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Thousands of men claiming to be conscientious objectors were questioned by the Military Service Tribunals, but very few were exempted from all war service. The vast majority were designated to fight or to join the Non-Combatant Corps (NCC), specially created exclusively for COs. For those accepted as having genuine moral or religious objections ...
Hacksaw Ridge is a 2016 epic biographical war film directed by Mel Gibson and written by Andrew Knight and Robert Schenkkan, based on the 2004 documentary The Conscientious Objector directed by Terry Benedict.
These are depictions of diverse aspects of war in film and television, including but not limited to documentaries, TV mini-series, drama serials, and propaganda film.The list starts before World War I, followed by the Roaring Twenties, and then the Great Depression, which eventually saw the outbreak of World War II in 1939, which ended in 1945.
A request from fellow conscientious objectors that he be allowed to eat eggs was refused on the grounds that eggs were needed for soldiers fighting on the Western Front. [5] Intervention by a committee of conscientious objectors led to him being put onto a milk diet. Despite this Firth died in the camp hospital on 6 February 1918. [3]
His life has been the subject of books, the 2004 documentary The Conscientious Objector, and the 2016 Oscar-winning film Hacksaw Ridge, in which he was portrayed by Andrew Garfield. Early life Desmond Thomas Doss was born in Lynchburg, Virginia , to William Thomas Doss (1893–1989), a carpenter, and Bertha Edward Doss (née Oliver) (1899 ...
Pages in category "Conscientious objectors" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Wyndham Albery;
His final film as Dr. Kildare, Born to Be Bad, was re-edited after he was drafted and declared himself a conscientious objector in March 1942. in Johnny Belinda (1948) He returned to acting in the films The Dark Mirror (1946) with Olivia de Havilland and The Unfaithful (1947) with Ann Sheridan.