'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

Fred Gadsby 1911 census: 16 year old Fred was living with his parents, Charles & E. Lydia Gadsby, at 249 Denton lane, Hollinwood. also there were his three younger siblings, Hannah, Harry (age 10) and E. Ann, and also Charles' Gadsby's sister-in-law, Jane yates.Single with parents and siblings Fred was a 'Little piecer' Contributed by Dorothy Bintley

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