From the archive: Harry Stanton
Janet Scott recalls the witness of a Quaker conscientious objector
Harry Stanton was a Friend who was involved in one of the most controversial events concerning conscientious objectors in the first world war. It began with his refusal to fight in 1916 and his decision to take up the ‘conscience clause’ of the Military Service Act 1916. Ordered to do non-combatant service, he said he could not accept it. The Friend, in the issue of 21 April, reported:
H.E. Stanton has been sent to Landguard camp, Felixstowe. He has been told that he will make himself liable to penal servitude if he disobeys orders.
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