Fair enough - I take your point on the difference between RAuxAF service and someone who has PVR'd with a continuing reserve liability. However, when you consider the dates of his regular service (1999-2001) and the situation we have been in since 1990, there is no way he could have ever been under the misapprehension that the RAF would not see action in Muslim countries during his service or PVR liability. Did he register his conscientious objection when he was a serving member of the RAF? Or was this merely a flag of convenience to prevent his call-up for duties in Iraq?
I suggest the latter is the more likely of the two.
SBG