{"id":30865,"date":"2025-12-14T10:39:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=30865"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:49:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:49:04","slug":"henry-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/14\/henry-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My father&#8217;s father was born in Surrey in 1893 and after an unremarkable childhood found himself facing a worldwide conflict during his early twenties <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He did not have any deep religious beliefs but was aware of the futility of war and became a pacifist<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nor did he want to lay his life down because of the stupidity of others <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He had no argument with other men <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His pacifism saw him imprisoned as a Conscientious Objector where he was treated badly which scarred him for many years <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He chose to live by his pen after the war and achieved some fame as a poet <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>That is all nothing else <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just this hidden in a cook book <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have you ever come across Henry Wilson <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a common name which has hindered my research <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have found nothing about Henry Wilson so far<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This said I am proposing to look into prison records <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you know where he was imprisoned <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What about the Conscientious Objector\u2019s Work Centres<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a record of one in my home town of Knutsford<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Possibly thank you for your suggestion <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father&#8217;s father was born in Surrey in 1893 and after an unremarkable childhood found himself facing a worldwide conflict during his early twenties He did not have any deep religious beliefs but was aware of the futility of war and became a pacifist Nor did he want to lay his life down because of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30868,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30865\/revisions\/30868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}