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| FRANK GORDON PLATT 1898-1974 |
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| Frank Platt was one of the few COs to have first been a volunteer soldier. He had joined the 1/13 Battalion, London Regiment, but towards the end of the war began to change his mind. In 1918 he was put before a Field General Court Martial, who tried him for desertion and disobedience and he was sentenced to three years Penal Servitude, commuted to two years hard labour. His status as a Conscientious Objector was confirmed by the Court Martial and Frank would end up spending a year in Winchester and Wormwood Scrubs. We do not know why he became a CO after such a long time in the army. We do know that he became an International Bible Student (now known as a Jehovah’s Witness) at some point during the war - conversion to a pacifist branch of Christianity may have convinced him that participating in the war was immoral.
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