'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

Ralph Robert Smith 1911 census: Ralph Robert Smith age 26; occ. Railway clerk 235 Park Road, Oldham Single with parents, Ellis and Sarah also older sister Elizabeth age 29, a certified teacher and younger sister Edith Mary age 22 Contributed by Dorothy Bintley

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