Book: First World War Military Service Tribunals, Warwick District Appeal Tribunal, 1916-1918

Records of the Warwick District Appeal Tribunal, 1916-1918

Edited by Philip & Julie Spinks

The story of those who volunteered to serve in the army in the First World War is a familiar one. Less well known is the fact that, once conscription had been introduced, millions of men attempted to have their call-up deferred. In 1921 the government ordered the destruction of the records of the network of tribunals set up to deal with these appeals. However, the papers of the Warwick District Appeal Tribunal survived this fate. Recently discovered, they are now fully catalogued in this new publication, providing details of close on 1,000 south Warwickshire cases heard by the Warwick Appeal Tribunal which sat at the Shire Hall in Warwick. They concern not only objections on grounds of conscience (of which there were very few) but also claims for exemption on grounds of illness or hardship, or because it was thought the national interest would be better served if the appellants remained in civilian employment.

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