Join us for another free Wednesday Talk at Bury St Edmunds Library! This time we’ll be joined by local guest speaker Terry O’Donoghue for an illustrated talk on the Bury St Edmunds Borough Tribunal case records to provide a unique glimpse of life in the town during World War One.

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In January 1916, the Military Act introduced a blanket conscription. Military tribunals were set up nationwide to hear the cases of those men seeking exemption. Some 1200 Bury St Edmunds Borough Tribunal case records survived despite orders to be destroyed. We therefore have a unique glimpse of life in the town during the First World War and this talk brings to life a selection of the men caught up by the demands of war.