CATALOGUE OF PPU CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION ARCHIVE

 

PART ONE – FIRST WORLD WAR

 

CO 1

 

1.1: WW1 Recruitment Propaganda

 

English Review, Dec 1914, Oct 1915

 

Circular, Parliamentary Recruiting Committee (Asquith, Bonar Law, Henderson) to individual householders, 1914

Circular, PMG (Herbert Samuel) to PO Staff, 1915

Circular, Borough of Hackney Recruiting Committee to PO Staff, 1915

Leaflet, Every Eligible Should Enlist Now, Hackney Recruiting Committee, 1915

Leaflet, The Crisis, An Appeal to Free Men, Joint Labour Recruiting Committee, 1915

Certificate of Registration under National Registration Act, 1915

 

JD Allan Gray: Letter, Times, 17 Jan 1989, re National Registration, 1915-1918

David M Young: “All means short of murder – British socialists, ‘patriotic labour’ and the politics of recruitment during the Great War”, Stand To! (Western Front Association), 89 (late 2010)

 

Women's War Work, War Office, 1916

National Service - Women's Land Army, 1917, Board Ag & Fish

National Service - Join the Land Army - A Call to the Women of Great Britain, nd [?1917], NS Dept

 

1.2: WW1 Military Service Acts and Regulations

 

Military Service Act 1916

Military Service (Regulations) Order 1916

Circular relating to Constitution, Functions and Procedure of Local Tribunals, 1916

Supplement to Notes on Administration of Group and Class Systems, 1916

Military Service Act 1916 (Session 2)

Military Service Regulations (Amendment) Order 1916

Ditto (small format)

Circular on Extension of Military Service, 1916

Military Service (Review of Exceptions) Act 1917

Military Service Regulations Order 1918

Proclamation Withdrawing Certain Certificates of Exemption from Military Service, 1918

Military Service (No 2) Regulations 1918

Exemption from Military Service - A Short Guide to the Regulations, 1918

Military Service (No 3) Regulations 1918

Military Service (No 4) Regulations 1918

Military Service (No 5) Regulations 1918

Military Service (No 7) Regulations 1918

 

Codified Instructions to Divisional Officers and Employment Exchange Managers regarding Enrolment and Transfer of National Service Volunteers (Men), 1917

National Service (Supplementary Instructions) No 7, 1917

 

HO Scheme: Undertaking by CO on entry to Scheme, 1916

HO Scheme: Rules & Regs for Wakefield Work Centre, 1916

HO Scheme: Notice of caution for disciplinary offence, Princetown

HO Scheme: Notice of qualification for Exceptional Employment, 1918

HO Scheme: Notice of grant of leave, 1918

HO Scheme: Notice of payment during leave, Princetown, 1918

HO Scheme: Notice of instructions re change of Exceptional Employment, 1919

 

1.3: WW1 Newscuttings

 

Labour Leader Supplement, 13 Apr 1916, "Anti-Militarists in Council"

Labour Leader Supplement, 4 Dec 1919, "National Convention of COs"

 

Illustrated Sunday Herald, 28 Nov 1915, "Snapshots at The 'Won't Fight' Conference" (27/11/15)

The Illustrated Chronicle, (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), 29 Mar 1916, "The Pleadings of Conscience"

Unidentified Free Church paper:  “Conscientious Objectors”, ? Spring 1916 [Photocopy]

Political Quarterly: Notes on National Registration legislation, Mar 1916 [Photocopy]

John Scurr: “Shut up the Tribunals”, The Limit, 11 Mar 1916 (reprinted, The Herald, 18 Mar 1916

Charles Gore, Bishop of Oxford: “Conscientious objectors”, The Times, 16 Mar 1916 [Facsimile]

AHH Maclean: “Conscientious Objectors”, The Times, 17 Mar 1916 [Facsimile]

The Trade Unionist, Apr 1916, "What would you do...?", "Publications received" (Mufti)

Guy Aldred: “The Arrest of Absentees”, letters to Manchester Guardian, 7-11 Apr 1916

The Times, 11 Apr 1916, “Service Tribunals”

Dover Telegraph, 31/5/16, CM, 26/5/16. Dover Castle [Glen Herbert HAYLER]

Bucks Examiner, 4 Aug 1916, “A Man Who Loves Germans” [William H POTTER] [Photocopy]

Rowland Jackson: “Death Sentences Commuted – All Serene”, The Watchtower, 1 Sep 1916

Hugh Cecil: “Conscientious Objectors”, The Times, 17 Oct 1916 [Facsimile]

Daily Mail Year Book 1917: "Compulsory Service in Great Britain - The Greatest Revolution of the War"

Manchester Guardian, 19 Jul 1917, "The Case against Persecution", as reprinted in The Guardian, 19 Jul 1993

Pioneer, 3 Nov 1917, cutting, "Dartmoor"

The Times, 15 Dec 1917, “Died in Prison – Enquiry into Conscientious Objector’s Death” [Alfred BUTLER]

Unidentifed CO allied paper, ? 11 Apr 1918, “Nearly Two Years to Go”, James Scott DUCKERS]

Common Sense, 27 April 1918, “Mr Horatio Bottomley on Peace Sunday in 1908”  [Photocopy]

John Bull, 1918, "The Shame of Princetown", ms copy of article

The Spur, Teddy Bear: "Wandsworth Prison Revolt", Jan 1919

Daily News, 20 Jan 1919, "Release of Objectors - Home Secretary's Reply to Labour Delegation"

Guy Aldred: “Imprisoned COs”, letters to West London Observer & Manchester Guardian, 24 Jan & 15 Feb 1919

North Mail, 11 Mar 1919, "Conscience Men - Objectors' Treatment in Newcastle Gaol"

Evening Standard, 30 Aug 1920, "The Whitehall 'Conchy' "

Daily Telegraph, 28 0ct 1920, "Conscientious Objectors - Civil Servants' Position"

Hansard, HC, 17 Dec 1929, "Conscientious Objectors"

File of photocopy cuttings, May-Jul 1916, from Daily Sketch, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily News, Morning Post, The Times, Manchester Guardian, and Daily Chronicle re 'Repeal the Act' trial

 

1.4: WW1 Articles:

 

Churches of Christ: ‘For His Names’ Sake’, Being a Record of the Witness given by Members of the Churches of Christ in Great Britain against Militarism during the European War 1914-1918, 1921

F E Smith (Earl of Birkenhead): ‘The Plot to Murder Lloyd George’, Famous Trials of History, 1926 [William WHEELDON] [photocopied extract]

James Barr: ‘The Church and War - War Time Excesses and Recantations’, Forward, 9 Apr 1932

