'll prescribe one for you in a minute.
00:38:11Captain O'Sullivan.
00:38:13Were laxative pills in the slightest degree relevant to what was wrong with this man?
00:38:17There was nothing wrong with him.
00:38:19And I told him so.
00:38:20Did you? What did you say?
00:38:23I talked to him man to man.
00:38:25I told him he wasn't the first soldier to feel a bit jumpy.
00:38:28I told him he'd be all right. Back to normal.
00:38:31Told him to try to eat. Try to get some sleep.
00:38:34What else could I say?
00:38:36I told him to pull himself together.
00:38:38Has the incidence of medical reports of this sort been growing recently?
00:38:41I haven't got time for statistics.
00:38:44Or diagnoses, it seems.
00:38:45No, no, no.
00:38:55What are the symptoms of shell shock?
00:38:57Shell shock is a different matter altogether.
00:39:00Is there an exact moment in the life of a soldier
00:39:02before which he is not suffering from shell shock and after which he is?
00:39:06An exact boundary about which no two doctors will ever disagree?
00:39:11An exact boundary on the one side of which a man is required by army law
00:39:15to pull himself together,
00:39:18or on the other he cannot,
00:39:20is liable to be shot as a criminal, is there?
00:39:24This has nothing whatsoever to do with what we're all here for!
00:39:27Yes, Captain Hargraves, I agree with that.
00:39:30Do you, sir?
00:39:32Then what are we here for?
00:39:35A mock trial!
00:39:38That remark's entirely improper, Captain Hargraves.
00:39:45I apologize, sir.
00:39:48Proceed.
00:39:51Does the term shell shock
00:39:55have an exact medical meaning?
00:39:58Yes, of course it has.
00:40:00And a five or ten minute examination
00:40:02is quite sufficient time, in your estimation,
00:40:05to judge whether a man is or is not suffering from shell shock.
00:40:08It is not my job to maintain a bedroom!
00:40:11God knows you of all people should realize I've got no time for such rubbish!
00:40:15You expect me to leave wounded soldiers to die?
00:40:18You expect me to leave wounded soldiers to die
00:40:20while I cross-question cowards?
00:40:23What I'm asking is,
00:40:25is there not a borderline...
00:40:27This was not a borderline case of anything!
00:40:29How many times do I got to tell you?
00:40:31This was a case of cold feet!
00:40:33Funk, miserable funk!
00:40:35Nothing more or less!
00:40:37Are you sure?
00:40:38Yes!
00:40:49I ask you most earnestly.
00:40:53Are you absolutely sure?
00:40:57How could a man responsible for his actions
00:41:01do such a hopeless,
00:41:03desperately stupid thing as this man?
00:41:07When they found him,
00:41:09he was trying to walk home to England.
00:41:14He might just as well have tried to clear a German trench single-handed.
00:41:25Is it not obvious to you
00:41:28that this man had lost possession of himself?
00:41:35You've made your point, Captain Hargraves.
00:41:37Have you any more questions for Captain O'Sullivan?
00:41:40No, sir.
00:41:51Captain Midgley.
00:41:52Yes, sir, if you please.
00:41:54Captain O'Sullivan,
00:41:56have any of the defending officers' questions
00:41:58altered the conclusion you came to about the prisoner
00:42:00when he reported to you on October the 7th?
00:42:03No, not in the slightest.
00:42:05In view of the speculation we have heard,
00:42:07will you now tell the court in your own words
00:42:09what that conclusion was?
00:42:11Yes.
00:42:12I found the prisoner fit for duty,
00:42:13provided he was kept under discipline
00:42:15and discouraged from malingering.
00:42:17And there's nothing you wish to add to your judgment now
00:42:20by way of qualification?
00:42:22Nothing whatever.
00:42:24He's proved me right, hasn't he?
00:42:25And that's all there is to say about it.
00:42:27He did turn and run, didn't he?
00:42:30Thank you, Captain O'Sullivan.
