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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.
00:04:49Life, 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.
00:05:55Well, 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 sleep.
00:06:07Without.
00:06:37I suppose I think I suppose I think I'll get a fair trial.
00:06:46I suppose I think I'll get a fair trial.
00:06:46I suppose I think I've let them down, Coop.
00:06:50Aye, of course it will come out.
00:06:51Aye, of course it will come out.
00:06:52Aye, of course it will come out all right.
00:06:53Well, 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?
00:07:16Well, he is on trial for his life.
00:07:17It doesn't make him original.
00:07:18We're all on trial for our lives.
00:07:20Everything that makes him original is that he's failed.
00:07:22Failed as a man and as a soldier.
00:07:25How fastid things are wasting time.
00:07:26If a dog breaks its back, you don't sit around chatting all day, you shoot it.
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 there?
00:07:41Yes, sir.
00:07:43Might I have a word with you, sir?
00:07:47He'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.
00:07:56He's bound to know what could happen to him.
00:07:58Have 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?
00:08:09Is it necessary?
00:08:11No, sir.
00:08:25My name's Hargraves.
00:08:26Yes, sir.
00:08:27I know you, sir.
00:08:28Know you?
00:08:29Trownswood, sir.
00:08:31Wallen Court, as well.
00:08:33How long have you been out here?
00:08:34Fourteen, sir.
00:08:36As far as three years.
00:08:38You know, of course, that you're entitled to the help of a defending officer.
00:08:42Oh, yes, sir.
00:08:42Soldier's friend.
00:08:44I suppose I can be as much used to as anybody else.
00:08:47Subject, of course, to your acceptance.
00:08:50Objection?
00:08:51Oh, no, sir.
00:08:52I'd like to thank you, sir.
00:08:55It's not as if you have to do it, sir.
00:08:57You don't see any pretension when you're speaking to your officer.
00:09:00I didn't think it mattered, did you, sir?
00:09:03Well, it does matter.
00:09:05Put yourself together, will you?
00:09:14Now, you're
00:09:14Hampton, Arthur James, 873...
00:09:1773426, sir.
00:09:20Age?
00:09:2023, sir.
00:09:22Occupation.
00:09:25I'm a soldier, sir.
00:09:27I'm in civilian life.
00:09:29Oh, yeah.
00:09:30I had a trite, sir, bootmaker.
00:09:32Hand-made boots.
00:09:33I come from Islington.
00:09:35Do you know him, sir?
00:09:36Yes, sir.
00:09:37Yeah?
00:09:37Were you a cobbler all your life?
00:09:40Since I left school, sir.
00:09:41At what age?
00:09:43Twelve, sir.
00:09:44Started young, as they say.
00:09:46Were you a good one?
00:09:47Oh, yeah, yeah, a good cobbler, yeah.
00:09:49Uh, me father and grandfather was cobblers before I was seeing it.
00:09:52Me grandfather reached out.
00:09:53Are you married?
00:09:54Yes, sir.
00:09:55Any children?
00:09:56Yes, sir.
00:09:57How many?
00:09:58One, sir.
00:10:00A little boy.
00:10:01Do you understand why I'm asking you these questions?
00:10:09You know best, sir.
00:10:12All right, stand at ease.
00:10:13Sir.
00:10:14I, uh, I'd better ask you some questions about your, about your home life.
00:10:24Home life?
00:10:26Well, we, we never really had a proper home life, sir.
00:10:30Uh, we always lived with our mother.
00:10:33Did you?
00:10:35Were you on, uh, Mr. Dunn, sir?
00:10:38Oh, yes, sir.
00:10:40Were you on good terms with your wife?
00:10:41There'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.
00:10:57That'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.
00:11:05Len Wilson.
00:11:06Lives just a couple of doors away.
00:11:08And that'll do for mitigating circumstances, anyway.
00:11:16Sir?
00:11:18A reason.
00:11:20An understandable reason.
00:11:21Oh.
00:11:24Did you keep the letter?
00:11:25No, sir.
00:11:26I never thought.
00:11:29It's a pity.
00:11:32Did you, uh,
00:11:33or did you...
00:11:35Did you mention this letter to anyone else?
00:11:38Uh, yes, sir, I did.
00:11:39Yeah.
00:11:39Uh, Willie Bryson.
00:11:41Uh, Private Bryson in our platoon.
00:11:43Did you know him, sir?
00:11:45No, no, no, no, I didn't, I didn't know him.
00:11:47Oh.
00:11:48Yeah, he got killed, uh,
00:11:50here at Passion Day.
00:11:53Uh, did this...
00:11:55Well, did this trouble with your wife
00:11:57have anything to do with the...
00:11:59with, um...
00:12:00with what you're accused of doing?
00:12:02Oh, I don't know, sir.
00:12:04I never thought of it.
00:12:05Do you reckon maybe it was a reason,
00:12:06even if I never thought of it?
00:12:08I don't know.
00:12:09That's for you to tell me.
00:12:12Oh.
00:12:16Let's see.
00:12:19This kind of story is so often true that, uh,
00:12:22well, you...
00:12:23you could be lying.
00:12:25And I have to believe you before I can defend you.
00:12:27Do you understand that?
00:12:28You can believe me, sir.
00:12:30Yes.
00:12:30It'll come out all right, sir.
00:12:38Why did you volunteer?
00:12:40King and country.
00:12:43Sir.
00:12:45Hmm.
00:12:47They dared me.
00:12:48Who dared you?
00:12:49The wife and her mother.
00:12:52They never thought I'd go.
00:12:55Yeah, I reckon it was that more than anything else.
00:12:57I wanted to surprise them.
00:12:58Well, they got a surprise and all when I told them.
00:13:02And, of course, uh,
00:13:04we didn't know what it was going to be like, did we?
00:13:07Well, I didn't think about it too much, but I suppose you reckon to yourself in my kind of life,
00:13:15well, it can't be much worse than this, you know.
00:13:17It's not you, sir, but my sort and most of the lads.
00:13:22But we was wrong.
00:13:24Up there, we're...
00:13:27It's worse than anything, isn't it?
00:13:28It's no worse for you than anyone else.
00:13:32I know that, I know that.
00:13:33I'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?
00:13:47Oh, just a manner of speaking, sir.
00:13:52You'll have to learn to be careful of your manner of speaking.
00:13:56Yes, sir.
00:13:59Funny thing is,
00:14:00the fellas I come out with,
00:14:05do you know, there's none of them left except me.
00:14:09Loose.
00:14:11Loose, that was the first one.
00:14:13Yeah, it was a long time, that one.
00:14:19Trownswood.
00:14:22Gommie Corps.
00:14:25Whalen Court.
00:14:27Yeah.
