Role Play Cards for Claimants (set1)
Claimant A
Claimant B
 You are currently employed as
 You are the unmarried son of a
a town crier and bill poster in
local farmer and you are 22
Thetford. You are very proud
years old.
of the job you do and consider
 You are extremely fit and have
yourself to be an essential
a girl friend in Norwich. You
worker.
want to get married this year.
 You are married with a 15 Your father employs several
year-old daughter and you do
women and an elderly farm
not have any sick or elderly
hand on the land.
relatives to care for.
 However, he tends to rely on
 You are not sure how to put
you for heavy lifting work.
your case to the tribunal, as
 It is coming up to the busy
you are undecided about
harvest time and your best
exactly which arguments to
horses have been taken for the
use.
war effort. The farm does not
 You must base your case on
have modern machinery
your usefulness to the war
 You have heard that the
effort. You can claim to be
military representative on the
willing to join up but make it
tribunal panel can ask very
clear that your value to Norfolk
difficult questions.
and your country will be much
 How will you present your
greater if you are allowed to
Case ?
continue in your current
occupation
Claimant C
Claimant D
 You are currently employed in
 You are 22 and single and
the munitions industry and you
work at the Howlett and White
are an experienced and skilled
boot and shoe factory in
worker.
Norwich. This company also
supplies footwear for the
 You are seeking exemption
British Army.
from conscription on the
grounds of family hardship.
 You are deeply religious and
you regularly attend religious
 You have lost three brothers
services twice each Sunday.
already in the First World War
and your parents have also
 You believe that you should
lost a son-in-law. Your fourth
‘love your enemy’ and obey
brother is missing in action and
the commandment ‘Thou Shall
believed to be dead
not kill’. You are a
conscientious objector.
 Your mother has taken the
death of her sons very badly.
 You will not agree to join the
She is asking for the company,
army or to serve at the front
advice and support of her last
line under military orders.
remaining son.
 You are willing to go to prison
for your beliefs.