MEN WHO SAID NO | ROAD TO CONSCRIPTION | OBJECTION | PRISONS | SENTENCED TO DEATH | TRIBUNALS | WIDER CONTEXT |
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MEN WHO SAID NO | ROAD TO CONSCRIPTION | OBJECTION | PRISONS | SENTENCED TO DEATH | TRIBUNALS | WIDER CONTEXT | |
| SAMUEL LOOKER 1888 |
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| Many Conscientious Objectors made important artistic and cultural contributions to British society after the war. Samuel Looker was conscripted at the age of 28 and agreed to take on Work of National Importance (WNI) in Forestry. Like many COs who accepted a Tribunal verdict of Exemption Conditional on taking on WNI, he remained in this position until the end of the war and final demobilisation in 1919. He was a member of the Hackney No-Conscription Fellowship and kept up correspondence with the group throughout the war. In his spare time during his WNI, he wrote poetry, published by the National Labour Press as “Poems by a Conscientious Objector”. His publishing would continue after the war and he worked as a poet, writer and editor. Much of his work involved posthumous collection, editing and publication of the work of Richard Jeffries.
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