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Exit from Burma: A Conscientious Objector's Story

Nevertheless, we finally arrived at Rangoon, Burma, at the mouth of the River Irrawaddy some weeks ahead of...

Cadbury's Chocolate Soldiers! Memories of a Conscientious Objector

At the beginning of the war I was a boarder at the Friends School at Sidcot in Somerset and clearly...

A Matter of Conscience. Bill Spray

Following two years of basic hospital work combined with what would now be called paramedic training, I was...

Railway Signals and Conscientious Objectors

Una Stimson's husband was a Conscientious Objector. This on his chest had to be bandaged because it was...

Conscientious Objector

Events overtook - sent in an advance party to Belgium, the Ardennes, Battle of the Bulge; to assist CCP...

Conscientious Objectors meet the Inniskillen Dragoon Guards

This is an account of a friendship that grew between a group of conscientious objectors working for the...

WW2 Conscientious Objector at Woolwich Arsenal

No one amongst our family or friends had any contacts in London, so there was no way that I could arrange...

LOVE LETTERS SENT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR

God bless you, All my love , sweet one, Idris. God bless Winifred, All my love, Idris....

A Conscientious Objector

By about this time, besides the Peace Pledge Union and the Christian Pacifist Forestry and Land Units, I...

The Reluctant Conscript: Joining the Royal Signals

This was a bitter-sweet pleasure for me, bringing Muggsy Spanier, Bix Beiderbecke and Co straight from home...

Life as a Conscientious Objector and Nurse during the Blitz

There were one or two incendiary raids when I was on duty and I can recall one where a number of the...

A Free Poland?

They sent us a copy of his War Record which informed me that he had been conscripted into the German Army...

From Captivity to Freedom: From BEF to POW - and Back Again

Les refused to stay in a P.O.W. camp in Germany and was made to march across Europe The forced labour that...

A Journey Into Memory - Reminiscences of a Conscientious Objector

Eventually we arrived at Wormwood Scrubs prison 鈥� actually quite a nice location because if you stood...

A Conscientious Objector's Service

I had heard about the Quaker Relief Training Centre at Spiceland in Devon through John Hoare who had been...

My father's call up.

He brought presents, a white silk parachute that he was hoping to use in some way, a beautifully carved...

A Wider Vision - Conscientious Objection

At that time, about 1940 I was deeply involved in the Peace movement and several of us at Westbourne Park...

A Rookie's Tale

Page 1/6 by Jack Nicholls After- my first night in the Army, I was awakened, at Reveille by the lad in the...

An Outline of the Life of a Conscientious Objector to War

After a further period of dangerous service these same five men again volunteered for the Parachute Brigade...

From Child to Man

Roger Rawlinson and his wife also had a few people round at his house, where we studied the 'Orchard...

Norman Ellis's experiences in the Friends' Ambulance Unit

Norman was born in Yeadon, to the west of Leeds, on 13th March 1920, almost a year to the day after his...

A Conscientious Objector's Wartime Story

Enlisted

Bear in mind that 鈥淒鈥� Day was June 6th 1944 and that the Allied forces had reached Brussels and...

A Conscientious Objector

He and his wife had come to the conclusion that, although they were pacifists, they should prepare...

Conscientious Objector

Elizabeth often told the following story of her lucky escape: As the Blitz intensified she was working as a...

Dad as a Conchie

What took us to Haynes? I believe it was on the recommendation of the DeBell family, acquaintances of...