Congregationalism

I don't think religion..... Sorry.

My family were Congregationalists. Several of my uncles were in the wars. I don't religion entered into it.

I remember that our Remembrance services rotated annually round the local churches, of which the Congregational Church was one. I have a feeling that there was a memorial there to members lost in battle. The minister certainly took an active part in the service. I have no record of relatives who perished in either war because at the time of WW1, my grandpa and his brother were too old; in WW2, my dad was in a reserved occupation, as was my younger uncle. My other uncle was a bit older. Of more remote relatives, I have no certain knowledge, apart from my dad's cousin who was reputed to be the youngest Lieutenant Colonel in the Army. He survived, but we always thought that his alcoholism was a result of his war experiences.

Googling "are congregationalists pacifists" indicates that they were/are, along with many of the other non-conformist protestant denominations.