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| BERTIE LIEF 1889 - |
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| Bertie Lief was working as a railway clerk when conscription was introduced in 1916. An Absolutist CO, he rejected the verdict of the St Pancras Tribunal to exempt him from combatant service only, and by late April 1916 was in the hands of the military authorities. Bertie was one of several COs who were sent to France mid-1916. They were transported to Calais as the Army hoped that once they were in the war zone the COs could be intimidated into following orders. Bertie refused and was sentenced to one year’s Hard Labour. By late 1916 he had been placed on the Home Office Scheme at Dyce Quarry, but again rejected alternative service and decided to move back to prison. He was finally released in April 1919, having stuck to his belief that all war-work would have made him complicit in the terrible slaughter of the First World War.
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