'THE GREAT WAR', 'THE WAR TO END WAR', 'WORLD WAR 1'
'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
- Only the monstrous anger of the guns.'
from 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'
by Wilfred Owen
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION IN WW1
Sidney Davies Chadderton Tribunal 7 July 1916 At Chadderton Tribunal yesterday … … Sidney Davies (29) married, 52 Milne-street, Chadderton, a commercial traveller, asked for exemption from combatant service. Being a servant of Jesus, it would be contrary to his faith to take human life, as his conscience was totally opposed to warfare. He was willing to take up ambulance work or serve the country in any form where there would be no motive of taking life. He desired to serve in the R A M C believing it was Christian to help the wounded and he would have been in that corps if he had been sure he would not be transferred to a combatant unit. Sent to non-combatant corps with a recommendation for the R A M C. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Not found 1911 census Contributed by Dorothy Bintley |
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