7.1: WW2+ National Service Propaganda
General Register Office: National Registration, and
Census 1941,
Jan 1939
HMSO: National Service, 25 Jan 1939
Ministry of Labour: Form of Application for
National Service,
Jan 1939
Ministry of Labour: National Service - Notes for
Speakers I & II,
Jan 1939
National Service Authorities: National Service and
the Motorist,
nd [early 1939]
Joint Recruiting Board: Application for Consideration
by Technical Committee, May 1942
New Statesman:: Diary comment on Conscription propaganda, 12
Feb 1938
Economic League: National Service - Some Questions
Answered,
[May] 1939
Incorporated Society of Authors, Playwrights and
Composers: National Service (letter & questionnaire), May 1939
Board of Deputies: Our Country Needs Your Help, nd [?1940]
War Facts Press: "Joining Up?" - A Handy
Guide for Every Recruit, Apr 1940
Newcastle Echo, 14 Apr 1947, "Conscription is
Essential", address by Arthur Blenkinsopp, MP
Lord Crook: "...and National Service", 1948
7.2: WW2+ Home Front Propaganda
Home Office: National Register
notification form re National Registration Day, 29 Sep 1939
Home Office: National Registration Identity Card
Ministry of Food: General Ration Book
Ministry of Food: Ration Book Supplement
Ministry of Health: Government Evacuation Scheme, To Parents of Children, Oct
1939
City of Birmingham: Evacuation - Repayment of
Billeting Charges,
Oct 1939
Board of Education: The Service of Youth, Nov 1939
Home Office: The Protection of Your Home against
Air Raids,
1938
City of Birmingham ARP: How to take care of your
Respirator,
nd
Lord Privy Seal: Your Gas Mask/Masking Your Windows, Jul 1939
City of Birmingham: Issue of Government Shelters
& Appliances,
1939
Ministry of Home Security: Your Home as an Air Raid
Shelter, 1940
City of Birmingham: Air Raid After Care Rest
Centres, 1941
Ministry of Home Security: Phosphorus and other
Bombs now being Used by the Enemy, 1942
Ministry of Health: If Hitler uses Blister Gas, 1942
HM Treasury: War Damage to Property, 1939
HM Treasury: War Damage Act 1941 (Part I) -
Explanatory Notes, May 1941
HM Treasury: War Damage Act 1941 (Part II)
-Explanatory Memorandum, Apr 1941
Board of Trade: Application for Insurance against War
Damage
City of Birmingham: Advice to Water Consumers, 1939
Ministry of Information: Beating the Invader, May 1941
Ministry of Production: Industry and Invasion, Aug 1942
Ministry of Supply: These Metals are Wanted, nd
Ministry of Supply: Waste Rubber must not be
Destroyed,
1942
National Savings Committee, Albert's Savings, nd
National Savings Committee, National War Bonds, nd
National Savings Campaign: War Weapons Week, Birmingham, 1940
Esher UD War Savings Committee: Salute the Soldier
Week, 1944
Economic League: Industry and Defence, 1939
Yorkshire Evening Press:: Advice on protection of gas
masks, 16 Nov 1939
National ARP Animals Committee, Enrolment Form [?1939]
Fed of Tenants' & Residents' Assns: War Injury
and War Damage
[?1940]
7.3: WW2+ National Service Acts and Regulations
1939-1960
Military Training Bill [1 May 1939]
Military Training Act 1939
Military Training (General) Regulations 1939
Military Training (Prevention of Evasion) Regulations
1939
Military Training Act 1939 and Reserve & Auxiliary
Forces Act 1939 - Provision of monetary assistance to persons liable for
training or service, in respect of dependants and certain other financial
obligations
Military Training Act 1939 - Draft Order to be made
under Section 11
Military Training Act 1939 and Reserve & Auxiliary
Forces Act 1939 - Draft Order to be made under Sections 11 and 4 respectively
National Service (Armed Forces) Bill [2 Sep 1939]
National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1939
National Service (Armed Forces) (Prevention of Evasion)
Regulations 1939
National service (Armed Forces) (Miscellaneous)
