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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.
00:06:23Handle him.
00:06:31I know.
00:06:34I suppose they think I've let them down, Corp.
00:06:41No.
00:06:45I reckon I'll get a fair trial.
00:06:47Aye.
00:06:49It'll come out all right.
00:06:51Aye, of course it'll come out all right.
00:07:04Well, 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.
00:07:17It 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.
00:07:24Oh, bastard, things are wasted time.
00:07:27If 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.
00:07:34What were you like as a child?
00:07:37The 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, he's bound to know what could happen to him.
00:07:58Have you been talking to him?
00:08:00Yes, sir, a bit.
00:08:01I 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?
00:08:29Trownswood, sir.
00:08:30Warland 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.
00:08:46Subject, of course, to your acceptance.
00:08:50Any objection?
00:08:51Oh, no, sir.
00:08:52I'd like to thank you, sir.
00:08:54It's not as if you have to do it, sir.
00:08:57You don't see any good attention when you're speaking to your officer.
00:09:00I didn't think it mattered, didn't you, sir?
00:09:02Well, it does matter.
00:09:05Put yourself together, will you?
00:09:06Ah, you are.
00:09:15Hamp, Arthur James, 873.
00:09:1773426, sir.
00:09:20Age?
00:09:2123, 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 to try it, sir.
00:09:31Bootmaker.
00:09:32Handmade boots.
00:09:33I'll 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.
00:09:41At what age?
00:09:42Twelve, sir.
00:09:44Started young, as they say.
00:09:46Were you a good one?
00:09:47Oh, yeah, yeah, a good cobbler, yeah.
00:09:49Me father and grandfather was cobblers before I was, so...
00:09:52Me grandfather restarted.
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.
00:10:04Do you understand why I'm asking you these questions?
00:10:09You know best, sir.
00:10:12Right, stand at ease.
00:10:13Sir.
00:10:16I, uh...
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...
00:10:27We never really had a proper home life, sir.
00:10:30Uh...
00:10:31We always lived with our mother.
00:10:33Did you?
00:10:35Were you on, uh...
00:10:37Mr Dunstan?
00:10:38Oh, yes, sir.
00:10:39Were you on good terms with your wife?
00:10:45Has somebody said something to you, sir?
00:10:46Would you mind answering my question?
00:10:47About her wife?
00:10:48Yes.
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.
00:11:07Lives 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.
00:11:26I never thought.
00:11:29It's a pity.
00:11:32Did you, uh...
00:11:34Or 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.
00:11:41Private 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.
00:11:48Yeah, he got killed.
00:11:50Here at Passchendaire.
00:11:51Did I?
00:11:54Uh, did this...
00:11:56Did this trouble with your wife have anything to do with the...
00:12:00With, um...
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.
00:12:11Uh...
00:12:16Let's see.
00:12:20This 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?
00:12:29You can believe me, sir.
00:12:34It'll come out all right, sir.
00:12:38Why did you volunteer?
00:12:40King and country.
00:12:43Sir.
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.
00:12:54Yeah, I reckon it was that more than anything else.
00:12:56I wanted to surprise them.
00:12:59They got a surprise in all when I told them.
00:13:02And, of course, uh...
00:13:04We didn't know what it was gonna be like, did we?
00:13:08Well, I...
00:13:10I didn't think about it too much, but I suppose...
00:13:13You 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...
00:13:18My sort and most of the lads.
00:13:22But we was wrong.
00:13:25Up there were...
00:13:27It's worse than anything, innit?
00:13:29It's no worse for you than anyone else.
00:13:31I know that, I know that.
00:13:33I'm only talking about it because you were asking me.
00:13:36All 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?
00:13:48Hard.
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...
00:14:03The fellas I come out with...
00:14:05Do you know, there's none of them left except me.
00:14:09Luce.
00:14:12Luce, that was the first one.
00:14:14Yeah, it was a long time, that one.
00:14:19Trownswood.
00:14:22Gommie Corp.
00:14:25Warland Court.
00:14:27Yeah.
00:14:29And now this one here.
00:14:31Passion died.
00:14:34Worse than anything.
00:14:43Have you been wounded?
00:14:51Not properly, sir.
00:14:53I 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.
00:15:02Of course, you hear the fellas wishing they could lose an arm or a leg.
00:15:06Same as everybody else, I've heard of some of the lads that have tried it on themselves.
00:15:11Have you tried it?
00:15:15Sir?
00:15:17Have 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, but we never did.
00:15:27It wasn't long after that that Willie's number came up.
00:15:34When here?
00:15:36Oh.
00:15:38Oh, sorry, I'm so sorry, sorry.
00:15:41I'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, Hap.
00:15:52What will?
00:15:53Sergeant, get the rest of your platoon outside with their gear.
00:15:55Pretty lousy.
00:15:56Yes, sir, out.
00:15:57Right, sir.
00:15:58Now, shoot out, pretty lousy!
00:16:00All out, pretty lousy!
00:16:02Come on!
00:16:03Come on!
00:16:04Out!
00:16:05Come on, outside, pretty lousy!
00:16:06Outside with all your gear, pretty lousy!
00:16:07Come on, out!
00:16:08Captain Albreeds, prisoner's friend.
00:16:10Prisoner's friend, fair trial.
