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00:04:29Here dead lie we
00:04:41because we did not choose to live and shine the land from which we sprung.
00:04:48Life, after all, is nothing much to lose, though young men think it is.
00:04:54And we were young.
00:05:24And we were young men think it is.
00:05:54I think I'll get me a job in the sewer.
00:05:56Well, it's the same smell, the same company.
00:05:58The perfect soldier.
00:06:00Aye, the perfect soldier.
00:06:01Loved this country.
00:06:02Killed rats.
00:06:03Killed lice.
00:06:04Went without food.
00:06:05Without drink.
00:06:06Without drink.
00:06:07Without sleep.
00:06:12Went over the top.
00:06:13Killed the Kaiser.
00:06:14Won the war.
00:06:15Home again.
00:06:16Honorable discharge.
00:06:17Honorable discharge.
00:06:18Honorable discharge.
00:06:23And we had to do it.
00:06:24I've done it.
00:06:25And we had to do it.
00:06:30And we had to do it.
00:06:31Do you have anything?
00:06:40I suppose they think I've let them down, Corp.
00:06:42No.
00:06:45I reckon I'll get a fair trial.
00:06:48Aye.
00:06:50It'll come out all right.
00:06:51Aye, of course it'll come out all right.
00:07:01Well, I'm sorry this job has to be wished on you, Charles.
00:07:09It's not your fault.
00:07:10If we weren't moving up so soon, I suppose it could all be a bit more formal.
00:07:13That would make it all the more futile, wouldn't it?
00:07:15What? Well, he is on trial for his life.
00:07:18It doesn't make him original. We're all on trial for our lives.
00:07:20Only thing that makes him original is that he's failed.
00:07:22Failed as a man and as a soldier.
00:07:25Oh, bastard, things are wasted time.
00:07:27If a dog breaks its back,
00:07:29you don't sit around chatting all day, you're shooting.
00:07:31Excuse me, sir.
00:07:32Oh, yes, come on.
00:07:35What were you like as a child?
00:07:38The same.
00:07:40Is he in now?
00:07:41Yes, sir.
00:07:43Might I have a word with you, sir?
00:07:48He's no idea what could happen to him, sir.
00:07:50At least he don't give no sign of knowing.
00:07:53I suppose he's bound to know.
00:07:55He's bound to know what he did, he's bound to know what could happen to him.
00:07:57Have you been talking to him?
00:08:00Yes, sir, a bit.
00:08:02I know it's laid down we shouldn't.
00:08:05Shall I come, sir?
00:08:08Is it necessary?
00:08:10No, sir.
00:08:11No, sir.
00:08:25My name's Hargraves.
00:08:26Yes, sir, I know you, sir.
00:08:28Know you?
00:08:29Trawnswood, sir.
00:08:31Warland Court as well.
00:08:33How long have you been out here?
00:08:34Fourteen, sir.
00:08:36That's part of three years.
00:08:38You know, of course, that you're entitled to the help of a defending officer.
00:08:42Oh, yes, a soldier's friend.
00:08:44I suppose I can be as much used to as anybody else.
00:08:47Subject, of course, to your acceptance.
00:08:50Objections?
00:08:52Oh, no, sir. I'd like to thank you, sir.
00:08:55It's not as if you have to do it, sir.
00:08:56I don't see any good attention when you're speaking to your officer.
00:09:00Oh, I didn't think it mattered, didn't you, sir?
00:09:03Well, it does matter.
00:09:05Put yourself together, will you?
00:09:14Now, you're...
00:09:15Hamp, Arthur James, 873...
00:09:1773426, sir.
00:09:19Age?
00:09:2123, sir.
00:09:22Occupation?
00:09:24I'm a soldier, sir.
00:09:27I'm in civilian life.
00:09:29Oh, yeah.
00:09:30I had a trade, sir, bootmaker.
00:09:32Handmade boots, sir.
00:09:33I come from Islington.
00:09:35Do you know it, sir?
00:09:36Yes, sir.
00:09:37Yeah?
00:09:38Were you a cobbler all your life?
00:09:40Since I left school, sir.
00:09:42At what age?
00:09:43Twelve, sir.
00:09:44Started young, as they say.
00:09:46Were you a good one?
00:09:48Oh, yeah, yeah, a good cobbler, yeah.
00:09:50Me father and grandfather was cobblers before I was, so...
00:09:53Are you married?
00:09:54Yes, sir.
00:09:56Any children?
00:09:57Yes, sir.
00:09:58How many?
00:09:59One, sir.
00:10:00A little boy.
00:10:07Do you understand why I'm asking you these questions?
00:10:09You know best, sir.
00:10:13Right, stand at ease.
00:10:14Sir.
00:10:16I, er...
00:10:18I'd better ask you some questions about your...
00:10:21About your home life.
00:10:24Home life?
00:10:26Well, we...
00:10:28We never really had a proper home life, sir.
00:10:31We always lived with our mother.
00:10:33Did you?
00:10:35Were you on, er...
00:10:37Mr Dunstan?
00:10:38Oh, yes, sir.
00:10:40Were you on good terms with your wife?
00:10:42Yes, sir.
00:10:45There's somebody who said something to you, sir.
00:10:46Would you mind answering my question?
00:10:48About the wife?
00:10:49Yes.
00:10:55She's took up with somebody else.
00:10:58That's what I got told.
00:10:59Who told you?
00:11:00I got a letter.
00:11:02From a kind friend.
00:11:03Yeah, Len.
00:11:04I see.
00:11:05Len Wilson.
00:11:07He lives just a couple of doors away.
00:11:14That'll do for mitigating circumstances anyway.
00:11:16Sir?
00:11:19A reason.
00:11:20An understandable reason.
00:11:24Did you keep the letter?
00:11:25No, sir, I never thought.
00:11:29It's a pity.
00:11:32Did you, er...
00:11:34What did you...
00:11:36Did you mention this letter to anyone else?
00:11:38Yes, sir, I did.
00:11:39Yeah.
00:11:40Willie Bryson.
00:11:42Private Bryson in our platoon.
00:11:44Did you know him, sir?
00:11:45No, no, no.
00:11:46No, I didn't.
00:11:47I didn't know him.
00:11:48Oh.
00:11:49Yeah, he got killed.
00:11:50Here at Passion Day.
00:11:54Did this...
00:11:56Did this trouble with your wife have anything to do with the...
00:12:00With, er...
00:12:01With what you're accused of doing?
00:12:03Oh, I don't know.
00:12:04So I never thought of it.
00:12:05Do you reckon maybe it was a reason, even if I never thought of it?
00:12:08I don't know.
00:12:10That's for you to tell me.
00:12:12Ah.
00:12:16See.
00:12:20This kind of story is so often true that, er...
00:12:23Well, you could be lying.
00:12:25And I have to believe you before I can defend you.
00:12:27Do you understand that?
00:12:29You can believe me, sir.
00:12:34It'll come out all right, sir.
