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| SIDNEY ARMISTEAD |
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| Sidney Armistead was one of many COs from Camden that were sent before the Marlborough Police Court. Unusually, Sidney was arrested and fined before he had been able to appeal against the decision to reject his application for exemption by the St Pancras Tribunal. After his arrest as an absentee from the Army in August 1916, Sidney was fined 40 shillings (the typical amount for an absentee CO) and handed over to the army. After arriving at Hounslow barracks, he made his refusal to join the army clear and was very quickly moved to Wormwood Scrubs prison on a one year Hard Labour sentence. He would spend the rest of the war in and out of prison, with the end of each sentence seeing him transferred back to the control of the army, who would quickly get rid of a troublemaking CO to a civilian prison.
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