00:16:15Fair trial and a quick death, very funny.
00:16:18Well, no, my friend.
00:16:19Well, no, no, no.
00:16:20No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:16:23With all your gear, pretty lousy. Come on, out!
00:16:29Captain Hargreeves, prisoner's friend.
00:16:32Prisoner's friend, fair trial.
00:16:34Fair trial and a quick death. Very funny.
00:16:37Didn't you think it was funny?
00:16:39Not funny if you're in hampshoes.
00:16:53Rediffuser, I told you he was a strange one, sir.
00:17:05Attend to that, will you?
00:17:12I wouldn't be in hampshoes.
00:17:14If I'd done it, I wouldn't have got caught.
00:17:18Right! Get your picks and jewels!
00:17:21I've got a job for you!
00:17:23First to hang in when he's got it.
00:17:26Got it, Sheriff.
00:17:28Oh, God.
00:17:29First to hang in.
00:17:30Hang 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 wasn't really thinking about it, sir, one way or the other.
00:17:57I just couldn't stand it anymore.
00:18:00Won't the first time, sir.
00:18:01What?
00:18:02What?
00:18:03Well, l-l-l nearly did it once before.
00:18:05I mean, l-l-l thought of it.
00:18:06Time of war and court.
00:18:09I got sent back on a water party.
00:18:11l-l was thinking they'd get any way,
00:18:13but an MP got his eye on me, so l-l didn't.
00:18:17And that was all?
00:18:18Yes, sir.
00:18:21Supposing the others had, uh, cleared off
00:18:23and left you on your own at Loose or Thrones Wood?
00:18:27I don't think it could have been much worse, sir.
00:18:33Fine, well, forget about that.
00:18:36Now, 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-out.
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-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
00:19:05with his pack on and everything.
00:19:07Well, l-l didn't help him. Nobody did. It's laid down.
00:19:09So, of course, when l-l-l gets in the mud,
00:19:11l thought that was my lot, see?
00:19:12l-l'm gonna drown in it like he did.
00:19:15S-s-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?
00:19:28Yes, 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 can't say anything different.
00:19:39l couldn't stand it anymore.
00:19:40What, even without a battalion?
00:19:41It didn't matter where l was, sir.
00:19:43Any 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.
00:19:50He gave me extra rum.
00:19:53Did you say anything to him about it?
00:19:54Oh, not much.
00:19:55There's nothing l could expect a gentleman in his position to do,
00:19:58except what he did.
00:19:59Give him the extra rum.
00:20:01It wouldn't have made any difference to what l did on you.
00:20:03I wasn't gonna go back.
00:20:06You mean you planned it?
00:20:07No, sir, no.
00:20:10I didn't have a plan.
00:20:11l haven't got the sense, have l?
00:20:14Maybe one time l would have had the sense, but...
00:20:17not...
00:20:20No, it was like being dead, sir.
00:20:22And why did you wait ten days?
00:20:24Oh, l don't know, sir.
00:20:25I didn't have a plan.
00:20:27l went to the MR that time, yeah.
00:20:30And what did Dr. O'Sullivan say to you?
00:20:32He gave me a number nine, sir, for me bowels.
00:20:35I spit it out when he wasn't looking.
00:20:39Maybe there was some sort of medicine would have helped me,
00:20:41but 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,
00:20:49l 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 stop me diarrhoea,
00:21:07stop me shaking, help me sleep.
00:21:10l wouldn't have made any difference to what l did,
00:21:12l knew l wasn't going to 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?
00:21:22No, sir.
00:21:24Then what did decide you?
00:21:26l don't know, l just started walking,
00:21:29walking 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,
00:21:39l got it into my head that l was making for home.
00:21:42Islington, you know.
00:21:44Home.
00:21:47Didn't make any sense, but that's what l got in my head.
00:21:52Oh, l must have walked a long way, cos l remember.
00:21:54l took me boots off and me big towel was bleeding.
00:22:00Then l was in a cart sitting on some potatoes.
00:22:05Then l was in a train,
00:22:07and some fellows was playing cards.
00:22:11And l was walking again.
00:22:15Then l was talking to this priest,
00:22:18but he was foreign, l didn't know what he was talking about.
00:22:21l was like a dream, sir.
00:22:25l 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?
00:22:47Well, just about me being a deserter,
00:22:51and l heard one of them sign to the other about it being a shooting job.
00:22:58Nothing else.
00:23:00Well, you see, there's nobody left in that company
00:23:03that's been out here as long as me, so he can't shoot me.
00:23:06lt's likely that you'll be found guilty of desertion.
00:23:09And l'd be failing in my duty if l left the least shadow of doubt in your mind as to the consequences.
00:23:15Well, l don't reckon l'll get off, sir, but they can't shoot me.
00:23:19Unless l can convince the court that you were acting under extraordinary strain
00:23:23at the time that you committed this crime,
00:23:25you will almost certainly be sentenced to death.
00:23:29This was the first time, sir.
00:23:32Mr. Webb, sir, he said l hadn't been a bad soldier.
00:23:34He might say the same to them if he was asked.
00:23:36Yes, he might.
00:23:40Yeah, l thought that was worth mentioning, sir.
00:23:42Yeah.
00:23:43Do you think of anything else that's worth mentioning?
00:23:46Uh...