00:12:39Why did you volunteer?
00:12:41King and country.
00:12:43Sir.
00:12:47They dared me.
00:12:49Who dared you?
00:12:50The wife and her mother.
00:12:52They never thought I'd go.
00:12:53Yeah, I reckon it was that more than anything else.
00:12:56I wanted to surprise them.
00:12:58They got to surprise them all when I told them.
00:13:02And, of course, er...
00:13:04We didn't know what it was gonna be like, did we?
00:13:08Well, I didn't think about it too much, but I suppose...
00:13:12You reckon to yourself, in my kind of life,
00:13:14Well, it can't be much worse than this, you know.
00:13:17It's not you, sir, but...
00:13:19My sort and most of the lads.
00:13:22But we was wrong.
00:13:25Up there, we're...
00:13:27It's worse than anything, innit?
00:13:30It's no worse for you than anyone else.
00:13:32I know that, I know that.
00:13:34I'm only talking about it because you were asking me.
00:13:37All right.
00:13:39Go on.
00:13:41Well, when I volunteered, we didn't know any better, did we?
00:13:46What do you mean by that?
00:13:50Just a manner of speaking, sir.
00:13:53You'll have to learn to be careful of your manner of speaking.
00:13:56Yes, sir.
00:14:00Funny thing is...
00:14:02The fellas I come out with...
00:14:05Do you know, there's none of them left except me.
00:14:09Loose.
00:14:12Loose, that was the first one.
00:14:15Yeah, it was a long time, that one.
00:14:19Trowns Wood.
00:14:22Gommie Corp.
00:14:25Warland Court.
00:14:27Yeah.
00:14:29And now this one here.
00:14:32Passion died.
00:14:34Worse than anything.
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, they sent me back the next day.
00:15:03Course 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.
00:15:12Have you tried it?
00:15:13Oh, no, sir, no.
00:15:15Me and Willie, uh, Bryson, we was thinking of trying it once but we never did.
00:15:25It wasn't long after that that Willie's number came up.
00:15:34When here?
00:15:36Oh.
00:15:38Oh, sorry, I'm so sorry, sorry.
00:15:40I've got to go someplace.
00:15:43Corporal.
00:15:46Sir.
00:15:47Latrines.
00:15:48Yes, sir.
00:15:49Go on.
00:15:50Come on, Hutt.
00:15:52What will?
00:15:53Sergeant, get the rest of your platoon outside with their gear.
00:15:54Pretty lousy.
00:15:55Yes, sir.
00:15:56Out.
00:15:57Right, sir.
00:15:58The platoon out, pretty lousy.
00:16:00All out, pretty lousy.
00:16:02Come on.
00:16:04Come on.
00:16:05Come on.
00:16:07Come on, outside with your gear.
00:16:08Pretty lousy.
00:16:09Come on, out.
00:16:10Right, sir.
00:16:11The platoon out, pretty lousy.
00:16:13All out, pretty lousy.
00:16:15Come on.
00:16:20Come on outside with your lousy.
00:16:22Outside with all your gear.
00:16:24Pretty lousy.
00:16:25Come on, out.
00:16:29Captain Hargreaves, prisoner's friend.
00:16:31Prisoner's friend.
00:16:32Prisoner's friend.
00:16:33Fair trial.
00:16:34Fair trial and a quick death.
00:16:35Very funny.
00:16:38Didn't you think it was funny?
00:16:39Not funny if you're in hampshoes.
00:16:59Ready, sir.
00:17:01I told you he was a strange one, sir.
00:17:06Attend to that, will you?
00:17:12I wouldn't be in hampshoes.
00:17:14If l'd done it,
00:17:16I wouldn't have got caught.
00:17:19Right, get your picks and chumles!
00:17:21I've got a job for you!
00:17:22First to hang in, man.
00:17:23He's good.
00:17:28Oh, God.
00:17:29First to hang in.
00:17:31Hang in by one.
00:17:39Thanks for the smoke, sir.
00:17:40Did you expect to get away with it?
00:17:51Well, l-l-l wasn't really thinking about it, sir.
00:17:55One way or the other.
00:17:57I just couldn't stand it anymore.
00:18:00Won't the first time, sir.
00:18:01What?
00:18:02Well, l-l-l nearly did it once before.
00:18:05I mean, l-l-l thought of it.
00:18:07Time of war and court.
00:18:10I got sent back on a water party.
00:18:12l-l was thinking they'd get away,
00:18:13but an MP got his eye on me, so l-l-l didn't.
00:18:18And that was all?
00:18:19Yes, sir.
00:18:21Supposing the others had, uh, cleared off
00:18:23and left you on your own at Luce or Thrones Wood?
00:18:29I don't think it could have been much worse, sir.
00:18:34Fine, well, forget about that.
00:18:36Now, tell me about the, uh, well, the last time,
00:18:39the time you said you couldn't stand it anymore.
00:18:40What about that?
00:18:43Well, the time this really started going in my head.
00:18:47l got blown into a shell-out.
00:18:48Uh, two of the lads pulled me out with their rifles.
00:18:53Well, l-l-l-I'd seen it happen to a bloke a couple of days before.
00:18:57He-he slipped off the duckboards into the hole.
00:19:00You see, and he-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, l-l-l didn't help him. Nobody did. It's laid down.
00:19:09So, of course, l-l-l-when l-l gets in the mud, l-l thought that was my lot.
00:19:12See, l-l-l kind of drown in it like he did.
00:19:15S-s-sucked into it, fighting it, drowning in it.
00:19:17Oh, after that, l-l couldn't stand it anymore.
00:19:21But the battalion was relieved.
00:19:26You came back here for a rest.
00:19:28Yes, sir.
00:19:30And you waited ten days until you went.
00:19:33Yes, sir.
00:19:35Why?
00:19:37Like l said, sir, l-l can't say anything different. l-l couldn't stand it anymore.
00:19:40What, even out of battle?
00:19:41It didn't matter where l was, the only place l could hear guns.
00:19:45That's never the only way you can't hear them.
00:19:46Yes, sir.
00:19:48I mean, Mr. Webb, he knew, he knew.
00:19:51He gave me extra rum.
00:19:53Did you say anything to him about it?
00:19:55Oh, not much. There's nothing l could expect a gentleman in his position to do, except what he did.
00:20:00Give him the extra rum.
00:20:02It wouldn't have made any difference to what l did on you.
00:20:04I wasn't going to go back.
00:20:07You mean you planned it?
00:20:10No, sir, no.
00:20:11l-l didn't have a plan. l haven't got the sense, have l?
00:20:14Maybe one time l would have had the sense, but, er...
00:20:18Not, er...
00:20:20No, it was like being dead, sir.
00:20:23And why did you wait ten days?
00:20:25Oh, I don't know, sir. l didn't have a plan.
00:20:28l-l went to the MR that time, yeah.
00:20:31And what did Dr. O'Sullivan say to you?
