'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

Ernest Charles Dunstan 1911 census: 247 Henshaw Street, Oldham Ernest is Single with parents, Charles and Emily, 3 younger sisters and a younger brother. All exept the youngest sister were born in Cornwall. She, age 11, was born in Oldham Occ. Cotton spinner Contributed by Dorothy Bintley

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