00:23:48No, sir, no.
00:23:51Did l tell you about Willie?
00:23:53Bryson, 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...
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.
00:24:15Uh, it wasn't the first time l'd seen a man blunt a bit, of course.
00:24:20He 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.
00:24:25But 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,
00:24:34and now Willie's nowhere.
00:24:36Except over me.
00:24:38Oh, l...
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.
00:24:52I might as well ask you now.
00:24:55If they were lenient enough to send you to prison,
00:25:01could you be relied upon to do your duty when you came out?
00:25:04Well, l'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?
00:25:30Could you?
00:25:31Could you?
00:25:33Can you tell me, sir?
00:25:39Can you tell me anyway of being sure?
00:26:01Well, the prisoner's ready, sir.
00:26:02It shouldn't take long, sir.
00:26:03It's a bad business.
00:26:05Who's in charge of the, uh, maker formalities, sir?
00:26:08One thing at a time, Sergeant Major.
00:26:09Yes, sir.
00:26:11Yes, sir.
00:26:12Yes, sir.
00:26:14Come on, sir.
00:26:16Come on, sir.
00:26:18Well, the prisoner's ready, sir.
00:26:19It 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.
00:26:40Come on.
00:27:02Give us that with this.
00:27:04What is it?
00:27:05Horse or mule?
00:27:06Pig.
00:27:12If we was left to ourselves, now we'd all be home in bed, haven't we?
00:27:15Yeah, but I didn't say anything about that.
00:27:16How, wouldn't we?
00:27:17You can't win no more lying in bed, can you?
00:27:19No, but...
00:27:20So you do what you're told.
00:27:25Doesn't make sense.
00:27:26That's not our fault, is it?
00:27:29Keep an eye open, cop.
00:27:31Pity to waste it on that lot.
00:27:32Where's the best bit?
00:27:33This bit.
00:27:34Chopper.
00:27:35Knife.
00:27:44Mm.
00:27:45Dixie.
00:27:50Right.
00:27:51Well, now we'll see what we can do for our officers.
00:27:55About, sir, Gavin.
00:27:57How's them?
00:27:59I'd have got him all spruced up, like for his wedding.
00:28:01Cut himself shaving, of course.
00:28:02Well, if they shoot him, we won't have to bury him.
00:28:05We'll just push him over and watch him sink.
00:28:07They won't do it.
00:28:09Do you really get off, then?
00:28:10Yes.
00:28:11No.
00:28:12I think he's had it.
00:28:13I'm afraid he's had it, you know.
00:28:16Yeah.
00:28:17Yeah.
00:28:23He's 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.
00:28:33My interest is purely personal.
00:28:34I don't want my men used as a firing squad.
00:28:36And I certainly don't want to be the judge of bloody sabre
00:28:39who has to shout fire.
00:28:40Why 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 purge myself from the man if you like.
00:28:50Truth will do.
00:28:51Good luck, my Lenny friend.
00:28:54Oh, we're back!
00:28:55Yeah!
00:28:56Come on, come on!
00:29:01Come on, come on!
00:29:06Let me out!
00:29:07Am I coming?
00:29:09Princess Gordon!
00:29:11Halt!
00:29:13Right turn!
00:29:15I am Pabble.
00:29:21You're good!
00:29:22You're good!
00:29:23You're good!
00:29:24I am Mabble.
00:29:25We have to try!
00:29:26We have to try!
00:29:27Then you'll be trying.
00:29:28Quick, move!
00:29:29Then you're back!
00:29:30Come on!
00:29:31I want you to try!
00:29:33You're here!
00:29:35Then you to try!
00:29:37I'm going to take the torch!
00:29:40We have to try!
00:29:42We have to try!
00:29:44To try!
00:29:47For you!
00:29:49Try!
00:29:51Let's go on!
00:29:52Halt!
00:29:54Direction!
00:29:58873-426, 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 873-426, Private Hamp, Arthur James, soldier of the regular forces.
00:30:15You'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
00:30:27for approximately 0700 hours on October the 10th this year
00:30:31at a place called Jackdaw Tunnel until 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.
00:30:43Speed up!
00:30:45Not guilty, sir.
00:30:47Well, I have to ask you if you object to any members of the court,
00:30:51myself or either of these two officers.
00:30:55I'm surprised, sir, that as convening officer, you're also president of the court-martial.
00:30:59There are no other field officers available, Captain Hargraves. I must appoint myself.
00:31:03Are you making a formal objection?
00:31:05No, sir.
00:31:07May I stand at ease, Private Hamp?
00:31:09I've spoken to Captain Midgley, and we've agreed that I won't speak the facts of the case.
00:31:14So all the witnesses will be called by the defense.
00:31:16Good. I will save the court's time.
00:31:22I submit that the prisoner absented himself at a time when, because of his mental health, he was not fully responsible for his actions.
00:31:28Mental health, Captain Hargraves?
00:31:30Do you mean that the prisoner is lunatic?
00:31:32No, sir.
00:31:33Or mentally deficient?
00:31:34No, sir.
00:31:36There must be hundreds of thousands of men who are in an unhappy mental state,
00:31:40but who have not absented themselves from their duty.
00:31:45I realize that, sir, fully. I assure you.
00:31:49Are you ready for your first witness?
00:31:51Yes, sir.
