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| MAXWELL ALFRED MITCHELL 1888 - |
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| Maxwell one of many COs who refused to accept the “Home Office Scheme”. The HoS was set up as a means of moving COs from prison by setting up work camps where they would do “useful” labour - usually pointless and backbreaking menial work. Accepting the terms of the scheme meant accepting that you were technically in the army, albeit in a reserve role, and therefore accepting you were a soldier! For Maxwell this was unacceptable and he decided not to allow the government to force him into the army by any means. Despite the terrible conditions he experienced in Wormwood Scrubs, he bravely chose to stay in prison until his release as one of the last COs still in custody in May 1919.
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