Regulations 1939
National Service (Armed Forces) Proclamation [1 Oct
1939]
National Service (Armed Forces) (Isle of Man) Order
1939
National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1940
Ministry of Labour & National Service - Schedule
of Reserved Occupations [Revision, May 1940]
National Service (Armed Forces) (Prevention of
Evasion) (Amendment) Regulations 1940
National Service Bill [19 Mar 1941]
National Service Act 1941
Selected decisions by Umpire in respect of
applications for postponement of liability to be called up [Apr 1941]
National Service (Civil Defence Force) Order 1941
National Service (Civil Defence) (Discharge and
Transfer) Regulations 1941
National Service (Prevention of Evasion) Regulations
1941
National Service (Adjustment of Contracts) (Amendment)
Regulations 1941
National Service (Postponement Certificates)
(Amendment) Regulations 1941
Selected decisions by the Umpire during July 1941 in
respect of applications for postponement of liability to be called up [Sep
1941]
National Service Bill [4 Dec 1941]
National Service (No 2) Act 1941
National Service - Women - Order approving
Proclamation that certain women shall become liable to be called up [18 Dec
1941]
National Service (Miscellaneous) (Amendment) (No 3)
Regulations 1941
National Service (Postponement Certificates)
(Amendment) (No 2) Regulations 1941
National Service (Civil Defence Force) Order 1942
National Service - Order approving Proclamation
directing that certain British subjects shall become liable to be called up [23
Jul 1942]
Allied Powers (War Service) Act 1942
National Service (Foreign Countries) Act 1942
National Service Act 1942
National Service - Order approving Proclamation that
certain British subjects shall become liable to be called up [13 Jan 1943]
Allied Powers (War Service) Order 1943
Report of Prime Minister's Committee of Enquiry into
Detention Barracks 1943
Reinstatement in Civil Employment Act 1944
Re-Allocation of Man-Power between the Armed Forces
and Civilian Employment between Defeat of Germany and Defeat of Japan [Sep
1944]
Summary of second White Paper on Allocation of
Man-Power, Manchester Guardian, 17 Nov 1944
Statistics relating to the War Effort of the United
Kingdom [Nov 1944]
National Service (Release of Conscientious Objectors)
Act 1946
Call Up to the Forces in 1947 and 1948 [May 1946]
National Service Bill [12 Mar 1947]
National Service Act 1948
National Service (Amendment) Act 1948
National Service Act 1950
National Service (Conscientious Objectors) Bill [H.L.]
[3 Dec 1953 - Lord Chorley]
Civil Service Argus: "The Pacifist Vacancy
Officer's Problem", 1935
Military Training Act 1939 - Explanatory Note
Ministry of Labour pro forma envelope for registration
under MTA 1939 [May 1939]
Ministry of Labour form for verification of birth date
of registrants under MTA 1939 [May 1939]
Registration Certificate under MTA 1939 [May 1939]
National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1939 - Explanatory
Note [Oct 1939]
National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1939 - Explanatory
Note with Appendix on Postponement Certificates Regulations 1939
Ditto [Feb 1940]
Postcard for NSA registrant to notify change of
address [Jun 1940]
National Service (Armed Forces) Acts - Explanatory
Note
Notice to Appellants re appearance before Appellate Tribunal
[1941]
Questionnaire re above [1941]
Registration for Employment Order 1941, Notice to Women
who have Registered
Army Bureau of Current Affairs: “Show me the way to go
home” – the official plan of release, 23 Sep 1944
National Service Acts 1948-1950 - Information about
National Service [Mar 1951]
National Service Acts - Deferment of Call-Up [Aug
1951]
Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil
Interests) Act 1951 - Notes for Guidance [Jul 1953]
