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Re: Statue To WW I Deserters/AWOLs

Date: June 21, 2001

"UK unveils memorial for World War I deserters

LONDON -- A statue of a teenage British soldier facing execution for desertion in World War I was unveiled in the central England town of Lichfield Thursday. The statute at the National Memorial Arboretum Thursday is the centerpiece of a memorial to wartime deserters.

It is modeled on Herbert Burden of the Northumberland Fusiliers who was shot for desertion in 1917 at the age of 17.

``The decision...is not a judgmental one,'' a spokeswoman said. ``Rather the memorial asks us to recognize these deaths as another of the tragedies that warfare has brought about.''

More than 300 soldiers from Britain and the Commonwealth were executed for military offenses. "

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