Description
Object description
A very interesting collection of First World War documents (approximately 57pp) relating to the appeal by the Army to his status as a Conscientious Objector on the grounds that an eighteen-year-old could have no beliefs strong enough to warrant exemption from military service, including transcriptions of testimony, letters of support from various local government officials and friends, a letter from his father to the family solicitor alleging that the Army was falsifying evidence against Cartwright at his trial, and correspondence between Cartwright and his parents, giving interesting information about the treatment of conscientious objectors in Wormwood Scrubs and Knutsford Prisons, and his developing beliefs in socialism; along with 22 photographs of Cartwright and his family, 9 newspaper articles detailing the court case and a programme from a concert given by conscientious objectors in which he played the violin.
Content description
A very interesting collection of First World War documents (approximately 57pp) relating to the appeal by the Army to his status as a Conscientious Objector on the grounds that an eighteen-year-old could have no beliefs strong enough to warrant exemption from military service, including transcriptions of testimony, letters of support from various local government officials and friends, a letter from his father to the family solicitor alleging that the Army was falsifying evidence against Cartwright at his trial, and correspondence between Cartwright and his parents, giving interesting information about the treatment of conscientious objectors in Wormwood Scrubs and Knutsford Prisons, and his developing beliefs in socialism; along with 22 photographs of Cartwright and his family, 9 newspaper articles detailing the court case and a programme from a concert given by conscientious objectors in which he played the violin.
History note
Cataloguer BEK