Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(N.Z.) one who objects to war on religious grounds.

1953

(con. WWII) I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 164: There was a sort of line drawn in the [detention] camps between the Hoons and the religoes [...] The religoes were divided again into God knows how many sects and amongst the boons were [...] pacifists, Communists, Anarchists, humanists, and plain dodgers.