00:20:34He gave me a number nine, sir, for me bowels.
00:20:37I spit it out when he wasn't looking.
00:20:39Maybe there was some sort of medicine would have helped me,
00:20:42but one thing l 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 l've got cold feet, sir.
00:20:49He said l was a soldier and l should be a bloody soldier.
00:20:52Mind you, l...
00:20:54l didn't expect any different.
00:20:55l didn't expect him to say anything, except what he did.
00:20:59And why did you go?
00:21:00Well, l thought he might have given me some sort of tonic,
00:21:03something to...
00:21:05stop me diarrhoea, erm...
00:21:08stop me shaking, help me sleep.
00:21:10l wouldn't have made any difference to what l did, l knew l wasn't gonna go back up the line.
00:21:15Did you know that l was going back into the line before you went?
00:21:18Yes, sir.
00:21:20Is that what finally decided you?
00:21:23No, sir.
00:21:24Then what did decide you?
00:21:26l don't know, l just...
00:21:28l just started walking.
00:21:30Walking away from the guns.
00:21:33Did you know where you were walking to?
00:21:34No, no.
00:21:37After l got a few miles away from the guns, l got it into my head that l was making for Al.
00:21:42Islington, you know.
00:21:44Al?
00:21:45It didn't make any sense, but that's what l had got in my head.
00:21:53I must have walked a long way, cos l remember.
00:21:56l took me boots off and me big towel was bleeding.
00:22:01Then l was in a cart sitting on some potatoes.
00:22:05Then l was in a train.
00:22:07And some fellas was playing cards.
00:22:11And l was walking again.
00:22:14And l was talking to this priest.
00:22:18But he was foreign. l didn't know what he was talking about.
00:22:22It was like a dream, sir. l didn't know what was really happening or what wasn't.
00:22:28l weren'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...
00:22:39l hide in ditches and things too?
00:22:42Avoid them?
00:22:44Oh, no, sir. No, no.
00:22:46Did they say anything to you when they arrested you?
00:22:49Well, just about me being a deserter, and l heard one of them sign to the other about it being a shooting job.
00:22:59Nothing else.
00:23:01You see, there's nobody left in that company that's been out here as long as me, sir.
00:23:05He can't shoot me.
00:23:08lt's likely that you'll be found guilty of desertion.
00:23:12And l'd be fearing in my duty if l left the least shadow of doubt in your mind as to the consequences.
00:23:16Well, l don't reckon l'll get off, sir, but they can't shoot me.
00:23:20Unless l can convince the court that you were acting under extraordinary strain at the time that you committed this crime,
00:23:25you'll almost certainly be sentenced to death.
00:23:30That's for the first time, sir.
00:23:33Mr. Webb, sir, he said l 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, l thought that was worth mentioning, sir.
00:23:43Do you think of anything else that's worth mentioning?
00:23:48No, sir, no.
00:23:51Did l tell you about Willie?
00:23:52Bryson, oh, yes, you'll tell me about the letter.
00:23:55Well, about when Willie was killed.
00:23:58Well, you'll tell me that he'd been killed.
00:24:00Well, l don't know if you can tell him about something like that.
00:24:05Well, it's important for you to tell me.
00:24:07Well, see, l was alongside of him when it happened.
00:24:11Same as many a time before, five, six yards away.
00:24:16lt wasn't the first time l'd seen a man blunt a bit, of course.
00:24:19lt 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.
00:24:26But that's all, I mean, nothing special.
00:24:29One thing about Willie, it was quick.
00:24:31See, l never saw it.
00:24:32l'm five or six yards away, turns around,
00:24:35and now Willie's nowhere except over me.
00:24:40l'll tell you, l had to get me a new uniform.
00:24:42This is a question that l may have to ask you in court, sir.
00:24:53l might as well 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?
00:25:06l'll try my best, sir.
00:25:07l don't mean that.
00:25:10Could you be relied on to go up the line and stay up the line?
00:25:17l mean that exactly, nothing less.
00:25:22Do you understand me?
00:25:24Yes, sir.
00:25:26Well...
00:25:28Do l have to tell you the truth, sir?
00:25:31Could you?
00:25:33Can you tell me, sir?
00:25:34Can you tell me, anyway, of being sure?
00:25:39Can you tell me anyway, of being sure?
00:26:04Well, the prisoner's ready, sir.
00:26:06It shouldn't take long, sir.
00:26:08It's a bad business.
00:26:10Who's in charge of the, uh, maker formalities, sir?
00:26:12One thing at a time, Sergeant Major.
00:26:14Yes, sir.
00:26:16Well, the prisoner's ready, sir.
00:26:18It shouldn't take long, sir.
00:26:20It's a bad business.
00:26:22Who's in charge of the, uh, maker formalities, sir?
00:26:25One thing at a time, Sergeant Major.
00:26:27Yes, sir.
00:26:45You're right, sir.
00:26:46You're right, sir.
00:27:00All right, sir.
00:27:02Give us a hand with this.
00:27:04What is it?
00:27:05Horse or mule?
00:27:07In ing.
00:27:08If we was left to ourselves, now we'd all be open in bed, haven't we?
00:27:15Yeah, but I didn't say anything about that.
00:27:17How would we? You can't win a war lying in bed, can you?
00:27:20No, but... So you do what you're told.
00:27:25It doesn't make sense. That's not our fault, is it?
00:27:29Keep an eye open, cop. Pity to waste it on that lot.
00:27:32Where's the best bit? This bit. Chopper.
00:27:38Knife.
00:27:44Mmm, fix it.
00:27:50Right. Well, now we'll see what we can do for our officers.
00:27:55How's Ham?
00:27:58I'd have got him all spruced up, like for his wedding. Cut himself shaving, of course.
00:28:03How?
00:28:04Well, if they shoot him, we won't have to bury him. We just push him over and watch him sink.
00:28:08They won't do it.
00:28:09Are you ready to go, sir?
00:28:11Yes.
00:28:12No.
00:28:13I think he's at it.
00:28:14I'm afraid he's at it, isn't he?
00:28:15No.
00:28:16Yeah!
00:28:17Yeah!
00:28:23Are you going to get the silly bastard off, do you think?
00:28:27You think so?
00:28:28I hope he's right.
00:28:31He'll certainly do my best.
00:28:32Oh, don't misunderstand me. My interest is purely personal. I don't want my menus as a firing squad.
00:28:36And I certainly don't want to be the judge of bloody sabre and has to shout fire.
00:28:41Why you?
00:28:42Oh, I'm number one on the Colonel's sweat list at the moment.
00:28:45Oh, I see.
00:28:46Well, when it comes to my turn, I'll purge myself from the man if you like.
00:28:50Truth will do.
00:28:52Good luck, my learnedy friend.
00:28:54Good luck, my friend.
00:28:55Oh, we're right!
00:28:56Yeah, boys!
00:28:57Go!
00:28:58Come on, come on!
00:28:59Come on, come on!
00:29:00Take it!
