Deserters would be court martialled. The trial usually ended with them being sentenced to be shot at dawn by a 12 man firing squad. In WW2 the only offence for which you could be put to death was mutiny, whereas there were several more in WW1 including cowardice, and striking a superior officer.
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In the British army during WWI, cowardice in the face of the enemy was punishable by death. According to statistics, there were 18 men executed for this crime during the war.
They sent a white feather. It implied cowardice.
About 150,000 soldiers deserted from the German Army, many of them fled to neutral countries such as the Netherlands, Denmark and Switzerland. Only 18 from those caught were executed. In WW2 10,000 deserters were shot.
Field Punishment No. 1 comprised a British Army punishment imposed for minor offences such as drunkenness, and was often applied during the First World War. A most humiliating form of punishment which continued into the late 1920s, Field Punishment No.1 saw the soldier in question attached standing full-length to a fixed object - either a post or a gun wheel - for up to two hours a day (often one hour in the morning and another in the afternoon) for a maximum of 21 days. An earlier punishment by flogging had been earlier abolished within the British Army in 1881. Field Punishment No. 2 comprised a British Army punishment imposed for major offences such as defying an order and was often applied during the First World War. the form of punishment was to face the firing squad
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I suppose it's a matter of opinion but i found the fact as punishment for falling asleep on sentry duty was execution a bit weird.