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He Was No Coward

He Was No Coward
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ISBN-10 : 1973170876
ISBN-13 : 9781973170877
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Book Synopsis He Was No Coward by : Janet Booth Janet Booth and James White

Download or read book He Was No Coward written by Janet Booth Janet Booth and James White and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Farr was born in north London in December 1890. His life ended while tied to a post, without a blindfold, shot to death by his fellow soldiers at the height of the First World War.In between, he served two years as a regular soldier before the war, fell in love, got married and became a father to baby Gertie, before spending two years on the Western Front with the West Yorkshire Regiment.Yet his service to his country was to end in disgrace when he was officially branded a coward and condemned to death despite showing signs of shell shock in what was to become the most infamous miscarriage of justice of the Great War.For years his tragic demise was kept quiet by his relatives, the shame of the circumstances echoing down the generations until his granddaughter Janet Booth discovered his fate in the 1980s.The shocking family secret, shared by Harry's wife Gertrude and confirmed by her mother Gertie, proved to be a catalyst for an extraordinary and ultimately successful campaign to pardon 306 British Empire soldiers who were executed for military offences in the First World War.The Shot At Dawn campaign - led in parliament by Labour MP Andrew MacKinlay but supported by hundreds of relatives, volunteers and enthusiasts - took almost 15 years to come to fruition.And it was Harry's case, taken by Gertie and Janet to the High Court, that proved to be the key to forcing a reluctant government and a hostile establishment into officially pardoning those who were executed for cowardice, desertion and throwing down of arms.The recognition that the Armed Forces had acted erratically and at times illegally in how cases were pursued and sentences handed down was a defining moment in the lives of Gertie and Janet.As direct descendants of the unfortunate private they felt as if a cloud had been removed - and the hurt of the untimely death of a good and kindly man could finally be allowed to recede.Here for the first time is the story of Harry's life, military service, trial and execution brought to life alongside the history of his descendants' fight for justice, featuring interviews with many key men and women in what was to be a drama played out in the national media.He Was No Coward: The Harry Farr Story reveals the reality of when ordinary people become part of something extraordinary - and how British history was changed forever.About the authorsJanet Booth is a retired secretary and the granddaughter of Private Harry Farr. She lives in Farnham, Surrey with her husband Jim to whom she has been married to for 53 years. They have two daughters and four grandchildren.James White is a news and sports journalist, currently working as Deputy Sports Editor for MailOnline. He met Janet while working as a senior reporter for the Harrow Observer, a local newspaper in north west London that campaigned with her.


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