Oldham Historical Research Group

'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

Joseph Wood

*Pearce List says he is of 600 Huddersfield Road, Waterhead, Oldham, a cotton spinner aged 32 years in 1917.
The List says He was exempted from combatant service at an Oldham Tribunal, no date given, but this has not been found in the Oldham papers.

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No certain match found in the 1911 census. There was a Joseph Wood living at 2 Bond Street, Oldham, a cotton spinner. He was aged 28 making him 2 years older than this man.

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Born c1885
Died -
Address 600 Huddersfield Road, Oldham

*A list of Conscientious Objectors to be found on the Imperial War Museum's website HERE
Pearce List link for Joseph Wood

Contributed by Dorothy Bintley

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