00:31:56Call Corporal Hamilton.
00:31:57Corporal Hamilton.
00:31:58Corporal Hamilton!
00:31:59Sir!
00:32:06Hold 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.
00:32:13I 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.
00:32:19Corporal Hamilton, I believe that you apprehended the prisoner.
00:32:21Yes, sir.
00:32:22What did he say to you?
00:32:23Not much, sir.
00:32:25Only...
00:32:27Well, he tried to tell us he was going on leave, of course.
00:32:29Yes.
00:32:30Sergeant going on leave is required to carry with him a full pack and equipment, is he not?
00:32:34Yes, sir.
00:32:36And the prisoner was carrying?
00:32:38Gas 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.
00:32:45Rather a silly story, wasn't it?
00:32:47Yes, 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.
00:32:55A remote, Mary and Mary.
00:32:58Mary Mary.
00:32:59No, no.
00:33:00How did you get it all wrong?
00:33:02No, you see what it was.
00:33:06It was a dream.
00:33:07It was just a dream.
00:33:08It was just a dream.
00:33:14Why?
00:33:15Sure not.
00:33:16It's a sort of sex.
00:33:17Gives us a day off, though, doesn't it?
00:33:42I'm not going up to the front and leave that bastard behind me alive!
00:33:47Come on! Bloody, bloody...
00:33:57Corporal Hamilton, I presume that during the course of your duty
00:34:00you have arrested other deserters, other men who have sent themselves from service.
00:34:05Yes, sir. Quite a few, sir.
00:34:06Did any of them behave in the same way as this prisoner?
00:34:09Much the same, sir.
00:34:10In particular, did some of them, to use your own words,
00:34:12did some of them appear to you to be stupid or behaving as if in a day?
00:34:16Yes, sir, I suppose, sir.
00:34:19In short, was there anything remarkable or extraordinary about this prisoner compared with others?
00:34:25I mean, if there had been something extraordinary, you would have thought about it, wouldn't you?
00:34:30The thing that surprised me, sir, was how he got so far as us.
00:34:33By rights, he shouldn't have had a hope.
00:34:36He must have been through places thick with patrols, like 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?
00:34:48That's all, Corporal. No more questions, thank you, sir.
00:34:51Look at that. There must be dozens of them in there.
00:35:08And too full to be nippy. Shall I jump on it?
00:35:11No.
00:35:25Right. When I say no, thump the belly.
00:35:31Now!
00:35:32No!
00:35:33No!
00:35:40Captain O'Sullivan, do you remember the prisoner reporting sick to you on or about October the 8th of this year?
00:35:45On the 7th, yes. I looked it up.
00:35:48And what did he complain?
00:35:52I remember quite clearly. He complained of nerves.
00:35:56Nerves? He didn't tell you that he was finding it impossible to sleep?
00:36:00He may have. Yes, I believe he did.
00:36:02But you didn't take this very seriously?
00:36:04No. It'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?
00:36:21No.
00:36:22Why not?
00:36:24Seems a permissible question.
00:36:26Why not?
00:36:27Why didn't you believe him when he said he couldn't sleep?
00:36:29I didn't say I didn't believe that.
00:36:32Very well.
00:36:34Of what other symptoms did he complain?
00:36:36I said he was off of food. I said he was feeling a bit shaky.
00:36:39Shaky.
00:36:40Uncontrollable bouts of trembling?
00:36:42I don't know about uncontrollable.
00:36:45You don't know about it, but did you bother to find out?
00:36:48Are you challenging my competence?
00:36:50I don't want to interfere with your defence, Captain Hargraves, but must you attack the witness?
00:36:55It's not Captain O'Sullivan's competence which is at stake, sir. It'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?
00:37:16Not in so many words. Of course he didn't.
00:37:19How 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? I haven't got time for everyone's emotional problems.
00:37:39But you were sure that an interview of five or ten minutes was sufficient for this case?
00:37:44Yes.
00:37:45Why were you so sure?
00:37:47Experience. My own judgment, of course, experience.
00:37:56And you usually prescribe the same treatment?
00:37:59More or less, more or less.
00:38:02Laxative pills.
00:38:03A 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, were laxative pills in the slightest degree relevant to what was wrong with this man?
00:38:16There was nothing wrong with him.
00:38:18And I told him so.
00:38:19Did you?
00:38:20What 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.
00:38:27I told him he'd be all right, back to normal.
00:38:30I told him to try to eat, try to get some sleep.
00:38:33What else could I say?
00:38:35I told him to pull himself together.
00:38:37Has the incidence of medical reports of this sort been growing recently?
00:38:40I haven't got time for statistics.
00:38:43Or diagnoses it is.
00:38:44No, 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 to pull himself together.
00:39:17Or on the other, he cannot.
00:39:19Is 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.
00:39:30Do you, sir?
00:39:32Then what are we here for?
00:39:34A mock trial!
00:39:37That remark's entirely improper, Captain Hargraves.
00:39:44I apologize, sir.
00:39:47Proceed.
00:39:54Does the term shell shock have an exact medical meaning?
00:40:02Yes, 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.
00:40:12It is not my job to maintain a bedroom!
00:40:15God 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?
00:40:24What I'm asking is...
00:40:26Is there 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!
00:40:34Frank, miserable punk!
