Family Name:
Spongberg
Given Names:
Edward Melmond
Gender:
Male
Birth-date:
Unknown
Death-date:
Unknown
Marital Status:
Unknown
Age Range:
21
Location:
NSW/VIC
Occupation:
Deposition Clerk, Western Land Board
Primary Motivation:
Conscientious Objector – Religious Pacifism (Christadelphian)
Reason for Court Appearance:
[1] Application for exemption as a conscientious objector
[2] Appeal of sentence
[3] Refusal to take oath or enlistment
[4] Appeal of sentence.
Court Name and Location:
[1] Parkes, NSW
[2] High Court, Sydney, NSW
[3] Magistrates Court, Burwood, VIC
[4] Appeal Court, location unknown.
Court Hearing Date:
[1] February 1943
[2] 29 April 1943
[3] 16 June 1944
[4] Unknown.
Court Outcome:
[1] Ordered to perform non-combatant duties
[2] Appeal dismissed
[3] 3 months imprisonment
[4] Judge asked the Minister for the Army to review the sentence.
Military Event:
World War II
Further Information:
Edward Spongberg was a Christadelphian.
Confirmatory Sources:
Attorney-General’s Department, NAA: A472, W23170; Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney NSW: 1901-2001), 6 April 1939; 10 October 1947: Sydney Morning Herald, 29 April 1943, p. 7.
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