103 Foresters

Mutinies and Death Sentences in the Local Regiment – 1914-18

Since the start of 2014, we have been working on a research project regarding those soldiers who served in the local regiment (then known as the Sherwood Foresters) and were either sentenced to death or sentenced on mutiny charges by courts martial during World War One.

We have identified 103 Foresters, two thirds convicted for their alleged involvement in mutinies, the others sentenced to death for various offences. Eight soldiers were executed by firing squad.

Given the scale of the project, we approached this from the outset as a long term project. We plan to publish more or less extensive pamphlets on the individual cases, using the centenaries of the respective trials as deadlines by which we would like to be able to put out some information. Given that this will remain a work in progress, we will keep going back to earlier issues, changing and adding to passages, for instance as we come across new sources allowing us more insight into earlier cases.

For more information on the project please see our latest leaflet outlining our research. For a brief project update (February 2016), see our blog.

We have already published three issues in a new series of pamphlets, the first introducing and contextualising the project, the second and third looking into the first four cases of soldiers sentenced to death between February and July 1915.

103 Foresters pamphlets:

Authored by Valentine Yarnspinner.

All pamphlets available as free downloads. Distribute and quote as you like (non-commercial use only!).

103 Foresters

Mutinies and Death Sentences in the Local Regiment – 1914-18

Issue 1: Introducing and contextualising our research project

Loaf On A Stick Press, Nottingham 2015, digital pamphlet, 31 pages.

103 Foresters

Mutinies and Death Sentences in the Local Regiment – 1914-18

Issue 2: The First Case – W Harvey’s death sentence, Western Front, February 1915

Loaf On A Stick Press, Nottingham 2015, digital pamphlet, 28 pages.

103 Foresters

Mutinies and Death Sentences in the Local Regiment – 1914-18

Issue 3: Wipers, Helles and beyond – Three Foresters’ death sentences, July 1915

Loaf On A Stick Press, Nottingham 2015, digital pamphlet, 39 pages.