'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

William Cockcroft 1911 census: 386 Huddersfield Road, Oldham Single, age 17, with parents, 2 older sisters, 3 younger sisters and 2 younger brothers. Occ: Carter in the business [father was an employer and wholesale manufacturing confectioner] Contributed by Dorothy Bintley

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