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Description: | Photocopy of a ts memoir (92pp, written in 1989) of his life from 1915 to 1975, but principally describing his youth and early manhood living and working (as an office boy and accounts clerk) in the Manchester - Sale area (1929 - 1939), the evolution of his pacifist beliefs, his experiences as a conscientious objector during 1939 - 1945, describing his initial dismissive tribunal, sacking from his job and refusal of his case, his more sympathetic, successful appeal hearing, working (and occasionally being sacked for being a CO) as an orderly in hospitals in Bristol (Winford, September 1940 - March 1942), Glamorgan (Sully, March - September 1942) and Manchester (St Mary's, Salford Royal, The Jewish and the Private Patients Home, until 1945), his post war career as a hospital administrator in Sheffield and Brighton, and discrimination against him by employers until 1950 for having been a CO. He gives a very well reasoned, non-proselytising and humanist portrayal of his political and social philosophy, and useful descriptions of his and other's tribunals, of his poorly paid hospital work and of the various attitudes of colleagues to him.
Cataloguer PHR
Catalogue date 1992-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Worrall, C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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