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MEN WHO SAID NO | ROAD TO CONSCRIPTION | OBJECTION | PRISONS | SENTENCED TO DEATH | TRIBUNALS | WIDER CONTEXT | |
| CHARLES ERNEST LYLE |
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| Charles Lyle was unusual for a Conscientious Objector as he did not appear in front of a Tribunal to argue his case as a man determined never to take life. He was already working in a non-combatant but very important role when conscription was introduced into law in 1916, having joined the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) in June of the previous year. The FAU was a volunteer medical service that worked mainly behind the French lines and on the home front providing emergency aid and longer term care. Men like Charles who joined the FAU prior to Conscription were volunteers in every sense of the word, but were also Conscientious Objectors - they had made a decision to reject the violence and murder of war in order to save lives, not take them. The duration of Charles' time with the FAU is not known, but it is likely that as no records of a Tribunal hearing, Prison sentence or Court Martial exist that he stayed with the FAU from June 1915 onwards.
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