ARCHBISHOP’S NEPHEW

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 September 1940, Page 10

ARCHBISHOP’S NEPHEW

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR LONDON, August 15. A nephew of the Archbishop of York, Frederick Stephen Temple, who, it was stated, had seen arduous service in Finland and Norway as a driver with the Friends’ Ambulance Unit,, applied at the London Conscientious Objectors’ Tribunal this week for exemption from military service on the ground of his religious convictions. He asked to be allowed to remain with the Friends’ Ambulance Unit for the remainder of the war. In answer to questions Temple said [he had objections to serving with the [R.A.M.C. The Friends’ Ambulance [ Unit was definitely a pacifist body, although it might do the same work. The Archbishop of York, in a letter read by the chairman, Judge Hargreaves, wrote: “I testify that my nephew, F. S. Temple, adopted definite pacifist convictions a considerable period before the outbreak of war, and .1 am entirely persuaded of his sincerity and conscientiousness in holding those convictions.” Mrs. Frances M. Temple said her son was the only member of the family who had those opinions, but she was sure ’he held them with sincerity. Aiderman Marshal: “Where did he get these convictions, which are so unlike the family—from school? He was at Rugby School, but I don’t think he got them there.” Temple was exempted from military service on condition that he carries on with his work with the Friends’ Ambulance Unit.