'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

Job Charnock 1911 census: Job Charnock age 33, wife Annie age 38 and daughter Annie age 10. All were born in Oldham. They were living at 3, Widdop Street, Oldham Job was a 'Mule carriage joiner'. In 13 years of marriage they had had 2 children, one of whom had died. Contributed by Dorothy Bintley

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