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Description: | British conscientious objector worked for Agricultural Division of Friends Ambulance Unit in GB, 1916-1918. Served with Home Guard in Coventry, 1939-1945
REEL 1: Background in Linton, Cambridgeshire, 1896-1914: family; education at Quaker school in Saffron Walden and Perse School Cambridge; question of Quaker ethos in education; attitude to enrolment in OTC and dislike of bayonet training; description of work on farms; story of obtaining exemption from military service after introduction of conscription, 1916; description of tribunal and pacifist beliefs. Recollections of period with Agricultural Division of Friends Ambulance Unit in GB, 1916-1918: description of training and farm work; question of pay; question of need for agricultural produce; role of Women's Institute; question of rationing; attitude of public and press to conscientious objectors.
REEL 2 Continues: story of family's connections with Chamberlain family in Birmingham; description of anti-German propaganda; story of helping with Belgian refugees in Birmingham and Cambridgeshire; role of Cadbury family in assisting refugees; memory of German POWs, 1919; memory of hearing guns firing on Western Front; reaction to Armistice, 11/1918; effects of war on daily life; question of pacifist and Quaker beliefs; opinion of Hitler and effect on pacifist beliefs. . Recollections of period in GB, 1939-1945: attitude to bearing arms while on duty with Home Guard in Coventry; story of brother's internment by Japanese during Second World War.
REEL 3 Continues: description of German air raids on Coventry and aftermath; story of re-location of south coast buses to Coventry; memory of businesses re-opening in wooden huts; story of Birmingham Co-Op sending all bread to Coventry; memory of damage to Coventry Cathedral; question of lack of damage to new factories; comparison of rationing and evacuation during First and Second World Wars; question of food supplies during Second World War.
REEL 4 Continues: memory of Boer War; further comments on decision to bear arms with Home Guard; question of image of Home Guard and amusing story of grenade; description of activities with Home Guard and opinion of effectiveness; amusing story of sticky bomb; attitude to son's pacifist beliefs in Second World War; opinion of role of church in war; attitude to nuclear weapons. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Smith, Lyn E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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