HAGLE DUMP CEMETERY
Private Walter Dossett
1st/4th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment, executed for desertion 25/06/1918 Private Dossett went absent from his Battalion, the 1/4th Battalion Yorks and Lancaster during the German Offensive in April 1918. The Courts Martial appears to have been on the 8th June 1918. On the 25th June the death sentence having been confirmed, Private Dossett was brought by ambulance to a rifle range near Vlamertinghe, he was bound in a chair, a blindfold applied and a piece of white paper pinned over his heart. The firing squad had been selected from machine gunners in 21 Division. |
Private George Ainley,
1st/4th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, executed for desertion 30/07/1918 Private Ainley had been tried on 28th January 1918 for a self inflicted wound but before the end of the Summer of 1918 he had deserted three times. The Courts Martial was apparently on the 13th July and was for the three offences of desertion. The Commanding Officer of the Battalion submitted a report for the Court; “Private Ainley appears to be lacking a sense of responsibility, and his military character in consequence is not good.” He was executed on the 30th July 1918 when he was 20 years of age and almost certainly a conscript originally from Sheffield. |
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