Ray Metzler

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:Indiana
Time Imprisoned:
7 Months 26 Days
Support
Anti-War Conscientious Objection
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Biography

Ray Metzler was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Indiana imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth. Sentenced to 20 years in prison. (Documented in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection's World War I Conscientious Objectors database.) Archival note: agreed to noncombatant service in the QMC, but later changed his mind; "I believed as though I would rather face death than go ahead with what I had taken up"; sentenced to 20 years in prison; sent to Leavenworth on Sept. 9, 1918; part of Group 1 of C.O.s released in Jan. …

Case

United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth
Charges: Disobeying orders; refusal of military service (World War I court-martial of a conscientious objector)
Incarcerated: June 1918
Released: Jan 27, 1919
Sentence: Sentenced to 20 years in prison. Held at Fort Leavenworth. Released 1919 (Jan. 27).
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Kansas

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