THE MEN WHO SAID NO | ROAD TO CONSCRIPTION | CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION | PRISONS | SENTENCED TO DEATH | TRIBUNALS | WIDER CONTEXT | INDEX
|
| Back | Home |
THE MEN WHO SAID NO | ROAD TO CONSCRIPTION | CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION | PRISONS | SENTENCED TO DEATH | TRIBUNALS | WIDER CONTEXT | INDEX |
| CHARLES FRANK TITFORD 1887 - |
|
||||||||
| An advertiser, Congregationalist and committed Absolutist CO, Charles Titford refused to have anything to do with the war. He believed that “it is wrong to kill a fellow human being, and equally wrong to assist others to that end” making it impossible for him to accept any form of military, or non-military work that would aid the war effort. Unfortunately for Charles, the Tottenham Tribunal passed him for non-combatant service which he appealed against. His appeal failed and he found himself in the hands of the military in mid 1917. Charles spent the rest of the war in Wormwood Scrubs and Pentonville prisons, being released only to be rearrested in a cruel “Cat-and-Mouse” game played by the military and civil authorities. He was finally released in April 1919, kept imprisoned for the “crime” of refusing to kill in the First World War.
|
|
||||||||
| EditRegion7 | EditRegion6 | ||||||||
|
|||||||||
 |
|||||||||
