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| ALEXANDER BERTIOLI 1882 |
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| The Bertioli family were Congregationalists living in Hackney in 1916. Like many families of COs, each son had a very different experience of objection to military service during the war. Alexander, making his stand against conscription in early 1916, was rejected by the Tribunal, and became an absentee. In May he was arrested and handed over to the military. Unusually, he was then found to be medically unfit for the armed forces. Alexander had decided to make his application for exemption on Conscientious grounds, rather than medical to make his point that he disagreed with the war. Frank, his brother, was an absolutist who spent much of the war in prison. He served four sentences and more than two years in Winchester and Wormwood Scrubs. Their father, Henry, was too old to be conscripted, but he joined the Hackney branch of the No-Conscription Fellowship in order to lend his support to the CO movement.
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