Report of delegation to Ministers on enabling NS
reservists to apply to CO Tribunals, Manchester Guardian 16 Jan 1954
7.4: WW2+ Emergency Powers, 1939-1945
Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1939
Defence Regulations 1939
Order amending Defence (General) Regulations 1939 [Nov
1939]
Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1940
Order amending Defence (General) Regulations 1939 [May
1940]
Specified Classes of Persons (Registration) (No 1)
Order 1940
Conditions of Employment and National Arbitration
Order 1940
Newcastle Journal and North Mail, 11 Nov 1940, "Call to
Youth to Aid the Nation"
Order amending Defence (General) Regulations 1939 [Jan
1941]
Fire Prevention (Business Premises) Order 1941
Civil Defence Duties (Compulsory Enrolment) Order 1941
Civil Defence Duties (Compulsory Enrolment) -
Exemption from Enrolment for Fire Prevention Duties or Release from Duties [Sep
1941]
NCCL, 1 Sep 1941, "Civil Defence Workers Test
Case"
Newcastle Evening Chronicle, ? Sep 1941, "Register
for firewatching on Sept 14, 20, 21"
Essential Work (General Provisions) (Amendment) Order
1941
Order amending Defence (General) Regulations 1939 [Dec
1941]
Registration of Boys and Girls Order 1941
Board of Education Circular - Registration of Youth -
1941
Daily Express, 7 Jan 1942, "When 16s and 18s register
at the end of the month - Boys' leisure will be controlled"
Newcastle Evening Chronicle, 9 Jan 1942,
"Job-Direction Refusals - Labour Ministry's Procedure"
Civil Defence (Employment and Offences) Order 1942
Air Council Instructions made under Defence (Women's
Forces) Regulations 1941 [Jan 1942]
Civil Defence Regions Order 1942
Order amending Defence (Local Defence Volunteers)
Regulations 1940 [Jan 1942]
Order amending Defence (Armed Forces) Regulations 1939
[Jan 1942]
Civil Defence (Employment and Offences) (No 2) Order
1942
National Fire Service (General) (No 2) Regulations
1942
Civil Defence (Employment and Offences) (No 4) Order
1942
Essential Work (General Provisions) Order 1942
Home Security Circular: Measures to enable whole-time
Civil Defence Personnel to make a more active contribution to the general war
effort 88/1942
Police and Civil Defence Duties (Tribunals) Order,
1942
War Zone Courts - General Explanatory Memorandum, 1942
City of Birmingham ARP: Certificate of Authority, 1942
Order amending Defence (General) Regulations, 1939
[Jul 1942]
Civil Defence Duties (Compulsory Enrolment) Order,
1942
City of Birmingham: Civil Defence - Fire Guards, 1942
City of Birmingham: Civil Defence Duties - Enrolment
Notice, 1942
Fire Prevention (Business Premises) (No 3) Order, 1942
Employment of Women (Control of Engagement) Order,
1943
Control of Employment (Directed Persons) Order, 1943
Board of Education/Scottish Education Dept: Youth
Registration in 1942
Defence (Fire Guard) Regulations, 1943
Fire Guard (Local Authority Services) Order, 1943
City of Birmingham: Fire Calls notice, 1943
Fire Guard (Business and Government Premises) Order,
1943
Fire Guard (Medical and Hardship Exemptions) Order,
1943
Control of Employment (Notice of Termination of
Employment) Order, 1943
Defence (Fire Guard) Regulations, 1943 - Explanatory
Memorandum
Fire Guard (Business & Govt Premises) - Duties of
Occupiers, Fire Guard Leaflet 8, [Sep 1943]
Fire Guard (Business & Govt Premises) - General
Position of Women), Fire Guard Leaflet 9 [Oct 1943]
Fire Guard (Business & Govt Premises) - Position
of Aliens, Fire Guard Leaflet10 [Sep 1943]
Fire Guard (Business & Govt Premises) - Training:
the Occupier's Duties, Fire Guard Leaflet 11 [Oct 1943]
Fire Guard (Business & Govt Premises) - Selection
of Persons to Perform Fire Guard Duty outside Working Hours, Fire Guard Leaflet
12 [Sep 1943]
Fire Guard (Business & Govt Premises) - Joint and
Combined Arrangements, Fire Guard Leaflet 13 [Sep 1943]
