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Description: | British civilian absolutist conscientious objector imprisoned in Newhaven and Tidworth Camps and Winchester and Shepton Mallet Prisons, GB, 1916-1919
REEL 1 Recollections of period as absolutist conscientious objector in GB, 1916-1919: effect of war on Society of Friends' school; attitude of Friends towards military service; father's refusal to do war work; explanation of absolutist position.
REEL 2 Continues: activities of No Conscription Fellowship. recollections of Howard Marten and other fellow conscientious objectors; attitudes of tribunals; arrest and shipment to Newhaven Camp Non-Combatant Corps.
REEL 3 Continues: potential exemption for Friends; decision to take absolutist rather than alternativist position; conditions at Newhaven Camp; treatment of conscientious objectors by public and military.
REEL 4 Continues: court martial experiences; acceptance of consequences of pacifist stand; conditions at Lewes Prison. outside sympathisers and friendly warder at Wormwood Scrubs Prison.
REEL 5 Continues: opinion of food at Wormwood Scrubs and Winchester Prisons; contact with outside world; birthday at Shepton Mallet Prison; letters, photographs and books in prison; problem of boredom.
REEL 6 Continues: Prison religious services; pacifists' sense of unity; communication between prisoners; Harold Bing and 'Winchester Whisperer'; refusal of Home Office Scheme; effect of absolutists on treatment of Second World War conscientious objectors.
REEL 7 Continues: tensions between absolutists and alternativists; question of pacifists not suffering as men at Front; treatment at Tidworth Camp; imprisonment after Armistice.
REEL 8 Continues: question of adjusting to civilian life; further education and employment. Basis for Friends' pacifism; quotation from Neave Bradshaw. Story of sympathetic warder at Winchester Prison. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Brooks, Margaret A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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