Fragments of the First AIF - Pte Percy George Stafford

This week I decided to have a look at this guy who was well known for being shot in a "wild west shootout" in France at the end of the war. BY HIS OWN OFFICERS. Could he really have been that bad? Actually, I really don't think so.

Episode three: Pte Percy George Stafford, 2nd Light Horse Regiment & 48th Battalion

Sources:

• 48th Battalion War Diary, February 1919

• Conduct Sheet

• Court Martial records

• Enginedriver's Death: Mr Harry Stafford Succumbs to Injuries,' Cootamundra Herald, 5 February 1932, p.1

• 'Retirement of Sergt J Shanks,' The Kadina & Wallaroo Times, 25 June 1919, p.2

• 'Trooper Shank's Narrative: An Exciting Case,' The Express & Telegraph, 18 October 1897, p.3