We know little about Pellew’s time as a conscientious objector. He lived in a house overlooking Blackheath where the army had a large and permanent encampment with recruiting office and where new recruits were processed. He was painfully aware of the war's progress

Pellew appeared before the Military Service Tribunal at Greenwich probably in June 1916 and was given exemption as a non-combatant only and promptly conscripted into the Non-Combatant Corps. Strongly opposed to participating in the army in anyway he was court martialled a number of time and moved from prison to prison until he accepted and was released into the newly formed Home Office Scheme which was under civil control. He arrive in Dartmoor in late August 1916.
After the war he married and became a successful landscape artist.

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