| Description | North Riding appeal tribunal number: 3427
Appeal against conscription of: William Newark Wood
Age: 18
Address: c/o A Newton, Seamer, Yarm
Occupation: Joiners apprentice
Local tribunal: Stokesley Rural District Council
Central tribunal: No
Military Service Act 1916 or Attested: Attested
Grounds for appeal: c) education or training
Appellant: Abraham Newton, Master joiner, wheelwright, undertaker and miller.
Summary of Case: It is a bound apprentice with government indentures for three years fulfilled and three years still to fulfil his apprenticeship and it means a loss of £300 to me (his employer) if taken away, who am not in a position to lose such a sum. I have sacrificed agreed deal since the war started, have lost two men and cannot replace them. He is the only help I have and all my work is purely agricultural with heavy weights to lift, impossible for one man to attempt. I have a mill and grind 60 bags of meal a week for the farmers round and if the boy is taken away the milling will have to stop that means twelve farmers sending a man, a horse, and a cart to Stokesley, taking half a day per week, where about half an hour at my place suffices.
Supporting evidence: No
Date and decision of North Riding Appeal Tribunal: 21 Apr 1917. (No appearance) Dismissed |