00:40:35Nothing more or less!
00:40:37Are you sure?
00:40:39Yes!
00:40:49I ask you most earnestly...
00:40:54Are you absolutely sure of that?
00:40:57How 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!
00:41:13He might just as well have tried to clear a German trench single-handed.
00:41:26Is it not obvious to you...
00:41:29that 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?
00:41:40Captain O'Sullivan?
00:41:42No, sir.
00:41:53Captain Medgley.
00:41:55Yes, 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.
00:42:06In view of the speculation we have heard, will you now tell the court in your own words what that conclusion was?
00:42:13Yes.
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?
00:42:32Thank you, Captain O'Sullivan.
00:42:33Captain O'Sullivan.
00:42:41Were you in the area between our billet and the cookhouse at 1500 hours today?
00:42:46Yes, she admits she was in the area between our billet and the cookhouse at 1500 hours today.
00:42:50Right, did you or did you not call up to Private Sparrow and take the bite out of his ear hole?
00:42:59No, he did not call up to Private Sparrow and take the bite out of his ear hole.
00:43:04Right, and one last question.
00:43:05If 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?
00:43:20You've been telling a lot of bloody lies, haven't you?
00:43:31No. No, I haven't been telling a lot of bloody lies.
00:43:37You're just an ordinary rat who only eats dead flesh.
00:43:41Hmm?
00:43:44Hmm? I'm just a normal rat.
00:43:47Well 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?
00:44:04He's crying.
00:44:05And after that his nerve had gone?
00:44:13Absolutely.
00:44:15I imagine that there were others of your men in a similar condition at that time, were there not?
00:44:19Well, he must have been in a worse way than the others, sir.
00:44:22But we don't know that he was in any worse condition than his comrades.
00:44:26We 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.
00:44:31Continue.
00:44:33Was the prisoner popular in his platoon?
00:44:35Oh, yes.
00:44:36He always shared anything he had.
00:44:39And he's the nearest we've got left now to have found a member, of course.
00:44:43And he...
00:44:44Yes?
00:44:46Well, I was just going to say...
00:44:49I don't suppose it matters, but...
00:44:51He brewed a damn good cup of tea.
00:44:57Was he a good soldier before this happened?
00:44:59First class.
00:45:00Yes.
00:45:02Fair enough.
00:45:03Not a born soldier, but first class.
00:45:05And you were surprised when you heard that he'd, uh, absconded?
00:45:07Oh, yes, I was.
00:45:08From what you know of him, do 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.
00:45:23Very singularly blank.
00:45:24Neither good nor bad.
00:45:25His principal talent as a soldier seems to be in staying alive.
00:45:30Well, surely we're not trying man for staying alive, are we? The war hasn't got to that stage, has it?
00:45:35Mr. Webb.
00:45:36Hargraves here.
00:45:37He's the sole survivor of an assault on the sun. They 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, did 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.
00:46:17I'd much prefer a man to boat beforehand rather than crack up under fire in danger of the whole platoon.
00:46:23Mr. Webb, isn'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.
00:46:45Thank you, Mr. Webb. No more questions, thank you, sir.
00:46:48Very well.
00:46:54We'll do another question.
00:46:56Let's go.
00:47:20Got it!
00:47:22Got it!
00:47:24Broke it!
00:47:25Bloody back!
00:47:27It'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,
00:47:42did it stay in your mind after you'd been rescued from the mud?
00:47:46Not in the same way, sir, no.
00:47:48So it wasn't the devil.
00:47:50It wasn't the devil.
00:47:52It wasn't the devil.
00:47:54Why did you run away?
00:47:56I didn't run, sir.
00:47:57I walked.
00:47:58I just started walking.
00:48:00I don't know why.
00:48:04It's not true to say, is it,
00:48:06that you deliberately decided to deserve it.
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.
00:48:17No, I was hoping that you wouldn't get me caught, sir.
00:48:19But you really 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, sir, not really.
00:48:33I just wanted to get left alone for a bit, I saw.
00:48:36Private Hampton, 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 don't remember anything very clearly, is it?
00:48:49That's right, sir, yeah.
00:48:51You had no clear plan or reason in your mind, did you?
00:48:55I just started going, sir.
00:48:57You know, I couldn't hurt myself.
00:49:04Like you told me to say, sir, I was acting under extraordinary strength.
00:49:12I can't think of anything else, sir.
00:49:16Is it all right if I ask you a question, sir?
00:49:18Yes, carry on.
00:49:20Well, I'd sooner you tell them, sir.
00:49:22You know more about it than me.
00:49:25All right.
00:49:27Are we any more questions, Captain Hargraves?
00:49:31Captain Midgley.
00:49:33Private Hampton,
00:49:35did you know you were doing wrong when you deserted?
00:49:38If anybody tried to stop me, I'd have 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.
00:50:18Well, let me put this to you quite simply.
00:50:21Did you know what you were doing?
00:50:24I... I knew what I was doing, sir.
00:50:26And you realised that you were leaving your comrades at that post
00:50:28who were prepared to do their duty while you deserted them?
00:50:32Didn't you?
00:50:34Didn't you?
00:50:35I've never done this before, sir.
00:50:36This was the first time.
00:50:37No 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?
00:50:59No, sir.
00:51:01I will address the court on its behalf.
