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Description: | 12 ms and ts letters written while he was in Wormwood Scrubs and later in Liverpool Prison, January - October 1918, while serving a prison sentence as a Conscientious Objector on political grounds in which he describes his daily routine and prison work; and a memoir of these experiences along with 22 letters written to him by his father, January 1918 - March 1919, discussing mainly family matters, war news, and the fortunes of the local Labour Party and Co-operative Branch, and 14 letters from fellow members of the Aberdare Branch of the No Conscription Fellowship and the Independent Labour Party, and others supporting his stand; together with 6 uninformative letters written to him by his brother, Sergeant R Wall MM, while serving in Salonika with the 2nd Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry (80th Brigade, 27th Division) and later the 8th Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry (66th Brigade, 22nd Division), October 1915 - October 1917, in which he mainly talks about his health and the weather.
Cataloguer PJT
Catalogue date 1986-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Wall, P | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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