In 2006, the British Government issued a statutory pardon for the more than 300 individuals who were executed for cowardice and desertion during the First World War. Among them was Private John Docherty from Edinburgh who served in the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 9th Brigade. He was twenty-eight years old when he was shot at 7.12am on 12 February 1916 at the site of a former abattoir near Calais. Almost one hundred years later, Chloe Dewe Mathews visited the location to acknowledge Docherty, and his service to his country, alongside those fellow soldiers who were also executed here between 1915-1918.