James Barr: ‘The Church and War – The God of Battles’, Forward, 16 Apr 1932

F W Chandler: ‘The WHEELDON Case’, Political Spies and Provocative Agents, 1933 [photocopied extract]

Guy Aldred: John Maclean, 1940 [photocopied extract]

Miss M Cracknell: Letter, 'COs in the Last War', Unidentified [?Middlesex/N London] paper, 5 Apr 1940

Anon: Memorandum on 'English Laws during WW1 - Conscientious Objection and Alternative Service'

Gilmac [Gilbert McClatchie]: '[SPGB] Members in the Great War', Socialist Standard, Sep 1964

David Boulton: 'Rebels in Uniform', Observer, 7 Aug 1966

Howard Marten: ‘A Memory of Dartmoor’, The Friend, 12 Jan 1973

Sandra Jobson Darroch: ‘Ottoline’, 1975 [photocopied extracts, Mark GERTLER, Lytton STRACHEY, Gerald SHOVE]

D A N Jones: ‘Memoirs of Non-Fighting Men’, Radio Times, 7 Jun 1976 [George DUTCH, Philip RADLEY]

Philip Priestley: ‘The 19th century legacy’, extract from Jail Journeys, 1989 [Fenner BROCKWAY, Stephen HOBHOUSE]

Michael Durham: ‘Death of an English Socialist’, Independent on Sunday, 13 Sep 1992 [William WHEELDON]

Michael Holroyd: ‘Lytton Strachey  - War and Peace’, Vintage, 1994 [photocopied extract from biography]

Keith Dufton: 'Prisoners of Conscience', Yorkshire on Sunday, 19 Feb 1995

Yorkshire on Sunday: 'The War Protester Shunned by World', 26 Feb 1995

Martin Wainwright: 'Writing on wall bears witness to men of peace', Guardian, 7 Mar 1995

Susan Lumsden: 'Horrific treatment of Great War "conchies" is revealed at last', Scotland on Sunday, 23 May 1999  [Dyce Work Camp]

The Friend: 'TV personality in prison', 4 Jun 1999

Malcolm Wright: 'Great graffiti', The Friend, 11 Jun 1999

Norman Gaudie: 'The courage that brings peace', The Friend, 17 Nov 2000 (reprint of Friends' Peace Cttee leaflet of 1920s)

Harry Pallett: 'Courage bringing peace', The Friend, 24 Nov 2000

Jessica Brighty: ‘Prisoner of Conscience’, Radio Times, ? 4/01  [Claughton PELLEW]

Andrew Wilson: ‘The Pacifist in My Past’, Guardian Weekend, 14/4/01  [Claughton PELLEW]

Fred Holcroft: ‘Reluctant soldiers – Wigan’s Conscript Tribunals 1916-1918’, Past Forward, Wigan Heritage Service, Summer 2001

Awake:: ‘A Test of Faith’, 22 Feb 2004  [Herbert SENIOR]

Paul Levy: ‘The naked truth about the Partridge family – t

he tangled relationships of the Bloomsbury group’ (review of Ann Chisholm: Frances Partridge – The Biography), Observer, 5 Apr 2009 [James & Lytton STRACHEY, Ralph PARTRIDGE]

 

Richard Savill: ‘Letters Home from First World War objector revealed’, D Telegraph, 23 Sep 2008 [Donald McNAIR]

Simon de Bruxelles: ‘Lost letters of objector tricked into fighting’, Times, 24 Sep 2008 [Donald McNAIR]

John Coles: ‘Pacifist diary from front line”, The Sun, 24 Sep 2008 [Donald McNAIR]

ThiisisExeter: ‘Pacifist found himself press-ganged into Great War’, 26 Sep 2008 [Donald McNAIR]

 

Symon Hill: ‘Have conscience, will use it’, Comment is free, guardian.co.uk, 15/5/08 [Harry STANTON]

 

1.5. WW1 CO Reviews

 

Allen Skinner: ‘Corder Catchpool’, review of Indomitable Friend [William Hhughes], Peace News, 22 Jan 1965

Allen Skinner: 'Sustained Objection', review of Objection Overruled [David Boulton], Peace News, 14 Jul 1967

John Hyatt: Review of Conscience and Politics [John Rae] and Bertrand Russell and Trinity [GH Hardy], The Pacifist, Mar/Apr 1971

Patrick Renshaw: 'Dawn of Hope...', fragment of review of unidentified play, Sunday Times, 5 Oct 1975

Alan Ryan: 'Conscientious Objector', Review of Bertrand Russell & the Pacifists of the First World War [Jo Vellacott], Sunday Times, ?1980

Nicolas Walter: ‘Contributions to a history of anti-war activity in the First World War’ [Reviews], Freedom, Sep 1986

Ben Pimlott: 'Pacific Overtures', Review of Troublesome People [Caroline Moorehead], TLS, 8 May 1987

Hilda Morris: Troublesome People [Caroline Moorehead], The Pacifist, Jul 1987

William Hetherington: Troublesome People – BBC 2 40 minutes, The Pacifist, Jul 1987

John Ferguson: Review of Troublesome People [Caroline Moorehead], Reconciliation Quarterly, Mar 1988

Martin Wainwright:  ‘Conchies of the North’, review of Comrades in Conscience – The Story of an English Community’s Opposition to the Great War, Guardian, 23 Feb 2002

 

1.6: WW1 Serials (other than Tribunal):

 

NCF News, 1918, Nos Mar (first), Apr, May-Jun, Jul-Aug, Sep-Oct, Nov-Dec (? final)

HO Camps/Work Centres News Sheet, Central News Bureau, Nos 12 (part), 13, 15, 16

Mufti, No 6, 22 Apr 1916

The Granite Echo (Organ of Dyce COs), Vol 1, No 2, Photocopy p 1

FoR News Sheet, 1917-1918, New Series, Nos 18, 19, 20, 22, 23

New Crusader (Committee for the Promotion of Pacifism), 1916, Nos 1-11

(Theodora Wilson Wilson), 1918, Vol 2, Nos 25, 32, 33, 35

New Crusader promotional leaflet, nd, [1917]

Save the Children of All the Nations, Christian Peace Crusade leaflet, nd, [1917]

Christian Peace Crusade promotional leaflet, nd [1918]

War and Peace, (Norman Angell; ed Gerald Shove, aka ‘Francis Gerald’)) Vol II, No 18, Mar 1915; Vol III, No 30, Mar 1916

Goodwill (British Group of the World Alliance of Churches for Promoting International Friendship/later, British Council of the World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through the Churches), Vol II, No 1, 1 Jan 1916; Vol III, No 6, 31 Mar 1919

Manifesto, Women’s International League, 30 Sep – 1 Oct 1915

Monthly News Sheet, Women’s International League, Jul 1918

 

1.7: WW1 Circulars:

