Military Service Act
Role of Friends in conscience clause highlighted.
by Ian Kirk-Smith
29th January 2016
The role played by Friends in influencing the Military Service Act of 1916 was featured in the BBC Radio 4 Sunday programme on 24 January.
The programme included a feature on the centenary of the Act, which passed into law at Westminster on 27 January 1916. The feature highlighted how Quakers were at the forefront of efforts to introduce a clause for conscientious objection to military service into the Act.
Marigold Bentley, assistant general secretary of Quaker Peace & Social Witness for Britain Yearly Meeting, contributed along with Leicester Quaker, Kendall Clark, who read his father’s statement appealing to a tribunal. This edition of Sunday can be heard on the BBC iplayer.
