THE MEN WHO SAID NO | ROAD TO CONSCRIPTION | CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION | PRISONS | SENTENCED TO DEATH | TRIBUNALS | WIDER CONTEXT | INDEX
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THE MEN WHO SAID NO | ROAD TO CONSCRIPTION | CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION | PRISONS | SENTENCED TO DEATH | TRIBUNALS | WIDER CONTEXT | INDEX |
| DOUGLAS GOLDRING 1887 - 1960 |
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| Douglas Goldring was a socialist, internationalist, Conscientious Objector and a serving soldier. His CO story is extremely unusual. Volunteering for the Army in 1914, he served for a year before being discharged as unfit with acute rheumatism. By the time he had regained his fitness in 1916, his position on the war had changed, and he became a Conscientious Objector on Socialist Grounds. He began to associate with prominent socialists and joined the 1917 Club, a group of socialists, pacifists and conscientious objectors that met in London. He applied for exemption from the Paddington Tribunal, but was only granted exemption from Combatant Service Only. During and after the war he worked as a writer and journalist, producing one of the first fictionalised accounts of First World War objection in "The Fortune" in 1917. COs and Pacifism were recurring themes in his later works.
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