During the First World War there were a number of radicals in Queensland who were active in the anti-war peace movement and were at the vanguard of the anti-conscription campaigns of 1916-1917. Ernie and Mable Lane were leading figures in this movement, and when this small but active group of radicals combined with the wider labour movement against conscription, the Queensland Labor Government gained the title as the most disloyal administration in the Commonwealth. Cuthbert Butler, radical preacher, and close personal friend of the Lane’s, is a lesser known figure in this movement, but from 1914 to 1918 he fought against the war, conscription and internment from the pulpit, in lecture halls, street rallies, in print and on the parliament floor. The battles he fought left him physically injured and emotionally disillusioned with the political process and the labour movement. This paper explores Butler’s life through these turbulent years, and suggests how the battles on the home front were as costly, if not as deadly as the battlefields of the war, for many individuals and their families.