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My father Berlew, was a member of the Peace Pledge Union - largely because his elder brother had been so terribly badly wounded in WWI and because some of his many artists friends were COs.
At the outbreak of war he joined a volunteer, non combatant 6 birth boat, to protect shipping in the Thames Estuary by buoying magnetic mines. After this service was taken over by the Navy, Berlew refused to stay on. He applied for a Tribunal. He failed the first one on the grounds that he did not belong to a faith like the Quakers. He passed the second Tribunal and agreed to do farm labouring as alternative service.
In the sixties Berlew Lasenby started attending Hammersmith Meeting and organizing their pamphlets.
Sarah Lasenby, Oxford Quaker MeetingÂ
Name: Berlew' Liberty llewelynÂ
Date of birth: 1/6/1907
Address: Strand on the Green, London
Tribunal decision:
He applied for a Tribunal. He failed the first one on the grounds that he did not belong to a faith like the Quakers. He passed the second Tribunal and agreed to do farm labouring as alternative service.
Motivation:
His elder brother had been so terribly badly wounded in WW1
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