Cottle, Hugh Lyall

Cottle, Hugh Lyall (29), Beresford Rd, Oxton, Birkenhead, property& investment company director, Christian CO,  went to Quaker School at Reading but would not join FAU as directly helping war effort, prospective election candidate for Birkenhead Town Council, leader of North End Club Birkenhead, member of National Youth Cttee for League of Nations, National Youth Groups + Birkenhead orgs, also Housing Inquiry Cttee, Police Court aid fund & Council Juvenile Cttee, had helped with National Peace Ballot, Presbyterian Church of England & Trinity Church Claughton Missionary Cttee, war has no place for Christians, Nazis wrong but would not fight, would do AFS or civil hospital, Rev Andrew Prentice, Minister Trinity  Presbyterian Claughton spoke for him, LNW 10/9/40 FT land or f/t AFS, Burgis said ‘a deal of politics & self’, LDP 11/9/40 p3, Cheshire Observer14/9/40 p7, GUA 11/9/40 p8