 

N-CF Manifesto, ?11/14

N-CF Circular, 12/11/15, ‘National Convention’

N-CF Circular (external), [1916], ‘Compulsory Military and Alternative Services and the Conscientious Objector’

N-CF Circular, 6/2/16, ‘How to Apply to Local Tribunals’

N-CF Circular, 23/3/16, ‘How to Fill up Appeal Form’

N-CF Circular, 1/5/16, ‘Revision of Certificates’

N-CF Circular, 4/9/16, ‘Mr Forster's Statement’

N-CF Circular, 21/5/18, ‘An Explanation of Procedure under The Military Service (No 2) Act 1918’

N-CF Circular (external), Sep 1918, ‘The Absolutist Conscientious Objectors at Wakefield’

 

N-CF Statement, 31/1/16, [Military Service Act], as reprinted in The Pacifist, 2/64

 

N-CF Agenda for Emergency National Convention, 8/4/16

 

Princetown COs: Programme for Grand Entertainment, Princetown Wesleyan Methodist Church, 3/1/18

 

N-CF, Wood Green, Flyer for Free Entertainment, Allison Hall, Haringay, 8/3/19

 

Three Riddles, nd, Theodore Pumphrey, Stamford Hill, London, N

Look upon This Picture: And on That, nd (?1917), Committee for Anglo-Russian Co-operation

Militarism & Education, Margaret Llewellyn Davies, G Lowes Dickinson WE Orchard  et al, nd [1918]

 

North London "Herald League" and the Tribunals, nd, (1918), duplicated typescript

Untitled broadsheet (p 1 missing), nd, (?N-CF), summary of prison rules and procedure

 

National Council for Civil Liberties: S Wales & Mon Conference, Agenda (anti-conscription), 11/11/16

 

London Women’s Peace Crusade, Central Information Bureau. MS introductory letter, 5/11/17, signed Ethel Snowden

 

CO 2

 

 The Tribunal (N-CF), 1916-1920, Nos 1-182 (final) [162, 164 held as photocopies]

 

The Tribunal, index by Christopher Hicks, 2008

 

CO 3

 

3.1: WW1 CO’s Hansard

 

The COs Hansard, Retrospective Series, 1-6 (complete), 5 Jan - 15 May 1916

Special Retrospective, 15 May - 13 Jul 1916

Nos 1-18 (complete), 17 Jul - 21 Dec 1916

Industrial Conscription Double No, 12 Jan & 19 Dec 1916

Nos 19-90 (complete inc 87A), 5 Feb 1917 - 26 Mar 1919

Hansard extract, HC, 28/11/17 (Henry SARGENT)

 

3.2: WW1 Pamphlets

 

British Prussianism – the Scandal of the Tribunals, Philip Snowden, Speeches, HC, 22 Mar and 6 Apr 1916, National Labour Press, 1916

The State and Conscience, Lord Hugh Cecil, Speech, HL, 21 Nov 1917, 1905 Committee of the Society of Friends

Militarism, J Bruce Glasier, ILP, 1915

The Military Service Act fully and clearly explained, Philip Snowden, National Labour Press, 1916

The Peril of Conscription, J Bruce Glasier, ILP, 1915

Conscription and Conscience, Clifford Allen, N-CF, 1915

The Absolutists’ Objection to Conscription, Friends Service Committee, 1916

Rex v Bertrand Russell: Report of the Proceedings before the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House Justice Room 5 June 1916, N-CF, 1916

The Court-Martial Friend and Prison Guide, N-CF, [1916]

The Conscientious Objector, James Barr, Headley Bros, 1916

Why I am a Conscientious Objector: Being Answers to the Tribunal Catechism, Walter Ayles, Fenner Brockway, Barratt Brown, Clement Bundock, James Hudson, Robert Mennell & Hubert Peet, N-CF, [1916]

The Home Office Compounds, Ernest E Hunter, N-CF, 1917

How Conscription Works!, J W Kneeshaw, National Labour Press, 1917

An Open Letter to the Right Hon Lloyd George, Tom Llewelyn Thomas, National Labour Press, 1917

The Silence System in British Prisons, Stephen Hobhouse, Friends Quarterly Examiner, 1917

Scraps of Paper: An Examination of Government Pledges with Regard to Conscientious Objectors, N-CF, 1918

An English Prison from Within, Stephen Hobhouse, Allen and Unwin, 1919

Our Roll of Honour, Birmingham FoR, [1917]

Report 1915-20, Hackney Branch N-CF, 1920

Lest We Forget, A Memory of the Society of Friends in the War Years 1914-18, Friends peace Committee. [1932]

War Resistance, Edward Grubb, Friends Peace Committee, [1935]

Friends and Conscription 1916-19,  Friends Peace Committee, 1939

Pacifists and the Call for National Service [including  account of pacifist service in WW1] , Council for Christian Pacifist Groups, [1939]

Conscription Means Industrial Slavery – What Happened in the Great War, W T Colyer, No Conscription League, [1939]

Troublesome People, reprint of N-CF Souvenir, CBCO, 1940

The Death of a People – the Story of the Austrian Famine, Fight the Famine Council, [1919]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Uncommonsense about the War, Robert Williams, The Herald, 1914

An Untried Remedy for War, William Morison, Headley Bros, [? 1914]

How Can War Ever Be Right?, Gilbert Murray, OUP, 1914

War  - the Offspring of Fear, Bertrand Russell, UDC, [1914]

The Origins of the Great War, HN Brailsford, UDC, 1914

Parliament and Foreign Policy, Arthur Ponsonby, UDC, [1914]

The International Industry of War, UDC, [1914]

War and the Workers: A Plea for Democratic Control, J Ramsay Macdonald, UDC, [1914]

Women and War, H M Swanwick, UDC, [1915]

Why we should state Terms of Settlement, UDC, [1915]

Towards an International Understanding: being the opinions of some Allied and Neutral Writers, UDC, [1915]

The Prussian in our midst, Norman Angell, UDC, [1915]

The Balance of Power, UDC, [1915]

Justice in War-time, Bertrand Russell, National Labour Press, 1915

The Cost to Humanity, Herbert W Horwill, FoR, 1915

The False Mysticism of War, Friends Peace Committee, 1915

Peace for the Strong, Edward G Smith, League of Peace and Freedom, 1915

Religious Aspects of Non-Resistance, Eva Gore-Booth, League of Peace and Freedom, 1915

Oxford Pamphlets 1914-1915, OUP, 1915

The Failure of War, H P Adams, N-CF, [1916]

Peace Overtures and their Rejection December 1916 – March 1918, UDC, 1918

The Basis of International Authority, Arthur Ponsonby, League of Peace and Freedom, [c 1917]