00:51:07The prisoner, when he did the thing for which he's being tried,
00:51:10was no longer responsible for his actions.
00:51:13This court is responsible for its actions.
00:51:15It has not lost possession of itself.
00:51:17This court knows clearly what it's doing.
00:51:19This court has the power to choose.
00:51:22Private 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,
00:51:34which made him a bad witness in his own case.
00:51:37He could have put a bullet through his leg
00:51:38and 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,
00:51:54runs away to save his own skin
00:51:56and leaves his fellows to do the fighting and the dying for him.
00:51:59This man is not a deserter.
00:52:02He volunteered.
00:52:04He volunteered because his wife and her mother dared him to.
00:52:09Never mind.
00:52:11He volunteered.
00:52:13He's been out here for three years, longer if I may say so,
00:52:15than some of us have been.
00:52:18He's seen it all.
00:52:20A man can only take so much.
00:52:24So much blood.
00:52:26So much filth.
00:52:28So much dying.
00:52:32In 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.
00:52:41He hadn't got the power to decide whether to stay or to go.
00:52:44He 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.
00:53:00So much so that we no longer ask each other why they're being fired.
00:53:03Is this war so old, and are we so old in it, that we've forgotten it?
00:53:15Are we not fighting to preserve some notion of decency?
00:53:19Some notion of justice.
00:53:23To preserve for this court the right to choose.
00:53:30I beg to remind the court that if justice is not done to one man,
00:53:33then other men are dying for nothing.
00:53:34I beg to remind the court that if justice is not done to one man,
00:53:41then other men are dying for nothing.
00:53:43Then other men are dying for nothing.
00:54:08Matter of opinion.
00:54:13Mr. Prescott,
00:54:16will you as our legal member advise the court on the law?
00:54:19Mr. 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.
00:54:32The 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.
00:54:44It 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.
00:54:59You 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 desert,
00:55:12and you believe that he merely went absent without leave
00:55:15and intended to return after a few days,
00:55:17you will give a verdict accordingly.
00:55:19On 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,
00:55:32neither 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.
00:55:53We will proceed immediately to our discussion of the case.
00:55:56I am sure!
00:55:58Captain Hargraves.
00:56:04Escort! For the right of the prisoner!
00:56:07Let's go!
00:56:09Turn!
00:56:10We march!
00:56:11There we are!
00:56:12Left right!
00:56:13Left right!
00:56:29Thanks for cutting my throat, old boy.
00:56:30Well, you were ever doing it a bit. I couldn't help it.
00:56:32I thought there was a great deal in what you said, if I may say so.
00:56:36You did very well, Hargraves. I hope you got him off.
00:56:39I hope so too.
00:56:40But you know, a proper court is concerned with law.
00:56:42It's a bit amateur to plead for justice.
00:56:55What do you want now, then?
00:56:57Have you seen my rifle caught?
00:57:00Now, why would you be wanting that?
00:57:02Well, I just thought I might give it a clean, you know.
00:57:05Something to do.
00:57:13The way they 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.
00:57:33Yes, not my fault, is it?
00:57:36Right, guard!
00:57:37Captain!
00:57:40Right, Will!
00:57:48Help yourself, Mr. Morris.
00:57:49Stand easy, Mr. Prescott.
00:57:54Um...
00:57:55Mr. Morris wishes to know whether we can find the prisoner guilty
00:57:59and recommend mercy.
00:58:01Well, yes sir, you may.
00:58:03And 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...
00:58:19emphasize 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.
00:58:28And then send it off for confirmation.
00:58:30Right, gentlemen.
00:58:43Well, no, nothing for a bit yet.
00:58:44He's got to go to the generals and that lot.
00:58:45Well, it'd be a week then.
00:58:46They're all pinned down in Paris, you know.
00:58:48What's that thinking, I wonder?
00:58:49If he's got any sense, he's not thinking.
00:58:51Well, whatever happens, he's not going up the line again.
00:58:52Do you know what he said when he got back?
00:58:53They're taking a lot of trouble over me.
00:58:54He feels bloody honored, he does.
00:58:55Oh, he is.
00:58:56They're taking 24 hours for a while.
00:58:5724 hours to kill him, Jerry.
00:58:58Wouldn't take that long, eh?
00:58:59Here, get the glass house.
00:59:01I'm going to take the glass house.
00:59:06I'm going to take the glass house.
00:59:08Hey, I'm going to take the glass house.
00:59:10And then I'm going to take my glass house.
00:59:12And then I'm going to take my glass house.
00:59:14You've got to be a big buy-out.
00:59:15You've got to be a big buy-out.
00:59:17And then, they're all pinned down in Paris, you know.
00:59:19What's that thinking, I wonder?
00:59:20If he's got any sense, he's not thinking.
00:59:22Well, whatever happens, he's knocking up the line again.
00:59:23Do you know what he said when he got back?
00:59:24They're taking a lot of trouble over me.
00:59:25They're just bloody honored, he does.
00:59:26I don't know if he's allowed, sir, but he says he'd like to see you.
00:59:33Who?
00:59:34Private Hump, sir.
00:59:35Would that be legal, Mr. Prescott?
00:59:38Well, I'm afraid it'd be highly irregular, sir.
00:59:41It would be kind.
00:59:47All right, I'm coming.
