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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 00:43, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
... that Thomas Highgate was the first British soldier to be convicted of desertion and executed by firing squad? Source: Johnson, David (2015). Executed at Dawn: British Firing Squads on the Western Front 1914-1918. United Kingdom: The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7509-5917-9. Page 19
Overall: A good article, passes earwig and is adequately sourced. No close paraphrasing was found, and the hook is interesting, cited inline, and verified. QPQ done. Nom good to go. Pseud 14 (talk) 21:52, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
@Unexpectedlydian, Onegreatjoke, and Pseud 14: The hook fact appears in the lede without a citation...then later in the body text, it's worded differently "Highgate was the first British soldier to be shot for cowardice on the Western Front" which doesn't exactly match. (That particular wording suggests another British soldier might have been shot for something else before him.) Could you please address this somehow? Maybe the hook could match that particular wording more closely (or vice versa)? Cielquiparle (talk) 15:49, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
@Onegreatjoke, Unexpectedlydian, and Pseud 14: I've now checked the source, and it doesn't say "cowardice" there, so I'm inclined to fix the wording of ALT1 as follows (and also revert to British terminology for the First World War):
ALT1a: ... that Thomas Highgate was the first British soldier on the Western Front to be executed for desertion during the First World War?
@Cielquiparle: Thanks so much for picking this up. Sorry that this dropped off my radar. ALT1a looks good to me :) Unexpectedlydian♯4talk‽ 22:26, 17 March 2023 (UTC)