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MEN WHO SAID NO | ROAD TO CONSCRIPTION | OBJECTION | PRISONS | SENTENCED TO DEATH | TRIBUNALS | WIDER CONTEXT | |
| JOHN WILLIAM BAKER 1894 |
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| John Baker was one of thousands of Conscientious Objectors conscripted into the Non-Combatant Corps, a labour and logistics unit set up to provide COs with a way to join the army without using weapons. John may have been initially comfortable in the NCC but a few months after he was conscripted at Stratford East barracks, he was in France and faced a Field General Court Martial which sentenced him to 1 year in prison with hard labour. We don't know why this was. It's possible that John began to feel more and more uncomfortable with his role as a soldier in the NCC and eventually decided to disobey orders and go to prison. It could also be possible that John was one of the "Frenchmen" - Absolutist COs sent to France to try and break their will to resist. The story of COs like John is often pieced together from fragments of official files and there is always more to be found.
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