00:42:38Were you in the area between our billet and the cookhouse
00:42:41at 1,500 hours today?
00:42:43Yes, he admits he was in the area
00:42:45between our billet and the cookhouse at 1,500 hours today.
00:42:48Right.
00:42:50Did you or did you not call up the private sparrow
00:42:52and take a bite out of his earhole?
00:42:57No, he did not call up the private sparrow
00:42:59and take a bite out of his earhole.
00:43:01Right, and one last question.
00:43:03If you had been in the area
00:43:05if you had been in our billet today,
00:43:07would you have done a thing like that?
00:43:10No, he's not that sort of rat.
00:43:17Captain Minchley, would you like to cross-examine the accused?
00:43:26You've been telling a lot of bloody lies, haven't you?
00:43:29You've been telling a lot of bloody lies, haven't you?
00:43:34No, no, I haven't been telling a lot of bloody lies.
00:43:39You're just an ordinary rat who only eats dead flesh, hmm?
00:43:45Hmm, I'm just a normal rat.
00:43:48Well, then, if you're just a normal rat
00:43:51who only eats dead flesh, why?
00:43:54When all the other rats were coming out of the front den,
00:43:57what were you doing coming out of the back den, hmm?
00:44:04He's crying.
00:44:11And after that, his nerve had gone.
00:44:13Absolutely.
00:44:14I imagine that there were others of your men
00:44:16in a similar condition at that time, were there not?
00:44:19Well, he must have been in a worse way than the others, sir.
00:44:22But we don't know that he was in any worse condition than his comrades.
00:44:25We only know what he decided to do about it.
00:44:28With respect, sir, he did not decide to do it.
00:44:30If you'll let me carry on...
00:44:31Continue.
00:44:33Was the prisoner popular in his platoon?
00:44:35Oh, yes.
00:44:36He always shared anything he had.
00:44:39And he's the nearest we've got left now to a founder member, of course.
00:44:43And he...
00:44:44Yes?
00:44:46Well, I was just going to say...
00:44:49I don't suppose it matters, but...
00:44:51He brewed a damn good cup of tea.
00:44:56Was he a good soldier before this happened?
00:44:59First class.
00:45:01Fair enough.
00:45:02Not a born soldier, but first class.
00:45:04And you were surprised when you heard that he'd absconded?
00:45:07Oh, yes, I was.
00:45:08From what you know of him,
00:45:09do you believe that he'd have to be a little unhinged to do what he did?
00:45:14Yes.
00:45:16I do.
00:45:18No more questions, sir.
00:45:19Captain Midgley?
00:45:20First class soldier.
00:45:21Yes.
00:45:22His record is singularly blank.
00:45:24Neither good nor bad.
00:45:26His principal talent as a soldier seems to be in staying alive.
00:45:31But...
00:45:32Surely we're not trying a man for staying alive, are we?
00:45:34The war hasn't got to that stage, has it?
00:45:36Mr. Webb.
00:45:37Hargrave's here.
00:45:38He's a sole survivor of an assault on the sun.
00:45:40They didn't try him for that.
00:45:42You confine yourself to answering the questions, Mr. Webb.
00:45:45I beg your pardon, sir.
00:45:47Mr. Webb, about this mental unhinging,
00:45:49did you see any actual sign of it yourself?
00:45:52Well, it depends.
00:45:53If you had, it surely would have been your duty
00:45:55to see that something was done about it, wouldn't it?
00:45:58Did the idea occur to you before he went absent?
00:46:02No, but he could have been ill,
00:46:05in his mind, even if I didn't see it beforehand.
00:46:08Can you offer any evidence that he was?
00:46:12He'd had a bad time.
00:46:14Well, I mean, I don't blame him.
00:46:15We all get the wind up sometimes.
00:46:17I'd much prefer a man to boat beforehand
00:46:19rather than crack up under fire and endanger the whole platoon.
