HARRISON, Samuel
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Type of record: Archive
Title: HARRISON, Samuel
Classmark: LIDDLE/WW1/CO/103
Creator(s): Harrison, Samuel (1889-1966)
Date(s): 1913-1966
Language: English
Size and medium: typescript papers; manuscript papers; newspaper cuttings; photograph; Notebook
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/656405
Collection group(s): Liddle Collection
Description
Samuel Harrison was a conscientious objector from Holbeck, Leeds.
The collection includes Samuel's charge sheet and a transfer to army reserve form. There are letters written by Harrison to his father and sister and to his girlfriend, Annie Lax. Some of the letters to Annie were written while he was on hunger strike at the Northumberland War Hospital. Others were sent from the Park Hotel, Whitley Bay while Samuel was under house arrest.
Also includes a Leeds and District Sons of Temperance Council, 'Official Guide and Year Book', 1913. There is one photograph of conscientious objectors with a wagon that they have built. There are some manuscript and typescript verses.
Biography or history
Samuel Harrison (1889-1966) was born in Holbeck, Leeds. He joined 3rd Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment as a private. In May 1917 he was disciplined by the army for refusing to obey orders at camp at Whitley Bay. Samuel was imprisoned in Wormwood Scrubs, and was assigned to carrying out work of national importance. On 16 April 1919 he married Annie Lax. The couple had one son, John, born in 1921. By trade he was a coach painter and also worked for Ripponden and District Motors for several years. Samuel became a councillor in 1932 and was chairman of Ripponden Council from 1946-47. A Labour Party member, he was chairman of Ripponden Labour Party for a time. Samuel was a member of Parrock Nook Congregational Church.
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