HC Deb 22 November 1917 vol 99 c1381W
Mr. KING

asked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that E. W. Dickes, a conscientious objector, was ordered to do rifle drill as a punishment for riding a bicycle without a light, and that, as a result of his refusal to perform the same, he was sentenced to a term of military detention on 19th September, 1917, at Eridge, Kent; and whether such punishment, being contrary to Army Order X., has received the sanction of the War Office?

Mr. MACPHERSON

I would refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 25th October to a question put by my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford West, of which I will send him a copy.