The letter advising Pte Hamp's family of his death said that he had been killed in action. As an executed soldier his family would have been told only that he had died. The family would know that the soldier had been executed because they would not receive a pension.
October 22, 1917 is said to be a Thursday. However, it was in actuality a Monday.
The battalion commander mentions a meeting at twenty-hundred hours. 24-hour clocks were only used from the Second World War.
Equipment shadow visible next to the door as the camera pulls back from the colonel's office after having received the messenger's dispatch.