Italy, Serbia and the Adriatic, E Seymour Cocks, UDC, 1918

Three Notable Protests against the Peace Treaty, UDC, 1917

The CO’s Song Book: Songs of Peace, Liberty and Comradeship, N-CF, [c 1917]

The CO Clink Chronicle, National Labour Press, [1919]

Cranks and Commonsense, Miles Malleson (Introduction, Philip Morrell), Henderson, 1916

The Crank, Arthur Ponsonby, Allen & Unwin, 1940 reprint of 1916 Headley edition

Pacifism: A Word with Conscientious Objectors, Adrian Fortescue, Catholic Truth Society, 1916

 

Winchester Court-Martial, 4 pencil MS issues, [Will Chamberlain], 1917

 

3.3: WW1 Leaflets:

 

The Execution of an East London Boy, 1916, Sylvia Pankhurst, Workers' Suffrage Federation

A Soldier's View, 1916, Corporal Lees-Smith, MP, UDC

A Reasonable Man"s Peace, 1917, HG Wells, International Free Trade League

Fifteen Millions of our Fellow men have been Killed and Maimed, nd, National Labour Press

When all the World goes to War, why should I stand aside?, nd, no publisher, printed ST Harris, Worcester

Some Thoughts from a Prison Cell, 1917, Robert O Mennell, no publisher, printed Headley Bros

A Confession of Faith, nd, Christian Peace Crusade

Of Conscription, nd [1915], Maldon Leaflet 21, RJ Long, Leeds

Liberty in England - The Persecution of Conscience, nd [1917], Maldon Leaflet 36, RJ Long, Leeds

Extracts from Letters Received from COs in Military Custody, 1916, WR Frayling, London EC

A Challenge to Militarism, 1918, Friends' Service Committee

An Appeal to the Conscience of the Nation, 1918, London YM, SoF

After Two Years - The Stand of the Absolutists at Wakefield, 1918, EF Howard, Friends' Service Committee

The Way to end War, 1919, Arthur Watts, Friends' Service Committee

Compulsory Military Training, nd [1919], Friends' Service Committee

Repeal the Act, nd [1916], N-CF

Two Years Hard Labour [Ernest Everett], 1916, N-CF

Sentenced to be Shot [Stuart Beavis], nd [?1916], N-CF

"Not Genuine"! [Emrys Hughes, Ithel Davies], nd [1916], N-CF

The Military Service Act [Eric Southall], nd [?1916], N-CF

Always a Pacifist [Wilfred Wellock], nd [1917], N-CF

Religious Liberty [Herbert Runham Brown], nd [1917], N-CF

Why I Still Resist, 1917, Clifford Allen, N-CF

Captain Gwynne, MP, on COs, 1917, N-CF

Some Figures and a Moral, nd [?1918], N-CF

For Freedom, nd [1918], LS Smith, N-CF

Manifesto of the Absolutists at Wakefield, 1918, N-CF

An Appeal to Trade Unionists, 1919, N-CF

Late Home Secretary and Conscience, nd [?1918], no publisher [?N-CF], printed Newnham, Cowell & Gripper Ltd, London EC

 

Casualties - Mothers of England!, nd, [1917] ,Women’s Peace Crusade, 

Dark Corners are Dirty Corners!, nd [1917], Women’s International League

Democracy and Peace, nd [1917], Women’s International  League

Security, nd [1917], Women’s International League

 

CO 4

 

4.1: WW1 Memoirs and Studies:

 

Harold BLAKE (1889-1980): ‘Whose Image and Superscription?’, 1921, Ed, A Blake, 2007

John Hubert BROCKLESBY (1889-1962): ‘Escape from Paganism’ [Chs 6-10 (final) from unpublished TS], nd

James William BUTCHER: Condemned for No Crime, Wisbech Local Peace Association, nd [1917]

Horace EATON: 'Thoughts & Experiences during the Great War', [photocopy of unpublished MS], 1918

George Alfred EWAN (1877-1949): 'Prison Memories', photocopy of unpublished TS, nd [post 1937]

Harry HOVELL: Rebel Prophets & ‘Assassins Anglais’ – The realities of struggle and the unfulfilled ideal of fraternity, 1974

David Caradog JONES (1883-1974): 'Power: A Gift to Ordinary People - Autobiography' [Extract "Prison Experience" & "Partial Freedom"], privately published TS, 1974/1981

Stanley MORISON (1889-1967): ‘A Portrait’, British Museum (Ed KB Gardner), 1971

Hubert PEET (1886-1951): ‘113 Days’ Hard Labour’, Ploughshare supplement, Apr, 1917

Douglas PRICHARD: My Case as a CO, np, nd [1917]

 

George Stevens ABBOTT (1888-1969): Chronology of life (Keith Abbott, grandson)

Thomas S ATTLEE (1880-1960): Photocopied references in ‘[Clement] Attlee’, by Kenneth Harris, 1995

George Thomas BAYNTON (1882-1958):  Memoir by daughter, letter, Gillian Holland, granddaughter, 2007

Norman Wyles BONES (1900-1919):  http://www.ancestors-forever.co.uk/NormanWBones.html

Ithel DAVIES (1894-1989):  Memoir by Nia Rhosier, 2007

Ginner DEANER: Obituary of son Julian Deaner, by Olga Deaner, Guardian, 13 Dec 2006

Harold FARNHAM (1895-?): ‘Objection to Military Service’, interview by Roger Rawlinson, Newspeace, Jan 1977

Robert William FORRESTER (1896-1959): Diary, 1916 & 1919 [Transcript of extracts]; Tribunal/CM Statements, 1916; Letters, 1916; Cypher, 1917   [photocopies]

Mark GERTLER (1891-1939) : Ben Uri Gallery: ‘Mark Gertler - A New Perspective’, 2002  [photocopied extract]

Mark GERTLER: Camden New Journal: ‘The artistic bird who sang his own sad song’, 17 Oct 2002 [photocopied extract]

'AH' (an Old Conchie): ‘An Echo from 1916-18’, The Tribunal, Feb 1940

Crosby Maddison HALL (1892-1974): “Uncle Crosby”. note by niece, Freda Cooke, Dec 2008

Geoffrey Edward HICKS (1877-1962): ‘My Ancestor was a CO’, by Chris Hicks (nephew), 2004

Arthur Lewis HORNER (1894-1968): ‘Incorrigible Rebel’ [Extract from autobiography of that title], Macgibbon & Kee, 1960

Frederick LAWSON (1888-1968): ‘Sketching a Rich Slice of Social History’, by John Woodcock, Yorkshire Post Magazine, 1 Dec 2006

Fred LONGDEN: Biographical note on dustjacket of ‘The Proletarian Heritage’, 1951

