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ALBERT GEORGE BONNER 1886 -  

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Albert Bonner was a Despatch clerk and Quaker Attender and Baptist who objected to war on Religious grounds. Albert's opposition to war was Absolute and throughout his time as a CO he refused to accept any compromise or give any legitimacy to the militarist system through his actions. At every stage he forced the civil and military systems to use force in their attempts to make him agree to military service, using only passive resistance to show the illegitimate nature of conscription. In June 1917 after applying unsuccessfully to Tribunal for exemption as a CO, Albert refused to report to barracks and was arrested, later to be handed over to the military at Warley Barracks. Within days he was facing a court martial for disobeying orders and was quickly sentenced to six months in Wormwood Scrubs. While at the Scrubs he was offered the Home Office Scheme - but refused to accept. Albert objected to the conditions of the scheme, which included what some COs saw as a tacit acceptance of their supposed status as soldiers in the form of a transfer to reserve status. Rejecting the scheme altogether, he served his six months sentence before being released, again court martialled, and sent to Winchester Prison. By March 1918 severe illness contracted at Winchester and made worse by the subsistence rations and poor conditions brought his experience as a CO to an end and, with his discharge on medical grounds releasing him from prison on the 29th of March 1918.

 

 

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CO DATA

Born: 1886
Died:
Address: 63 Norfolk House Road, Streatham, London
Tribunal:
Prison: Winchester, Wormwood Scrubs
HO Scheme:Rejected the Scheme [1]
CO Work:
Occupation: Dispatch Clerk

Motivation: Quaker/Baptist
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