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[patrick]

Wagon wheel
To the Australian troops it seemed that the British Army were obsessed by discipline. They would never stand for it! On several occasions Australian soldiers sabotaged the Field Punishment No.1 that Tommies were sentenced to, for offences as small as being found drunk, or for wearing dirty clothes when off duty.

Field Punishment meant that the soldier had parade in full pack. Then he had to take the pack off and Military Policemen strapped him up against a wagon wheel. It looked like he was crucified. This happened twice a day, an hour in the morning and an hour at night, and for as many days as the soldier was sentenced to.

It happened that Australian troops, incensed by the sight of a man undergoing Field Punishment No 1, cut the man loose again, and again, and threatened the MP's - with loaded rifles, daring them to truss poor Tommy up again.

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patrick

[passchendaele1917]

Hoi Patrick, blij je te horen (lezen ??)

Jij gaat me toch niet op ideëen brengen zeker ?

Over middeleeuwen gesproken.
Veel gevechtstechnieken en uitrustingen vinden hun oorsprong daar ook.
Wanneer werden voor het laatst sinds de middeleeuwen metalen
helmen gedragen ?
Katapulten, knotsen, goedendags ,borstharnassen en bepantsering.
Het komt allemaal uit de middeleeuwen.
Klint verdraaid raar in de " belle epoque tijd" niet ? Een tijd waar de
mens op technisch gebied enorme vooruitgang boekte.
(zij het dan wel om zijn medemens te kop in te slaan !)

[Yvonne]

Field Punishment No 1

Punishment in the First World War
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[Mirjam]