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| GEOFFREY EDWARD HICKS 1877 - 1962 |
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Geoffrey was an architectural woodcarver , and was allowed by his tribunal only non-combatant service in the military, which he refused. Handed over to the military, he was taken to Harwich Redoubt, Essex, and held with 16 other COs in harsh conditions before being shipped to France, held in punishment barracks at Harfleur, then court-martialled and sentenced to death, commuted to 10 years’ penal servitude. After time in Winchester Prison, he accepted the Home Office Scheme, and went to the Work Centre at Dyce quarry, Aberdeen, and then Wakefield Work Centre. Eventually released in 1920 from Warwick Gaol. After the war, he returned to working with wood for the rest of his life.
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