00:14:29Now, this one here.
00:14:32Passion Dile.
00:14:34Worse than anything.
00:14:43Have you been wounded?
00:14:52Not properly, sir.
00:14:53I was bleeding a few times,
00:14:55and there was one time I got sent down to a GCS.
00:14:58But it was nothing much.
00:14:59They sent me back the next day.
00:15:02Of course, you hear the fellas wishing
00:15:04they could lose an arm or a leg.
00:15:07Same as everybody else,
00:15:08I've heard of some of the lads
00:15:10that 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,
00:15:23we was thinking of trying it once,
00:15:25but we never did.
00:15:27It wasn't long after that
00:15:29that Willie's number
00:15:31came up.
00:15:34When here?
00:15:36Oh.
00:15:38Oh, sorry, sorry.
00:15:40Oh, I've got to go someplace.
00:15:42Corporal!
00:15:46Sir.
00:15:47Latrines.
00:15:48Yes, sir.
00:15:48Go on.
00:15:49Come on, Hap.
00:16:03What will?
00:16:04Sergeant,
00:16:05get the rest of your platoon outside
00:16:06with their gear.
00:16:07Pretty lousy.
00:16:08Yes, sir.
00:16:08Come on, out.
00:16:08Right, sir.
00:16:09Now, shoot out, pretty lousy!
00:16:13All out, pretty lousy!
00:16:15Come on, out!
00:16:16Come on, outside, pretty lousy!
00:16:21Outside with all your gear, pretty lousy!
00:16:24Come on, out!
00:16:26Captain Hargreaves,
00:16:30prisoner's friend.
00:16:31Prisoner's friend, fair trial.
00:16:32Fair trial and a quick death.
00:16:33Very funny.
00:16:35Didn't you think it was funny?
00:16:36Not funny if you're in Hamp's shoes.
00:16:59Rediffuser!
00:17:01I told you he was a strange one, sir.
00:17:03Attend to that, will you?
00:17:12I wouldn't be in Hamp's shoes.
00:17:14If l'd done it, l wouldn't have got caught.
00:17:19Right! Get your picks and shovels!
00:17:21I've got a job for you!
00:17:23First to hang in, man.
00:17:28Oh, God.
00:17:29Thanks, Sir Anglund.
00:17:32Hang in by one.
00:17:39Thanks for the smoke, sir.
00:17:49Did you expect to get away with it?
00:17:52Well, l-l-l wasn't really thinking about it, sir.
00:17:55One way or the other.
00:17:58I just couldn't stand it anymore.
00:18:00Wasn't the first time, sir.
00:18:02What?
00:18:04Well, l-l-l nearly did it once before.
00:18:05l mean, l-l-l thought of it.
00:18:07Time of war and court.
00:18:09l 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 cleared off
00:18:24and left you on your own at Luce or Thrones Wood?
00:18:28l-l don't think it could have been much worse, sir.
00:18:33Fine, well, forget about that.
00:18:35Now, tell me about the, uh, well, the last time,
00:18:38the 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.
00:18:46l got blown into a shell hole.
00:18:49Two of the lads pulled me out with their rifles.
00:18:53Well, l-l-l'd seen it happen to a bloke a couple of days before.
00:18:57He slipped 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.
00:19:06Well, l-l didn't help him. Nobody did. It's laid down.
00:19:09So, of course, l-l-when l-l gets in the mud, l thought that was my lot.
00:19:13See, l-l gonna drown in it like he did.
00:19:15S-sucked into it, fighting it, drowning in it.
00:19:19Oh, after that, l couldn't stand it anymore.
00:19:24But the battalion was relieved.
00:19:26You 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 l said, sir, l can't say it any different. I couldn't stand it anymore.
00:19:41What? Even that of battalion?
00:19:42It 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.
00:19:47Yes, sir.
00:19:49I 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,
00:19:58except what he did.
00:20:00Give him me extra rum.
00:20:02It wouldn't have made any difference to what l did on you. I wasn't going to go back.
00:20:07You mean you planned it?
00:20:10No, sir, no.
00:20:11I didn't have a plan. I haven't got the sense, have l?
00:20:13Maybe one time l would have had the sense, but...
00:20:17Not...
00:20:19No, it was like being dead, sir.
00:20:22And why did you wait ten days?
00:20:24I don't know, sir. I didn't have a plan.
00:20:27I went to the MR that time, yeah.
00:20:30And what did Dr. O'Sullivan say to you?
00:20:33He gave me a number nine, sir, for me bowels.
00:20:36I 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 got cold feet, so he 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, l 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, something to...
00:21:05stop me diarrhoea, stop me shaking, help me sleep.
00:21:10I 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 the battalion 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?
00:21:26I don't know, l 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 home.
00:21:43He's lynching me now.
00:21:45Home.
00:21:47Didn't make any sense, but that's what l got in my head.
00:21:52I must have walked a long way, cos l remember.
00:21:56I took me boots off and me big towel was bleeding.
00:22:01Then l was in a car sitting on some potatoes.
00:22:06Then l was in a train.
00:22:08And some fellas was playing cards.
00:22:13And l was walking again.
00:22:16Then l was talking to this priest.
00:22:19But he was foreign, l didn't know what he was talking about.
00:22:23It was like a dream, sir.
00:22:25I didn't know what was really happening or what wasn't.
00:22:30Aren'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?
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.
00:22:56Nothing else.
00:23:00Well, you 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.
00:23:07It's likely that you'll be found guilty of desertion.
00:23:12And l'd be failing 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,
00:23:26you'll almost certainly be sentenced to death.
00:23:31This was 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?
00:23:53Bryson, 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...
00:24:02if you can tell them about something like that.
00:24:04Well, it's important for you to tell me.
00:24:07Well, see, l was alongside of him when it happened.
00:24:10Same as many a time before, five, six yards away.
00:24:15It wasn't the first time l'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, l never saw it.
00:24:32l'm five or six yards away, turns around, and now Willie's nowhere.
00:24:36Except over me.
00:24:39Oh, l'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.
00:24:53I 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?
00:25:06Well, l try me 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?
00:25:37Can you tell me, anyway, of being sure?
00:25:40Can you tell me, anyway, of being sure?
00:26:07Well, the prisoner's ready, sir.
00:26:08It shouldn't take long, sir.
00:26:09It's a bad business.
00:26:10Who's in charge of the, uh, maker formality, sir?
00:26:12One thing at a time, Sergeant Major.
00:26:13Yes, sir.
00:26:15Yes, sir.
00:26:17Well, the prisoner's ready, sir.
00:26:18It shouldn't take long, sir.
00:26:19It's a bad business.
00:26:22Who's in charge of the, uh, maker formality, sir?