00:29:01There we are!
00:29:02I'm out time!
00:29:03Princess Gordon!
00:29:04Halt!
00:29:05We're right turn!
00:29:06I am Pabble!
00:29:07I am Pabble!
00:29:08Come on!
00:29:09Princess Gordon!
00:29:10Halt!
00:29:11We're right turn!
00:29:12I am Pabble!
00:29:13Come on!
00:29:15I am Pabble!
00:29:24Come on!
00:29:25Come on!
00:29:26geben Guardìš”.
00:29:27That's good!
00:29:28erneman.
00:29:29Quick march!
00:29:30Yes!
00:29:31I'm coming!
00:29:32scherrly lead!
00:29:33Jump!
00:29:34links!
00:29:47Won't we go?
00:29:48Mach for it!
00:29:49Wil there!
00:29:50For me, inns carers
00:29:52Halt!
00:29:54Yes, sir!
00:29:58873426, Private Hamp, sir!
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 873426, Private Hamp, Arthur James,
00:30:13soldier of the regular forces.
00:30:15You'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?
00:30:41Not guilty, sir.
00:30:42Speed up.
00:30:44Not guilty, sir.
00:30:46Very 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
00:30:57you'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 Hamp.
00:31:09I've, uh, I've spoken to Captain Midgley,
00:31:11and we've agreed that I won't steal the facts of the case.
00:31:14So all the witnesses will be called by the defence.
00:31:16Good.
00:31:17That will 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.
00:31:45I realise that, sir, fully. I assure you.
00:31:49Are you ready for your first witness?
00:31:51Yes, sir.
00:31:56Call Corporal Hamilton.
00:31:58Corporal Hamilton!
00:31:59Sir!
00:32:00Hold the book in your right hand.
00:32:08I swear by Almighty God
00:32:09that the evidence I fulfill before this court
00:32:11shall be the truth, the whole truth
00:32:13and nothing but the truth.
00:32:14I swear by Almighty God
00:32:15that the evidence I should give before this court
00:32:17shall be the truth, the whole truth
00:32:18and nothing but the truth.
00:32:20Corporal Hamilton, I believe that you apprehended the prisoner.
00:32:22Yes, sir.
00:32:22What did he say to you?
00:32:23Not much, sir.
00:32:25Only, uh,
00:32:27Well, he tried to tell us he was gonna leave, of course.
00:32:29A soldier going on leave is required to carry with him a full pack and equipment, is 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 of getting on board a leave ship in that go, would he?
00:32:43No, sir.
00:32:44Rather a silly story, wasn't he?
00:32:46Yes, sir.
00:32:48And how do you account for it?
00:32:50Well, sir, he could have, for all I know, he could have been just stupid.
00:32:59No, no.
00:33:00How did you get it all wrong?
00:33:04No, you see what it was?
00:33:06It was just a dream.
00:33:08It was just a dream.
00:33:14Why?
00:33:15Sure not.
00:33:16This sort of sex.
00:33:18You can't stop her.
00:33:20Oh, just, um...
00:33:22Gives us a day off, though, doesn't it?
00:33:24Yes, sir.
00:33:25Ahhhhh.
00:33:26Come on.
00:33:27Come on.
00:33:28Don't, the Lord.
00:33:29Come on.
00:33:30Come on, come on.
00:33:31Hey.
00:33:32Hey.
00:33:33Hey.
00:33:34Hey.
00:33:35Hey.
00:33:36Come on!
00:33:44I'm not going up to the front and leave that bloody bastard behind me alive.
00:33:48Hey.
00:33:49Hold on.
00:33:50Bloody, bloody...
00:33:51Come on, let him on.
00:33:52Let him go.
00:33:53There it is!
00:33:58Corporal Hamilton, I presume that during the course of your duty,
00:34:01you have arrested other deserters,
00:34:03other men who have sent themselves from service.
00:34:06Yes, sir. Quite a few, sir.
00:34:07Did any of them behave in the same way as this prisoner?
00:34:10Much the same, sir.
00:34:11In particular, did some of them, to use your own words,
00:34:13did some of them appear to you to be stupid
00:34:15or behaving as if in a daze?
00:34:18Yes, sir, I suppose, sir.
00:34:20In 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 Papa Ringe and that.
00:34:42Perhaps he wasn't quite as simple as he seemed.
00:34:44No, sir, I didn't mean that.
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.
00:35:05Look at that.
00:35:06There must be dozens of them in there.
00:35:08And to full to be nippy.
00:35:10Shall I jump on it?
00:35:11No.
00:35:12No.
00:35:26Right.
00:35:27When I say no, thump the belly.
00:35:31No!
00:35:32No!
00:35:33No!
00:35:40Captain O'Sullivan, do you remember the prisoner reporting sick to you
00:35:43on or about October the 8th of this year?
00:35:45On the 7th, yes.
00:35:47I looked it up.
00:35:48And what did he complain?
00:35:52I remember quite clearly.
00:35:54He complained of nerves.
00:35:56Nerves?
00:35:57He didn't tell you that he was finding it impossible to sleep?
00:36:00He may have.
00:36:01Yes, I believe he did.
00:36:02But you didn't take this very seriously?
00:36:04No.
00:36:05It's not uncommon.
00:36:06It certainly isn't uncommon for me to be told such things.
00:36:09You mean you didn't believe him?
00:36:11No, I didn't say that.
00:36:12Every medical officer hears this kind of thing five or six times a day.
00:36:16Did you believe this man?
00:36:18No.
00:36:23Why not?
00:36:25Seems a permissible question.
00:36:27Why not?
00:36:28Why didn't you believe him when he said he couldn't sleep?
00:36:30I didn't say I didn't believe that.
00:36:33Very well.
00:36:35Of what other symptoms did he complain?
00:36:37He said he was off of food.
00:36:38He said he was feeling a bit shaky.
00:36:40Shaky.
00:36:41Uncontrollable bouts of trembling?
00:36:44I don't know about uncontrollable.
00:36:46You don't know about it, but did you bother to find out?
00:36:49Are you challenging my competence?
00:36:51I don't want to interfere with your defense, Captain Hargraves,
00:36:53but must you attack the witness?
00:36:55It's not Captain O'Sullivan's competence which is at stake, sir.
00:36:59It's this man's life.
00:37:01You said you didn't believe him.
00:37:03What didn't you believe?
00:37:04Oh, damn it, Charlie. I knew what he was after.
00:37:06Did this man lie to you? And if so, what did he say?
00:37:08I knew what he wanted, to be sent down the line.
00:37:11Did he say so?
00:37:13Did he what?
00:37:14Did 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 him?
00:37:31Five minutes, ten minutes.
00:37:33And after that, you lost interest in the man?
00:37:35What do you expect me to do?
00:37:36I 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?
00:37:47Experience.
00:37:48My own judgment, of course, experience.
00:37:56And you usually prescribe the same treatment?
00:37:59More or less, more or less.
