| Description | North Riding appeal tribunal number: 5441
Appeal against conscription of: Frederick Russell Sandham
Age: 44
Address: Swan Hotel, Redcar
Occupation: Hotel proprietor
Local tribunal: Redcar Urban District Council
Central tribunal: No
Military Service Act 1916 or Attested: Military Service Act
Grounds for appeal: d) serious hardship
Appellant: F R Sandham
Summary of case: I am now hotel proprietor but was formally an angle-iron smith in a shipyard. I can get work as an angle-iron smith in a drifter yard near Lowestoft. I understand there are 150 vacancies for such smiths in the country. I am Grade 2 man and I ask for conditional exemption on my doing such work.
Supporting evidence: No
Date and decision of North Riding appeal tribunal: 27 Jun 1918. Dismissed. |