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| MORRIS BECK |
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| Morris Beck was one of thousands of Conscientious Objectors who joined the Home Office Scheme (HOS). The HOS was a system put in place to move COs from civil prisons into work centres where they would take on work of national importance under the control of the Government. Refusal would mean being sent back to prison. The HOS was pointlessly harsh and amounted to punishment work, with COs living in often terrible conditions doing backbreaking punitive labour. Morris joined the scheme after being judged a “genuine” CO by the Central Tribunal at Wormwood Scrubs. Sent to Dartmoor in July 1917, he would remain there for the rest of the war, likely working on farming or quarrying with needlessly primitive tools.
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