{"id":1106,"date":"2020-09-06T09:05:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T08:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2020-09-16T17:27:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T16:27:14","slug":"conscientious-objectors-at-walton-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=1106","title":{"rendered":"Conscientious Objectors At Walton Prison."},"content":{"rendered":"

Remembering the Conscientious Objectors held in Walton Prison.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Background information.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Merseyside Peace Network held an event outside of Walton Prison on March 2nd<\/sup> 2016 in order to mark the date conscription was first introduced in Britain during 1916, and to honour all the Conscientious Objectors which were incarcerated in the prison.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

A second event was held on November 11th<\/sup> 2018 to mark the end of World War One, and remember them once more.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The Merseyside peace Network was planning to revisit Walton prison on September 18th, both to remember the Conscientious Objectors who were incarcerated in the prison, and all those who died in it during the Merseyside Blitz.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Now due to the need to social distance because of the corona virus, this event has been cancelled.<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The prison was hit by bombs on three separate occasions<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

– On the night of September 18th<\/sup> \/ 19th<\/sup> 1940.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

A bomb hit K Wing. Twenty Two of the inmates were killed.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

– On the night of April 26th <\/sup>\/ 27th <\/sup>1941<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

A bomb damaged both the Chapel and Gym.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

– On the night of May7th<\/sup> \/ 8th<\/sup> 1941 a bomb hit E block.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Two Conscientious Objectors were killed.*<\/em> <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\nDesmond Ernest Bray, from Alvechurch, Warwickshire, a worker for Birmingham PPU.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\nKenneth Coney, described as “young”, from Coulsdon, Surrey.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0‘They were booth allocated noncombatant service by their respective CO Tribunals, and both accepted medical examination, inevitably leading to call-up to the Non-Combatant Corps. They were sent to Dingle Vale Barracks, a makeshift conversion of Dingle Vale Schools, on the outskirts of Liverpool. There they refused orders, leading to courts-martial and imprisonment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Desmond Bray was serving his second sentence, 6 months<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Kenneth Coney was serving his third sentence, not known, but would likely have been at least 6 months.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The effect of the bombing was to completely destroy their bodies, so they could not be buried. Because of that, they are formally commemorated on the Commonwealth War Grave Commission Memorial, naming hundreds of soldiers not able to be given graves, erected at Brookwood, Surrey.’<\/strong><\/p>\n

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CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS WHO SERVED SENTENCES IN WALTON PRISON, LIVERPOOL
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

World War One<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

Thomas ABBOTT<\/b><\/p>\n

Maurice H ANDREWS<\/b><\/p>\n

Percy Reginald BAINTON<\/b><\/p>\n

Charles Reuben BICKNELL<\/b><\/p>\n

Leonard BROWN<\/b><\/p>\n

Archibald Fenner BROCKWAY<\/b><\/p>\n

William Edward BURNS, died in Strangeways Prison, Manchester<\/b><\/p>\n

Arthur BUTLER, died in Preston Prison<\/b><\/p>\n

George Henry DARDIS<\/b><\/p>\n

Thomas Harold DAVIES<\/b><\/p>\n

John DIAMOND<\/b><\/p>\n

Herbert DODSON<\/b><\/p>\n

Thomas Stephen EDMONDS<\/b><\/p>\n

Russell Benjamin EVERETT<\/b><\/p>\n

Henry Charles FISHER<\/b><\/p>\n

Charles FOUCHARD<\/b><\/p>\n

Frederick GARDINER<\/b><\/p>\n

John GARNER<\/b><\/p>\n

William GRAHAM<\/b><\/p>\n

Thomas GRIFFIN<\/b><\/p>\n

William GRIFFITHS<\/b><\/p>\n

Arthur Leslie GWILLIAM<\/b><\/p>\n

John Franklin HEELEY<\/b><\/p>\n

John William HILL<\/b><\/p>\n

Herbert Duncan HOBART<\/b><\/p>\n

Joseph Clifford HUGHES<\/b><\/p>\n

Ernest HUNTER<\/b><\/p>\n

Harold Marshall HURST<\/b><\/p>\n

G JENKINS<\/b><\/p>\n

Willie Golder JERMY<\/b><\/p>\n

Edward JOHNSON<\/b><\/p>\n

Edmund JONES<\/b><\/p>\n

Frederick LAWSON<\/b><\/p>\n

Alfred MAJOR<\/b><\/p>\n

Edward Jones MASON<\/b><\/p>\n

Percy John MORRIS<\/b><\/p>\n

William MORTON<\/b><\/p>\n

Albert MUSKETT<\/b><\/p>\n

Douglas James Jesse OWEN<\/b><\/p>\n

Ieuan PARKER<\/b><\/p>\n

William Oscar PARSLEY<\/b><\/p>\n

Henry George PHILLIPS<\/b><\/p>\n

Frederick P PIMLOTT<\/b><\/p>\n

William Anderson RAMSAY<\/b><\/p>\n

Baden Powell REINGE<\/b><\/p>\n

Abraham REES<\/b><\/p>\n

Reginald V RICHMOND<\/b><\/p>\n

Alfred ROGERS<\/b><\/p>\n

Harry Walton ROPER<\/b><\/p>\n

Wilfred Herbert SANDERS<\/b><\/p>\n

Frederick William SCOTT<\/b><\/p>\n

Walter SLATER<\/b><\/p>\n

Henry SOLOMON<\/b><\/p>\n

Eric Pritchard SOUTHALL<\/b><\/p>\n

George Arthur SUTHERLAND<\/b><\/p>\n

Norman William THIRTLE<\/b><\/p>\n

Joseph Hall TODD<\/b><\/p>\n

Alfred WALKER<\/b><\/p>\n

Westgarth WHINNERAH, died, Princetown Work Centre, Dartmoor<\/b><\/p>\n

John WOODING<\/b><\/p>\n

James WORSENCROFT<\/b><\/p>\n

World War Two<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

Harold ASHURST<\/b><\/p>\n

Kenneth BINKS<\/b><\/p>\n

Desmond BRAY, killed in Walton Prison by air raid<\/b><\/p>\n

Frank CHADWICK<\/b><\/p>\n

Kenneth CONEY, killed in Walton Prison by air aid<\/b><\/p>\n

S K COOK<\/b><\/p>\n

H A DOUST<\/b><\/p>\n

Joseph Charles Stuart ELLIOTT<\/b><\/p>\n

Gilbert FROST<\/b><\/p>\n

G GREEN<\/b><\/p>\n

S HARLAND<\/b><\/p>\n

Alfred Owen Hughes JARMAN<\/b><\/p>\n

Reginald Settle JOHNSON<\/b><\/p>\n

H NIGHTINGALE<\/b><\/p>\n

Glyn PICKERING<\/b><\/p>\n

J TOLEMAN<\/b><\/p>\n

Post \u2013 World War Two<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

Peter ZANDER<\/b><\/p>\n