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| WADISLAU KOWALSKI 1885 - |
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| Wadislau Kowalski was one of many Polish COs living in London during the First World War. Many of these men had fled, some as children, from the brutal and callous Tsarist regime which ruled what is now Poland. Understandably, these COs, Wadislau included, refused to join the army to fight on the same side as the repressive regime they had escaped. This was a widespread view in the CO community - in a war supposedly “for freedom”, why was Britain fighting for the Autocratic Russian Despot? Men who held these views were often not regarded as “genuine” COs. Wadislau was judged as a “Class C” CO by the Central Tribunal and was kept in prison. After two years in Wormwood Scrubs, he was one of the very last Objectors to be released, well after May 1919, all for refusing to fight for the Tsar.
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