00:26:25One thing at a time, Sergeant Major.
00:26:27Yes, sir.
00:26:44Just a good one.
00:27:02Give us that with this.
00:27:04What is it, horse or mule?
00:27:06He ain't...
00:27:07If we was left to ourselves, now we'd all be home in bed, wouldn't we?
00:27:14Yeah, but I didn't say anything about that.
00:27:16You can't win a war lying in bed, can you?
00:27:19No, but...
00:27:20So you do what you're told.
00:27:24It doesn't make sense.
00:27:26That's not our fault, is it?
00:27:29Keep an eye open, cop. Pity the wasted on that lot.
00:27:32Where's the best bit?
00:27:33This bit. Chopper.
00:27:37Knife.
00:27:45Dixie.
00:27:50Right.
00:27:51Well, now we'll see what we can do for our officers.
00:27:55About, Sub Gavin.
00:27:57How's Ham?
00:27:58I'd have got him all spruced up, like for his wedding.
00:28:01Cut himself shaving, of course.
00:28:03Well, if they shoot him, we won't have to bury him.
00:28:05We'll just push him over and watch him sink.
00:28:08They won't do it.
00:28:10Do you really get off, then?
00:28:11Yeah.
00:28:12No.
00:28:13I think he's at it.
00:28:14I'm afraid he's at it, you know.
00:28:16Yeah.
00:28:17Yeah.
00:28:23Are you going to get the silly bastard off, do you think?
00:28:27Do you think so?
00:28:28I hope he's right.
00:28:31He'll certainly do my best.
00:28:32Oh, don't misunderstand me.
00:28:33My interest is purely personal.
00:28:34I don't want my menus as a firing squad.
00:28:37And I certainly don't want to be that Joseph's bloody saber.
00:28:40I have to shout fire.
00:28:41Why you?
00:28:42Oh, I'm number one on the Colonel's sweat list at the moment.
00:28:45I see.
00:28:46Well, when it comes to my turn, I'll perjure myself from the man if you like.
00:28:50Truth will do.
00:28:52Good luck, my lonely friend.
00:28:54Oh, goodbye.
00:28:55Yeah, boy.
00:28:56I won't stand.
00:28:57It's coming.
00:28:58Come on, come on.
00:28:59Come on.
00:29:00Come on.
00:29:01Take it.
00:29:02Let me out.
00:29:03And my turn.
00:29:04Pre-design…
00:29:05Go on.
00:29:06Help.
00:29:07Right turn.
00:29:08I am coming.
00:29:10Pre-design…
00:29:11Help.
00:29:13Right turn.
00:29:15By the Lamb Pabble.
00:29:24Cobra.
00:29:28Bring the escort.
00:29:29Yep, sign.
00:29:32Quick, march.
00:29:33Yep.
00:29:46Come on, Pio.
00:29:48Back to him.
00:29:50Bring the escort.
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, soldier of the regular forces.
00:30:16You're charged with, when on active service, attempting to desert His Majesty's service.
00:30:23In that you absented yourself from duty without orders from your superior officer, for approximately 0700 hours on October the 10th this year, at a place called Jackdaw Tunnel, until October the 11th of this year, when 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.
00:30:47Well, I have to ask you if you object to any members of the court, myself or either of these two officers.
00:30:53I'm surprised that, as convening officer, you're also president of the court-martial.
00:30:59There are no other field officers available, Captain Hargraves. I must appoint myself. Are you making a formal objection?
00:31:05No, sir.
00:31:06May I stand at ease, Private Hamp?
00:31:10I've spoken to Captain Midgley, and we've agreed that I won't suit the facts of the case. So all the witnesses will be called by the defence.
00:31:16Good. That will save the court's time.
00:31:18I submit that the prisoner absented himself at a time when, because of his mental health, he was not fully responsible for his actions.
00:31:29Mental health, Captain Hargraves? Do 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 who are in an unhappy mental state, but who have not absented themselves from their duty.
00:31:44I 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!
00:32:03Hold the book in your right hand.
00:32:08I swear by Almighty God that the evidence I shall give before this court shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
00:32:14Corporal Hamilton, I believe that you apprehended the prisoner.
00:32:16Yes, sir.
00:32:17What did he say to you?
00:32:18Not much, sir.
00:32:19Only...
00:32:21Well, he tried to tell us he was going on leave, of course.
00:32:23Yes.
00:32:24A soldier going on leave is required to carry with him a full pack and equipment, is he not?
00:32:27Yes, sir.
00:32:28And the prisoner was carrying?
00:32:30Gas helmet, rifle, and bandolier, sir.
00:32:31Wouldn't have stood very much chance of getting on board a leave ship in that go, would he?
00:32:35Yes, sir.
00:32:36And the prisoner was carrying?
00:32:38Gas helmet, rifle, and bandolier, sir.
00:32:39Wouldn't have stood very much chance of getting on board a leave ship in that go, would he?
00:32:41No, sir.
00:32:42Rather a silly story, wasn't he?
00:32:43Yes, sir.
00:32:44And how do you account for it?
00:32:45Well, sir, he could have, for all I know, he could have been just stupid.
00:32:48Oh, a remote.
00:32:49Merry, merry, merry, merry.
00:32:50No, no, how did you get it all along?
00:32:51It's difficult.
00:32:53No, you see that, boy?
00:32:54It was like, dreamy.
00:32:55I think I'm just dreamy.
00:32:56It was like that, wouldn't I?
00:32:57I don't know, I don't know, I've seen memory of all that, you know.
00:32:58You're not a lunch anymore.
00:32:59So now you're holding a hold up against me.
00:33:01Quite.
00:33:03It's like, you're not a sex man, you're not a man.
00:33:05I'm a man.
00:33:06I don't care.
00:33:07I'm a man.
00:33:08I'm ready.
00:33:09I'm not a man.
00:33:11Oh, boy.
00:33:12I'm not a human being.
00:33:13I'm a man.
00:33:14Why?
00:33:15Sure not, this sort of sex.
00:33:17She can't suffer.
00:33:20Oh, this...
00:33:21Gives us a day off, though, doesn't it?
00:33:23A fly, we lose.
00:33:29We're moving her.
00:33:30We're moving her.
00:33:31We're moving her.
00:33:33We're moving her.
00:33:34We're moving her.
00:33:41I'm not going up to the front.
00:33:43I'm not going up to the front and leave that bloody bastard behind me alive!
00:33:46Ah!
00:33:47Come on!
00:33:48Bloody, bloody rat!
00:33:50Come on!
00:33:51Come on!
00:33:52Execute her, get her!
00:33:53There we go, Ray!
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 scented themselves from service.
