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SIDNEY HORACE GOODWIN 1887  

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Sidney Goodwin was a Wesleyan Conscientious Objector, one of several in the area. He believed his religious convictions meant that he could take no part in the First World War. He refused to do any form of Alternative Service, becoming an Absolutist CO - and was locked in prison as a result. After spending time in Wormwood Scrubs with two long sentences in Maidstone Prison between March 1917 and 1919, Sidney was released on the 8th April 1919 after two long sentences under what became known as the “Two Year Rule”. This was announced by the Government on the 2nd of April and stated that all kinds of prisoners under the Army Act who had served two years in prison were to be released - with the war definitively over, Army crimes were no longer viewed as civil ones. Sidney was among the first “set” of men to be released from prison.

 

 

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CO DATA

Born: 1887
Died:
Address: 9 Leopolds Street, Poplar, London
Tribunal:
Prison: Wormwood Scrubs, Maidstone
HO Scheme: [1]
CO Work:
Occupation:

Absolutist

 


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