Peter Siepka

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:Ohio
Support
Anti-War Conscientious Objection
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Biography

Peter Siepka was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth. (Documented in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection's World War I Conscientious Objectors database.) Archival note: assigned to 3rd Company, 1st Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade, Headquarters Camp Custer (Michigan), Aug. 14, 1918 (may not have been his first assignment); sentence remitted on Aug. …

Case

United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth
Charges: Disobeying orders; refusal of military service (World War I court-martial of a conscientious objector)
Incarcerated: 1918
Released: 1919
Sentence: Held at Fort Leavenworth. Released 1919.
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Kansas

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