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Baxter's story was dramatised in the 2014 TV movie Field Punishment No 1. [3] [4] In Field Punishment Number Two, the prisoner was placed in fetters and handcuffs but was not attached to a fixed object and was still able to march with his unit. This was a relatively tolerable punishment. In both forms of field punishment, the soldier was also ...
12 days' Field Punishment No.1 and transferred as a reinforcement to the 1st (Western Ontario) Battalion in Belgium Private Higgins took part in the heavy fighting at Mount Sorrel and went with his unit into the fighting at Courcelette in September 1916.
Field Punishment Number One, David Grant, paintings by Bob Kerr, Steel Roberts publishers, Wellington, 2008, page 106, ISBN 978 1 877448 46 1; My Brother's War, David Hill, Penguin, 2012 ISBN 9780143307174 – the story in this book draws from Baxter's experiences. [48] Field Punishment No 1, (2014) – docu-drama based on David Grant's book
Field Punishment No 1: Peter Burger: Four brothers who are conscientious objectors are deported to the front in France and successfully refuse military service and oppose military inhumanity even confronted with cruel field punishment: D 2014 Australia ANZAC Girls: Australian women at the Western Front: D M 2014 UK The Crimson Field
Also during the First World War fourteen objectors, including Archibald Baxter, were forcibly sent to the front lines and were subject to Field Punishment No. 1, which "involved being tethered tightly by the wrists to a sloping pole to ensure their bodies hung with their hands taking all their weight." [64]
In 2014, he acted in the drama of Peter Burger Field Punishment N°1 in the role of Dunkirk Warder. [7] Since 1988, [2] he has been a part of the Robert Bruce Agency which represents TV shows, cinema and theater actors. [8] Since 2000, he has been a director and a screenwriter for DreamChaser productions. [2]
Prisoners who survived their missions would be deemed "fit to fight" and returned to the field with the "rights" of a combat soldier. Although most Strafbataillon personnel were used on the Eastern Front , some were sent to the Ardennes , on the Western Front during the last major German offensive , in December 1944.
The maximum punishment at a summary court-martial varies with the accused's paygrade. If the accused is in the pay grade of E-4 or below, he or she can be sentenced to 30 days of confinement, reduction to pay grade E-1, or restriction for 60 days. Punishments for service members in pay grades E-5 and higher (i.e.., sergeant in the Army or ...