Pte Gavin Williams

My Son, Private Gavin Williams died as a result of his own senior officers in the Army committing this illegal military act without any duty of care.

He was subjected to this degrading torturous punishment exercise on one of the hottest days of the year on 3rd July 2006

Gavin was ordered the punishment by the Adjutant captain Mark Davies for letting off a fire extinguisher at one of his guests at the mess ball in a silly drunken prank with friends one Saturday night.

Debra Williams

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Saturday 20 September
Assemble 12.30pm
All Saints, Cavendish Street, Manchester M15

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Please visit the Number 10 Downing Street petitions page to sign the petition: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Wounded

Troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan
Don't attack Iran
End the siege of Gaza
Assemble 12 noon, Trafalgar Square, London

"It's now five years since Tony Blair took us into an illegal and immoral war. A million innocents have been killed in Iraq. We haven't heard a lot about weapons of mass destruction since Tony Blair was caught out on that one. We got rid of him but what makes me angry is that Gordon Brown has made no changes and no apologies. Just like Blair, he has refused even to meet the families who have lost loved ones in his war. We must keep marching to let Brown know we are on his case too"Rose Gentle, Military Families Against the War

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James was a changed man when he came home – angry, racist about Iraqis and shut off from family and friends. After two months he broke down. He had been ordered to fire on a crowd that would not disperse and one of his shots had killed a child.

On 24th July, Dani Hamilton gave us a shocking and heartfelt insight into the meaning of the Iraq war for soldiers and their families.

Dani had relatives in the forces and had signed the papers for her son James to join up at the age of 16.  She had watched her son change from a loving, caring person into a machine, broken and remoulded by the army.

When two years later he was sent to Iraq, she looked into the background and decided as so many of us did that this was an illegal war, but for her this was not a question of politics but of daily fear for her son.