'Courageous' resting on 'Humiliated'
Courageous: After conscription was introduced in 1916 the conscientious objectors had to make a presentation to the tribunals who would decide if they were to be exempted from military service. For the majority exemption was denied.
Humiliated: The experience of the tribunals, facing a group who were making a judgment about their convictions, must have must have been extremely unnerving for the conscientious objectors. There were five or more tribunal members, and their job was to send people to war.