Family Name:
Collyer
Given Names:
Peter
Gender:
Male
Birth-date:
1921
Death-date:
Unknown
Marital Status
Single
Age/ Age Range:
19
Location:
VIC, Kew.
Occupation:
Unknown
Primary Motivation:
Conscientious Objector – Religious Pacifism
Reason for Court Appearance:
Application for exemption from military service as a conscientious objector
Court Name and Location:
Unknown
Court Hearing Date:
14 August 1940
Court Outcome:
Exempted from combatant military service. Ordered to be drafted into the Medical Corps.
Military Event:
World War II 1939-1945
Further Information:
Peter Collyer was the son of Lancelot Oliver Collyer, an Executive at General Motors, who had resigned his position because the firm’s resources were being used for war work. Lancelot Collyer was a very active in the peace movement, serving as leader of the Conscientious Objectors Fellowship Group, and Vice President of the Christian Pacifist Movement. Both Lancelot and Peter were members of the Victorian State Pacifist Council and the Churches of Christ.
Confirmatory Sources:
Attorney-General’s Department, NAA (ACT) A8911, 111, Item ID 821556. Title: Peace Movements – Conscientious Objectors; Kenneth Deakin Rivett Papers, University of Melbourne Archives Accession: 81/136, 83/100, 87/80, Series 3. Correspondence with Individual pacifists; P. Wilson, ‘A Question of Conscience’, Ph.D. LaTrobe, 1984, p. 168; Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 15 August 1940, p. 7.
THE AUSTRALIAN PEACE HONOUR ROLL 