Fire Guard (Business & Govt Premises - Equipment
and Amenities, Fire Guard Leaflet 14 [Sep 1943]
Fire Guard (Business & Govt Premises) - Fire
Brigades and Civil Defence Services at Business and Government Premises, Fire
Guard Leaflet 15 [Sep 1943]
Fire Guard (Business & Govt Premises) - Duty
during Working Hours, Fire Guard Leaflet 16 [Sep 1943]
Fire Guard (Business & Govt Premises) - Paid Fire
Guards, Fire Guard Leaflet 17 [Oct 1943]
Control of Engagement Order, 1945
Home Office: War Emergency - Information and
Instructions, 1939
Labour Research Dept: Law in Wartime - A Worker's Guide, 1939
S Evelyn Thomas: Everyman’s Guide to the War
Regulations,
Donnington Press, 1939
Ernest Bevin: The War and the Workers, Labour Party, 20 0ct 1940
Ernest Bevin: The Production Effort, Institution of Production
Engineers, 26 Sep 1941
Labour Research Dept: Fire Watching - The Worker's
Rights, 1941
Labour Reseach Dept: The Essential Work Order, 1941
Labour Research Dept: Fire Watching Up-to-Date, 1941
Lanour Research Dept: Canteens in Industry, 1941
Labour Research Dept: Essential Work Order -
Questions and Answers,
1944
Labour Research Dept: Women in War Jobs, 1942
Army Bureau of Current Affairs: Women at War, 1942
Marx House: Women in the War Effort, 1942
Emergency Powers & Regulations - Report of Private
Meeting to consider the Implications of the new Defence Regulations and the
Emergency Powers Act, held at the instance of National Peace Council, 31 May
1940
NCCL: Freedom of the Press and the Defence
Regulations, 22 Jan 1941
Prison Rules
Prison Rules,1933
Prison Rules, 1936
Prison Rules, 1938
Prison Rules, 1945
WJ Pendlebury: Precis of KRs and Manual of Military
Law, by permission of HMSO
7.5: Conscription Propaganda post-1960
David L Edwards: National Service should be revived, Church
Times,
25/8/61
[Cecil Rhodes]: 'National Service', Church News, June 1968
Charles Douglas-Home: 'A dwindling number of army
recruits', Times,
6 Jun 1969
Times (leader): 'Youth in Search of a Role', 19 Jan 1970
Times: 'Seminar on conscription', 19 Jan 1970
Evening Standard (leader): 'Enough troops?', 23 Feb 1970
Alan Road: 'What did you do in the Cold War, Daddy?',
? Observer
magazine, ? autumn 1970
MoD (advert): 'Volunteers are needed for three years
National Service', Times, 19 Mar 1976
Ronald Mallone (letter): 'Conscription is no service',
Guardian,
20 Sep 1978
Hugh Hebert: 'Give them a shovel or they'll pick up a
brick', Guardian,
14 May 1982
Mark Urban: 'How conscription could cure Britain's
defence budget problems', Independent, 9 Sep 1987
Mark Childs: 'Can National Service really make a
come-back?', Independent, 11 May 1998
7.6: Conscription 'crisis' 1991
PPU: Worried about War? Act Now for Peace
At Ease: Going to War in the Gulf?
QPS: Conscientious Objection - What it means for
you
Bill Hetherington: 'Call-up Confusion', The
Pacifist, May
1991
Notes re 15 enquirers, 12 Nov 1990 - 30 Jan 1991
Denis Campbell: 'Draft excluders', Time Out, 21-28 Nov 1990
Correspondence, Miller Davidson, 11 Dec 1990 - 28 Jan
1991
Correspondence, Dorothy Spence, 5-24 Jan 1991
William Hetherington (letter): 'Conscientious
objection', Independent, 10 Jan 1991
INLAP: 'Gulf Crisis - A legal appraisal for members of
HM Services, 11 Jan 1991
Letter to Janie Hampton, 11 Jan 1991
Correspondence, Oldham Law Centre, 11-30 Jan 1991
Correspondence, Stradbroke Coll SU, 14 Jan - 14 Feb
1991
Commons Hansard Q Ken Livingstone/PM, 15 Jan 1991
Commons Hansard Q Harry Cohen/Def Sec, 22 Jan 1991
Commons Hansard Q Tam Dalyell/Emplt Sec, 29 Jan 1991
Correspondence, Robert Good, 15-18 Jan 1991
Correspondence, M Winters, 16 Jan - 11 Mar 1991
Letter to Judy Wood, 21 Jan 1991
Circular to Citizens Advice Bureaux, 22 Jan 1991
List of attenders at 'Conscription crisis' meeting, 23
Jan 1991
