'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

Example from the Military Service Local and Appeal Tribunals in Middlesex, from the National Archives

Thomas Arthur Brown Appeal Tribunal County of Middlesex, Guildhall, Westminster S.W. R. 57 NOTICE OF DECISION Thomas Arthur Brown, Age 28 73, Adelaide road, East Ealing, W. Occupation: Gentlemen's Outfitting - Head Assistant. Not attested. Sir, I beg to inform you that this case has been considered by the Appeal Tribunal , and that they have decided that : the appeal be dismissed. To the Local Tribunal for Ealing.

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