Howard MARTEN (1894-?): ‘Memoirs of a condemned pacifist’, interview by Rod Prince, Peace News, 8 Sep 1967

Kingsley MARTIN (1897-1969):  ‘Father Figures’ [Extract from autobiography of that title], Hutchinson, 1966

Francis MEYNELL (1891-1975):  ‘Francis Meynell & The Pelican Press’, Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, Dec 1982

Frederick MITCHELL (1897-1955): ‘Tireless service’, by Faith Cook, Evangelical Times, Jun 2006

Victor Emanuel MORRIS (1877-?):  East Grinstead Photographers http://www.photohistory-sussex.co.uk/EGrinsteadPhotogrsMS.htm

Claughton PELLEW (1890-1966):  Biographical note, British Council, nd

Douglas Houzen PINDER (1886-1949): Fine Art Sales http://www.fine-art-sales.co.uk/douglas-houzen-pinder-newquay.htm

Edward Stanton ROBERTS (1878-1938): DWB, http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s3-ROBE-STA-1878.html

John RODKER (1894-1955):  ‘A Life in Print’, by Ernest Rodker, Jewish Socialist, Spring 2009

John George SADLER (1887-1961): William Hetherington, Jun 2005

Henry J SARGENT (c 1891-1983): ‘The quiet man’, by John Dowling, Bexhill-on-Sea Observer, 17 Dec 1983

Gerald Francis SHOVE (1887-1947): ‘Gerald F Shove’s Fellowship dissertation 1911’, by Daniela Donnini Maccio, History of European Ideas, 2010

Malcolm SPARKES (1891-1933) : Bert den Boggende: ‘Reluctant Absolutist: Malcolm Sparkes’ Conscientious Objections to World War I’, Quaker Studies 10/1 (2005)

Bonar THOMPSON: Photocopied extracts from ‘Hyde Park Orator’, 1936

David THOMAS (1880-1967): DWB, http//wbo.llgc.org.uk/en/s2-THOM-DAV-1880.html

David WAGSTAFF: www.thisischeshire.co.uk , 2005

Harold Ernest WILD (1896-1989): Diary 1915-16  (Draft edit, Joy Davison, daughter, 2008)

Arthur Denby WILKINSON: Note by Len, friend of Philip Strudwick , [2009]

 

John Thomas BARKER (c 1886 - ?): image of Richmond Castle graffito

John Hubert BROCKLESBY: Richmond Castle. Cell 8 graffito

Norman GAUDIE: Richmond Castle. Cell 7 graffito

Percy GOLDSBROUGH: Richmond Castle. Cell 8 graffito

Herbert GREEN: Richmond Castle. Cell 8 graffito

Clarence HALL: Richmond Castle. Cell 6 graffito

Joseph ILLINGWORTH: Richmond Castle. Cell 1 graffito

Ernest LAWSON: Richmond Castle. Cell 1 graffito

 

Norman GAUDIE: List of 33 of the 35 COs sentenced to death, unpublished MS, c 1916  [photocopy]

 

4.2: WW1 CO Obituaries:

 

William BIRCH, Pacifist, Mar 1978

Frederick Richard EAST (-1957), Redemption Tidings (F A Gilmore), 12 Jul 1957

David GARNETT: Times, 19 Feb 1981

George GLASSCOCK: Croydon Advertiser, 12 Jul 1991

Edgar HARVEY: The Friend (CHK), 4 Oct 1974

David Caradog JONES: Times, 18 Jun 1974

Howard Barrow JONES (1894-1972): The Friend, 12 Jan 1973

Kingsley MARTIN: Guardian, 21 Jun 2003

Frederick MURFIN: Pacifist, Aug 1971

Rowland PHILCOX: Peace News, 17 Sep 1965

Arthur RAISTRICK: Grassington & District Peace Group 1981-1996 (Richard Harland), 1996

James Allen SKINNER (1890-1974): Peace News (Hugh Brock), 25 Jan 1974

Tom STEPHENSON: Guardian, 2 Mar 1987

Paul Dudley STURGE, The Friend, 17 Dec 1974

Harry, Lord TAYLOR of Mansfield: Daily Telegraph, 13 Apr 1991

Harold WRIGLEY: The Friend (Lionel A Brown & George W Edwards), 15 Mar 1977

 

4.3 WW1 Autograph books

 

George ABBOTT autograph book [Risbridge House/Princetown Work Centres]

George Stevens ABBOTT

Hugh WHITEMAN

Percy George SCRIVENS

G BUSBY

Bert STEVENSON

Harold KERSHAW

William George MADGWICK

Henry William HAMPTON

Ernest CROSBY

Joseph SHARP

William F BROWN

Ernest A DAWSON

R W BROWN

William BURNELL

Percy Ogwen JONES

J HATELY

 

Mabel Purkiss autograph book

E HARBY

J H COLLINS

Horace Valentine FULLER

J SHEPHERD

Herbert J DAVIES

W LIVERMORE

G BUSBY

Trevor Clifford GRIFFITHS

C C MAYNE

George ? M PENNY

Robert Cecil HOCKENHULL

Alfred John G CRACKNELL

Watcyn  Ivor JONES

George Stevens ABBOTT

Charles H WINTER

E J S WATKINS

Henry Harold LONGSTAFF

Ernest A DAWSON

Albert E PYM

Isaac HESFORD

G ? KURLY

William CHADWICK

 

Albert E RUDALL

Percy POPE

Clarence Henry NORMAN

? ?H PARTON

Frederick CLARKE

V J BROWN

Lewis H PLUMMER

Stanley PICKUP

Frederick Charles CATTELL

Thomas MAIRSON

James M E ? T…l

Jesse HAMMOND

Turner COUPE

Dorian HERBERT

John HAMMOND

Percy Ogwen JONES

Arthur J HEWINSON
C H WILLIAMS

Jack W G BOWES

George W REYNOLDS
William ANDERTON

Thomas Harold VISICK

V J BARNETT

E H ASHBY

S S TURNER

R HARGREAVES

William HOPKINSON

 

M E WALTERS

Arthur J HEWINSON

Harry Jesse PURKISS

B W ROBB

Henry Morris ROBB

Clarence Henry NORMAN

George Stevens ABBOTT

 

S SIMPSON

A H SIMPSON

 

Peter Carton autograph book [Wakefield/Princetown Work Centres]:

