'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

James Jagger 1911 census: James Jagger 3 Spencer Street, Hollinwood, Oldham ('Common Lodging House') Single with parents, Joseph and Betty, 5 sisters and 3 brothers. He was one of eleven children, two of whom had died. He was the eighth of the 9 children still living. Occ. 'at school' Contributed by Dorothy Bintley

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