Ray Clancy: 'Objectors "should be told
rights"", Times, 24 Jan 1991
Correspondence, Alison Hull, 24 Jan - 8 Feb 1991
Correspondence, Cindy Curtis & Angela Mactavish,
25 Jan - 7 Mar 1991
Letter to Sunday Telegraph, 28 Jan 1991
Correspondence, Tony Benn MP, 28 Jan 1991 - 12
Nov.1997
Student CND: Petition form against conscription
Liberty: list of solicitors, 28 Jan 1991
Julie Welch: 'Sons and scared mothers', Times, 30 Jan 1991
Correspondence, BV Abercrombie, 30 Jan - 8 Feb 1991
At Ease: Notes including personal account of discharge
of reservist [1983]
NCCL: documents on 'Civil Liberties in Time of War',
Feb 1991
Student Federation against the Gulf War, broadsheet,
Feb 1991
Graduate Post: 'NUS helps students resist Gulf call-up',
Issue 187 [c Feb 1991]
Times: 'Call-ups contested', 6 Feb 1991
Anonymous sick spoof of Call-up Notice, 6 Feb 1991
Bill Hetherington (letter): 'Flak attack', City Limits, 7-14 Feb 1991
Bill Hetherington: Letter to Peace News, 14 Feb 1991
CO 8
8.1: WW2+ Newscuttings
Raymond Boniface: CO Tribunals 2nd World War, Press
Reports (scrapbook)
Thomas Griffin: CO Tribunals 2nd World
War, Press Reports
(scrapbook)
Raymond Foxley: Cuttings re sacking as teacher,
Torquay, 10 May – 6 Sep 1940
na: ''War Minister's Challenge to the Church - Leaders who
spread pacifism', ?1937
na: 'Town thinks again about sacked CO', nd
na: 'Two objectors discharged', nd
na: 'No enemies - not even Hitler', nd
News Chronicle: ''Objector is Tongue-Tied', nd [1939-40]
na: 'Objections to war service', nd
na: 'Says He is Nagged Into The Army", nd
na: 'Son who aired war views', nd
na: 'Inconsistent consciences', nd
na: 'Young objector with German wife', nd
na: 'Arms factory clerk's objection to war', nd
Reynolds News: 'Full Of Fight, COs Will Not Resign', nd
Newcastle Evening Chronicle: 'Tribunal uproar', 12 Oct
1939
Daily Herald: ''Suicide "Logic For Objectors"', 4
Jan 1940
News Chronicle: 'Army father regarded as
"Murderer"', 13 Jan 1940
The Star: 'No "Onward, Christian Soldiers" For Him',
15 Jan 1940
Daily Herald: '"No COs for us", say farmers', 15
Feb 1940
Daily Herald: 'Pacifist Held Up Raid Warning', 15 Feb 1940
Forward: 'Shettleston NCL' - Mock Tribunal, 24 Feb 1940
Daily Herald: 'Men Strike Rather Than Work With CO', 12 Mar
1940
New Statesman: ‘Last war’s history repeated’, 30 Mar 1940
[Kenneth MAKIN]
Daily Herald: ’ Women hiss as officer defends COs’, 5 Apr 1940
na [?News Chronicle]: 'Soldier Backs COs: Women Hiss
Him', nd [5 Apr 1940]
Daily Herald: ''"You Earn My Contempt''': 11 Apr 1940
Evening Standard: 'Objectors Must Give Up Council
Jobs', 5 Apr 1940
The Star: 'Stabbed Judge: Savage Rage Story', 18 Apr 1940
Daily Dispatch: ‘'"Conchie" Teachers
to Be Sacked’, 26 Apr 1940
Forward: 'CO who fought in Spain', 18 May 1940
Sunday Graphic: ‘Girls Make Conchie Go’, 26 May 1940
The Star: 'My duty is to fight, pacifist tells tribunal', 14 Jun
1940
Sunday Dispatch: 'He won't help conchies', 23 Jun 1940
Daily Dispatch: ''Sack for COs and pacifists',
25 Jun 1940
Yorkshire Evening Press: 'Conscientious Objectors -
York Council's decision', 30 Jul 1940
?Yorkshire Evening Press: 'Objectors' position', 31 Jul
1940
Newcastle Evening Chronicle: '"COs kicked" - Army
Court allegations', 24 Mar 1941
News Chronicle: 'Objectors kicked by NCOs', 25 Mar 1941
New Leader: 'Two COs get twelve months', 'ILP Councillor
Exempted',12 Jul 1941
New Leader: 'Our CO comrades', 11 Oct 1941
Newcastle Evening Chronicle: 'Man refused medical', 11
Nov 1941
Newcastle Evening Chronicle: 'Year's Gaol for two COs',
12 Nov 1941
Peace News: “Mr Bevin says Women Can’t be Forced”, 26 Dec 1941
na:;’The man who won't fight', 9 May 1942
Newcastle Evening Chronicle: '"CO" taken to be
medically examined', 10 May 1942
Daily Mirror: 'Ethel Mannin's CO daughter fails', 16 May 1942
Newcastle Evening Chronicle: 'Gaoled after refusing
