GEORGE W. CARRODUS

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GEORGE W. CARRODUS (1896-1940)

(Brother of CO John T. Carrodus qv)

George was a year younger than his brother John. He had also attended The Friends School at Saffron Walden and gave his address as 35 Church Crescent, Muswell Hill, Hornsey.

George, a 20 year old unmarried cashier with a fire insurance company, was a Quaker and obtained a War Office Certificate of exemption in March 1916 as a conscientious objector enlisted in the Friends Ambulance Unit, which he had joined in December 1915. As such he had no need to appear before any Military Service Tribunal. He served with the Friends Ambulance Unit on Ambulance Trains until February 1919.

The boys’ grandfather, John Tiplady Carrodus (after whom John had been named) was a nationally famous violinist and this talent seems to have been passed down the family.

George was himself also a renowned violinist and cellist, but died young of influenza and heart problems. His death in Cheshire in 1940 is reported in the Essex Newsman on Saturday 12^th October 1940; he left a widow and a daughter.

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JOHN T. CARRODUS

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John T. Carrodus (1897-?)        

(John was the brother of CO George Carrodus qv)

John was a member of a very musical family and, after the War, was a regular singer with the BBC.Like his brother, George, he had attended The Friends School, Saffron Walden and was a Quaker.

He lived at 35 Church Crescent, Muswell Hill, Hornsey. This house was owned by his father, Robert Carrodus, and had been a house with seven boarders on Census Night 1911. The two boys were recorded on that Census at The Friends School.

Their mother, Euphemia, Aunt Louise, John, George and sister Effie lived in Essex at the time of the 1901 Census. Robert was then at 35 Church Crescent. However, he was a professor of violin at one of the London Music Colleges, so this may just have been his work-day address.

John was an 18 year old unmarried apprentice saddle maker, who obtained a War Office Certificate of exemption in March 1916 as a conscientious objector enlisted in the Friends Ambulance Unit which he had joined in December 1915 and served with it until January 1919. As such he had no need to appear before any Military Service Tribunal. He served with the Friends Ambulance Unit until  January 1919.

It is interesting to note that the Carrodus house in Church Crescent is almost opposite the modern-day Friends Meeting House.   The Muswell Hill meeting started in 1910 as an overflow from Hampstead meeting, but did not open its own Meeting House until 1926. Could it possibly be that the first meeting place for the Muswell Hill Friends was the large house at No.35?

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ALBERT NORMAN BURRELL

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ALBERT NORMAN BURRELL 

Albert was born in May 1893 and died, aged 94, in 1986 in Chichester.   In 1916 he was a clerk at London Omnibus Co. Ltd. and lived with his parents at 98 Beresford Road, Harringay, in Hornsey.

He probably came from a comfortably-off family, his father describing himself in 1911 as a ‘retired gentleman – independent’ and the family lived in a 6 roomed house.

Albert appears to have been an absolutist, although we have no records of what happened to him after his case had been rejected by Middlesex Tribunal. His original application for absolute exemption was to Tottenham Tribunal on 13^th March 1916.  Not only did he apply under Clause f. (CO) but also under d. (Hardship) and e. (Illness – Albert was not robust had poor eyesight, neuralgia and was deaf in one ear.   He told the Tribunal that ‘Love and goodwill towards all men is much higher and nobler than hatred and crime’ and that he considered it ‘deeply immoral to injure and kill men’ and that he would refuse to take the military oath or come under military command whatever the consequences. Tottenham gave him exemption from combatant service only.

He appealed to Middlesex Tribunal saying that Tottenham could not have realised the depths of his belief

• They did not read out his statement either to the Tribunal or the Public
• There was no fair discussion and the hearing only lasted 4-5 minutes.
• He had been refused the right to call witnesses.

Middlesex not only refused his appeal, but also withdrew the exemption from combatant service certificate.

Nothing more is known.

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