The Whiteford brothers from St George each reacted differently to the call to enlist, but their father was proud of all of them.

This extraordinary photograph was taken just after the war. It shows Graham, Hubert and Wilfred Whiteford in outfits which denote the decisions they made.

Wilfred, the youngest, volunteered to join the Dorset regiment and went to fight abroad. The eldest brother, Graham, refused to fight but instead served in the Army’s Non Combatant Corps. Hubert was an ‘absolutist’ – he refused to fight or to work in any way towards the war effort. Like his brothers and his father, he was a staunch Trade Unionist, and refused to fight on political grounds. Hubert was imprisoned, and kept largely in solitary confinement.

All three survived the war, and their father James had them pose for this photograph. He was equally proud of the decision each of his sons had made, in acting on their beliefs.