Casgliadau Arlein

Autograph book containing signatures of First World War imprisoned conscientious objectors compiled by Sidney Taylor Sellek. Most of the autographs are dated between 1916 and 1918.

Sidney T. Sellek was born 1879 in Sidmouth, Devon. On the 1911 census, he is listed as a boarder living with the Welsh-speaking Theophilus family at 3 Somerfield Place, Penydarren, Merthyr Tydfil. He later married the daughter of the family, Margaret Ann Theophilus. In March 1916, he appeared before a tribunal held in Merthyr at which over 100 conscientious objectors presented their case for exception.