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The Dartmoor 'conchies'
Simon Dell
其他書名
Dartmoor's Prison's Conscientious Objectors of the Great War
出版Dartmoor Company, 2017-03
ISBN09956902009780995690202
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=rQDWswEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"During the Great War Dartmoor Prison was emptied of its criminal inhabitants and handed over to the military authorities in 1917 to become the Princetown Work Centre. That year over a thousand conscientious objectors (COs) were moved into the prison and they remained there until 1919 engaged in work of 'national importance' as an alternative to taking up arms and fighting in the trenches. It was as a result of the Military Service Act of 1916 that the issue of 'Conscientious Objection' was created and a new derogatory word appeared in our vocabulary - 'Conchie'. It was a word which derided and insulted the men who claimed exemption from military service involving carrying arms into conflict against another man." -- From The Dartmoor Society website.