00:34:05Yes, sir, quite a few, sir.
00:34:07Did 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,
00:34:12did some of them appear to you to be stupid
00:34:14or behaving as if in a daze?
00:34:17Yes, sir, I suppose, sir.
00:34:19In short, was there anything remarkable or extraordinary
00:34:22about this prisoner compared with others?
00:34:25I mean, if there had been something extraordinary,
00:34:27you would have thought about it, wouldn't you?
00:34:29The thing that surprised me, sir, was how he got so far as us.
00:34:33By rights, he shouldn't have had a hope.
00:34:36He must have been through places thick with patrols,
00:34:39like Papa Ringe and that.
00:34:41Perhaps he wasn't quite as simple as he seemed.
00:34:43No, sir, I didn't mean that.
00:34:44After all, he did get very close to an embarkation point, didn't he?
00:34:48That's all, Corporal. No more questions, thank you, sir.
00:34:50Look at that. There must be dozens of them in there.
00:35:09And too full to be nippy.
00:35:11Shall I jump on here?
00:35:12No.
00:35:20Right. When I say now, thump the belly!
00:35:31Now!
00:35:32No!
00:35:33No!
00:35:35No!
00:35:36No!
00:35:37No!
00:35:38No!
00:35:39No!
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. I looked it up.
00:35:48Then what did he complain?
00:35:49I remember quite clearly.
00:35:53He 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.
00:36:13Every medical officer hears this kind of thing five or six times a day.
00:36:16Did you believe this man?
00:36:18No.
00:36:19Why not?
00:36:20Seems a permissible question.
00:36:21Why not?
00:36:22Why didn't you believe him when he said he couldn't sleep?
00:36:24I didn't say I didn't believe that.
00:36:25Very well.
00:36:26What other symptoms did he complain?
00:36:27I said he was off of food.
00:36:28I said he was feeling a bit shaky.
00:36:29Shaky.
00:36:30Uncontrollable bouts of trembling?
00:36:31I don't know about uncontrollable.
00:36:33You don't know about it, but did you bother to find out?
00:36:34Are you challenging my confidence?
00:36:35I don't want to interfere with your defense, Captain Hargraves, but must you attack the witness?
00:36:36It's not Captain O'Sullivan's competence which is at stake, sir.
00:36:37It's this man's life.
00:36:38You said you didn't believe him.
00:36:39What didn't you believe?
00:36:40Oh, damn it, Charlie.
00:36:41I knew what he was after.
00:36:42Did this man lie to you?
00:36:43And if so, what did he say?
00:36:44I knew what he wanted.
00:36:45To be sent down the line.
00:36:46Did he say so?
00:36:47No.
00:36:48No.
00:36:49I don't know about uncontrollable.
00:36:50You don't know about it, but did you bother to find out?
00:36:51Are you challenging my confidence?
00:36:52I don't want to interfere with your defense, Captain Hargraves, but must you attack the witness?
00:36:56It'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?
00:37:05Oh, damn it, Charlie.
00:37:06I knew what he was after.
00:37:07Did this man lie to you?
00:37:08And if so, what did he say?
00:37:09I knew what he wanted.
00:37:10To be sent down the line.
00:37:12Did he say so?
00:37:13Did he what?
00:37:14Did he ask to be relieved from duty?
00:37:16Not in so many words.
00:37:17Of course he didn't.
00:37:26And how long did this interview last for him?
00:37:30Five minutes, ten minutes.
00:37:32And after that you lost interest in the man?
00:37:35What do you expect me to do?
00:37:37I 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.
00:37:45Why were you so sure?
00:37:47Experience.
00:37:48My own judgment, of course, experience.
00:37:56And you usually prescribe the same treatment?
00:37:58More or less, more or less.
00:38:00Laxative pills.
00:38:02A good clean-up 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?
00:38:21What did you say?
00:38:22I 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.
00:38:30Back to normal.
00:38:31I told him to try to eat.
00:38:33Try 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 faults 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.
00:38:52What are the symptoms of shell shock?
00:38:57Shell shock is a different matter altogether.
00:38:59Is there an exact moment in the life of a soldier
00:39:02before 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?
00:39:10An exact boundary on the one side of which
00:39:13a man is required by army law
00:39:15to pull himself together
00:39:17or on the other he cannot
00:39:20is liable to be shot as a criminal, is there?
00:39:23This has nothing whatever to do with what we're all here for.
00:39:26I must say, Captain Hargraves, I agree with that.
00:39:29Do you, sir?
00:39:32Then what are we here for?
00:39:34A mock trial?
00:39:37That remarks entirely improper, Captain Hargraves.
00:39:44I apologize, sir.
00:39:47Proceed.
00:39:49Does 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
00:40:05is 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 four people should realize
00:40:16I've got no time for such rubbish.
00:40:18Do you 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 have I got to tell you?
00:40:31This was a case of cold feet,
00:40:33frank miserable punk,
00:40:35nothing more or less.
00:40:36I promise.
00:40:37Are you sure?
00:40:38Yes!
00:40:39I ask you most earnestly,
00:40:51are you absolutely sure?
00:40:55How could a man responsible for his actions
00:41:00do such a hopeless,
00:41:02desperately stupid thing as this man?
00:41:06When they found him,
00:41:08he was trying to walk home to England.
00:41:12He 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.
00:41:55Yes, sir, if you please.
00:41:56Captain O'Sullivan,
00:41:57have any of the defending officer's questions
00:42:00altered the conclusion you came to about the prisoner
00:42:02when 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,
00:42:09will you now tell the court in your own words
00:42:11what that conclusion was?
00:42:13Yes.
00:42:14I found the prisoner fit for duty,
00:42:16provided he was kept under discipline
00:42:17and discouraged from malingering.
00:42:19And there's nothing you wish to add to your judgment now
00:42:22by way of qualification?
00:42:24Nothing whatever.
00:42:25He's proved me right, hasn't he?
00:42:27And that's all there is to say about it.
00:42:29He did turn and run, didn't he?
00:42:32Thank you, Captain O'Sullivan.
00:42:34Yes, sir.
00:42:35Are you in the area between our billet and the cookhouse
00:42:36at fifteen hundred hours today?
00:42:37Yes, she admits she was in the area between our billet and the cookhouse
00:42:38at fifteen hundred hours today.
00:42:39Right, did you or did you not call up to Private Sparrow
00:42:40and take a bite out of his ear hole?
00:42:41No, he did not call up to Private Sparrow
00:42:42and take a bite out of his ear hole.
00:42:43No, he did not call up to Private Sparrow
00:42:45and take a bite out of his ear hole.
00:42:47Right, and one last question.
00:42:49If you had been in our billet today, would you have done a thing like that?