00:46:23Mr. Webb, isn't it true to say,
00:46:25however much we may regret it
00:46:26and however much we may sympathize,
00:46:28isn't it true to say that this man
00:46:30simply allowed his fear to become his master?
00:46:33There's more in it than that.
00:46:36I ask you again,
00:46:38can you recall any evidence to support what you say?
00:46:42I've said what I believe.
00:46:45Thank you, Mr. Webb.
00:46:46No more questions, thank you, sir.
00:46:49Very well.
00:46:53Let's go.
00:46:54Let's go.
00:47:21Colin!
00:47:22Colin!
00:47:24Get bloody back!
00:47:32It's as though a devil's got hold of me legs, see?
00:47:34He's pulling me down.
00:47:36I'm not even wounded.
00:47:37I'm not even wounded
00:47:38and I'm going to get drowned in the mud.
00:47:41Oh, something had it in for me, I knew that.
00:47:43This idea that the devil was after you,
00:47:47did it stay in your mind
00:47:49after you'd been rescued from the mud?
00:47:51Not in the same way, sir, no.
00:47:53So it wasn't the devil.
00:47:55Why did you run away?
00:47:56I didn't run, sir, I walked.
00:47:58I just started walking.
00:48:00I don't know why.
00:48:04It's not true to say, is it,
00:48:06that you deliberately decided to desert me?
00:48:10That you deliberately decided
00:48:12and hoped to get away with it?
00:48:14I wasn't really thinking about it, sir.
00:48:16No, I know you weren't thinking about it.
00:48:17I was hoping I wouldn't get any cause.
00:48:19But you really won't...
00:48:20You weren't clearly thinking of anything at the time, were you?
00:48:23I just wanted to get away from the guns, sir.
00:48:27Had you any idea where you were going?
00:48:31No, sir, not really.
00:48:33I just wanted to get left alone for a bit, I thought.
00:48:36Private Hampton,
00:48:37you say you wanted to be left alone for a bit.
00:48:39Does that mean that you intended to return to the battalion?
00:48:44I don't know, sir.
00:48:46That's because you don't remember anything very clearly, is it?
00:48:49That's right, sir, yes.
00:48:52You had no clear plan or reason in your mind, did you?
00:48:56I just started going, sir.
00:48:58You know, I couldn't help myself.
00:49:04Like you told me to say, sir,
00:49:05I was acting under extraordinary strain.
00:49:12I can't think of anything else, sir.
00:49:16Is it all right if I ask you a question, sir?
00:49:18Yes, carry on.
00:49:20Well, I'd sooner you tell him, sir.
00:49:22You know more about it than me.
00:49:25All right.
00:49:27Are there any more questions, Captain Hargreaves?
00:49:31Captain Midgley.
00:49:33Private Hampton,
00:49:35did you know you were doing wrong when you deserted?
00:49:38If anybody tried to stop me, I'd have died, sir.
00:49:40Or didn't you wait till you made sure that there was nobody there to stop you?
00:49:43No, I...
00:49:45Well, I think I was just lucky, sir.
00:49:47I mean, it's very much a matter of opinion.
00:49:49Look, what I really want to know is this.
00:49:52You did know, didn't you, that it was your duty
00:49:55to stay with your battalion?
00:49:57Yes, sir.
00:49:58And you must have been very well aware of that
00:50:00all the time that you were absent
00:50:02from the first moment that you decided to...
00:50:05decided to leave.
00:50:07I... I don't know, sir.
00:50:09But you could walk, talk, think like anybody else,
00:50:13and you managed to get quite a long way away, didn't you?
00:50:15Well, like I just said, sir, I was lucky.
00:50:18Well, let me put this to you quite simply.
00:50:20Did you know what you were doing?
00:50:24I... I knew what I was doing, sir.
00:50:26And you realised that you were leaving your comrades at their posts
00:50:28who were prepared to do their duty while you deserted them?
00:50:31Didn't you?
00:50:33Didn't you?