Peter CARTON, Wakefield

Charles Herbert SENIOR, Wakefield

William GEDDIE

Clarence HALL, Wakefield

R G, Wakefield

William Alington PLANT, Wakefield

L G JOHNSON

J W BRICE

J REID

A E BELLCHAMBER, Princetown

Ernest C HOOKER, Princetown

Maurice J WALTER, Wakefield

Iram G WALL, Princetown

George BENSON, Wakefield

Michael O’CALLAGHAN, Wakefield

W J NOLAN, Wakefield

Lewis DRIVER

J W POOLE

Thomas WHITEHEAD, Wakefield

Wilson RHODES, Wakefield

? CONSTABLE, Wakefield

Harry ADAMS, Wakefield

Herbert GREEN, Wakefield

Ernest Shillito SPENCER, Wakefield

Charles A RINTON, Wakefield

Herbert POOLE

Edward THOMPSON, Princetown

Duncan A WILLIS. Wakefield

George F HART, Wakefield

E WOODWARD, Princetown

H G GIBBONS

Clarence SKELLERN, Princetown

? S T PURVES

E ROBERTS, Wakefield

Arthur ROOKSBY, Wakefield

A T PERRY, Princetown

S W COLLINS, Princetown

John YOUNG

William SHAKESHAFT, Princetown

C G HOPKINS, Princetown

Harry PHILLIPS, Princetown

G JENKINS, Wakefield

Ernest MILLEN, Princetown

Charles W H CHAPMAN, Princetown

Edwin H WALKER, Wakefield

G F LOOK, Wakefield

George C RICHARDSON, Wakefield

William T CLEOBURY, Wakefield

A G CHIDGEY

T PLATT, Princetown

H P DAVY, Princetown

J W ATKINS, Princetown

Cecil DARWOOD, Princetown

G H G RYDER, Princetown

Edward DURSTON, Princetown

? W COLLINS, Princetown

Francis HARPER, Princetown

G P MICKLEWRIGHT

E HANSON, Princetown

Bernard M BONNER, Princetown

Clarence Henry NORMAN, Princetown

Newman TOLSON, Princetown

Henry Bernard OFFELL, Princetown

Alfred W EVANS

 

[Sheldon School] autograph book [Princetown Work Centre]

George A BISHOP

Hubert Allan HINKSMAN

John William RYMAN

H WILLIAMSON

F BOAT

Albert HEDGE

Henry C F FARMER

William CRACKNELL

Ludwig NAUMANN

Alexander BLAKE

Harry ?

Austen ASHLEY

Horace H SMITH

F Ernest EDWARDS

H C DENNIS

Stanley W WILLIS

George DOWKES

George McILVEN

Charles W H CHAPMAN

Mark Henry FOY

E W KNIGHTS

Ernest A DEMMERY

Ernest T COLE

W J L BOXALL

George BULLER

Thomas BRIGGS

T WILLIAMSON

Ralph P GRIFFITH

W J VODDEN

Albert J LEWIS

H HARRISON

Henry DILTHEY

Richard MUNRO

 

CO 5

 

5.1: WW1 Personalia

 

'ERNEST', 2 letters, 1915-20 [distinct from Mill Hill 'Ernest']

George Stevens ABBOTT, diary entries, fiancée Mabel Purkiss, 8/16-3/19; postcard, GSA to CO Harry PURKISS, 23/9/16; photocopy 2 envelopes addressed to Risbridge House; letter, GSA to fiancée Mabel Purkiss, 4/17; postcard, GSA to CO Harry PURKISS, 26/12/17; photocopy inside Christmas card,  Princetown Work Centre, 1918

Henry BERKOVSKY, convicted prisoner card, 1916; Dartmoor HO Centre card; photocopy of illuminated memento from Moses MUSKABLATT, Harry LEFCOVITCH, Joseph ABRAHAMS, Isidore HYAMS, 1918

Norman BROOK, 4 letters, Princetown, 1917

Peter CARTON, Nat Reg card, 1915; unidentified cutting re magistrates’ court hearing, 1916; CM charge sheet, 1916; Wormwood Scrubs form arrival letter, 1916; HO Scheme consent form, 1916; Christmas card, ? 1916-17-18; Princetown disciplinary caution notice, 1917; Exceptional Employment notice, 1918; Princetown leave notice, 1918; Princetown pay-during-leave docket, 1918; Dunlop letter re no vacancy, 1918; HO Scheme, letter re change of employment, 1919; 2 Dunlop letters re withdrawal of employment, 1919; Army discharge certificate, 1920  [all photocopies]

Horace Richard CUDBIRD, CM defence, 2/7/18, Blackdown Camp [TheTribunal, 18/7/18]; MS memoir by Raymond Andrews

Frederick Richard EAST, Enrolment Paper, NCC, 5/5/16

Daniel Frederick GRIFFITHS, Army Form W, 1917

Mark Harry Chambers HAYLER, Programme of play 'National Enemy' by Roy Apps, c 1985; biographical note by Dorothy Bing

John Cronin HERSEY, Christadelphian letter in support of CO application, Appeal to Middx Appeal Tribunal against rejection by Willesden Tribunal as out of time; Notice of Appeal hearing, 21/2/17; Notice of allowance of Appeal – case referred back to Willesden for full hearing; CO Application to Willesden MST; letter in support from father; statement of opposition by MR; Notice of Appeal to Middx AT; Notice of AT hearing, 11/4/17; Notice of dismissal of Appeal; Application for leave to appeal to Central Tribunal; letter in support from Officer Commanding, School OTC; letter in support from father; letter in support from headmaster, University College School; letter of ambivalent support from mother; letter of refusal by AT to grant leave to appeal to CT

Francis Henry JOHNSON, Tribunal statement, 12/7/16; Temp Exemption Cert, 12/7/16; newscutting, Pall Mall Gazette, 13/7/16; letter, Brian Roote, cousin, in Stand To! (Western Front Assn), No 89 (late 2010)

Edgar Isaac LANSBURY, notice of appeal from Poplar LT to London AT, 13/9/17; note, GL (father) to WC Sewell, ? 10/1/18 re 3 wks temp exemption for EIL, “with leave to appeal on business grounds”

Harry Jesse PURKISS, pc from mother to father mentioning visit at Kedington, 23/9/16; envelope of letter from brother Reginald Purkiss (Army) addressed to Old Hall, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells

William RICHARDSON, newscutting re Hereford MC, 7/5/17, Hereford Times, 12/5/17; summary of evidence, 19/5/17; CM charge sheet, 22/5/17; discharge certificate, 31/3/20

Herbert Frank RUNACRES, Oxford Tribunal transcript, copied from Herald, 18 Mar 1916

Charles Frank TITFORD, notice of Tribunal hearing, notice of adjournment,1916; Tribunal statement, 1916; TS summary of Tribunal hearing, 1916; letter in support, letter refusing support, 1916; covering letter returning non-com certificate to Tribunal, 1916; Appeal Tribunal statement, 1916; defence statement, MC, [1916];  CM witness list, 1917; CM charge sheet, summary of evidence, 1919; covering letter for Army discharge form, 1919

