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| ABRAHAM BARALOVITZ 1899 - |
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| Abraham Baralovitz was one of many Jewish Conscientious Objectors whose family had emigrated to Britain from Russia during the late 19th century. Living in Glasgow when Conscription was introduced in 1916, Abraham was initially too young to be a conscript, but by 1917 he was 18, and called in front of the Glasgow Tribunal. His motivation for his Objection is unknown, and could have been due to his religion, politics or his parents’ ancestry. Many COs whose families had moved from Russia before the war were descendants of immigrants fleeing persecution, and refused to fight as an ally of the Tsar’s anti-semitic regime. The Glasgow Tribunal granted him Exemption from Combatant Service, sending him to the army as a non-combatant. Abraham was sent to Edinburgh in September 1917, there to join the 3rd Scottish battallion of the Non-Combatant Corps. Though the NCC were guaranteed that they would not have to use weapons, this was unacceptable to Abraham. Many Conscientious Objectors in his situation would defy orders, leading to a court martial and prison. Abraham took a more direct route, and deserted the army, staying on the run for a month until he was arrested in Salford in April 1918. By May, he was back in the hands of the army, who again tried to make him a soldier. Still determined to resist, he refused to obey any orders, was court martialled for disobedience on the fourth of June 1918 and sent to prison, where he would stay until the end of the war.
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