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Kōrero: Conscription, conscientious objection and pacifism

Great War Stories: Mark Briggs

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Watch this Great War Story, which describes the treatment Mark Briggs suffered as a result of his opposition on socialist principles to serving in the First World War.

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Courtesy of Archives New Zealand – Te Rua Mahara o te Kawanatanga and Alexander Turnbull Library

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Mark Derby, Conscription, conscientious objection and pacifism – Conscientious objection, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/46397/great-war-stories-mark-briggs (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Mark Derby, i tāngia i te 23 October 2014.