Type | Name |
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First Names | Geoffrey Edward |
Initials | GE |
Last Name | Hicks |
Source | 8458502 |
Address | Country | Type | Date | Source |
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Fernbank, Gloucester Road Burgess Hill, Burgess Hill Urban District, Great Britain | United Kingdom | 1916 |
Conscientious Objector
Service | Number | Unit | Section | Rank | Source |
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British Army | 618 |
Motivation: Socialist; NCF (No-Conscription Fellowship); Quaker Attender (Burgess Hill PM)
Fellowship: Brighton
Reason: alternativist
Source:
Type | Details | Location | Source |
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Prison | Winchester CP (Civil Prison) 30.6.16 discharged 31.8.16; Wormwood S. | ||
Central Tribunal | Central Tribunal Nos. W.467 Class: A - Genuine | ||
Work Centre | HOS (The Home Office Scheme, administered by the Brace Committee) 8.9.16 Aberdeen 'work under scheme';Oct.1916 Dyce Camp (photo.48); transfer to Army Reserve Class W 1.11.16; Q in H 19.3.18; Wakefield Work Centre 30.4.18 | ||
Magistrates Court | Arrested, tried at Haywards Heath Police Court 20.4.16, handed over - Absentee | ||
War Service | NCC(CM) (Disobeyed orders in the Non-Combatant Corps) Details of Court Martial: NCC (Non-Combatant Corps) 22.4.16 Chichester NCC (Non-Combatant Corps) (Eastern) Chichester barracks; Circular redoubt, Harwich; Cinder Central Camp, Le Havre; Field punishment compound Harfleur; Boulogne barracks June 1916 in France awaiting sentence; CM (Court Martial) Boulogne 10.6.16 death com.to 10yrs PS; 29.6.16 to England, Winchester CP (Civil Prison) - Refused to sign army papers or to give detailed answers; Sent from Harwich and Felixstowe on 8th May, where already sentenced to 28 days, kept in irons and on bread and water. | ||
Military Service Tribunal | MST (Military Service Tribunal) Burgess Hill 8..3.16 - claimed AE (Absolute Exemption), granted ECS (Exemption from Combatant Service); 24.3.16 E.Sussex Appeal - ECS (Exemption from Combatant Service) confirmed; Central Tribunal at Wormwood S. 14.8.16 - CO class A, to Brace Committee |
Date | Religion | Source |
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Quaker |
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The Pearce Register of British WW1 Conscientious Objectors |
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Geoff as a young man | Chris130762 | |
The famous Dyce picture | Chris130762 | |
the back of the Dyce picture | Chris130762 |