00:38:02Laxity pills.
00:38:03A good clean-up, never hurt anybody.
00:38:05Is that the only relief you can offer a man, laxity pills?
00:38:08I'll prescribe one for you in a minute.
00:38:11Captain O'Sullivan.
00:38:13Were laxity 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?
00:38:21What did you say?
00:38:23I talked to him man to man.
00:38:24I 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.
00:38:31I told 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 diagnosis, it is.
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 before which he is not suffering from shell shock,
00:39:04and 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
00:39:16to pull himself together, or on the other he cannot,
00:39:20is liable to be shot as a criminal, is there?
00:39:24This has nothing whatever to do with what we're all here for!
00:39:27I must say, 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.
00:39:55Does the term shell shock have an exact medical meaning?
00:40:01Yes, of course it has.
00:40:03And a five or ten minute examination is quite sufficient time, in your estimation,
00:40:08to judge whether a man is or is not suffering from shell shock.
00:40:11It is not my job to maintain a bedroom!
00:40:14God knows you of all people should realize I've got no time for such rubbish!
00:40:18Do you expect me to leave wounded soldiers to die while I cross-question cowards?
00:40:23What I'm asking is, is there not a borderline...
00:40:27This was not a borderline case!
00:40:28This was not a borderline case of anything!
00:40:30How many times have I got to tell you?
00:40:32This was a case of cold feet!
00:40:34Thank miserable punk!
00:40:35Nothing more or less!
00:40:37Are you sure?
00:40:38Yes!
00:40:39I ask you most earnestly...
00:40:53Are you absolutely sure of that?
00:40:56How could a man responsible for his actions do such a hopeless, desperately stupid thing as this man?
00:41:07When they found him, he was trying to walk home to England!
00:41:15He might just as well have tried to clear a German trench single-handed.
00:41:26Is it not obvious to you...
00:41:30that this man had lost possession of himself?
00:41:36I've made your point, Captain Hargraves.
00:41:38Have you any more questions for Captain O'Sullivan?
00:41:42No, sir.
00:41:53Captain Midgley!
00:41:54Yes, sir, if you please.
00:41:57Captain O'Sullivan, have any of the defending officer's questions altered the conclusion you came to about the prisoner when he reported to you on October the 7th?
00:42:05No, not in the slightest.
00:42:07In view of the speculation we have heard, will you now tell the court, in your own words, what that conclusion was?
00:42:14Yes.
00:42:15I found the prisoner fit for duty, provided he was kept under discipline and discouraged from malingering.
00:42:19And there's nothing you wish to add to your judgment now by way of qualification?
00:42:24Nothing whatever.
00:42:26He's proved me right, hasn't he, and that's all there is to say about it.
00:42:29He did turn and run, didn't he?
00:42:31Thank you, Captain O'Sullivan.
00:42:32Were you in the area between our billet and the cookhouse at 1500 hours today?
00:42:45Yes, he admits he was in the area between our billet and the cookhouse at 1500 hours today.
00:42:51Right, did you or did you not call up to Private Sparrow and take a bite out of his ear hole?
00:42:56No, he did not call up to Private Sparrow and take the bite out of his ear hole.
00:43:04Right, and one last question.
00:43:06If you had been in our billet today, would you have done a thing like that?
00:43:11No, he's not that sort of rat.
00:43:18Captain Minchley, would you like to cross-examine the accused?
00:43:27You'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 who needs dead flesh, why?
00:43:53When all the other rats were coming out of the front end, what were you doing coming out of the back end?
00:44:00Hmm?
00:44:05He's crying.
00:44:12And after that, his nerve had gone.
00:44:14Absolutely.
00:44:16I imagine that there were others of your men in a similar condition at that time, were there not?
00:44:20Well, he must have been in a worse way than the others, sir.
00:44:23But we don't know that he was in any worse condition than his comrades.
00:44:26We 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.
00:44:32Continue.
00:44:33Was the prisoner popular in his platoon?
00:44:35Oh, yes.
00:44:37He always shared anything he had.
00:44:39And he's the nearest we've got left now to have found a member, of course.
00:44:43And he...
00:44:45Yes?
00:44:46Well, I was just going to say...
00:44:49I don't suppose it matters, but...
00:44:52He brewed a damn good cup of tea.
00:44:57Was he a good soldier before this happened?
00:44:59First class.
00:45:02Near enough.
00:45:03Not a born soldier, but first class.
00:45:05And you were surprised when you heard that he, uh, absconded.
00:45:07Oh, yes, I was.
00:45:08From what you know of him,
00:45:10do you believe that he'd have to be a little unhinged to do what he did?
00:45:15Yes.
00:45:16I do.
00:45:19No more questions, sir.
00:45:20Captain Midgley?
00:45:21First class soldier.
00:45:22Yes.
00:45:23His record is singularly blank.
00:45:24Neither good nor bad.
00:45:25His principal talent as a soldier seems to be in staying alive.
00:45:31Well, surely we're not trying man for staying alive, are we?
00:45:34The war hasn't got to that stage, has it?
00:45:35Mr. Webb.
00:45:37Hargrave's here.
00:45:38He's the 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.
00:45:53I mean, if you had, it surely would have been your duty to 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, in his mind, even if I didn't see it beforehand.
00:46:08And you offered any evidence that he was?
00:46:11He'd had a bad time.
00:46:14Well, I mean, I don't blame him. We all get the wind up sometimes.
00:46:16But sometimes, I'd much prefer a man to broke the forehand rather than crack up under fire,
00:46:20it endangers the whole platoon.
00:46:23Mr. Webb.
00:46:25Isn't it true to say, however much we may regret it, and however much we may sympathize,
00:46:29isn't it true to say that this man simply allowed his fear to become his master?
00:46:34There's more in it than that.
00:46:36I ask you again.
00:46:38Can you recall any evidence to support what you said?
00:46:42I've said what I believe.
00:46:44Thank you, Mr. Webb. No more questions, thank you, sir.
00:46:48Very well.
00:46:49Very well.
00:47:20Got it!
00:47:22Got it!
00:47:24Broke it!
00:47:25Bloody back!
00:47:32This is how a devil's got out of me legs, see?
00:47:35He's pulling me down.
00:47:37I'm not even wounded.
00:47:38I'm not even wounded, and I'm gonna get drowned in the mud.
00:47:41Oh, something had it in for me, I knew that.
00:47:44This idea that the devil was after you,
00:47:47did it stay in your mind after you'd been rescued from the mud?
00:47:51Oh, not in the same way, sir, no.
00:47:53No.
00:47:54So it wasn't the devil?
00:47:56Why did you run away?
00:47:57I didn't run, sir.
00:47:58I walked.
00:47:59I just started walking.
00:48:01I don't know why.
00:48:05It's not true to say, is it,
00:48:08that you deliberately decided to deserve it?
00:48:11That you deliberately decided,
00:48:14and hoped to get away with it?
00:48:15Well, I wasn't really thinking about it, sir.
