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Canadian Faith communities with pacifist beliefs. Dedicated to David Wells and other conscientious objectors
Canadian Faith communities with pacifist beliefs. Dedicated to David Wells and other conscientious objectors
In a number of the faith communities , a man ordinarily subject to conscription for military service could obtain a certificate of exemption if he objected conscientiously to combatant service and was prohibited from engaging in warfare “by the tenets and articles of faith, in effect on the sixth day of July, 1917, of any organized religious denomination existing and well recognized in Canada at such date, and to which he in good faith belongs.” Some communities such as the Disciples of Christ, International Bible Students Association, Pentecostal Assemblies, and Plymouth Brethren were not organized or recognized religious denominations under the terms of the act, even though all of them were committed to pacifist principles. The community remembers the Lives of the members of all these faith groups as identified on their attestation papers. Other conscientious objectors including those who served are also remembered.
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Born 1897
Died 1918
Canadian Expeditionary Force 928685
Canadian Expeditionary Force 928685 Private Canadian Infantry
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Born 1885
Died 1916
Canadian Expeditionary Force 114543
Canadian Expeditionary Force 114543 Private Canadian Mounted Rifles 1st Battalion
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Born 1888
Canadian Expeditionary Force 3107843
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Born 1882
Died 1916
Canadian Expeditionary Force 189640
Canadian Expeditionary Force 189640 Private Canadian Infantry
More about William Prosser -
Born 1898
Canadian Expeditionary Force 2278304
More about William Mckinley Strand -
Born 1897
Canadian Expeditionary Force 2336306
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Born 1884
Died 1918
Canadian Expeditionary Force 3310029 Private Canadian Infantry
Canadian Expeditionary Force 3310029 Private Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about William Henry Booker -
Born 1889
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Myrtle Melissa Brown -
Born 1871
Died 1952
Canadian Expeditionary Force 18451 Major 37th Battalion
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Born 1891
Canadian Expeditionary Force 3206336
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Born 1896
Canadian Expeditionary Force 3210177
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Born 1894
Died 1950
Canadian Expeditionary Force 504387
More about Robert Benton Burriss -
Born 1895
Died 1918
Canadian Expeditionary Force 3259532
Canadian Expeditionary Force 3259532 Private Canadian Railway Troops
More about George Garrity Griffiths