Oldham Historical Research Group

'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

Granville Entwistle

Manchester Appeal Tribunal 14 February 1917
Reported Oldham Chronicle 15 February 1917

Six cases from the Chadderton, Lees and Failsworth districts were dealt with by sections of the County Appeals Tribunal at Manchester on Wednesday afternoon …

… Granville Entwistle of Chadderton, assistant engineer at the Ram Mill, Hollinwood, was put back for a fortnight for medical examination

[No other report of an earlier appeal has been found.]

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Born Oldham, 27 March 1892
Died Ashton under Lyne, 1960

1911 census
59 Norfolk Street, Oldham
Single with parents
Occ: Assistant engine driver [an occupation in a mill, not on trains.]

1939 register
9 Frederick Street, Ashton under Lyne
with wife Florence and possibly two children, one redacted
Occ: Head engineer, cotton mill

Contributed by Dorothy Bintley

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