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The Day I was Called Up

Doris couldn't come to the station with me on account of the baby so my father-in-law came down to take...

Only I can speak for my conscience

The value of evidence in support of applications for registration as conscientious objectors was commented...

Reveille:Conscription

For almost twenty years postwar,generations of teenage boys were "called up" for two years National...

Conscription and Ack-Ack Battery 562

I was ordered to WAAF interview ajoining the Odeon cinema on the mount York. Spent three years mainly on...

The Conscientious Objector: In Blackpool, Lancashire

These people were known as Conscientious Objectors and it was Government Policy at that time to take them...

Journey into the Unknown

On the day on which I became 21 & eligible for War Service 23rd July, 1939, my sister Josephine and I,...

A Wartime 21st Birthday: Joining the Northumberland Fusiliers

I joined the Territiorial Army at 17 years old for 4 years really to have a holiday.Just before my...

Conscientious Objectors

Bodies blown to smithereens not much left to identify... When war stories are dicussed it is of heroes or...

Conscription of a Pacifist

At the start of WWII, the British Armed Forces attempted to recruit the services of my great-uncl Alex......

Consciencous Objectors

I am looking for Donald Barkshire Consciencous Objector 1940....