| Description | North Riding appeal tribunal number: 5400
Appeal against conscription of: Charles William J Heslop
Age: 44
Address: 102 Grange Road East, Middlesbrough
Occupation: Ships medicine chest supplier
Local tribunal: Middlesbrough Borough Council
Central tribunal: No
Military Service Act 1916 or Attested: Military Service Act
Grounds for appeal: a) continue in current occupation
Appellant: C S Ellington, employer
Summary of case: He is engaged by Middleton & Co Ltd Chemists and a great part of his duties consist in supplying new and refitting old medicine chests for ships, refitting foreign chests with English drugs etc for the Admiralty or their agents. He has an intimate knowledge of the Board of trade requirements for this work. Often only 24 hours notice to refit a ships medicine chest is given and if it is not done promptly serious delay to the ship may arise. Our staff is already seriously depleted and our Managing Director, Mr Middleton-Taylor is away ill and has been ordered by his doctor to go to Saltburn for 2 months and do no work and it is possible that even at the end of that period he may not be fit for work.
Supporting evidence: No
Date and decision of North Riding appeal tribunal: 15 Jun 1918. Dismissed. |