'Frederick Hardy lost his life fighting for a country that imprisoned him and spent the last few months of his short life being tortured because of his sexuality in the lonely halls of Winchester prison.' cdnpoli
As a queer person, Worthman shed tears reading through the files, realizing what members of her community went through a century ago. “Part of the process was actually coping with that and working through those feelings.”
The five captains who witnessed the event testified against Hardy, and graphic descriptions of the men’s sexual encounter were read aloud in court. The Canadian Expeditionary Force was primarily based in southern England, so most convicted Canadian soldiers were sent to prisons in that region so they could be mobilized swiftly if needed in the trenches.
In total, at least 35 men in the CEF were tried for gross indecency, of which 19 were for consensual queer relationships. Cashiering was also often widely reported in trench newspapers, rooted in the notion of public military discipline as a deterrent for misbehaviour. “In this instance, it was used as a threat to scare queer people into the closet.”
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