
      '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
      
        
          
            
              Willie Tonge 
               
            WO 363 records - page 40 
Record of Service Non-Combatant Corps               
              Regimental Conduct Sheet 
              States that: @ Certified there is no record of the above named soldier having incurred any regimental duty during his service'. 
              Dated 27th July 1919
             
            Contributed by Dorothy Bintley           
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