keithmroberts Posted 27 February , 2015 Share Posted 27 February , 2015 Can we keep this d on topic please. Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 27 February , 2015 Share Posted 27 February , 2015 Can we keep this d on topic please. Keith Which d is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithmroberts Posted 27 February , 2015 Share Posted 27 February , 2015 Sorry - Keith typo Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 27 February , 2015 Share Posted 27 February , 2015 I thought it might be better to discuss the ratio of Officers/Other ranks VC awards elsewhere, and so I`ve spent the day going through them all and have placed the figures here: http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=225094#entry2232708 We had rather gone off track..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jainvince Posted 14 June , 2021 Share Posted 14 June , 2021 On another post are details of Fred Stead of Littleborough which includes details of the man's background during the war. A volunteer who joined the army at 16 and was SAD at the age of 20. My view is that like some more famous officers he should have been given medical treatment and then perhaps he would have been better able to return to the fighting. He may well have still not survived. Clearly some were SAD for for reasons most of the forum acting as a Jury would have found 'Guilty', some if tried in Scotland may have been found 'not proven' but probably a large percentage may have been approved for hospitalisation in the hope that they would have returned to practical activities. But as others have mentioned, should ordering waves of men into incessant machine gun fire have also been questioned and placed before a 'court'?. Of course, we have 100 years plus of hindsight and modern technology. Military personnel still become casualties with all of this extra knowledge. B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard_Lewis Posted 14 June , 2021 Share Posted 14 June , 2021 Going ashore on D-Day risked sending waves of men into incessant machine-gun fire. To fully control the ground - even today - you have to send men out of their trenches or helicopters etc and advancing into the cauldron... Bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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