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Guy Davis

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:Wisconsin
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Anti-War Conscientious Objection
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Biography

Guy Davis was a conscientious objector from Wisconsin imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth. Sentenced to 25 years in prison. (Documented in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection's World War I Conscientious Objectors database.) Archival note: sentenced to 25 years in prison; one of men who refused to give information for survey (“they are ‘children of God, saved by his grace’ and they will not be polluted by association with ‘children of the devil’); …

Case

United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth
Charges: Disobeying orders; refusal of military service (World War I court-martial of a conscientious objector)
Incarcerated: Dec 10, 1918
Released: 1920
Sentence: Sentenced to 25 years in prison. Held at Fort Leavenworth.
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Kansas