'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

Charles Henry Taylor 1911 census: Address: 16, Scott Street, Oldham. Charles Henry lived with his widowed mother Hannah. Also there, were his older sisters Frances and Christine, younger brothers Joe and Fred, and Hannah's 1year old grandson. He was age 19. Occ. Cop packer in a Cotton Mill. Contributed by Dorothy Bintley

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