medical', 29 Aug 1942
Croydon Times: ‘Actor sent to prison for three months’, 17
Jul, 1943 (transcript of cutting)
na (Sheffield): 'She prefers gaol to paying fine', 1943
na: '12 months for "Witness"', nd [1943]
na (? Stoke Evening Sentinel): ‘Jehovah’s Witness
fined’, nd [1943/44]
Leonard Mosley: 'Nazi Officer Who Said: "You
British Are Mad"', Sunday Graphic, 25 Jun 1944
The Friend: 'Young COs at Whan Cross', 5 Oct 1951
Peace
News: ‘The
first right – the right to live’, 30 Oct 1953
Peace News: ‘CO’s sentence reduced’, 25 Jul 1958
Mavis James: 'New Home for London CO Tribunals', Peace
News, 16 Jan
1959
Mavis James: 'Odd happenings at the CO Tribunal',
Peace News,
12 Feb 1959
Peace News: 'Tribunals must say why', 12 Jun 1959,
Peace News: '100 a year jailed', 27 Nov 1959
Bryan Reed: ‘End of call-up’, Peace News, 15 Jul 1960
Peace News: 'Call-up ends', 25 Nov 1960
Guardian: 'Reunion of 40 conscientious "Old Lags"',
nd
Church Times: ‘National Servicemen held for 6 months after normal
date for release’, 15/6/62
New Statesman, 12 Apr 1963, CBCO advert re reservists'
call-up
New Statesman, 26 Apr 1963, CBCO advert re reservists'
call-up
New Leader: 'Revolt against firewatching for bosses', 22 Mar
1941
New Leader: 'This is the Law about Firewatching', 26 Apr
1941
New Leader: 'How Forced Firewatching Works’, 12 Jul 1941
South London Press: 'Fire Guards who failed to
do duty', 22 Oct 1943
8.2 WW2+ Articles
New Statesman: ‘Labour and Compulsory Military Service', 29
Apr 1939
Donald Standfast: 'Conscription', Regnal Magazine, June 1939
New Statesman: The Military Training Act', 22 Jul 1939
John Gollan: ‘Militiamen and the Movement’, [CPGB] Party
Organiser,
Aug 1939
Henry Carter: 'Conscientious Objectors in Wartime',
Methodist Recorder,
12 Oct 1939
Norman E Forward: 'The Newcastle-upon-Tyne Tribunal', Christian
Pacifist, Nov
1939
Hampstead ILP: 'Political objectors', New
Statesman, 13
Jan 1940
Sunday Pictorial: 'Pacifists!', 2 Jun 1940
Sunday Pictorial: 'and Pansies', 9 Jun 1940
John McGovern: 'I interview Col Greenwood', New
Leader, 22
Mar 1941
Henry Carter: 'COs - Prison Sentences: A Case for
Redress', Manchester Guardian, 3 Nov 1941
"Gowrie": 'An Artist in Jail', Forward, 24 Feb - 7 Mar 1942
Amy Lewis: 'Registration and Service of Girls', The
Friend, 3 Apr
1942
"A Visiting Magistrate": 'The Free Minded
Scot', Forward,
12 Dec 1942
Economist: 'Conscription for Peace', 8 Jun 1946,
Albert D Belden: 'Stop the War-Machine Now', Cavalcade, 14 Dec 1946
Jack Sadler et al: Correspondence and reports re
post-war conscription, Northern Echo, 20 Feb – 3 Mar 1947 & 23-26 Apr 1947
The Wayfarer: 'A Stand against Conscription', May 1947
PB Turnbull Edmunds et al: 'Southend and COs', The
Friend, 21
Sep 1951
Sybil Morrison: 'Winston's Windfall', Peace News, 11 Jan 1952
Wallace Hancock: ‘Ourselves and Conscription’, Newsletter, Movement for a Pacifist
Church, Aug 1953
Bernard Withers: 'Conscientious Objection', University
Libertarian,
Apr 1957
Hugh Brock et al: 'Conscientious objection in the
nuclear age', Peace News, 23 Oct 1959
The Friend: ‘Faithfulness Counts’, 31 Jul 1970
John Ormerod Greenwood: ‘Organisation of Quaker Relief
in WW2’ [photocopied extract from Quaker Encounters: Friends and Relief, William Sessions, 1975]
Harold Jackson: 'National Service - the real inside
story', Guardian, 18
Mar 1987
Bernard Withers: ‘Object lesson’, Guardian, c 20 Mar 1987
J Duncan Wood: Memoir, The Friend, 18 Dec 1987
Financial
Times: Photo
of Swansea WW2 Tribunal (with article on nv resistance by John Rae), 20 Jan
1990
Leslie Groves: 'The Forgotten Army - Members of the
NCC', RQ,
Winter 1990-91
Cyril Selman: 'The Forgotten Army - The NCC', RQ, Spring 1991
Wendy Webster: 'The way we won the war', Independent
on Sunday, 15
Dec 1991