00:42:54No, he's not that sort of rat.
00:42:55Captain Midgley, would you like to cross-examine the accused?
00:42:57No, he's not that sort of rat.
00:43:01Captain Midgley, would you like to cross-examine the accused?
00:43:02You've been telling a lot of bloody lies, haven't you?
00:43:03No, he's not that sort of rat.
00:43:04Captain Midgley, would you like to cross-examine the accused?
00:43:08No, no, I haven't been telling a lot of bloody lies, haven't you?
00:43:09No, no, I haven't been telling a lot of bloody lies.
00:43:13He's not that sort of rat.
00:43:18Captain Midgley, would you like to cross-examine the accused?
00:43:28You'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, hm?
00:43:43Hmm, I'm just a normal rat.
00:43:48Well then, if you're just a normal rat who needs dead flesh, why?
00:43:54When all the other rats were coming out of the front end,
00:43:57what were you doing coming out of the back end, hm?
00:44:05He's crying.
00:44:06Ahhhh!
00:44:11And after that, his nerve had gone.
00:44:13Absolutely.
00:44:14I imagine that there were others of your men in a similar condition at that time, whether or not.
00:44:19Well, he must have been in a worse way than the others, sir.
00:44:22Well, 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.
00:44:27With respect, sir, he did not decide to do it.
00:44:29If 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.
00:44:38And he's the nearest we've got left now to have found a member, of course.
00:44:41And he...
00:44:43Yes?
00:44:44Well, I was just going to say,
00:44:46I don't suppose it matters, but he brewed a damn good cup of tea.
00:44:56Was he a good soldier before this happened?
00:44:58First class.
00:45:00Fair enough.
00:45:01Not a born soldier, but first class.
00:45:04And you were surprised when you heard that he, uh, absconded.
00:45:06Oh, yes, I was.
00:45:07From what you know of him,
00:45:09do you believe that he'd have to be a little unhinged to do what he did?
00:45:15Yes.
00:45:16I do.
00:45:18No more questions, sir.
00:45:19Captain Midgley.
00:45:20First class soldier.
00:45:22Yes.
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.
00:45:31Well,
00:45:32surely we're not trying 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.
00:45:41Will you confine yourself to answering the questions, Mr. Webb?
00:45:44I beg your pardon, sir.
00:45:46Mr. Webb, about this mental unhinging, did you see any actual sign of it yourself?
00:45:51Well, it depends.
00:45:52I mean, if you had it, surely it would have been your duty to see that something was done about it, wouldn't it?
00:45:56Did the idea occur to you before he went absent?
00:46:00No, but he could have been ill, in his mind, even if I didn't see it beforehand.
00:46:07And you offered any evidence that he was?
00:46:09He'd had a bad time.
00:46:12Well, I mean, I don't blame him.
00:46:14We all get the wind up sometimes.
00:46:16I'd much prefer a man to boat beforehand rather than crack up under a fryer, in danger of the whole platoon.
00:46:21Mr. Webb, isn't it true to say, however much we may regret it, and however much we may sympathize,
00:46:28isn't it true to say that this man simply allowed his fear to become his master?
00:46:33There's more in it than that.
00:46:36I ask you again, can 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.
00:46:48Very well.
00:46:58I've got it!
00:47:22Got it!
00:47:23Broke it!
00:47:24Bloody back!
00:47:28It's just how a devil's got hold of me legs, see?
00:47:30He's pulling me down.
00:47:31I'm not even wounded.
00:47:32I'm not even wounded, and I'm going to get drowned in the mud.
00:47:36Oh, something had it in for me, I knew that.
00:47:38This idea that the devil was after you, did it stay in your mind after you'd been rescued from the mud?
00:47:44Not in the same way, sir, no.
00:47:46So it wasn't the devil.
00:47:47And why did you run away?
00:47:48I didn't run, sir.
00:47:49I didn't run, sir.
00:47:50I didn't run, sir.
00:47:51I didn't run, sir.
00:47:52I didn't run, sir.
00:47:54I didn't run, sir.
00:47:56I didn't run, sir.
00:47:57I walked.
00:47:59I just started walking.
00:48:00I don't know why.
00:48:04It's not true to say, is it, that you deliberately decided to desert?
00:48:10That you deliberately decided and hoped to get away with it?
00:48:14Well, I wasn't really thinking about it, sir.
00:48:16No, I know you weren't thinking about it.
00:48:17I was hoping that you wouldn't get me caught, sir.
00:48:19But you really weren't, you weren't clearly thinking of anything at the time, were you?
00:48:23Well, I just wanted to get away from the guns, sir.
00:48:27Had you any idea where you were going?
00:48:31No, no, sir, not really.
00:48:33I just wanted to get left alone for a bit, that's all.
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?
00:48:45I don't know, sir.
00:48:46And that's because you, you don't remember anything very clearly, is it?
00:48:49That's right, sir, yeah.
00:48:50Yeah.
00:48:51You had no clear plan or reason in your mind, did you?
00:48:55I just started going, sir.
00:48:57I, you know, I couldn't hurt myself.
00:49:01Well, like you told me to say, sir, I was acting under extraordinary strength.
00:49:07I, I, I can't, I can't think of anything else, sir.
00:49:15Is it all right if I ask you a question, sir?
00:49:17Yes, carry on.
00:49:19Well, I, I'd sooner you tell them, sir.
00:49:21You, you know more about it than me.
00:49:24All right.
00:49:26Any more questions, Captain Hargraves?
00:49:30Captain Midgley.
00:49:32Private Ham, did you know you were doing wrong
00:49:36when you deserted?
00:49:37Well, if anybody tried to stop me, I'd have stayed, sir.
00:49:39Well, didn't you wait till you made sure that there was nobody there to stop you?
00:49:42No.
00:49:43Well, I, I think I was just lucky, sir.
00:49:46Very much a matter of opinion.
00:49:48Look, what I really want to know is this.
00:49:51You did know, didn't you, that it was your duty
00:49:54to stay with your battalion.
00:49:56Yes, sir.
00:49:57And you must have been very well aware of that all the time that you were absent
00:50:01from the first moment that you decided to, decided to leave.
00:50:05I, I don't know, sir.
00:50:08You could walk, talk, think, like anybody else.
00:50:12And you managed to get quite a long way away, didn't you?
00:50:14Well, like I just said so, I was lucky.
00:50:16Well, let me put this to you quite simply.
00:50:19Did you know what you were doing?
00:50:22I, I knew what I was doing, sir.
00:50:25And you realized that you were leaving your comrades at their posts
00:50:28who were prepared to do their duty while you deserted them?
00:50:30Didn't you?
00:50:32Didn't you?
00:50:34I've never done this before, sir.
