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

Squire Newton

Oldham Tribunal 3 July 1916
Reported Oldham Chronicle 8th July 1916

Several Oldham men appealed to the Oldham Tribunal on Monday afternoon for exemption from service on the ground that they hold a conscientious objection against war and against having connection with war …

Squire Newton of Bolton-street, a stripper and grinder, was granted conditional exemption for so long as he remains in that occupation. His conscientious objection was not considered by the Tribunal.

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Born Oldham, 9 January 1881
Died Oldham, 22 April 1962

1911 census
25 Abbotsford Road, Oldham
With wife Alice and a daughter
Occ: Tinplate labourer, textile machine works

1939 register
64 Bolton Street, Oldham
Widowed, living alone
Occ: Stripper and grinder, cotton mill

Contributed by Dorothy Bintley

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