Family Name:
Cartmel
Given Names:
Colin Bruce
Gender:
Male
Birth-date:
1920
Death-date:
Unknown
Marital Status
Single
Age/ Age Range:
20
Location:
VIC, Hawthorn
Occupation:
Clerk
Primary Motivation:
Conscientious Objector – Religious Pacifism
Reason for Court Appearance:
Application for exemption from military service as a conscientious objector
Court Name and Location:
Magistrate’s Court, Hawthorn, VIC.
Court Hearing Date:
14 August 1940
Court Outcome:
Exempted from combatant service; ordered to be drafted into the Medical Corps.
Military Event:
World War II 1939-1945
Further Information:
Colin Cartmel was a member of the Church of Christ, the Christian Pacifists Group and the Conscientious Objectors Organisation. It May 1941, he signed a petition to the Attorney-General W.M. Hughes.
Confirmatory Sources:
The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 15 August 1940, p. 7; P. Wilson, ‘A Question of Conscience’, Ph.D. Thesis, LaTrobe, 1984, p. 163.
THE AUSTRALIAN PEACE HONOUR ROLL 