'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

Arthur Thomas Doodson 1939 Register: Living at the Bidston Observatory, Birkenhead. Arthur T. Doodson: Married, b. 31st March 1890; Occ.Scientist Elsie M. Doodson; Married; b. 21st August 1897; unpaid domestic duties. Thomas Doodson, b. 4th March 1931; at school Eva McLoughlin; single; b. 8th November 1908; domestic servant. Contributed by Dorothy Bintley

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