§ 21. Mr. TREVELYANasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been called to the case of Private V. T. Chesswas, a Christadelphian, who has been refused exemption from military service, although it has been accorded in the case of all others of the society; whether he is aware that the reason given was that he has not actually been baptised into the society; and, in view of the fact that he has been for eighteen years connected with the society and has produced a certificate of his genuineness from the authorities of the church where he worships, will he say what action he proposes to take?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONThis man's name does not appear on the list of recognised members of the Christadelphian Churches which was supplied to the War Office last year by a representative of that denomination, but this does not affect the man's right of application for exemption to a tribunal, and I have no information as to the grounds on which such application, if made, was refused.
§ Sir J. D. REESDoes the War Office allow that any person who calls himself a Christadelphian, whatever that may be, is exempt from military service?