Following on from: The director of military prosecutions, Brigadier Lyn McDade "I have decided to charge three former members of the Special Operations Task Group with service offences arising out of a compound clearance operation conducted on 12 February 2009 in Afghanistan."
Earlier we had: 178 THE BATTLE OF BARDIA 3 Jan
Post 22 was then taken (a command post manned by twenty to thirty troops). Lieutenant Webb, the third platoon commander, was wounded there, leaving only two officers - Green and his second-in-command, a slender, fair lieutenant named Macfarlane). As these two stood watching some of the prisoners being rounded up an Italian bobbed up from one of the pits, put a rifle to his shoulder and shot Green through the chest. He then dropped his rifle, put up his hands and climbed out of the post, smiling broadly. An angry Australian threw him back into the post and emptied his Bren gun into him. At the same time others demanded of Macfarlane that they should be allowed to bayonet all the other prisoners, but Macfarlane - now the only officer in the company - forbade them to take revenge, and was obeyed.
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