Conscientious objectors

Baker, P. King and country call: New Zealanders, conscription and the Great War, 1988

• Ch. 3: Conscription opposed, including pacifists and anti-militarists;
• Ch. 7: Conscription resisted, including objectors and their treatment, defaulters and deserters, Maoris and aliens;
• Appendix 3: Denomination and nature of appeal of imprisoned objectors;
• Appendix 4: Defaulters, by occupational category.

Baxter, A. We will not cease: a  New Zealand classic, 2003 (first published 1939)

Author, the father of poet James K. Baxter, is the best known New Zealand conscientious objector of World War 1.

Grant, D. Field punishment no. 1: Archibald Baxter, Mark Briggs & New Zealand’s anti-militarist tradition, 2008

• Ch. 1: War and conscription;
• Ch. 2: Resistance;
• Ch. 3: Archibald Baxter;
• Ch. 4: Mark Briggs;
• Ch. 5: What it all means;
• Ch. 6: The tide turns. Also includes poems of protest and paintings by Bob Kerr.

Kelly, M. J. Military Board appeals, Otago Witness, Dec. 1916 to Feb. 1917, 1993

Photocopies of newspaper reports of hearings by the Otago Military Service Board for those called to serve in the army.

Military Defaulters’ List, 1919?

National Peace Council of New Zealand pamphlet, alerting electors to consequences of repressive legislation affecting conscientious objectors. Does not include any personal names.

New Zealand Army. First NZEF reserve & military defaulters – WW1, 1999

Includes lists of conscientious objectors.