THE MEN WHO SAID NO | ROAD TO CONSCRIPTION | CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION | PRISONS | SENTENCED TO DEATH | TRIBUNALS | WIDER CONTEXT | INDEX
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THE MEN WHO SAID NO | ROAD TO CONSCRIPTION | CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION | PRISONS | SENTENCED TO DEATH | TRIBUNALS | WIDER CONTEXT | INDEX |
| FRANK SHORT 1896 - |
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| Frank Short was a Congregationalist CO and only 20 when he faced the Wandsworth Tribunal to argue his case as a Conscientious Objector in 1916. The Wandsworth Tribunal judged his Objection to be based on strongly religious belief and passed him Exempt for Combatant Service only, with a recommendation for the Royal Army Medical Corps. Tribunals around the country frequently made these recommendations, but they held little weight and would not necessarily mean a transfer to the RAMC was likely. Frank Short went into the Non-Combatant Corps , a unit set up for Conscientious Objectors whose beliefs allowed them to serve in the army but not take life, where he spent time abroad providing logistical and labour support for the army. Frank spent two years in the NCC before being transferred to the RAMC in August 1918, where he was promoted to Lieutenant Corporal, though retained his non-combatant status. He was demobilised and returned home in January 1920. In the end, the Tribunal recommendation that he be considered for the RAMC probably did very little - no real mechanism was in place to allow the Tribunals to make and subsequently check on the recommendations they made. Both his acceptance of the NCC and the RAMC suggest that Frank was holding to the doctrine on Conscientious Objection the Congregationalist churches had produced, allowing him to accept a role within the military provided that it was a non-combatant one.
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