Records of the Friends' Ambulance Unit

[seaJane]

The latest batch of GW research material from the Library of the Society of Friends, via their blog:

http://librarysocietyfriendsblog.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/library-resources-for-researching-world-war-i-friends-ambulance-unit/

"Established in the First World War and revived in the second, the Friends Ambulance Unit was an unofficial Quaker organisation, constitutionally independent of the Society of Friends. It both provided an opportunity for active service for Quakers and other pacifists who felt called to play a part, and also, after the introduction of conscription in 1916, came (eventually, and to a limited extent) to be recognised by the Military Service Tribunals as providing an acceptable form of alternative noncombatant service. Its records are held in the Library, along with personal papers, photographs and published accounts of its work."

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