| Description | North Riding appeal tribunal number: 3572
Appeal against conscription of: R Burns
Age: 29
Address: 9 Hampden Street, South Bank
Occupation: Works chemist
Local tribunal: Eston Urban District Council
Central tribunal: No
Military Service Act 1916 or Attested: Military Service Act
Grounds for appeal:
Appellant: J W Pennyman, Military Representative
Summary of case: The local tribunal had granted exemption as his work as a chemist in a fertiliser works was in the national interest. They had dismissed the appeal of the military representative who then appealed to the North Riding Appeal Tribunal: That it is not desirable in the national interest that he should remain in civil life. This man is employed in the chemical works late H & E Albert. The cases of three men employed at the same works were recently before the appeal tribunal and were adjourned in order that all the men of military age employed there might be brought before that Tribunal. I accordingly appealed to the local tribunal for a review of this mans exemption, and now appeal against this decision, so as to bring him before the Appeal tribunal.
Supporting evidence: No
Date and decision of North Riding Appeal Tribunal: 18 May 1917. Allowed but granted temporary exemption to 31 July 1917. Military appeal |