PEREIRA, FM

Family Name: Pereira

Given Names: F M

Gender: Male

Birth-date: Unknown

Death-date: Unknown

Marital Status: Unknown

Age/ Age Range: 21-35

Location: Adelaide, SA.

Occupation: Unknown.

Primary Motivation: Conscientious Objector – Religious Pacifism

Reason for Court Appearance:

Application for exemption from military service
Refusal to enlist.

Court Name and Location:

and (2) Adelaide.

Court Hearing Date:

and (2) October-November 1916.

Court Outcome:

application rejected.
Sentenced to 14 days in Adelaide Jail

Military Event:

World War 1 1914-1918

Further Information: F M Pereira was a member of the International Bible Students Association and a devout Christian. When his application for total exemption from military service was rejected, he refused to enlist. During his 14-day sentence in Adelaide Jail, he wore prison clothes and performed hard labour for eight-and-a-half hours a day during the week. He was locked in his cell for most of each weekend. Most of his meals consisted of dry black bread and water. Although permitted to keep his Bible, he had no light to read by except what came through a small hole in his cell door.

Confirmatory Sources: L.C. Jauncey, The Story of Conscription in Australia, South Melbourne, 1968 edition, pp, 248-249.