§ 58. Colonel WEDGWOODasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that C. J. Llewellyn, a conscientious objector of forty-three years of age, who was arrested in October, 1918, was re-court-martialled on 18th April and returned to prison to serve a second sentence of one year's hard labour a fortnight after his statement that conscientious objectors who had been sentenced to imprisonment would be discharged from the Army; and whether, in view of this man's age, he will see that his discharge from the Army is immediately completed, and will remit the remainder of his sentence?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLAs the regimental number and unit of the soldier concerned is not mentioned, I have been unable to refer to his records, but if the facts are as stated, discharge from the Army will be carried out forthwith, in consequence of his being committed to prison, and C. J. Llewellyn will be discharged from prison as soon as he has completed twenty months in the aggregate (or on the termination of his present sentence, less remissions for good conduct, whichever be the sooner), as explained in my reply of the 1st May to a question by the hon. Member for Bishop Auckland.
Sir F. HALLIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that in many cases these men are being treated with more leniency than many men who joined the service in 1914?