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AKERS BONFIELD 1886 - 1925  

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Bonfield Akers was a professional musician living in Wandsworth when he was conscripted in early 1916. His application to the Wandsworth Tribunal was successful and he was passed Exempt from Combatant Service conditional on taking up Work of National Importance. He was referred to the Pelham Committee, which was set up to oversee Conscientious Objectors and regulate the kinds of work they could take up. He was under the Pelham Committee from May 1916 to November 1917 when serious illness left him incapable of carrying on his work. His illness was so severe the Pelham Comittee referred him back to the Wandsworth Military Service Tribunal, with a recommendation that he be given absolute exemption on health grounds. It seems likely that they granted this exemption, but Bonfield's health was ruined, and he died not long after the war, in 1925.

 

 

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Born: 1886
Died: 1925
Address: Wandsworth, London
Tribunal: Wandsworth
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CO Work: WNI [1]
Occupation: Musician


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