Sydney TURNER: transcript  of OHMS envelope addressed to ST, Detn Room, Britten Park, Teignmouth, Devon, 11/16

 

Mill Hill Guardroom N-CF:

'ERNEST', letter, 1917

Stuart BEAVIS, typescript copy of letter, 1917

Alfred BUTLER, 2 newscuttings, 3 CM statements, 7 letters, 1916-17

Percy COLLIS, letter, [1918]

EJ FORD, 2 CM statements, 5 letters, 1917-18

Eric FOX, letter, 1917

Richard FOX, 3 letters 1916-18

HT GARDNER, letter (Esperanto), 1918

Joseph Edward HOARE, Note re papers in IWM

Walter HOHNRODT, 2 letters, observer's form, 1917

Llewelyn HUGHES, 'Guardroom Limericks', [?1917]

Edward JOHNSTON, letter and CM statement, 1917

Edward KNIGHT, letter, 1918

Hubert LANE, CM statement, 1917

Terence LANE, letter, 1917

Joel MATTHEWS, 6 letters, 1917-19

Frederick MURFIN, memo 1916

AG OFFLEY, CM statement, 1917

Wilfred PAYNE, postcard, 1916

Henry PEACOCK, Exemption Certificate, charge sheet, CM statement, cell drawing, Scrubs Governor's letter, standard prison letter, Army Form W, Post Office memo re non-reinstatement, 1916-20

Leonard SIMONS, newscutting, 2 letters, 1916

Ernest T SMITH, 2 letters, 1917

Arthur SPINKS, letter, 1917

Reginald STAMP, 1917, 2 letters, 1917

James STIRLING, newscutting, CM statement, letter, 1917-19

Charles WALKER, Frederick WALKER, Henry WALKER, 2 memos, 3 letters, 2 CM statements, 1916-18

Herbert WALKER, 3 letters 1917-18

J WILLIAMS, 2 CM Statements, 1917

Cuttings from Tribunal, 1 Jun 1916, 15 Mar 1917, 7 Jun 1917 re Mill Hill Guardroom branch, N-CF

 

Newcastle-upon-Tyne N-CF

Harry ALEXANDER, Tribunal transcript, 1916

John ALEXANDER, Tribunal transcript, 1916

Robert ALEXANDER, Tribunal transcript, 1916

James BIRD, Tribunal note, 1916

H CROOK, Tribunal transcript, 1916

J DOBSON, Tribunal note, 1916

John HARWOOD, Tribunal transcript, 1916

KIRKBY, Tribunal transcript, 1916

KRAWITZ, Tribunal note, 1916

JS ROOD, Tribunal transcript, 1916

James SADLER, Tribunal transcript, 1916; Court-Martial Charge Sheet, Witness List & Summary of Evidence, 1917; Letter to Mrs Sadler (mother) re Court-Martial, 1917; Letter of authority for Mrs Sadler to visit as prisoner’s friend. 1917 [all photocopies]

John George SADLER, National Registration Card, 1915; Letter from Tom Carrick re N-CF, 1915; Newcastle Tribunal transcript, 1916; (Newcastle Illustrated Chronicle report of Tribunal, 1916; Northumberland Appeal Application, 1916; Northumberland Appeal Tribunal Decision, 1916; Certificate of MS Exemption, 1916; Court-Martial Charge Sheet, Witness List & Summary of Evidence, 1916; Guardroom correspondence, 1916; Prison correspondence, 1916-18; Notice of Central Tribunal hearing, 1917; N-CF Contribution Card, ?1917; Verses 'The Anti-Militarist', 1917; Court-Martial Charge Sheet, Witness List & Summary of Evidence, 1917; Letter from Adjutant re visiting rights and letter of authority for Margaret Scott, Mrs Sadler & Miss Sadler to visit, 1917; Letters to CO/Army Council re new Tribunal hearing, 1917; Letter to Newcastle  Tribunal, 1917; Newcastle Tribunal application, 1917; Draft application to CM for remand; Draft defence to CM, 1917; Notice of Temporary Prison Discharge, 1919; N-CF Circular re discharge, 1919; North Mail report of PQ re Hunger Strike, 1917; Cover note for Discharge Certificate, 1919; Discharge Certificate, 1919; Letter to ‘Mac’, 1919; Food Ration Card, 1920; Funeral oration (John Morley), 1961 [all photocopies]

John SOUTHERN, Tribunal transcript, 1916

N-CF statement at above Tribunal hearings, 1916

Eli WARD, Verse memoir of prison, 1949, with ms memoir by Dorothy Morley, 1998

Tribunal transcript re outburst

Newcastle Illustrated Chronicle: 'The Pleadings of Conscience - More Outbursts in the Tribunals', 29 Mar 1916

 

Wallingford Farm Training Colony: ‘Registry of Brothers’ from Turners Court Trust, Oxon County RO

George BAIRSTOW

Frank BURGESS

E Roy CALVERT

Alfred Howard CARTER

J H CARTER

James B FRYER

John FURNESS

William GRANT

Frank HORSFALL

Harold Marshall HURST

W H LANSDELL

W H LOVELACE

Hugh MACLEAN

George H MARSDEN

E Cyril OAKES

Ernest OSBORNE
Herbert OSBORNE

Hubert B PARIS

Hubert S ROSE

A W ROWOLDT

J Arthur SKELTON

Edward SLADEN

Stanley W STANFORD

Percy STANGER

W G WALLIS

Edward WATTS

Henry Leonard WILSON

 

Llanddeusant branch N-CF (Llanddeusant Work Camp): Photocopied extracts from Minute Book, 1916 +

 

IBSA “Dartmoor Church” card, Jan-Mar 1919

John Beech BLANEY

William Arthur Henry BROOKER

G BULLARD

P BURNS

Frederick Plimsoll CLYMA

C F FLETCHER

Cecil Parr GABBOTT

H B GIBBONS

Alexander Dunn KIRKWOOD

L M’DONALD

Hugh Cameron MATHER

? MILES

Joseph MINTO

Arthur Bates PITTS

Cecil PRESCOTT

D PROWSE

John G SHAW

H F SHUTTLEWORTH

Charles Edward SLY

Charles Taylor SMITH

Frank Ernest SMITH

William Edward SMITH

William STARKEY

Arthur E VALLANCE

 

National Archives: WW1 Records, W363; William TETLEY, South Shields; William TETLEY, Stratford

 

Letter from - RICKARD, to his son Philip regretting the son having voluntarily enlisted, 1917  [Philip was the father of Derek Rickard, WW2 CO]

 

CO 6

 

6.1 The Men Who Died

 

Files:

 

