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 |
| HAROLD DINSLEY JENNING WHITE 1894 - |
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| Harold White was one of several young Quaker men who were both members of the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) and committed Absolutist COs. He had volunteered for the FAU in 1915 and worked abroad on hospital trains prior to the introduction of conscription. When Conscription came into law in 1916 he renounced his voluntary service and returned to Britain to apply as a Conscientious Objector. His application was unsuccessful and, like other absolutists, a prison sentence and eventually a year on the Home Office Scheme in Dartmoor, Knutsford and a camp in Wales followed. Men like Harold who returned to face a Tribunal hearing did so on a point of principle. While they were happy to volunteer to save lives, they were deeply opposed to compulsion and forced military service. Giving up their FAU positions meant making that opposition clear and registering their disgust at a militarised system that forced men to kill and die in a pointless futile war.
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