00:50:34I've never done this before, sir.
00:50:36This was the first time.
00:50:42No more questions, sir.
00:50:44That'll do, Private Hampton.
00:50:55Captain Hoggish, will you address the court now
00:50:57on the prisoner's behalf?
00:50:59No, sir.
00:51:02I will address the court on its behalf.
00:51:07The prisoner, when he did the thing for which he's being tried,
00:51:10was no longer responsible for his actions.
00:51:13This court is responsible for its actions.
00:51:15It has not lost possession of itself.
00:51:17This court knows clearly what it's doing.
00:51:19This court has the power to choose.
00:51:28Private Hampton is not a liar.
00:51:30He's not glib. He has no ready answers.
00:51:33He has an embarrassing honesty,
00:51:35which made him a bad witness in his own case.
00:51:37He could have put a bullet through his leg
00:51:39and suffered nothing more serious than eternal imprisonment.
00:51:42He even told me that he thought of doing so.
00:51:45But he didn't.
00:51:47He stayed.
00:51:51A deserter, in full consciousness of what he's doing,
00:51:54runs away to save his own skin
00:51:56and leaves his fellows to do the fighting and the dying for him.
00:51:59This man is not a deserter.
00:52:02He volunteered.
00:52:04He volunteered because his wife and her mother dared him to.
00:52:09Never mind. He volunteered.
00:52:12He's been out here for three years,
00:52:14longer, if I may say so, than some of us have been.
00:52:17He's seen it all.
00:52:20A man can only take so much.
00:52:24So much blood.
00:52:26So much filth.
00:52:28So much dying.
00:52:31In the shell hole, he thought he was drowning in the mud.
00:52:34He thought his time had come, and it had.
00:52:37After that, he was no longer responsible for his actions.
00:52:40He hadn't got the power to decide whether to stay or to go.
00:52:46He had one instinct only left.
00:52:49The instinct to walk.
00:52:51To walk home.
00:52:53To walk away from the guns.
00:52:56They've become a fact of our daily lives.
00:53:00So much so that we no longer ask each other why they're being fired.
00:53:05Is this war so old?
00:53:07And are we so old in it that we've forgotten?
00:53:14Are we not fighting to preserve some notion of decency?
00:53:19Some notion of justice?
00:53:22To preserve for this court the right to choose?
00:53:35I beg to remind the court that if justice is not done to one man,
00:53:40then other men are dying for nothing.
00:54:05A matter of opinion.
00:54:12Mr. Prescott, you as our legal member advise the court on the law.
00:54:17Advise for this case.
00:54:23The court will remember that this soldier takes the law of England with him wherever he goes.
00:54:28And he is protected by it.
00:54:30The accused does not have to prove himself innocent.
00:54:32The prosecution must prove him guilty.
00:54:35And if the members of the court have any reasonable doubt,
00:54:38but it mustn't be a fanciful doubt,
00:54:41they must give him the benefit of it.
00:54:44You've heard before you the opinion of a Italian medical officer,
00:54:47which is that at the time the prisoner left the battalion,
00:54:50he was fit for duty and was not shell-shocked,
00:54:53but only suffering from what the doctor described as cold feet.
00:54:57You mustn't be unduly swayed by the eloquence of the defending officer,
00:55:01who has quite properly made out the best case he can.
00:55:05If you doubt that the prisoner really meant to deserve,
00:55:08and you believe that he merely went absent without leave
00:55:11and intended to return after a few days,
00:55:13you will give a verdict accordingly.
00:55:15On the other hand, if you are satisfied that the prisoner really deserved it,
00:55:19it is your duty to find him guilty.
00:55:22As to the stress the defending officer laid upon the prisoner being a volunteer,
00:55:26neither must you be unduly swayed by that.
00:55:29The army is now composed of regulars, of volunteers, and of conscripts,
00:55:34and one law applies to them all.
00:55:37And it is the court's duty to administer the law as it stands.
