| Description | North Riding appeal tribunal number: 3725
Appeal against conscription of: William Bell Dinsdale
Age: 30
Address: West Witton, Leyburn
Occupation: Stocksman
Local tribunal: Leyburn Rural District Council
Central tribunal: No
Military Service Act 1916 or Attested: Military Services Act 1916
Grounds for appeal: Not stated
Appellant: Frederick Riddell, Military Representative
Summary of case: The appeal to the local tribunal was made by Dinsdales father, a farmer and employer. He had been exempted four times by the local tribunal the last to 24 August 1917. His father had 39 head of cattle including 12 milk cows, 2 horses, 81 breeding ewes and 90 lambs and 3 other sheep on grass two miles away from the farmhouse. Total acreage 131 including 42 of meadowland. If his son was taken he would have to give up farming as he could not manage on his own. There was also a letter from a doctor stating that the father, Philip, suffered from chronic rheumatism and was unfit for any heavy work. The local tribunal, having regard to the father's incapacity, granted temporary exemption to 24 August 1917. The military representative appealed on the against this stating that a substitution had been offered and accepted on the grounds that he did not appeal again. He said that no fresh evidence had been provided. Supporting evidence: Yes
Date and decision of North Riding Appeal Tribunal: 21 June 1917. Dismissed. Military appeal |