Cockroft, Arnold

Cockcroft, Arnold (20 single), 11 Boston St, Sowerby Bridge, builders clerk,  Methodist attender 15 years & member for 2 years, secretary 6 years for foreign missionary work, PPU Sowerby Bridge, CO to being trained to kill & being in any organisation connected with war, not helped ARP & Red Cross part of military machine, first duty is to God, Rev E R Thompson, Sowerby Bridge Methodist minister, wrote in support & Rev W Cass, Methodist minister, testified for him, LE 2/11/39 same work then civil WNI – would appeal  HEC 2/11/39 p6, YP 3/11 p4, HC 4/11 p10;  LAT 4/1/40 appeal refused, chairman said LTs should specify work to be prescribed  BO 5/1 40 p6, YP 5/1 p6; LE 10/6/40 deemed not to have complied with condition given by tribunal, , H Anson for Ministry of Labour said COs deemed not to have complied should be given 14 days for new application & if not Immediate posting to non-combat unit, HUDM 11/6/40 p5, YP 11/6 p6; LE 12/7/40 had still not complied with land work so now given NCS instead, YP 13/7/40 p6 ; MAT 20/6/41 allowed & now civil work, restoring condition  replaced by NCS for not conplyingGUA 21/6/41 p5; Arnold Cockcroft , now Halifax Quaker Meeting serving 3 months prison for refusing fire watch, FRI 23/10/42 p596 (brother of Mary Cockcroft Female CO , also brother in law of Ken  Sheppard, CO)