00:59:49All right, I'm coming.
01:00:06Yes, messages for the Colonel, sir.
01:00:08I see. Come with me.
01:00:16Excuse me, sir. Message, sir.
01:00:18Ah, thank you, Mr. Webb.
01:00:24Go and get yourself something to eat, Corporal.
01:00:26Thank you, sir.
01:00:34Gentlemen, your attention, please.
01:00:36The battalion will be moving into the line tomorrow morning at 0600 hours.
01:00:40We will be reinforcing a battalion of the Munster Fusiliers.
01:00:44Captain Cartwright, would you ask all company commanders
01:00:46to come to my billet after dinner at 0600 hours?
01:00:50Right, sir.
01:00:51Thank you, gentlemen.
01:01:16Good morning, sir.
01:01:17Thank you, Mr.
01:01:17Well, Ann.
01:01:18You're welcome.
01:01:19Up on theаноasily.
01:01:20All right, sir.
01:01:22Well, Ann.
01:01:23Well, Ann, you're welcome, Mr.
01:01:27Wilhelm?
01:01:28Stand it.
01:01:29Uh, it's just that I'd like to thank you, sir, in case, uh, well, you know, I expect
01:01:51I'll get put in military prison, you know, and, uh, in case I don't see you for a while,
01:01:57well, we, uh, we don't know where you would be put, if you're put anywhere.
01:02:06Well, anyway, sir, I wouldn't like to miss thanking you.
01:02:10You, uh, you've taught me a lot of things, sir, and I'm very grateful.
01:02:14Have I?
01:02:17Rather too late, I fear.
01:02:20All right, thank you.
01:02:27You, uh, you haven't heard anything, have you, sir?
01:02:32No.
01:02:33I mean, after what you said, I couldn't help but, uh, well, it was the truth.
01:02:39That's what I'm trying to say.
01:02:41Nearly everything you said.
01:02:42I could never have said it.
01:02:43You know what I mean, sir?
01:02:44It was my duty to say it.
01:02:45Oh, I don't know about that, sir.
01:02:46It was my duty.
01:02:47If you'd remembered your duty, none of this idiotic rigmarole would have been necessary.
01:02:51Now, she'll get that into your head.
01:02:58Don't thank me for doing my duty.
01:03:03I had to.
01:03:04Just as you should have done yours.
01:03:08Yes, sir.
01:03:11It's nice if I haven't thought about it, sir. I have. I know what they could do to me.
01:03:31It's just that I wouldn't be thinking I stood a chance if it hadn't been for you.
01:03:41With your permission, sir.
01:03:52Private Hamp, A.J., 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.
01:04:08You will suffer death by shooting on Thursday, October the 22nd at 0530 hours.
01:04:30When's that, sir?
01:04:32Tomorrow?
01:04:37No.
01:06:13Uh, no, thank you, sir.
01:06:15Would you excuse me now, sir?
01:06:17Yes, of course.
01:06:17Thank you, sir.
01:06:18There's some hay over there.
01:06:42There's some hay over there.
01:06:48There's some hay over there.
01:06:58I'm going to pick a bottle, sir.
01:07:28I'm short on ceremony, aren't we?
01:07:38Yes, sir. I had too much of that today.
01:07:44You know the verdict?
01:07:48Just now.
01:07:51You've lost.
01:07:58We're bloody murderers. Don't be idiotic, Charles. Pull yourself together. Pull yourself together. Pull yourself together. That's what they said to him today. Pull yourself together. You're talking like the bloody doctor. Aren't we rather overstepping?
01:08:22All right, all right, all right.
01:08:27I'm sorry.
01:08:41But, uh, why?
01:08:46Actually, why?
01:08:48Why?
01:08:49Hmm.
01:08:51Was it O'Sullivan's evidence?
01:08:53Oh, he's an idiot.
01:08:57Was it my friend?
01:09:01I, I, I did my best.
01:09:04Very eloquent, Charles. But nothing to do with the facts.
01:09:08Facts, facts, Barence.
01:09:10Don't shoot that poor little bastard simply because he went for a walk.
01:09:14That's what it was, you know?
01:09:17It was a technical desertion, but it's just a, a bloody little walk, really.
01:09:25And you know it.
01:09:31Don't you?
01:09:32These facts.
01:09:33Your battalion moving up tomorrow.
01:09:37Important to maintain morale.
01:09:39Sentence of death to be carried out immediately.
01:09:43Oh, my God.
01:09:45Oh, my God.
01:09:51Poor Uncorrigé.
01:09:53Has it ever encouraged anyone?
01:09:58Discouraged anyone?
01:10:00Of course it has.
01:10:05Are you sure?
01:10:06No, not quite.
01:10:30Who's in charge tomorrow?
01:10:32Jack Webb.
01:10:34His man, his platoon, his mistake.
01:10:36Teach him a lesson.
01:10:38By the way, I've, I've written the next of kin letter.
01:10:41Would you mind giving it to Webb as you go out?
01:11:02There's a pauper's cleft behind me.
01:11:11And it's treading on my tail.
01:11:14Huh?
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,
01:11:29the dates which made me will be all forgotten.
01:11:47What?
01:11:48Amp!
01:11:50Amp!
01:11:54Amp!
01:11:58Amp!