AD Harvey: 'Whitehall's traces of Eng Lit', Independent, 24 Dec 1991
Yours Magazine: 'Olive Lewer-Clarke', Aug 1992
Sharon Goulds: 'Battle of the Soul', New Statesman,
9 Oct 1992
Tony Parker: '"You're a conchy?" he said,
and hit me', Independent, 17 May 1993
Martin Wainwright: '"Conchie" reflects on
the madness of it all', Guardian, 6 May 1995
"Shoreditch": 'Douglas Young', New
Statesman, 19
May 1995
Ffinlo Costain: 'Remember the objectors', New Statesman, 26 May 1995
Derrick Molock: 'Will we ever learn?', New
Statesman, 9
Jun 1995
Matthew Brown: 'Men at war - Would you refuse to
fight?', Men's Quest, Jun 2000
Rae Street: 'Rose and Arthur Booth', IPB News, Feb 2003
John L Makin: ‘Pacifist Farming Communities in
Lincolnshire in World War Two’, East Midland Historian, Vol 14, 2004
Juliet Gardiner: ‘Prisoners of Conscience’, History
Today, Nov
2004
Malcolm Elliott: ‘Objection to National Service’, History
Today, Dec
2004
William Hetherington: ‘Conchies’, History Today, Feb 2005
Robert Mackay: ‘”No place in the Corporation’s
Service”: the BBC and Conscientious Objectors in the Second World War’
[Unpublished typescript]
8.3 WW2+ CO Reviews
Edward Blishen: 'Phantom Soldier' [Ernest Spring: Conchie], Guardian, 27 Dec 1975
E W Orr: Conscience, Government and War [Rachel Barker], RQ, Dec 1982
Alex Bryan: 'COs in World War Two' [Rachel Barker: Conscience,
Government and War],
The Friend,
11 Dec 1982
Florence Assie: Bloody
Conchie … ! and
Healing the Wounds [Alex
Bryan], The Pacifist, Apr 1986
O F Yorke: Don’t you know there’s a war on? [Jonathan Croall], The
Pacifist, May
1989
8.4: WW2+ CO Memoranda
Charles Hill: Memorandum on the Provisions of the
National Service Acts 1939-41, c 1941
London Area PPU: Notes of meeting re women's
conscription, Holborn Hall, 25 Jun 1941
Robert Pollard: Conscientious Objectors in Great
Britain and the Dominions, reprint from unidentified journal, c 1946-47
Commission of the Churches in International Affairs
(WCC & IMC): Proportion of British 1948 COs in Various Confessions [Extract
from Study on the principles which should underlie legislation providing for
conscientious objection], 1951
Anon: Memorandum on Military Service Regulations: Gt
Britain, 1953
Anon: Conditional Exemption of COs in Great Britain
[Extract from proceedings of conference of churches, government ministries and
peace organisations, Schnitten Faunus, W Germany, 1956]
Ministry of Labour: Analyses of decisions of Local
Tribunals 1949-60
PRO: Note of Ministry of Labour files re COs.
8.5: WW2+ Flyers and brochures
Joint Advisory Bureau
The Military Training Act, 1939
The National Service (Armed Forces) Act, 1939
Before the Tribunal, 1939
Manchester Joint Advisory Bureau: Notes for COs
(reproduced in PN, 20/10/39
CBCO
The Central Board for Conscientious Objectors and
Its Work,
1940
Central Board for Conscientious Objectors, 1940
The Central Board for Conscientious Objectors: Its
Work and Needs,
(short version),1941
The Central Board for Conscientious Objectors: Its
Work and Needs,
(full version), 1941
CBCO Publications, 1940
CBCO Publications, 1941
For Your Urgent Attention, 1940
A Plea for Tolerance, 1941
Notes on Prison Routine, 1941
Tribunals for Conscientious Objectors, Rev 1943
National Service - A Guide for the CO, 1959
Fellowship of Conscientious Objectors
Conrad Scheinberg: A Week in Wandsworth, 1940
Some British Opinions on Conscientious Objectors, 1941
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Comments on the National Service (Armed Forces Act)
1939, 1939
Before the Tribunal, 1939
Friends Peace Committee
Alfred Braithwaite: Precedent and Present Testimony, 1939
The Christian and Conscription, 1953
Methodist Peace Fellowship
Henry Carter: The Conscientious Objector, The
Church and The Tribunal, 1939
Baptist Union Young People's Department
Advice to Conscientious Objectors, 1939
