At the end of his life, Private Harry Farr did something extraordinary. Facing fellow British soldiers who made up a firing squad of 12 men, he refused a blindfold that was offered to him by the officer in charge of his execution.
Indeed, Rudyard Kipling's couplet “The Coward” from his Epithets of War could have been written about Harry in all but one aspect:
I could not look upon Death, which being known,
Men led me to him, blindfold and alone.
Farr's final act of courage was in contrast to the military crime he had been sentenced to death for – cowardice.
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