01:12:02Is that you, Corb?
01:12:03Aye.
01:12:04Now listen, Amp.
01:12:06Wilson and your lot, they've been nicking some room.
01:12:09Aye.
01:12:11We've got some other good stuff on all, mate.
01:12:14Thinking about to booze up tonight, you know.
01:12:17Well, I thought you were bringing it.
01:12:18How?
01:12:19Well, where's Westerville?
01:12:20Coming.
01:12:22You get into trouble?
01:12:23Nah.
01:12:24To hell with that man.
01:12:26All right.
01:12:27All right.
01:12:29Get some rectal booze going here, and I'll tell you.
01:12:32Shut the door.
01:12:36Hey, on me, I'm done. I haven't got this.
01:12:37Come on.
01:12:39Give it.
01:12:40Here.
01:12:41What's this for then? Somebody's birthday?
01:12:42Ha, ha, ha.
01:12:43Shh.
01:12:45Ha, ha, ha.
01:12:46Shh.
01:12:47Ha, ha, ha.
01:12:48Ha, ha.
01:12:50Ha, ha, ha.
01:12:53Ha, ha, ha.
01:12:55Ha, ha.
01:12:57Ha, ha.
01:12:58Ha, ha.
01:12:59Come on.
01:13:01Oh, come on.
01:13:02Come on, the other way, honey.
01:13:03Where are you?
01:13:04Come on.
01:13:05Get out of here.
01:13:07Is he very religious?
01:13:35I don't think so.
01:13:37Official C of E, but...
01:13:39You'll be staying with him right through the night?
01:13:41Of course, if he's willing.
01:13:43Yes, well, I've laid on something which might prove just as useful.
01:13:48How does the idea strike you?
01:13:50It's not for me to say.
01:13:53Well, I've spoken to the CO.
01:13:55It's left to his discretion and he's left it to me.
01:13:58So, he said, he said, that man in bed with my wife was me.
01:14:16Oh, God.
01:14:20Oh, God.
01:14:21Oh, God.
01:14:22Oh, God.
01:14:24Oh, God.
01:14:26Oh, God.
01:14:27Oh, God.
01:14:28Oh, God.
01:14:30Oh, God.
01:14:31Oh, God.
01:14:32Oh, God.
01:14:33Well, there's no disgrace.
01:14:35No disgrace at all.
01:14:39You today gone tomorrow.
01:14:41Well, it doesn't matter who kills you, does it?
01:14:45Well, you know, you've lived a long life, Antman.
01:14:50And you do.
01:14:52You rot in the mud and that's that.
01:14:56Doesn't matter what anyone bloody well thinks about it, does it?
01:15:01Hey, we're all moving up soon.
01:15:05We'll be in the same boat as you are.
01:15:08We'll all be rightful before long.
01:15:17Last drinky bottle.
01:15:20Who's gonna get it?
01:15:25You'd think I was entitled to it.
01:15:38It's your fear.
01:15:39It's your fear.
01:15:40It's your fear.
01:15:44Oh, God.
01:15:45Oh, no.
01:15:46What's that?
01:15:48Oh, hey, wait.
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!
01:15:57C'mon!
01:15:59C'mon!
01:16:01C'mon!
01:16:03C'mon!
01:16:05ç·š
01:16:27Give it here.
01:16:43Shut up!
01:16:52Here, have a nice one.
01:16:57Where are you, you bastards?
01:17:27Will 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, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him.
01:18:01For whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
01:18:08Our Lord Jesus Christ, who has lacked power to his church to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in him of his great mercy,
01:18:17forgives thee thine offences.
01:18:19And by his authority committed to me, I absolve thee from all thy sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
01:18:34We do not presume to come to this thy table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies.
01:18:43We 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.
01:18:53Grant 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, and our souls washed through his most precious blood,
01:19:09and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us. Amen.
01:19:23The 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.
01:19:51The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is excellent.
01:20:21And where's the cell, Pajray?
01:20:28Here.
01:20:31All that's here is a few hours of bloody nothing.
01:20:36And where's the cell, Pajray?
01:20:40Here.
01:20:43All that's here is a few hours of bloody nothing.
01:20:51All right.
01:21:21All right.
01:21:26Let's go.
01:21:32All right.
01:21:36Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, this, this crown.
01:22:06Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
01:22:36Let's go.
01:23:06Oh
01:23:36Quad
01:23:38Squat
01:23:40Squat
01:23:54Squat
01:23:56Standing
01:23:58Line
01:24:00Front right
01:24:02Fire!
01:24:06Fire!
01:24:30No.
01:24:32No.
01:24:52Isn't it finished yet?
01:24:54No, sir.
01:24:56I'm sorry.
01:24:58No.
01:24:59No.
01:25:00No.
01:25:01No.
01:25:02No.
01:25:03No.
01:25:04No.
01:25:05No.
01:25:06No.
01:25:07No.
01:25:08No.
01:25:09No.
01:25:10No.
01:25:11No.
01:25:12No.
01:25:13No.
01:25:22No.
01:25:2310 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.
01:25:53Secretary, War Office.
01:26:11Secretary, War Office.
01:26:16Secretary, BAR Munho & Progress.
01:26:22Secretary, War Office of Publicüne heritage.
01:26:29Secretary, War Office.
01:26:46You
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