00:50:35This was the first time.
00:50:42No more questions, sir.
00:50:43That'll do, Private Hampton.
00:50:54Captain Hargast, will you address the court now on the prisoner's behalf?
00:50:58No, 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.
00:51:12This 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.
00:51:22Private Hampton is not a liar.
00:51:29He's not glib.
00:51:31He has no ready answers.
00:51:32He has an embarrassing honesty,
00:51:34which made him a bad witness in his own case.
00:51:36He could have put a bullet through his leg
00:51:38and suffered nothing more serious than a ton of imprisonment.
00:51:41He even told me that he thought of doing so.
00:51:44But he didn't.
00:51:45He stayed.
00:51:50A deserter, in full consciousness of what he's doing,
00:51:53runs away to save his own skin
00:51:55and leaves his fellows to do the fighting and the dying for him.
00:51:58This man is not a deserter.
00:52:01He volunteered.
00:52:03He volunteered because his wife and her mother dared him to.
00:52:08Never mind.
00:52:10He volunteered.
00:52:12He's been out here for three years.
00:52:14Longer, if I may say so,
00:52:15than some of us have been.
00:52:17He's seen it all.
00:52:19A man can only take so much.
00:52:22So much blood.
00:52:25So much filth.
00:52:27So much dying.
00:52:31In the show hole, he thought he was drowning in the mud.
00:52:34He thought his time had come, and it had.
00:52:36After 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.
00:52:44He had one instinct only left.
00:52:48The instinct to walk.
00:52:51To walk home.
00:52:52To walk away from the guns.
00:52:54They'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.
00:53:02Is this war so old?
00:53:07And are we so old in it that we've forgotten it?
00:53:12Are we not fighting to preserve some notion of decency?
00:53:19Some notion of justice?
00:53:22To preserve for this court the right to choose?
00:53:27I beg to remind the court that if justice is not done to one man,
00:53:42then other men are dying for nothing.
00:53:45to go facilities.
00:53:47To be continued.
00:53:50A matter of opinion.
00:54:08Matter of opinion.
00:54:15Prescott, you as our legal member advise the court on the law.
00:54:20Mr. Price, Prescott.
00:54:25The court will remember that this soldier takes the law of England with him wherever he goes.
00:54:30And he is protected by it.
00:54:33The accused does not have to prove himself innocent.
00:54:35The prosecution must prove him guilty.
00:54:38And if the members of the court have any reasonable doubt,
00:54:41but it mustn't be a fanciful doubt,
00:54:44they must give him the benefit of it.
00:54:47You've had before you the opinion of a battalion medical officer,
00:54:50which is that at the time the prisoner left the battalion,
00:54:52he was fit for duty and was not shell-shocked,
00:54:56but only suffering from what the doctor described as cold feet.
00:55:01You mustn't be unduly swayed by the eloquence of the defending officer.
00:55:04Who has quite properly made out the best case he can.
00:55:08If you doubt that the prisoner really meant to desert,
00:55:11and you believe that he merely went absent without leave and intended to return after a few days,
00:55:16you will give a verdict accordingly.
00:55:18On the other hand, if you are satisfied that the prisoner really deserved it,
00:55:23it is your duty to find him guilty.
00:55:27As to the stress the defending officer laid upon the prisoner being a volunteer,
00:55:31neither must you be unduly swayed by that.
00:55:35The army is now composed of regulars, of volunteers, and of conscripts,
00:55:40and one law applies to them all.
00:55:43And it is the court's duty to administer the law as it stands.
00:55:48are you allowed us to die.
00:55:54We'll proceed immediately to our discussion of the case.
00:55:56I am sure!
00:55:57Captain Harbraiss.
00:55:58Escort! Pour the rifle prisoner!
00:56:05Call the rival prisoner!
00:56:07Let's go!
00:56:09Turn!
00:56:11We march!
00:56:29Thanks for cutting my throat, old boy.
00:56:31Well, you were ever doing it a bit. I couldn't help it.
00:56:33There was a great deal in what you said, if I may say so.
00:56:36You did very well, Hargraves.
00:56:37I hope you got him off.
00:56:38I hope so, too.
00:56:39But 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 caught?
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.
00:57:12The way I do the court-martial, it could be anybody, you know.
00:57:15I kept forgetting how he was talking about me.
00:57:19Oh, Mr. Hargreaves, he gave him a lovely speech.
00:57:23This man is not a deserter.
00:57:29Well...
00:57:31You've been twice since you got back already.
00:57:33It's not my fault, is it?
00:57:34It's not my fault, is it?
00:57:35Right, guard!
00:57:36Captain!
00:57:37Captain!
00:57:40Right, Will!
00:57:47Help us off, Mr. Morris.
00:57:52Stand easy, Mr. Prescott.
00:57:53Um, Mr. Morris wishes to know whether we can find the prisoner guilty...
00:57:58...and recommend mercy.
00:58:00Well, yes, sir, you may.
00:58:02And you may either confirm the sentence yourself...
00:58:05...or send it to higher authority for confirmation.
00:58:08I see.
00:58:09Mr. Prescott.
00:58:11Never mind.
00:58:13Uh, would you help Captain Cartwright prepare a finding?
00:58:16Uh, guilty of desertion, but, uh...
00:58:18...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're finished, have it read to the prisoner.
00:58:28And then send it off for confirmation.
00:58:30Right, gentlemen.
00:58:40I won't know anything for a bit yet.
00:58:42He's got to go to the generals on that lot.
00:58:43Ah, it'd be a week then.
00:58:44They're all pinned down in Paris, you know.
00:58:47What's Ham thinking, I wonder?
00:58:48If he's got any sense, he's not thinking.
00:58:49Well, whatever happens, he's knocking up the line again.
00:58:50Do you know him?
00:58:51Well, whatever happens, he's knocking up the line again.
00:58:52Do you know him?
00:58:53Well, whatever happens, he's knocking up the line again.
00:58:54Well, whatever happens, he's knocking up the line again.
00:58:55Do you know him?
00:58:56Do you know what he said when he got back?
00:58:57They're taking a lot of trouble over me.
00:58:58He was bloody honored, he does.
00:58:59Oh, he is.
00:59:00They're taking 24 hours to kill him.
00:59:01Jerry wouldn't take up long, eh?
00:59:02Here, get the glass house.
00:59:03Oh, no.
00:59:04No, no.
00:59:05Here, get the glass house.
00:59:07Oh.
00:59:08Oh, no.
00:59:09No, no.
00:59:10No, no.
00:59:11No, no.
00:59:12No, no.
00:59:13No, no.
00:59:14No, no.
00:59:15No, no.
00:59:16No, no.
