'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

Joseph English 1911 census: Joseph English age 32 and his wife, Winifride age 33 were living at 41 Garnet Street, Oldham. They had been married 8 years; they had no children. With them was their nephew Joseph age 16 and niece Mary Ellen age 15. Joseph senior was an 'iron founder' and his nephew was an apprentice iron founder. Contributed by Dorothy Bintley

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