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| REGINALD ALLEN 1888 |
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| Reginald Allen is an example of the kind of callous brutality that COs experienced. After his Tribunal, arrest and military court martial, he was sent to prison. By September 1916, he was on the Home Office Scheme at Dyce Quarry, where the horrendous conditions had already caused the death of one CO, Walter Roberts. The backbreaking quarrying that COs were forced to do gave Reginald a heart attack. Luckily for him, he survived and was sent home to recover in October 1916. In a rational system that was not designed to punish COs for their opinions, that would have been the end of his experiences as a CO - no longer fit for the military, he should have been exempted. Instead, he was sent back to prison and back into the Home Office Scheme. Working at Dartmoor and Warwick work centres, his experiences show the complete disregard of the civil and military authorities for the welfare of Conscientious Objectors.
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