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MEN WHO SAID NO | ROAD TO CONSCRIPTION | OBJECTION | PRISONS | SENTENCED TO DEATH | TRIBUNALS | WIDER CONTEXT | |
| RANULF AGGS BIGLAND 1896 - |
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| Ranulf Bigland was one of the few COs who never went before a Tribunal, as he had joined the Friends Ambulance Unit in January 1915. Volunteers to the FAU are technically not Conscientious Objectors in the usual sense of the word, but having joined an explicitly non-combatant civilian organisation, Ranulf was able to register an opposition to war by saving lives rather than taking them. His father, Percy, is recorded as a Conscientious Objector who spent time in Wormwood Scrubs, but little else about him is known. It is not unusual to find COs with a family connection. As the strong political and/or religious beliefs that led to Conscientious Objection frequently formed family traditions, whole families of COs can be found. Father and Son both becoming Objectors is rare, but with the extension of the Military Service Act in 1918 to cover men of up to 51 years of age, far from impossible.
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