British Soldier Hanged
(Rec. 10 a.m.) LONDON. Jan. 22. Driver F. J. Upson, a member of the RASC in Germany, was hanged today for the murder of a GO-year-old German woman in the French sector of Ecrlin, says Reuter's correspondent. His Majesty the King rejected a petition for clemency. Upson was the first British soldier executed overseas since the end of the
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Northern Advocate, 23 January 1947, Page 6
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