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Worcestershire / Re: Exemption from WWI conscription
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Graye
The sittings of the tribunals were reported in the local papers. Here is a transcription of a tribunal's proceedings from a local paper of the time that considered an application for exemption in respect of a distant relative of mine.
Andrew
Local News
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Before the Tribunals
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DROITWICH BOROUGH
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CORPORATION WATER – FITTER INDISPENSIBLE
William Harrison, water – fitter in the employ of the Corporation, was appealed for by that body. Lieut. Dixon said, from what Major Tombs had said, he thought the man must remain.
The Chairman: He is indispensable.
Six months conditional exemption.
From the Droitwich Guardian dated 22 December 1917
The sittings of the tribunals were reported in the local papers. Here is a transcription of a tribunal's proceedings from a local paper of the time that considered an application for exemption in respect of a distant relative of mine.
Andrew
Local News
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Before the Tribunals
------------------------
DROITWICH BOROUGH
--------------------------------
CORPORATION WATER – FITTER INDISPENSIBLE
William Harrison, water – fitter in the employ of the Corporation, was appealed for by that body. Lieut. Dixon said, from what Major Tombs had said, he thought the man must remain.
The Chairman: He is indispensable.
Six months conditional exemption.
From the Droitwich Guardian dated 22 December 1917