'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

Walter Pollitt 1911 census: 25 Ashton Road East, Failsworth Single with parents James & Mary, older brother Herbert , younger brother John and younger sister Alice. All the family born in Failsworth. Occ. Temporary warehouse assistant Contributed by Dorothy Bintley

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