Harry Farr

from London, is called up to fight the Germans as a British Army reservist in 1914. After two battles, he collapses completely, suffers from shell shock.

Nevertheless, he is deemed fit to return to the front. This Harry refuses after which, without significant trial, he is 'shot at dawn', executed by a firing squad, aged 25. After the war, his wife does not receive a widow's pension. 

Later, the British Parliament establishes that he was wrongly convicted. In 2006, he and 305 others are posthumously honored.

The story of Harry Farr