00:55:43Proceed immediately to our discussion of the case.
00:55:46Sir!
00:55:47Captain Hargraves.
00:55:53Escort for the rival prisoner!
00:55:56Prisoner escorts!
00:55:58Turn!
00:55:59Quick march!
00:56:00Here we are!
00:56:01Here we are!
00:56:02Here we are!
00:56:03Here we are!
00:56:04Here we are!
00:56:05Here we are!
00:56:06Here we are!
00:56:07Here we are!
00:56:08Here we are!
00:56:09Here we are!
00:56:10Here we are!
00:56:11Quick march!
00:56:12Here we are!
00:56:13Left, right, left, right, left!
00:56:29Thanks for cutting my throat, old boy.
00:56:31Well, you were overdoing it a bit. I couldn't help it.
00:56:33I thought there was a great deal in what you said, if I may say so.
00:56:37You did very well, Hargraves. I hope you got him off.
00:56:39I hope so, too.
00:56:40But you know a proper court is concerned with law.
00:56:42It's a bit amateur to plead for justice.
00:56:55What do you want now, then?
00:56:57Have you seen my rifle, Cor?
00:57:00Why would you be wanting that?
00:57:02Well, I just thought I might give it a clean, you know.
00:57:05Something to do.
00:57:11It won't have anything to do with the court-martial. It could be anybody, you know.
00:57:15I kept forgetting who was talking about me.
00:57:18Old Mr. Hargraves, he gave him a lovely speech.
00:57:22This man is not a deserter.
00:57:29Well...
00:57:30You've been twice since you got back, already.
00:57:33It's not my fault, is it?
00:57:35Right, guns!
00:57:36Left, right!
00:57:37Retreat!
00:57:40Right, Will!
00:57:47Help yourself, Mr. Morris.
00:57:52Stand easy, Mr. Prescott.
00:57:54Um, Mr. Morris wishes to know whether we can find the prisoner guilty and recommend mercy.
00:58:00Well, yes, sir, you may.
00:58:02And you may either confirm the sentence yourself or send it to higher authority for confirmation.
00:58:08I see.
00:58:09Mr. Prescott.
00:58:10Never mind.
00:58:12Uh, would you help Captain Cartwright prepare a finding?
00:58:15Uh, guilty of desertion, but, uh, emphasize good conduct, length of service, that kind of thing.
00:58:21But don't put in anything about mental health.
00:58:23They're not interested in that sort of thing at headquarters.
00:58:26When you've finished, have it read to the prisoner, and then send it off for confirmation.
00:58:30Right, gentlemen.
00:58:40DOORBELL BUZZES
00:58:53Won't know anything for a bit yet.
00:58:55It's got to go to the generals and that lot.
00:58:57It'll be a week then.
00:58:58They're all pinned down in Paris, you know.
00:59:00What's Ham thinking, I wonder?
00:59:02If he's got any sense, he's not thinking.
00:59:04Well, whatever happens, he's not going up the line again.
00:59:06Do you know what he said when he got back?
00:59:07They're taking a lot of trouble over me.
00:59:09Feels bloody honoured, he does.
00:59:11Yes.
00:59:12They're taking 24 hours to kill him, Jerry.
00:59:14Wouldn't take that long, eh?
00:59:15He'll get the glass house.
00:59:34Governor Hargreaveson.
00:59:35Yes?
00:59:36I don't know if it's allowed, sir, but he says he'd like to see you.
00:59:40Who?
00:59:41Private Hampson.
00:59:44Would that be legal, Mr. Prescott?
00:59:46Well, I'm afraid it'd be highly irregular, sir.
00:59:48It would be kind.
00:59:52All right, I'm coming.
01:00:06Yes.
01:00:07Messages for the colonel, sir.
01:00:09I see.
01:00:10Come with me.
01:00:17Excuse me, sir.
01:00:18Message, sir.
01:00:19Thank you, Mr. Webb.
01:00:24Go and get yourself something to eat, corporal.