00:59:17No, no.
00:59:18No, no.
00:59:19No.
00:59:20No, no.
00:59:21No, no, no.
00:59:22Come on.
00:59:23Come on.
00:59:24Come on.
00:59:25Come on.
00:59:26Come on.
00:59:27Come on.
00:59:28Come on.
00:59:29Come on.
00:59:30Come on.
00:59:31Come on.
00:59:32Come on.
00:59:33Come on.
00:59:34Come on.
00:59:35Come on.
00:59:36Come on.
00:59:37Come on.
00:59:38Come on.
00:59:39Come on.
00:59:40Governor Hargreef, sir.
00:59:41Yes?
00:59:42I don't know whether it's allowed, sir, but he says he'd like to see you.
00:59:46Who?
00:59:47Private House.
00:59:48Would that be legal, Mr. Prescott?
00:59:51Well, I'm afraid it'd be highly irregular, sir.
00:59:54It would be kind.
00:59:58All right, I'm coming.
01:00:12Yes.
01:00:13Messages for the Colonel, sir.
01:00:15I see.
01:00:16Come with me.
01:00:21Excuse me, sir.
01:00:23Message, sir.
01:00:24Ah, thank you, Mr. Webb.
01:00:30Go and get yourself something to eat, Corporal.
01:00:32Thank you, sir.
01:00:40Gentlemen, your attention, please.
01:00:42The battalion will be moving into the line tomorrow morning at 0600 hours.
01:00:46We will be reinforcing a battalion of the Munster Fusiliers.
01:00:49Captain Cartwright, would you ask all company commanders to come to my billet after dinner at, er, 20 hundred hours?
01:00:55Right, sir.
01:00:56Thank you, gentlemen.
01:00:57All right, sir.
01:00:58Thank you, gentlemen.
01:00:59All right, sir.
01:01:00Thank you, gentlemen.
01:01:01all right, sir.
01:01:26Well, Ham?
01:01:44Uh, it's just that I'd like to thank you, sir, in case, uh,
01:01:55well, you know, I expect I'll get put in military prison, you know, and, uh,
01:02:00in case, I don't see you for a while.
01:02:05Well, we, uh, we don't know where you'll be put, if you're put anywhere.
01:02:12Well, anyway, sir, I wouldn't like to miss Hankin.
01:02:15You, uh, you've taught me a lot of things, sir, and I'm very grateful.
01:02:20All right.
01:02:23Rather too late, I fear.
01:02:31All right, thank you.
01:02:34You, uh, you haven't heard anything, have you, sir?
01:02:38No.
01:02:40I mean, after what you said, I couldn't help that, sir.
01:02:43Well, it was the truth.
01:02:46That's what I'm trying to say.
01:02:48Nearly everything you said, I could never have said.
01:02:50Do you know what I mean, sir?
01:02:52It was my duty to say it.
01:02:54I don't know about that, sir.
01:02:55It was my duty.
01:02:57If you'd remembered your duty, none of this idiotic rigmarole would have been necessary.
01:03:01How'd you get that into your head?
01:03:06Don't thank me for doing my duty.
01:03:08I had to.
01:03:10Just as you should have done yours.
01:03:14Yes, sir.
01:03:31It's not as if I haven't thought about it, sir.
01:03:33I have.
01:03:34I know what they could do to me.
01:03:38It's just that, sir,
01:03:40I wouldn't be thinking I stood a chance if it hadn't been for you.
01:03:48Prisoner, shut!
01:03:52With your permission, sir.
01:03:53Private Hamp, AJ, number 873426.
01:04:03It is my duty to inform you that the general officer commanding-in-chief
01:04:07has confirmed the sentence passed on you by the field general court-martial.
01:04:14You will suffer death by shooting on Thursday, October the 22nd at 0530 hours.
01:04:23When's that, sir?
01:04:42Tomorrow.
01:04:53Whatever.
01:06:06Thank you, sir.
01:06:08More wine, Mr. Lee?
01:06:13No, thank you, sir.
01:06:14Would you excuse me now, sir?
01:06:15Yes.
01:06:16More wine, Mr. Lee?
01:06:18No, thank you, sir.
01:06:20Would you excuse me now, sir?
01:06:22Yes, of course.
01:06:23Thank you, sir.
01:06:46There's some hague over there.
01:07:06Kill Chloe.
01:07:16I'll show some ceremony of me.
01:07:40Yes, sir.
01:07:45I had too much of that today.
01:07:51You know the verdict?
01:07:55Just now.
01:07:58You lost?
01:08:07We all lost.
01:08:13They're bloody murderers.
01:08:14Don't be idiotic, Charles.
01:08:16Pull yourself together.
01:08:17Pull yourself together.
01:08:18Pull yourself together.
01:08:19Pull yourself together.
01:08:20That's what they said to him today.
01:08:22Pull yourself together.
01:08:23You're talking like the bloody doctor.
01:08:25Aren't we rather overstepping you?
01:08:28All right.
01:08:29All right.
01:08:30All right.
01:08:31All right.
01:08:32All right, sir.
01:08:33All right.
01:08:34All right.
01:08:39I'm sorry.
01:08:40But, uh, why?
01:08:49Actually, why?
01:08:54Why?
01:08:57Was it O'Sullivan's evidence?
01:08:59He's an idiot.
01:09:03Was it my offense?
01:09:08I did my best.
01:09:10Very eloquent, Charles, but nothing to do with the facts.
01:09:14Facts, facts, Varence.
01:09:16Don't shoot that poor little bastard simply because he went for a walk.
01:09:21That's what it was, you know.
01:09:24It was a technical desertion, but it's just a...
01:09:27a bloody little walk, really.
01:09:31And you know it.
01:09:37Don't you?
01:09:38You know, these facts.
01:09:42Your battalion moving up tomorrow.
01:09:44Important to maintain morale.
01:09:46Sentence of death to be carried out immediately.
01:09:49Oh, my God.
01:09:57Poor Encore-Riger, there's no train.
01:10:02Has it ever encouraged anyone?
01:10:04Discouraged anyone?
01:10:07Of course it has.
01:10:12Are you sure?
01:10:12No, not quite.
01:10:16No, not quite.
01:10:17No, not quite.
01:10:37Who's in charge tomorrow?
01:10:38Jack Webb.
01:10:40Jack Webb.
01:10:41His man, his platoon, his mistake.
01:10:43Teach him a lesson.
01:10:45By the way, I've written the next-of-kin letter.
01:10:49Would you mind giving it to Webb as you go out?
01:11:08No, not quite.
01:11:12There's a pauper's cleft behind me.
01:11:17And it's treading on my tail.
01:11:20Huh?
01:11:23Facts.