00:48:16No, I know you weren't thinking about it.
00:48:17No, I was hoping that you wouldn't get me caught, sir.
00:48:19But you really weren't...
00:48:21You weren't clearly thinking of anything at the time, were you?
00:48:25I just wanted to get away from the guns, sir.
00:48:28Had you any idea where you were going?
00:48:32No, sir, not really.
00:48:34I just wanted to get left alone for a bit, I saw.
00:48:37Private Ham, you say you wanted to be left alone for a bit.
00:48:40Does that mean that you intended to return to the battalion?
00:48:46I don't know, sir.
00:48:47That's because you don't remember anything very clearly, is it?
00:48:49That's right, sir, yeah.
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 hurt myself.
00:48:59Well, like you told me to say, sir, I was acting under extraordinary strength.
00:49:11All right.
00:49:13I 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 them, sir.
00:49:22You know more about it than me.
00:49:25All right.
00:49:27Any more questions, Captain Hargraves?
00:49:31Captain Midgley.
00:49:33Private Ham.
00:49:35Did you know you were doing wrong when you deserted?
00:49:38If anybody tried to stop me, I'd have just died, sir.
00:49:40Oh, didn't you wait till you made sure that there was nobody there to stop you?
00:49:43No.
00:49:45Well, I think I was just lucky, sir.
00:49:47Very 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 to stay with your battalion.
00:49:57Yes, sir.
00:49:58And you must have been very well aware of that all the time that you were absent.
00:50:02From the first moment that you decided to... decided to leave.
00:50:07I... I don't know, sir.
00:50:09You 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 so, I was lucky.
00:50:16Well, let me put this to you quite simply.
00:50:20Did you know what you were doing?
00:50:23I... I knew what I was doing, sir.
00:50:25And you realised that you were leaving your comrades at their posts who 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.
00:50:35This was the first time.
00:50:37No more questions, sir.
00:50:43That'll do, Private Hampton.
00:50:55Captain Hargast, will you address the court now on the prisoner's behalf?
00:50:59No, sir.
00:51:01I will address the court on its behalf.
00:51:05The prisoner, when he did the thing for which he's being tried, was no longer responsible for his actions.
00:51:12This 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.
00:51:21Private Hampton is not a liar.
00:51:30He's not glib.
00:51:31He has no ready answers.
00:51:33He has an embarrassing honesty which made him a bad witness in his own case.
00:51:37He could have put a bullet through his leg and suffered nothing more serious than a terrible imprisonment.
00:51:42He even told me that he thought of doing so.
00:51:45But he didn't.
00:51:47He stayed.
00:51:48A deserter, in full consciousness of what he's doing, runs away to save his own skin and leaves his fellows to do the fighting and the dying for him.
00:52:00This 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.
00:52:11He volunteered.
00:52:13He's been out here for three years, longer if I may say so, than some of us have been.
00:52:18Never seen it all.
00:52:20A man can only take so much.
00:52:24So much blood.
00:52:27So much filth.
00:52:28So much dying.
00:52:32In the show 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.
00:52:57They've become a fact of our daily lives.
00:52:59So much so that we no longer ask each other why they're being fired.
00:53:04Is this war so old?
00:53:08And are we so old in it that we've forgotten it?
00:53:12Are we not fighting to preserve some notion of decency?
00:53:21Some notion of justice?
00:53:24To preserve for this court the right to choose?
00:53:28I beg to remind the court that if justice is not done to one man,
00:53:43then other men are dying for nothing.
00:53:58It's a matter of opinion.
00:54:16Mr. Prescott, will you as our legal member advise the court on the law?
00:54:21Mr. Prescott.
00:54:22The court will remember that this soldier takes the law of England with him wherever he goes.
00:54:31And he is protected by it.
00:54:34The accused does not have to prove himself innocent.
00:54:37The prosecution must prove him guilty.
00:54:39And if the members of the court have any reasonable doubt,
00:54:42but it mustn't be a fanciful doubt,
00:54:45they must give him the benefit of it.
00:54:48You've had before you the opinion of a daily medical officer,
00:54:50which is that at the time the prisoner left the battalion,
00:54:54he was fit for duty and was not shell-shocked,
00:54:57but only suffering from what the doctor described as cold feet.
00:55:02You mustn't be unduly swayed by the eloquence of the defending officer,
00:55:06who has quite properly made out the best case he can.
00:55:09If you doubt that the prisoner really meant to deserve,
00:55:13and you believe that he merely went absent without leave
00:55:15and intended to return after a few days,
00:55:18you will give a verdict accordingly.
00:55:20On the other hand, if you are satisfied that the prisoner really deserves it,
00:55:24it is your duty to find him guilty.
00:55:28As to the stress the defending officer laid upon the prisoner being a volunteer,
00:55:33neither must you be unduly swayed by that.
00:55:35The army is now composed of regulars, of volunteers, and of conscripts,
00:55:41and one law applies to them all.
00:55:44And it is the court's duty to administer the law as it stands.
00:55:54We will proceed immediately to our discussion of the case.
00:55:56Captain Hargraves.
00:56:05Escort! For the rival prisoner!
00:56:08President Escort!
00:56:09Left turn!
00:56:11Quick march! Here we are!
00:56:13Left right! Left right!
00:56:26Left right!
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.
00:56:41But you know, a proper court is concerned with law.
00:56:43It's a bit amateur to plead for justice.
00:56:45What do you want now, then?
00:56:57Have you seen my rifle caught?
00:57:00Now, why would you be wanting that?
00:57:03Well, I just thought I might give it a clean, you know.
00:57:06Something to do.
00:57:07The way they do the court-martial, it could be anybody, you know.
00:57:12I kept forgetting how he was talking about me.
00:57:17Oh, Mr. Hargraves, he gave him a lovely speech.
00:57:21This man is not a deserter.
00:57:30Well...
00:57:32You've been twice since you got back already.
00:57:34Yeah, it's not my fault, is it?
00:57:35I'll do this.
00:57:36Right, go on!
00:57:37Compromise!
00:57:40Right, Will!
00:57:48Help yourself, Mr. Morris.
00:57:53Stand easy, Mr. Prescott.
00:57:55Um, Mr. Morris wishes to know whether we can find the prisoner guilty
00:57:59and recommend mercy.
00:58:01Well, yes, sir, you may.
00:58:02And you may either confirm the sentence yourself
00:58:06or send it to higher authority for confirmation.
00:58:09I see.
00:58:10Mr. Prescott.
00:58:11Never mind.
00:58:13Uh, would you help, Captain Cartwright, prepare a finding?
00:58:16Uh, guilty of desertion, but, uh, emphasize good conduct, length of service, that kind of thing.
00:58:22But don't put in anything about mental health.
00:58:24They're not interested in that sort of thing at headquarters.
00:58:26When you're finished, have it read to the prisoner, and then send it off for confirmation.
00:58:31Right, gentlemen.
