West Yorkshire Regiment Soldiers - Harry Farr, Mark Hewitson, Donald Simpson Bell, Samuel Meekosha, Hanson Victor Turner (Paperback)

Chapters: Harry Farr, Mark Hewitson, Donald Simpson Bell, Samuel Meekosha, Hanson Victor Turner, William Bernard Traynor, Albert Mountain, William Boynton Butler. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Private Harry Farr (died 16 October 1916) was a British soldier who was executed during World War I for cowardice at age 25. He came from Kensington in London and was in the 1st Battalion, the West Yorkshire Regiment. Harry Farr was born in 1891. Farr joined the British Expeditionary Force in 1914 and fought in the trenches. His position was repeatedly shelled, and in May 1915 he collapsed with strong convulsions. In hospital, his wife Gertrude (died in 1993 aged 99), who was denied a widow's pension after the war, recalled, he shook all the time. He couldn't stand the noise of the guns. We got a letter from him, but it was in a stranger's handwriting. He could write perfectly well, but couldn't hold the pen because his hand was shaking. It is now thought that Farr was possibly suffering from hyperacusis / misophonia / category 4 acoustic shock, which occurs when the olivocochlear bundle in the inner ear is damaged by sound causing it to lose its ability to soften and filter sound, making loud noises physically unbearable (auditory efferent dysfunction). Despite this, Farr was sent back to the Front and fought at the Somme. After several months of fighting, he requested to see a medical orderly but was refused. After Farr refused to return to the Front Line, he was sent to a court martial. This lasted only 20 minutes, and some questions have been raised about its competence, and Private Farr had to defend himself. General Sir Douglas Haig signed his death warrant and he was shot at dawn on October 16, 1916. His family have always argued that he was suf...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=649458