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| JOSEPH HENRY CLARK 1899 - |
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| Though Joseph Henry Clark was only 18 when conscripted in 1917, his story shows the determination many young COs had to reject the military system in its totality. Joseph was a young Quaker and a committed absolutist. After his Tribunal application for exemption was turned down, Joseph refused to obediently report to barracks - a first and important signal of his resolution to reject war. As an absentee he was arrested and tried at the Brixton Police Court - and received the usual fine for these cases, 40 shillings. Unusually he elected to take the alternate sentence immediately - 14 days imprisonment in Wandsworth prison. This decision was a clear statement that Joseph did not acknowledge the legitimacy of the civil government in ordering him to go to war. By April 1917 he had been released from this short sentence and sent to Kingston barracks where after disobeying orders he was court martialled - and sent back to prison. A short time after his arrival in Wormwood Scrubs to serve his sentence, he was passed suitable for the Home Office Scheme and spent the rest of the war in the HoS Camp at Dartmoor.
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