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No More Soldiering: Conscientious Objectors of the First World War
No More Soldiering Conscientious Objectors of the First World War Author:Stephen Wade January 2016 marks the centenary of the Military Service Act, which brought in conscription, after the large-scale loss of manpower in the major campaigns of the Western Front. The Act was to create a sustained and dramatic confrontation between the military power-base and the various categories of pacifists and conscientious objectors. Across t... more »he land, those who would not fight found themselves at a tribunal, standing before a panel which would decide their fate ? often prison or internment.
No More Soldiering looks at the lives and experiences of a dozen men who would not fight Kaiser Bill?s army, and who suffered as a consequence, from Fenner Brockway, who faced solitary confinement in jail, to Ithel Davies, who found himself encamped in Ireland. Being a ?conchie?, it could be argued, was just as tough as facing the enemy in a trench.« less