01:11:23When I'm buried and all my thoughts and acts will be reduced to lists of dates and facts,
01:11:32and long before this wandering flesh is rotten,
01:11:35the dates which made me will be all forgotten.
01:11:53Amp!
01:12:04Amp!
01:12:08Is that you, Corb?
01:12:09Aye.
01:12:10Now, listen, Amp.
01:12:11Wilson and your lot, they've been nicking some room.
01:12:16Aye.
01:12:17We've got some of the good stuff and all, mate,
01:12:20thinking about to booze up tonight, you know.
01:12:23Well, I thought you were bringing it.
01:12:25Now.
01:12:26Well, where's rest of them?
01:12:27Tommy.
01:12:28You get into trouble?
01:12:30Nah, go with that man.
01:12:33All right, all right.
01:12:47What's this for, then? Somebody's birthday.
01:12:53Oh, come on.
01:13:06Could you come, the other man would be anything?
01:13:07Oh, come on.
01:13:08Get out of the way, Bob.
01:13:09But who's that one?
01:13:10The other man are on the human....
01:13:12I wanna burn, Bob.
01:13:14I'm and olive oil, Lou.
01:13:15Is he very religious?
01:13:41I don't think so.
01:13:43He's an official C of E, but...
01:13:46You'll be staying with him right through the night?
01:13:48Of course, if he's willing.
01:13:50Yes, well, I've laid on something which might prove just as useful.
01:13:55How does the idea strike you?
01:13:58It's not for me to say.
01:14:00Well, I've spoken to the CO.
01:14:02It's left to his discretion and he's left it to me.
01:14:13So, he said, he said, that man in bed with my wife was me.
01:14:24Oh, God!
01:14:26Oh, God!
01:14:27Oh, God!
01:14:28Oh, God!
01:14:39Well, there's no disgrace.
01:14:41No disgrace at all.
01:14:43You, today, gone tomorrow.
01:14:46And it doesn't matter who kills you, does it?
01:14:51Well, you know you.
01:14:53You've lived a long life, Ant, and...
01:14:56And you do.
01:14:58You rot in the mud.
01:15:00And that's that.
01:15:02Doesn't matter what anyone bloody well thinks about it, does it?
01:15:05Hey.
01:15:06We're all moving up soon.
01:15:08Hmm?
01:15:09We'll be in the same boat as you are.
01:15:11We'll all be a right food before long.
01:15:14Last drinky bottle.
01:15:16Who's gonna get it?
01:15:19You'd think I was entitled to it.
01:15:22Huh!
01:15:23That's drinky bottle.
01:15:24Who's gonna get it?
01:15:27You'd think I was entitled to it.
01:15:32Ah!
01:15:33It's so easy to hear, yeah!
01:15:34It's so easy for them, huh lady...
01:15:35Oh, your phones?
01:15:36No!
01:15:38Grand you!
01:15:39Ah, your teeth, Your teeth.
01:15:41Have your teeth.
01:15:42Ah, your nails.
01:15:43Is that capital?
01:15:45Ah!
01:15:46Ghost, you have step- chemo...
01:15:47đã through this obligation...
01:15:50Oh, God! Oh, no!
01:15:52What's that?
01:15:57Aim for the heart.
01:15:58Aim for the power.
01:15:59Aim for the fight.
01:16:00Aim for the moon.
01:16:01Aim for the moon.
01:16:02Fire!
01:16:07Come on, come 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.
01:16:15Look out, the powdery.
01:16:16Come on.
01:16:17Come on.
01:16:18Come on.
01:16:19Come on.
01:16:20Come on.
01:16:26Look out, the powdery.
01:16:30Come on.
01:16:45Come on.
01:16:48Give it here.
01:16:49Shut up.
01:16:58Here, open it.
01:17:10Where are you, you bastards?
01:17:16Come on.
01:17:17Come on.
01:17:40Will you let me try to help you?
01:17:42Do you want to talk to me?
01:17:48God decides when it's our turn to be taken to him.
01:17:54Will you be absolved of your sins?
01:17:58My sins?
01:18:00My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord,
01:18:04nor faint when thou art rebuked of him.
01:18:07For whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth,
01:18:10and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
01:18:13Our Lord Jesus Christ, who has left power to his church
01:18:17to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in him
01:18:21of his great mercy, forgives thee thine offenses.
01:18:25And by his authority committed to me,
01:18:28I absolve thee from all thy sins.
01:18:30In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
01:18:40We do not presume to come to this thy table, O merciful Lord,
01:18:43trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies.
01:18:48We are not worthy so much as to gather the crumbs from under thy table.
01:18:53But thou art the same Lord whose property is always to have mercy.
01:18:58Grant us, therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son, Jesus Christ,
01:19:04and to drink his blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body,
01:19:10and our souls washed through his most precious blood,
01:19:15and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us.
01:19:19Amen.
01:19:20The body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for thee.
01:19:34The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was shed for thee,
01:19:54preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life.
01:19:57Amen.
01:20:27Where's the cell, Padre?
01:20:33Here.
01:20:37All that's here is a few hours of bloody nothing.
01:20:42Where's the cell, Padre?
01:20:46Here.
01:20:49All that's here is a few hours of bloody nothing.
01:20:57Here.
01:21:27Here.
01:21:33The cell is fine.
01:21:35All that's here is a little more tricky because the cell is still alive.
01:21:43The cell is still alive.
01:21:47The cell is also alive.
01:21:50The cell is still alive.
01:21:53Oh, oh, oh, oh, this ground, oh, will grow, oh, will grow no more, buttercups, oh,
01:22:23God bless you, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
01:22:53Quick mark
01:23:23Oh
01:23:31Oh God
01:23:33Yeah, boy, boy
01:23:35Boy
01:23:53Squad
01:23:55Squad
01:23:57Squad
01:23:59Standing
01:24:01Line
01:24:03Front right, kneel
01:24:05Aim
01:24:11Fire
01:24:23No
01:24:53Isn't it finished yet?
01:24:55No, sir
01:24:57I'm sorry
01:24:59No, sir
01:25:01I'm sorry
01:25:03No, no, no
01:25:05No, no
01:25:07No, no
01:25:09No
01:25:11No
01:25:13No
01:25:15No
01:25:17No
01:25:19No
01:25:21No
01:25:29Hamp
01:25:3010 Gifford Street, Islington, London
01:25:33Deeply regret inform you, Private A.J. Hamp killed in action October 22nd, the Army Council expressed their sympathy
01:25:41Secretary, War Office
01:25:51Non
01:25:53phys
01:26:03And
01:26:05While
01:26:07Has
01:26:09U
01:26:10Been
01:26:12Most
01:26:14Was
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