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Total number of records: 40

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Archives35
Books and printed items5

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Liddle Collection36
Brotherton Collection2
Quaker Collection2

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conscientious objectors40
world war, 1914-191838
letters3
pacifism2
pacifists2
diaries1
photographs1
postcards1
quaker church buildings1
religious absolutism1

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Catchpool, Corder (1883-1952)2
Barr, James (1862-1949)1
Catchpool, Corder, 1883-19521
Fite, Gilbert Courtland (1918-2010)1
Friends Ambulance Unit1
Great Britain. Army. Friends' Ambulance Unit1
Pemberton, John (1727-1795)1
Peterson, H C (1902-1952)1
Society of Friends. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting1

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From 190039

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Up to 199939
Diaries
Archive File

Diaries

1914-1918

Diary (1918); Typescript photostat diary extract '10 Months on an FAU (Friends' Ambulance Unit) Motor Ambulance Convoy' (4 Mar-5 Nov 1918).

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DINGLE, CHARLES FREDERICK

1914-1919

Manuscript recollections of service on the Western Front on No. 17 Ambulance Train (Mar 1918); Friends' Ambulance Unit reference form (19 Aug 1916); Letter from Friends' Ambulance Unit requesting pare...

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BLELLOCH, DAVID HABERSHON HAMILTON

1914-1921

Letter from Sidney Ball, Senior Tutor at St. John's College, Oxford, testifying to sincerity of Blelloch's Conscientious Objection (3 Mar 1916); Letter from Maurice B Redcott, St. John's College, Oxfo...

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COOPER, EDMUND

1914-1978

Diary (1918); Typescript letter from George Newman, Chairman of the Friends' Ambulance Unit Committee, regarding training (14 Dec 1914); c 40 letters, mainly to his mother (Feb 1915-Aug 1918); Letter ...

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Correspondence
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Correspondence

1914-1918

c 40 letters, mainly to his mother (Feb 1915-Aug 1918); Letter from the St. John Ambulance Association informing E Cooper that he has successfully passed his First Aid examination (11 Feb 1915); Types...

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Member of Ambulance unit
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BOLTON, DOUGLAS JOSEPH

1914-1917

Statements, official and private correspondence, certificates, memoranda, court-martial papers; Prison papers & ephemera (including prison badge, improvised knife (made from spine of document binder),...

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PARROTT, F W

1906-1920

Manuscript speech, arguing against the increase in military arms, delivered at a debate at Wellingborough Pupil Teachers' Centre [1906]; 9 photographs (nd); Manuscript letter to 'Mr Editor' (7 May 192...

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EVANS, ALFRED WILLIAM

1914-1918

Bound typescript recollections, made in the recording unit of A.T.V. for the production of their film 'The Saints G Marching In' (nd); Miscellaneous photocopied papers relating to the Army and the RAM...

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ELLIS, EDGAR WHITTAKER

1912-1919

Privately published book 'Mathematical Psychology of War', by Lewis F Richardson (25 Feb 1919); Book 'The Friends' Ambulance Unit, 1914-1919' (nd); Certificate of service with the Friends' Ambulance U...

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SIMPSON, A H

1914-1919, 1929

Obituary of CJ Bond (father-in-law) (23 Nov 1939); Medals and badges (nd); Booklet 'Metric and English Weights and Measures' (1907); Booklet of Friends' Ambulance Unit members and addresses (nd); 2 li...

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LLOYD, RONALD L

1914-1918

Typescript of letter to parents, with press cutting relating to the torpedoing of the 'Hermes' and the role of his transport ship, the 'Invicta' in rescuing its crew (31 Oct 1914, 2 Nov 1914); Manuscr...

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