Peter ALLEN

Thomas ALLEN

Frederick BATTENHAM

Walter BONE

OLIVER S BRIDLE

Harold BRIGHTMAN

William Edward BURNS

Arthur BUTLER

Thomas CAINEY

Alexander CAMPBELL

Ernest CROSBY

George DARDIS

Lawrence DELLER

Alfred EUNGBLUT

Glyn EVANS

John EVANS

Percival HALL

Arthur HORTON

Andrew HENDERSON

Harold Marshall HIRST

Theodore JACKSON

Albert JAMES

S LINSCOTT

Spenser MARRIOTT-DODDINGTON

Alfred MARTLEW

Thomas MATCHETT

William MAY

Joseph MOUNTFIELD

Alexander PEDDIESON

H PHIPPS

Royle Annesly RICHMOND

James Arthur RIGG

W H PARKIN

Albert RUDALL

Arthur SLATER

William STANTON

John TAYLOR

Bennett WALLIS
Frederick WILKINSON

J G WINTER

 

Harold BEYNON

Death Certificate, 22/10/18

Death notices (2), South Wales Daily Post, 24/10/16

In memoriam, The Tribunal, 7/11/18

John W Graham: Conscription and Conscience, 1922

David Boulton: Objection Overruled, 1967

Tony Cook: Mumbles Remembers 1914-1918  (1993)

Correspondence, Tony Cook/PPU, 3/8/93-5/8/94

 

Charles John COBB

God or Man, unidentified Croydon paper, 2/9/16

I fear God, not man, Croydon Times, 9/16

Faithful unto death, Tribunal, 27/3/19

Letter, Dorothy Bing/PPU, 26/6/87

Patrick Battell: Researching objectors, letter, Croydon Free Post, 30/10/87

Memorial raised to man of peace, The Advertiser, Croydon, 29/7/88

Fight for a belief, The Advertiser, 29/7/88

A Conscientious Objector Remembered, Justpeace, 9/88

Forgotten WW1 Peace Hero Honoured, Peacelinks, 10-11/88

Bill Hetherington: 70 Years and 73 Men, The Pacifist, 11/88

Flyer, Cobb Memorial Lecture, Bruce Kent, 17/3/89

Flyer, Cobb Memorial Lecture, Ron Todd, 19/3/90

Union chief urges moves for peace, Croydon Advertiser, 3/90

Justice Talk, Croydon Advertiser, 1991

Flyer, Cobb Memorial Lecture, Jeremy Corbyn, 18/3/91

Peace groups slam Gulf victory parades, Croydon Advertiser, 22/3/91

Flyer, Cobb Memorial Lecture, Arthur Scargill, 17/3/92

Correspondence, Sylvia Ayling/PPU, 10-19/10/92

Flyer, Cobb Memorial Lecture, Francis, Earl of Longford, 17/3/94

Brochure, Charles John Cobb Memorial Lectures, 1989-92 + 1993-94

Flyer, Unveiling of new wording on Cobb gravestone, 25/2/95

Penelope Boxall, Tribute (Charles John Cobb – A Forgotten Hero), 1995

Letter, Anja & Derek Rickard, re new wording unveiling (25/2/95), 26/2/95

Flyer, Cobb Memorial Lecture, Jad Adams, 14/3/95

Flyer, Cobb Memorial Lecture, Margaret Beckett, 12/3/96

Flyer, Charles Cobb Memorial Lecture, Thomas, Cardinal Winning, 7/3/00

Thomas, Cardinal Winning, How to make our world a more civilised place, Cobb Memorial Lecture, Independent, 9/3/00

Correspondence, Patrick Battell/PPU, 17/2/88-1/11/94

 

Paul Leo GILLAN

Death of Paul Leo Gillan in Winchester Prison, Tribunal, 4 Apr 1918

Death in Winchester Prison, CO’s Hansard, 9/4/18

William J Chamberlain, Fighting for Peace, [1928]

David Boulton, Objection Overruled, 1967

Letter, Hampshire RO/John Murphy, 24/7/01

Correspondence, John Murphy/PPU, 10/4/01-23/8/01

Cyril Pearce CO Register entry print-out

 

Henry HASTON

In memoriam, Tribunal, 7/11/18

 

Alfred MARTLEW

Family tree from 1698

Birth certificate, 11/3/1894

CO’s Hansard, 1/6/16

Tribunal, Military authorities send more COs to France, 8/1/16; A visit to the COs in France, 15/6/16; Death of a Member of the Fellowship & Alfred Martlew drowned in the Ouse, 19/7/17

Death certificate, 11/7/17

An Objector Drowned, Yorkshire Evening Press, 13/7/17

Keith Dufton: 'Prisoners of Conscience', Yorkshire on Sunday, 19 Feb 1995

Martin Wainwright: 'Writing on wall bears witness to men of peace', Guardian, 7 Mar 1995

Correspondence, Joan Jeffrey/PPU, 31/8/95-5/2/86

 

Walter Leslie ROBERTS

Poem written Roberts’ death, and handed to mourners at funeral

Tribunal, Walter Roberts, 14/9/16; funeral, 21/9/16; In Memory of Walter Leslie Roberts, 30/8/17; In remembrance of our Comrade, 6/9/17; WL Roberts Memorial Fund, 11/10/17

CO’s Hansard, 19/10/16

Labour Leader, Dyce, 26/10/16

John Graham, Conscription and Conscience, 1922

David Boulton, Objection Overruled, 1967

John Rae, Conscience and Politics, 1970

Bill Hetherington: 70 Years and 73 Men, The Pacifist, 11/88

Casablanca, Lest we forget, 11-12/93

Correspondence, Marianne Routh/PPU, 20/1/87-12/8/94

 

6.2  The Men Sentenced to Death

 

FHL: Frenchmen lists

 

Gerald Oram: Death sentences passed by the military courts of the British Army, 1914-1924

[photocopied extracts relating to the 35 COs sentenced to death]

 

Jack FOISTER
Howard Cruttenden MARTEN

John R RING

Henry W SCULLARD

Cornelius BARRITT

Bernard M BONNER

Harold Francis BREWSTER

Geoffrey Edward HICKS

Adam T PRIESTLEY

Oscar Gristwood RICKETTS

Harold Edward STANTON

Clifford CARTWRIGHT

Charles E CRYER

Stafford HALL

Herbert G LAW

William E LAW

Robert A LOWN

Alfred MARTLEW

Alfred MYERS

Leonard RENTON

Charles Herbert SENIOR

Ernest Shillito SPENCER

George H Stuart BEAVIS

John Hubert BROCKLESBY

Wilfred Thomas FREAR

Norman GAUDIE

Clarence HALL

Charles Rowland JACKSON

Philip Belcher JORDAN

Frederick James MURFIN

John William ROUTLEDGE

Alfred W TAYLOR

Edwin H WALKER

Arthur Frank WALLING

Alfred William EVANS