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WILLIAM THOMAS ABBOTT (1895-?)
William was born in 1895 in Islington and was the youngest of the three Abbott CO brothers. He worked as a Salesman, having been a Cheesemonger’s Assistant on the 1911 Census. Details of the rest of his family can be found on the Abbott Brothers sheet.
We do not know the motivation for William applying for exemption fro military service on grounds of conscience on 22nd March 1916, nor do we know why his application was heard by Brighton Military Service Tribunal, which granted him exemption from combatant service. The Pearce Register gives his address as Stanhope Gardens, Harringay, in Tottenham.
William accepted allocation to the Non-Combatant Corps and on 18th April 1916 – joined 8th Eastern Non Combatant Corps at Cheltenham. In November of the same year he was transferred to a different Eastern Division. He has very limited military records but we can learn from them that William was a relatively small man, standing some 5’3.25” tall.
We have, as yet, found no more information about William other than that he very likely married Blanche Meadows in 1922.
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Jennifer Bell