Subject
Military Tribunals: Local Tribunals to hear exemption applications under Military Service Act 1916
Description
Leamington Spa Local Tribunal - report of this week's meeting; including 3 conscientious objectors (not named). 1. Poultry farmer: no exemption. 2. Grocer and wine merchant's assistant: Plymouth Brethren: granted exemption only from combatant service. 3. Moulder and fitter on grounds "war was in support of our capitalist system": no exemption: clerk said not a case of conscience but purely politics.
DETAILS
Type
Newspaper
Collection Number
Not recorded
Piece Number
Warwick and Country Edition page 2/col 4
Place
Leamington Spa
Date from
10/03/1916
Date to
10/03/1916