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Jailed Professing Men WWI

Jailed Professing Men WWI .jpg Jackson, Rowland, Andy Scott, Willis Propp    ThumbnailsAB - Laslow, Esther & Patricia DiebertJackson, Rowland, Andy Scott, Willis Propp    ThumbnailsAB - Laslow, Esther & Patricia DiebertJackson, Rowland, Andy Scott, Willis Propp    ThumbnailsAB - Laslow, Esther & Patricia Diebert

Photo taken during WWI in Saskatchewan Canada, about 1917.

Everyone in this picture was professing or closely associated.
Because of their faith, they refused to bear arms to kill.

Most had been locked up in the Regina SK jail together.
During WWI there was no "consciencious objector" status in Canada.
Eventually the were given non-combatant jobs.

Top Row, L-R: Robert Fraser, Clifford Fleming, Matthew Thompson
ddle Row, L-R: Blake Pierce, Dugald Murdoch, Carl Jensen
Front Row, L-R: Elmer Larson, Jim McChesney, Fred Hardy, Albert Phillips