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Description: | British civilian alternativist conscientious objector imprisoned in Norwich Barracks, Wormwood Scrubs, Dartmoor and Wakefield Prisons, GB, 1917-1918
REEL 1 Recollections of period as alternativist conscientious objector imprisoned in Norwich Barracks, Wormwood Scrubs, Dartmoor and Wakefield Prisons 1917-1918: family background and pre-war life; attitudes of clergy during First World War; decision to be conscientious objector; work in health food shop; vegetarianism and pacifism.
REEL 2 Continues: public attitude towards conscientious objectors; lack of contact with anti-war movement; anti-pacifist pressure from friends.
REEL 3 Continues: support from family; arranged arrest and trial before Norwich police court; prison sentence and public attitude towards prisons.
REEL 4 Continuies: conditions at Norwich Barracks guardroom and Wormwood Scrubs Prison; imprisonment during air raids; refusal to inform on fellow conscientious objectors in Wales.
REEL 5 Continues: efforts of Wakefield citizens to win more liberty for imprisoned conscientious objectors; prison food, cells and reading; mental rather than physical prison punishments; death of conscientious objector Henry Firth at Dartmoor.
REEL 6 Continues: importance of letters to prisoners; keeping mind alert; memories of Armistice Day; significance of First World War conscientious objectors. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Manthorpe, Walter Frederic | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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