'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

Arthur Marland 1930, U.S. Census : Arthur Marsland Living at 416, East Tenth Avenue, Conshohocken, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Married to Elsie (also born England) no children listed. Also living at the address, Mary Taylor, age 70, Arthur's mother-in-law, Mary and Elsie had emigrated to the U.S. in 1912; Arthur emigrated in 1919 Occ. Supt. Sheet metal mill Contributed by Dorothy Bintley

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