00:58:32Oh, my God.
00:58:33We won't know anything for a bit yet.
00:58:37It's got to go to the generals on that lot.
00:58:38The
00:58:52He won't know anything for a bit yet. He's got to go to the generals on that lot.
00:58:56It'd be a week then. They're all pinned down in Paris, you know.
00:59:00What's Amp thinking, I wonder?
00:59:01He's got any sense. He's not thinking.
00:59:04Whatever happens, he's knocking up the line again.
00:59:05Do you know what he said when he got back? They're taking a lot of trouble over me.
00:59:08He was bloody honored, he does.
00:59:10Yes, they're taking 24 hours to kill him, Charlie. Wouldn't take that long, eh?
00:59:14He'll get the gloves house.
00:59:16Captain Hargleeve, sir. Yes?
00:59:34I don't know whether he's allowed, sir, but he says he'd like to see you.
00:59:38Who? Private Hump, sir.
00:59:41Would that be legal, Mr. Prescott?
00:59:44Well, I'm afraid it'd be highly irregular, sir.
00:59:47It would be kind.
00:59:51All right, I'm coming.
01:00:05Yes, messages for the Colonel, sir.
01:00:08I see. Come with me.
01:00:14Excuse me, sir. Message, sir.
01:00:17Thank you, Mr. Webb.
01:00:23Go and get yourself something to eat, Corporal.
01:00:25Thank you, sir.
01:00:33Gentlemen, your attention, please.
01:00:35The battalion will be moving into the line tomorrow morning at 0600 hours.
01:00:39We will be reinforcing a battalion of the Munster Fusiliers.
01:00:43Captain Cartwright, would you ask all company commanders
01:00:45to come to my billet after dinner at, er, 20 hundred hours?
01:00:48Right, sir.
01:00:49Thank you, gentlemen.
01:00:50Thank you, gentlemen.
01:01:20Thank you, sir.
01:01:22Thank you, sir.
01:01:23Thank you, sir.
01:01:25You're welcome, Mr. Belfast.
01:01:27Thank you, sir.
01:01:28Well, have?
01:01:29Thank you, sir.
01:01:30Thank you, sir.
01:01:31Well, have?
01:01:32Uh, it's just that I'd like to thank you, sir, uh, in case, uh, well, you know, I expect
01:01:51I'll get put in military prison, you know, and, uh, in case I, I don't see you for a
01:01:57while. Well, we, uh, we don't know where you would be put, if you're put anywhere. Well, anyway, sir, I, I, I wouldn't like to miss thanking you. You, uh, you, you've taught me a lot of things, sir, and I'm very grateful. All right. Rather too late, I fear.
01:02:19All right, thank you. You, uh, you haven't heard anything, have you, sir? No. I mean, after what you said, I couldn't help, but, uh, well, it was the truth. That's what I'm trying to say. Nearly everything you said, I could never have said. Do you know what I mean, sir?
01:02:45It was my duty to say it. Oh, I don't know about that, sir. It was my duty. If you'd remembered your duty, none of this idiotic rigmarole would have been necessary.
01:02:57Now, she'll get that into your head. Don't thank me for doing my duty. I had to.
01:03:08Just as you should have done yours.
01:03:13Yes, sir.
01:03:15It's nice if I haven't thought about it, sir. I have.
01:03:30I know what they could do to me.
01:03:33It's just that, uh,
01:03:35I wouldn't be thinking I stood a chance if it hadn't been for you.
01:03:43Fisner, shut!
01:03:45Fisner, shut!
01:03:47With your permission, sir.
01:03:49Yes.
01:03:52Private Hamp, AJ, number 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.
01:04:06You will suffer death by shooting on Thursday, October the 22nd, at 05.30 hours.
01:04:31What's that, sir?
01:04:31What's that, sir?
01:04:32What's that, sir?
01:04:32What's that, sir?
01:04:33What's that, sir?
01:04:33What's that, sir?
01:04:34What's that, sir?
01:04:34What's that, sir?
01:04:35What's that, sir?
01:04:35What's that, sir?
01:04:36What's that, sir?
01:04:36What's that, sir?
01:04:37What's that, sir?
01:04:38What's that, sir?
01:04:39What's that, sir?
01:04:40What's that, sir?
01:04:41What's that, sir?
01:04:42What's that, sir?
01:04:43What's that, sir?
01:04:44What's that, sir?
01:04:45What's that, sir?
01:04:46What's that, sir?
01:04:47What's that, sir?
01:04:48What's that, sir?
01:04:49What's that, sir?
01:04:50What's that, sir?
01:04:51What's that, sir?
01:04:52What's that, sir?
01:05:59More wine, Miss Lee?
01:06:13No, thank you, sir.
01:06:15Would you excuse me now, sir?
01:06:17Yes, of course.
01:06:18Thank you, sir.
01:06:29Some Hague over there.
01:06:59Tell, Florian.
01:07:01I'll pick a bottle, sir.
01:07:29I'm short on ceremony, aren't we?
01:07:37Yes, sir.
01:07:40I had too much of that today.
01:07:44You know the verdict?
01:07:48Just now.
01:07:51You've lost.
01:08:00We're all lost.
01:08:07We're bloody murderers.
01:08:08Don't be idiotic, Charles. Pull yourself together.
01:08:11Pull yourself together, pull yourself together.
01:08:14That's what they said to him today.
01:08:16Pull yourself together, you're talking like the bloody doctor.
01:08:20Aren't we rather overstepping?
01:08:22All right, all right, all right.
01:08:27I'm sorry.
01:08:29I'm sorry.
01:08:42But why?
01:08:46Actually, why?
01:08:48Why?
01:08:51Was it O'Sullivan's evidence?
01:08:53He's an idiot.
01:08:54I did my best.
01:08:55Very eloquent, Charles.
01:08:56But nothing to do with the facts.
01:08:57Facts, facts, facts.
01:08:58Don't shoot that poor little bastard simply because he went for a walk.
01:09:01That's what it was, you know.
01:09:03It was a technical desertion, but it's just a bloody little walk, really.
01:09:04And you know it.
01:09:05Don't you?
01:09:06Don't you?
01:09:07These facts.
01:09:08Your battalion moving up tomorrow.
01:09:09Your battalion moving up tomorrow.
01:09:10Important.
01:09:11Don't you?
01:09:12Don't you?
01:09:13Don't you?
01:09:14Don't you?
01:09:15Don't you?
01:09:18Don't you?
01:09:19desertion, but it's just a bloody little walk, really. And you know it.
01:09:30Don't you? These facts. Your battalion moving up tomorrow.
01:09:37Important to maintain morale. Sentence of death to be carried out immediately.
01:09:44Oh, my God.
01:09:55Has it ever encouraged anyone?
01:09:58Discouraged anyone?
01:10:00Of course it has.
01:10:05Are you sure?
01:10:09No, not quite.
01:10:14No.
01:10:31Who's in charge tomorrow?
