One after the other. [WWI]

>An ‘old time sergeant’ in Stephen Graham’s Scots Guards battalion approached his officer, who was ‘a poet, and wrote some very charming lyrics and had a taste in art,’ saluted and asked: ‘Leave to shoot the prisoners, sir?’ >He declared that it was to avenge his brother’s death, and duly shot the Germans one after the other. Some men approved, but others were clearly shocked. _________________________ **Source:** Holmes, Richard. "Heart and Soul." *Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918*. London: HarperCollins, 2004. 552. Print. **Original Source Listed:** Graham *Private in the Guards* p. 218. _________________________ **Further Reading:** [Scots Guards (SG)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_Guards)