01:00:26Thank you, sir.
01:00:28Gentlemen, your attention, please.
01:00:30The battalion will be moving into the line
01:00:32tomorrow morning at 0600 hours.
01:00:34We'll be reinforcing a battalion of the Munster Fusiliers.
01:00:38Captain Cartwright, would you ask all company commanders
01:00:40to come to my billet off to dinner at 2000 hours?
01:00:44Right, sir.
01:00:45Thank you, gentlemen.
01:00:46Captain Cartwright, would you ask all company commanders
01:00:48to come to my billet off to dinner at 2000 hours?
01:00:51Right, sir.
01:00:52Thank you, gentlemen.
01:01:16Thank you, gentlemen.
01:01:32Wilhelm.
01:01:39Mr. Evans.
01:01:41Uh...
01:01:43It's just that I'd like to thank you, sir.
01:01:46In case, uh...
01:01:49Well, you know, I expect I'll get put in military prison,
01:01:52you know, and, uh...
01:01:54In case I don't see you for a while.
01:01:59Well, we, uh...
01:02:01We don't know where you'll be put.
01:02:03If you're put anywhere.
01:02:06Well, anyway, sir, I would like to miss thanking you
01:02:09You've taught me a lot of things, sir, and I'm very grateful.
01:02:14Have I?
01:02:16Rather too late, I fear.
01:02:24All right, thank you.
01:02:27You, uh...
01:02:29You haven't heard anything, have you, sir?
01:02:32No.
01:02:34I mean, after what you said, I couldn't help but, uh...
01:02:37Well, it was the truth.
01:02:39That's why I'm trying to sign nearly everything you said.
01:02:42I couldn't ever have said it. You know what I mean, sir?
01:02:45It was my duty to say it.
01:02:47I don't know about that, sir.
01:02:49It was my duty.
01:02:51If you'd remembered your duty, none of this idiotic rigmarole would have been necessary.
01:02:56How did you get that into your head?
01:02:59Don't thank me for doing my duty.
01:03:02I had to.
01:03:03Maybe I had to.
01:03:08Just as you should have done yours.
01:03:14Yes, sir.
01:03:25It's not as if I haven't thought about it, sir.
01:03:28I have.
01:03:30I know what they could do to me.
01:03:33It's just that, sir...
01:03:35I wouldn't be thinking I stood a chance if it hadn't been for you.
01:03:43Prisoner, shut up!
01:03:47With your permission, sir.
01:03:52Private Hamp, AJ.
01:03:55Number 873426.
01:03:58It is my duty to inform you that the general officer commanding in chief
01:04:02has confirmed the sentence passed on you by the field general court-martial.
01:04:09You will suffer death by shooting on Thursday, October the 22nd at 0530 hours.
01:04:16When's that, sir?
01:04:21Tomorrow.
01:04:45Good night, sir.
01:05:15Good night, sir.
01:05:46More wine, Miss Lee.
01:05:48No, thank you, sir.
01:05:50More wine, Miss Lee?
01:06:13No, thank you, sir.
01:06:15Would you excuse me now, sir?
01:06:16Yes, of course.
01:06:17Thank you, sir.
01:06:18Thank you, sir.
01:06:41Some hake over there.
01:07:12We're short on ceremony, aren't we?
01:07:35Yes, sir.
01:07:39I had too much of that today.
01:07:45You know the verdict?
01:07:49Just now, huh?
01:07:56You've lost.
01:08:02We all lost.
01:08:03They're bloody murderers.
01:08:04Don't be idiotic, Charles.
01:08:10Pull yourself together.
01:08:11Pull yourself together.
01:08:12Pull yourself together.
01:08:13That's what they said to him today.
01:08:14Pull yourself together.
01:08:15You're talking like the bloody doctor.
01:08:16Aren't we rather overstepping?
01:08:17All right.
01:08:18All right.
01:08:19I'm sorry.
01:08:20But why?
01:08:47Actually why?
