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 |
| WALTER JAMES YOUNG 1888 - 1960 |
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| Walter Young was the branch secretary of the Barnsbury No-Conscription Fellowship. NCF groups were set up where ever possible, and many parishes had small groups of anti-war activists working as part of the wider NCF. All branches worked on local and national campaigns to end conscription and in support of conscientious objectors. Walter applied for exemption as a conscientious objector in July 1916, but would soon be arrested as an absentee and eventually sent to prison. It would have been impossible to run the local NCF branch from prison and Walter deserted, spending the rest of the war as a free man. After the war he continued to campaign and worked with Sylvia Pankhurst on the “Workers’ Dreadnought” newspaper.
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