'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

Frank Taylor Chadderton Tribunal 30 May 1917 Reported Oldham Chronicle 1 June 1917 "Frank Taylor who had been ordered to find work of national importance outside the district reported that he was now working at Warrington on a farm." So far have not discovered who this is. Contributed by Dorothy Bintley

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