Drumhead court-martial
A court-martial held in the field to hear urgent charges of offences committed in action From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A court-martial held in the field to hear urgent charges of offences committed in action From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A drumhead court-martial is a court-martial that happens on the battlefield to hear important charges of crimes that happened during the battle.
The term is said to come from the use of a drumhead as an improvised writing table.[1]
The earliest recorded use is in an English memoir of the Peninsular War (1807).[2] The term sometimes is similar to summary justice. It has an implied lack of judicial neutrality, as noted in the transcripts of the trial at Nuremberg of Josef Bühler.[3]
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