01:10:33Jack Webb. His man, his platoon, his mistake. Teach him a lesson.
01:10:37By the way, I've written the next of kin letter. Would you mind giving it to Webb as you go out?
01:10:43There's a porpoise clefts behind me.
01:10:50And it's treading on my tail.
01:10:51Oh.
01:10:52Facts.
01:10:53When I've heard it, I've heard it.
01:10:54I've heard it.
01:10:55I've heard it.
01:10:56No, no, no, no.
01:10:57It's a porpoise clefts behind me.
01:10:58No.
01:10:59No, no.
01:11:00No, no.
01:11:01No, no.
01:11:02No, no.
01:11:03No, no.
01:11:04No.
01:11:05No, no.
01:11:06There's a porpoise clefts behind me.
01:11:07No.
01:11:08No, no.
01:11:09No.
01:11:10It's treading on my tail.
01:11:11No.
01:11:12No.
01:11:13No?
01:11:14No.
01:11:15No.
01:11:16Facts.
01:11:17when I'm buried and all my thoughts and acts will be reduced to lists of dates and facts
01:11:25and long before this wandering flesh is rotten the dates which made me will be all forgotten
01:11:47is that you call hi now listen up wilson and your lot they've been nicking some room
01:12:08hi we've got some other good stuff and all mate uh thinking about to pose up tonight you know
01:12:16well I thought you were bringing it now well where's restable coming you get into trouble
01:12:23nah down with that man
01:12:25what's this for then somebody's birthday
01:12:46you're coming to me come on
01:12:59you're coming to me come on
01:13:11is he very religious
01:13:35I don't think so official c of e but you'll be staying with him right through the night
01:13:42of course if he's willing
01:13:43yes well I've laid on uh something which might prove just as useful how does the idea strike
01:13:50you
01:13:50it's not for me to say well I've spoken to the co it's left to his discretion and he's left
01:13:58so he said he said that man in bed with my wife was me
01:14:17well there's no disgrace no disgrace at all
01:14:37you today gone tomorrow it doesn't matter who kills you does it
01:14:44well you know you you've lived a long life and and you do
01:14:51you rot in the mud and that's that
01:14:56doesn't matter what anyone bloody well thinks about it does it
01:15:00hey we're all moving up soon we'll be in the same boat as you are
01:15:08we'll all be a right food before long
01:15:12last drinky bottle
01:15:19who's gonna get it
01:15:21you think I was entitled to it
01:15:27oh
01:15:36yeah
01:15:41oh
01:15:44oh
01:15:48hey
01:15:49hey
01:15:50on
01:15:52Aim for the heart.
01:15:53Aim for the power.
01:15:54Aim for the fight.
01:15:55Aim for the moon.
01:15:56Fire!
01:16:02Come on, Cobb.
01:16:03Come on, Cobb.
01:16:04Come on, Cobb.
01:16:05Come on, Cobb.
01:16:06Come on, Cobb.
01:16:07Come on.
01:16:08Come on.
01:16:09Come on.
01:16:10Come on.
01:16:11Come on.
01:16:12Come on.
01:16:13Come on.
01:16:14Come on.
01:16:21Look out at the padring.
01:16:38Give it here.
01:16:39Get out of here.
01:16:40Get out of here.
01:16:41Get out of here.
01:16:42Get out of here.
01:16:43Get out of here.
01:17:04Where are you, you bastards?
01:17:08Get out of here.
01:17:10Come on, Cobb.
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.
01:18:00For whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
01:18:08Our Lord Jesus Christ, who has left power to his church to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in him of his great mercy,
01:18:16forgives thee thine offenses.
01:18:18And by his authority committed to me, I absolve thee from all thy sins.
01:18:24In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
01:18:30We do not presume to come to this thy table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies.
01:18:42We are not worthy so much as to gather the crumbs from under thy table.
01:18:48But thou art the same Lord whose property is always to have mercy.
01:18:52Grant us, therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son, Jesus Christ, and to drink his blood,
01:19:00that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body,
01:19:04and our souls washed through his most precious blood,
01:19:08and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us. Amen.
01:19:22The body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for thee.
01:19:28The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was shed for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life.
01:19:58The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which has a rough life.
01:20:01The blood of our Lord, shall the thy traditionalcost, to shame the arteries of thy thy food.
01:20:04The blood of our Lord, shall the어지v Son to fall this day
01:20:25And where's the cell, Pajray?
01:20:29Here.
01:20:32All that's here is a few hours of bloody nothing.
01:20:39Oh.
01:20:41Oh.
01:20:42Oh.
01:20:43Oh.
01:20:44Oh.
01:20:45Oh.
01:20:46Oh.
01:20:47Oh.
01:20:48Oh.
01:20:49Oh.
01:20:50Oh.
01:20:52Oh.
01:20:53Oh.
01:20:54Oh.
01:20:55Oh.
01:20:56Oh.
01:20:57Oh.
01:20:58Oh.
01:20:59Oh.
01:21:00Oh.
01:21:01Oh.
01:21:02Oh.
01:21:03Oh.
01:21:04Oh.
01:21:05Oh.
01:21:06Oh.
01:21:07Oh.
01:21:08Oh.
01:21:09Oh.
01:21:10Oh.
01:21:11Oh.
01:21:12Oh.
01:21:13Oh.
01:21:14Oh.
01:21:15Oh.
01:21:16Oh.
01:21:17Oh.
01:21:18Oh.
01:21:19Oh.
01:21:20Oh.
01:21:21Oh.
01:21:22Oh.
01:21:23Oh.
01:21:24I don't know.
01:21:54Oh, oh, oh, this ground, oh, will grow, oh, will grow no more, buttercups, oh.
01:22:24Quick, Mark, lift, right, lift, right, lift, right, lift, right, lift, right.
01:22:54Lift, right, lift, right, lift, right.
01:23:24Lift, right, lift, right, lift, right, lift, right, lift.
01:23:32Pull it out.
01:23:36Squatch, squatch hard.
01:23:52Standing line.
01:23:56Front right.
01:23:57Kneel.
01:23:59Aim.
01:24:05Fire.
01:24:06Fire.
01:24:07Fire.
01:24:08Fire.
01:24:09Fire.
01:24:10Nobody McQueen.
01:24:11Fire.
01:24:12Fire.
01:24:14Fire.
01:24:19No.
01:24:25Fire.
01:24:26Fire.
01:24:27Fire.
01:24:29Fire.
01:24:30No.
01:24:51Isn't it finished yet?
01:24:54No, sir.
01:24:56I'm sorry.
01:25:00I'm sorry.
01:25:23Hamp, 10 Gifford Street, Islington, London.
01:25:27Deeply regret inform you, Private A.J. Hamp killed in action October 22nd.
01:25:32The Army Council expressed their sympathy.
01:25:35Secretary, War Office.
01:25:57You day date.
01:25:59No doubt.
01:26:00You do it.
01:26:02Excuse me.
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