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CHARLES FRANK TITFORD 1887 -  

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An advertiser, Congregationalist and committed Absolutist CO, Charles Titford refused to have anything to do with the war. He believed that “it is wrong to kill a fellow human being, and equally wrong to assist others to that end” making it impossible for him to accept any form of military, or non-military work that would aid the war effort. Unfortunately for Charles, the Tottenham Tribunal passed him for non-combatant service which he appealed  against. His appeal failed and he found himself in the hands of the military in mid 1917. Charles spent the rest of the war in Wormwood Scrubs and Pentonville prisons, being released only to be rearrested in a cruel “Cat-and-Mouse” game played by the military and civil authorities. He was finally released in April 1919, kept imprisoned for the “crime” of refusing to kill in the First World War. 

 

 

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Born: 1887
Died:
Address: 153 Gladesmore Road, Tottenham, London
Tribunal: Tottenham
Prison: Wormwood Scrubs, Pentonville
HO Scheme: [1]
CO Work:
Occupation: Advertising

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