01:08:48Why?
01:08:49Wasn't it O'Sullivan's evidence?
01:08:54He's an idiot.
01:08:57Was it my offense?
01:09:00I did my best.
01:09:04Very eloquent, Charles.
01:09:06But nothing to do with the facts.
01:09:08Facts, facts, facts.
01:09:10Shoot that poor little bastard simply because he went for a walk.
01:09:13That's what it was, you know.
01:09:18It was a technical desertion, but it's just a bloody little walk, really.
01:09:25And you know it.
01:09:31Don't you?
01:09:33These facts.
01:09:35The Orbitallion moving up tomorrow.
01:09:38Important to maintain morale.
01:09:40Sentence of death to be carried out immediately.
01:09:45Oh, my God.
01:09:49Go on, Cory, share those thoughts, will you?
01:09:54Has it ever encouraged anyone?
01:09:57Discouraged anyone?
01:09:59Of course it has.
01:10:04Are you sure?
01:10:08No, not quite.
01:10:19Who's in charge tomorrow?
01:10:22Jack Webb.
01:10:24His man, his platoon, his mistake. Teach him a lesson.
01:10:28By the way, I've written an extra kin letter.
01:10:31Would you mind giving it to Webb as you go out?
01:10:38I'm sorry, sir.
01:10:40I'm afraid I can't.
01:10:42I'm afraid I can't.
01:10:44I'm afraid I can't.
01:10:46I'm afraid I can't.
01:10:48I'm afraid I can't.
01:11:06There's a porpoise crest behind me.
01:11:11And it's treading on my tail.
01:11:17Facts.
01:11:19When I'm buried and all my thoughts and acts
01:11:22will be reduced to lists of dates and facts,
01:11:25and long before this wandering flesh is rotten,
01:11:29the dates which made me will be all forgotten.
01:11:49Amp!
01:11:53Amp!
01:11:57Is that you, Cole?
01:11:58Aye.
01:11:59Now listen, Amp.
01:12:01Wilson and your lot,
01:12:02they've been nicking some room.
01:12:05Aye.
01:12:06We've got some of the good stuff, you know, mate.
01:12:09Figured if I had to booze up tonight, you know.
01:12:13Well, I thought you were going to say something.
01:12:15You get into trouble?
01:12:17Nah.
01:12:19Go with that man.
01:12:21All right.
01:12:22All right.
01:12:24Let some Red Goose go, dearie,
01:12:26but I'll tell you...
01:12:27Shut the door.
01:12:29...you'll think you're bats.
01:12:31Do you think you're bats?
01:12:33Come on.
01:12:34Give it to us.
01:12:36What's this for, then?
01:12:37Somebody's birthday?
01:12:39Shut up.
01:12:40What's this for, then?
01:12:42Somebody's birthday?
01:12:43Shut up.
01:12:44Shut up.
01:13:15Come on.
01:13:34Is he very religious?
01:13:36I don't think so.
01:13:38Official C of E, but...
01:13:40You'll be staying with him right through the night?
01:13:43Of course, if he's willing.
01:13:44Yes, well, I've laid on something
01:13:47which might prove just as useful.
01:13:49How does the idea strike you?
01:13:53It's not for me to say.
01:13:55Well, I've spoken to the C.O.
01:13:57It's left to his discretion, and he's left it to me.
01:14:07So...
01:14:08So...
01:14:10He said...
01:14:11He said, that man in bed with my wife...
01:14:15was me.
01:14:20Was me.
01:14:33There is no disgrace.
01:14:36No disgrace at all.
01:14:38You today, gone tomorrow.
01:14:41Well, it doesn't matter who kills you, does it?
01:14:45Well, you know, you...
01:14:47You've lived a long life, and...
01:14:49And you do.
01:14:52You rot in the mud, and that's that.
01:14:56It doesn't matter what anyone bloody well thinks about it, does it?
01:15:00Hey...
01:15:02We're all moving up soon.
