WW1

• Conscription: compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces
• The 1916 Military service act started conscription, making it compulsory to fight in the war
• Alternativists were conscientious objectors who would do non-combat roles
• 16,500 men claimed to be conscientious objectors
• Tribunals tended to be against COs
• Punishments for being a conscientious objector:

  Imprisonment

  Solitary Confinement

  Sent to war in France to be executed
• A tribunal is a type of court. Conscientious objectors had to face a tribunal to argue their case, however they were usually very hostile to them
• COs were still treated harshly after the war. In 1926 COs were refused the right to vote, while many prisoners werent released from prison until several years later