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EDWARD BRETT SCHARTAU 1886 - 1919  

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Edward Schartau was an Alternativist Conscientious Objector, one who accepted the East Ham Tribunal’s decision to send him to the Non-Combatant Corps (NCC). The NCC was set up as a unit for Conscientious Objectors to provide labour and logistics support for the regular army units. Edward joined the 8th Eastern Battalion working at home in Britain and served until January 1919 when he fell ill. On the 23rd of February his illness became serious and he was sent to the 5th Southern General Hospital, Portsmouth where he would die of pneumonia three days later. Just as the other soldiers, civilians and conscientious objectors who would die of the waves of disease that followed in the wake of the war, Edward was a victim of the conflict. He was survived by his widow, Grace, whom he had married shortly before conscription took him from his home.

 

 

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CO DATA

Born: 1886
Died: 26 February 1919
Address: 26 Colchester Avenue East Ham, London
Tribunal: East Ham
Prison:
HO Scheme: [1]
CO Work:
Occupation: Clerk

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