01:15:04Hmm?
01:15:06We'll be in the same boat as you are.
01:15:10We'll all be rightful before long.
01:15:17That's a tricky bottle.
01:15:20Who's gonna get it?
01:15:25You'd think I was entitled to it.
01:15:36Oh, God.
01:15:38Oh, God.
01:15:39It's okay. It's okay.
01:15:45Oh, God. Oh, no.
01:15:52Aim for the heart.
01:15:53Aim for the bow. Aim for the pike.
01:15:54Aim for the miss.
01:15:55Aim for the moon.
01:15:56Aim for the cock.
01:15:57Fire!
01:16:01Oh, my God.
01:16:03Come on, Carl.
01:16:04Come on, Carl.
01:16:05Come on, Carl.
01:16:06Come on, Carl.
01:16:07Come on.
01:16:09Yes, man.
01:16:12Yes, man.
01:16:13Yes, man.
01:16:19Hey!
01:16:20Look out! The Padre!
01:16:24Come on.
01:16:34Come on.
01:16:43Give me the...
01:16:53Here, have a look.
01:17:04Where are you, you bastards?
01:17:11Come on.
01:17:34Will you let me try to help you?
01:17:38Do you want to talk to me?
01:17:42God decides when it's our turn to be taken to Him.
01:17:48Will you be absolved of your sins?
01:17:52My sins?
01:17:54My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord,
01:17:58nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him.
01:18:01For whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth,
01:18:04and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth.
01:18:08Our Lord Jesus Christ, who has left power to His church
01:18:11to absolve all sinners who truly repent
01:18:14and believe in Him of His great mercy,
01:18:17forgives thee thine offenses.
01:18:19And by His authority committed to me,
01:18:22I absolve thee from all thy sins.
01:18:25In the name of the Father, and of the Son,
01:18:29and of the Holy Ghost.
01:18:34We do not presume to come to this thy table, O merciful Lord,
01:18:38trusting in our own righteousness,
01:18:40but in thy manifold and great mercies.
01:18:43We are not worthy so much as to gather the crumbs
01:18:46from under thy table.
01:18:48But thou art the same Lord
01:18:50whose property is always to have mercy.
01:18:53Grant us, therefore, gracious Lord,
01:18:56to eat the flesh of thy dear Son, Jesus Christ,
01:18:59and to drink His blood,
01:19:01that our sinful bodies may be made clean by His body,
01:19:05and our souls washed through His most precious blood,
01:19:09and that we may evermore dwell in Him,
01:19:12and He in us.
01:19:14Amen.
01:19:16The body of our Lord Jesus Christ,
01:19:19which was given for thee.
01:19:37The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ,
01:19:40which was given for thee.
01:19:45The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ,
01:19:47which was shed for thee.
01:19:49Preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life.
01:20:15The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ,
01:20:18which was given for thee.
01:20:20The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ,
01:20:23which was shed for thee.
01:20:25Amen.
01:20:45All that's here is a few hours of bloody nothing.
01:21:45This ground will grow, will grow no more.
01:22:15What a cunt.
01:22:46Quick march, left, right, left, right, left, right, left, right, left, right, left.
01:22:52I'll cover you.
01:22:59Order, halt.
01:23:01Left turn.
01:23:04Make it up, make it up.
01:23:15Eyes guard, attention.
01:23:28Left, right, left, right, left, right, left.
01:23:32Hurry up.
01:23:45Squad, squad, halt.
01:23:52Standing, right.
01:23:56Front right, kneel.
01:24:00Turn.
01:24:06Fire.
01:24:15No.
01:24:46Isn't it finished yet?
01:24:54No, sir.
01:24:56I'm sorry.
01:25:15Hamp, 10 Gifford Street, Islington, London.
01:25:27Deeply regret to inform you, Private A.J. Hamp killed in action October 22nd.
01:25:32The Army Council expressed their sympathy.
01:25:35Secretary, War Office.
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