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| FREDERICK HAROLD PEET 1890 - 1950 |
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| Frederick Peet was a member of the National Organising Committee of the British Socialist Party. In 1916 when the BSP split over attitudes towards the war, Frederick was staunchly on the anti-war side and applied for exemption as a Conscientious Objector. His Tribunal was unsympathetic, and dismissed his application. Frederick managed to evade the police until February 1918 when he was finally arrested during a raid on the Friends Service Committee. He was sentenced to two years hard labour for disobeying military orders at Felixstowe in March, and was placed on the Home Office Scheme in South Wales. Not long after, he was back in London continuing his political work against the war. He would go on to be a major figure in the British Communist Party in the 1920s.
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