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THE MEN WHO SAID NO | ROAD TO CONSCRIPTION | CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION | PRISONS | SENTENCED TO DEATH | TRIBUNALS | WIDER CONTEXT | INDEX |
| GEORGE FREDERICK DEMAINE 1892 - |
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| George Frederick Demaine was a student of sculpture at the Royal College of Art and lodging at 23 Paulton Square, Chelsea in 1916 when his studies were interrupted by Conscription. The Chelsea Military Service Tribunal allowed him only exemption from combatant military service, meaning that he was deemed liable for call-up to the Non-Combatant Corps. He refused to comply with a notice to report for training, and on 16 May 1916 was arrested by the civil police, taken before the Magistrates' Court, fined, and handed over to a military escort. He was taken to the NCC Eastern companies depot in east London, where he disobeyed an order, and on 30 May 1916 was court-martialled at Shoreham, and sentenced to 2 years imprisonment with hard labour. This sentence was to be served in Lewes Prison, but with a transfer to Wormwood Scrubs for appearance before the Central Tribunal on 16 August 1916, where he was redefined as a "genuine" CO, and offered work under the Home Office Scheme. This he refused, so on release from prison, he was sent back to the Army, and court-martialled for disobedience a second time on 8 December 1916, at Coventry; sentenced again to 112 days imprisonment with hard labour, served in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin. The cycle continued with release, then a third and fourth court-martial and prison sentence, in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin and Walton in Liverpool. He was finally released on 16 April 1919, under the "two-year rule", a provision for releasing all COs who had by that date served at least two years in prison, whether or not in a single sentence. After the war he completed his studies and worked as a sculptor.
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