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'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

Example from the Military Service Local and Appeal Tribunals in Middlesex, from the National Archives

Thomas Arthur Brown Applied for 'absolute exemption' from military service 1916

Thomas Arthur Brown

BOROUGH OF EALING
LOCAL RECRUITING APPEAL TRIBUNAL
TOWN HALL, EALING, LONDON W.

18th March 1916

The Clerk of the Ealing Local Tribunal encloses herewith Notice of Appeal made by Thomas Arthur Brown of 73, Adelaide Road, West Ealing, together with his original form.

[to] The Joint Secretaries, Appeal Tribunal for the County of Middlesex


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