On This Day, 22 February 1916

Birmingham Mail

Tuesday 22 February 1916

FIRST SITTING OF BIRMINGHAM TRIBUNAL
INTERESTING DECISIONS

There are already three hundred applications either for exemption or postponement to come before the Birmingham Local Tribunal, which began its sittings at the Council House to-day. These include cases both under the Derby scheme and the Military Service Act. The process will be expedited by the sitting of two Courts, the one presided over by the Lord Mayor (Alderman Neville Chamberlain) and the other by the Deputy Lord Mayor (Sir William Bowater).
A boot dealer who asked for the postponement of his son’s calling-up sad he had already lost two out of three of his employees by enlistment.
A member of the Tribunal: Were they related to you? – No
A month’s delay was granted, the Lord Mayor adding, “I am afraid you must make up your mind to see him go.”