Movement for a Pacifist Church of Christ
Wallace Hancock: Ourselves on Conscription, Newsletter, August 1953
Jehovah’s Witnesses in Germany and Britain, 1939
To all the Brethren in Britain, 1942
JW COs imprisoned in Britain during WW2, 2005
A 'Twenty' Explains Why I Won't Go, 1939
Bob Edwards: Conscription in Peace Time, 1946
John McGovern: I interview Col. Greenwood, 1941
No Conscription Council
No Conscription in the Peace (Petition), 1945
John Middleton Murry, A Plain Man Should oppose
Conscription,
1946
8.6: WW2+ Circulars
CBCO: Conscientious Objectors in Great Britain,
1939-1945
CBCO: National Service Bill1941
CBCO: National Service Bill in Committee, 1941
CBCO: Answer's to last month's questions, 1941
CBCO: National Service (No 2) Bill, 1941
CBCO: National Service (No 2) Bill - Proposed
amendments, 1941
CBCO: Tribunals - and Applicants, 1943
CBCO: Recall of Z and G Reservists, 1951
CBCO: Military Conscription in Great Britain, 1953
CBCO Press Service: 'First Woman CO', 'Woman CO
Gaoled', '18 Months for Refusing Medical', 1942
CBCO: Officers of Regional Boards for COs, 1945
CBCO: Bureaux list, 1944
CBCO: Bureaux list, 1945
CBCO: Bureaux list, 1946
CBCO: Bureaux list amendments, 1952
Letter, Joyce ? (FoR) to Winifred Brown, 5/5/41, re
CBCO policy on circulation of Minutes
SW London District Committee for COs
Agenda for 2 meetings in CO Week, October 1945
Northern Pacifist Advisory Bureaux (based
Newcastle-upon-Tyne) circulars and correspondence, 1939-1943
Walthamstow and District Advisory Committee for
Objectors and Conscripts
Notices re winding-up, 1978
FoR: Circular letter to prospective COs, 1939
FoR: Circular letter to men responding to previous
letter, 1939
SoF: The Military Training Bill - An Appeal to the
Nation
Socialist Party of Great Britain:
Hints, nd
Questions to COs, nd
Questions to COs, nd [additional to above]
Answers to Questions (R) [?Religious], nd
Answers to Questions (W) [?Workers], nd
Unknown [of dubious origin]:
Papers I-III of mock Tribunal Q&As
CO 9
9.1: WW2+ Serials
CBCO Bulletin, Nos 1-81, Jan1940-Dec 1946 (Complete)
(Indexes)
The Objector, Nos 1-31 (Feb 1947-Jul 1957 (?Complete)
The Tribunal (FCO), Vol I, Nos1, 2, 4; Vol II, Nos 5-12; Vol
III, Nos 1-7
(Jan 1940 - Jul 1942) [Some misnumbering of both
volumes and issues]
The Tribunal (Independent War Resisters' Forum), Vol IV, Nos
1-8, Vol V, Nos 1-12 (Aug 1942 - Sep 1944)
Contact (No Conscription Council), Nos 8-13, 21-24. 26, 27, 29
(Aug 1946 - Apr 1950)
No-Conscription News (No Conscription Council),
Spring 1952
Community Broadsheet, March 1940 (photocopy),
Summer-Autumn 1941, Jan-May 1942, Autumn-Winter 1942, Summer 1943 + Supplement.
Winter 1943-44, Summer-Autumn 1944, Spring-Summer 1945, Spring-Summer 1946,
Winter 1947-48 (Series incomplete)
9.2: WW2+ Annual Reports
CBCO:
C.B.C.O. 1941-42
Trials of Conscience, 1942-43
The Fifth Year, 1943-44 (Corder Catchpool)
An End in Sight, 1944-45 (Stephen Thorne)
To the End Persisting, 1945-46 (Alex Wood)
The Bounds of Freedom, 1946-47 (Denis Hayes, Ernest
Barnes)
Objection Overruled, 1947-48 (Fenner Brockway)
Forerunners of Peace, 1948-49 (Albert Tomlinson,
Henry Carter)
The Third Shadow, 1949-50 (Joseph Brayshaw)
Advice to Anyone, 1950-51 (Clifford Macquire)
As Others See Us, 1951-52 (Bernard Withers)
The Fourteenth Year, 1952-53 (Michael Tippett)
Fifteenth Annual Report, 1953-54 (Reginald Reynolds)
Annual Report, 1954-55
Postscript to a Revolution, 1955-56
Wait for It!, 1956-57
Nineteenth Annual Report, 1957-58
Rights Upheld, 1958-59
A Matter of Hearing, 1960-61 (Bernard Withers)
CBCO Continuing Committee, !960-61
Manchester Sub-Regional Maintenance Fund:
Mutual Aid, 1939-46
No Conscription Council:
1945-46
9.3: WW2+ CBCO Broadsheets
1. Medical Examination, 1st ed, May 1941; 2nd ed,
Nov1941; Addendum, Dec 1941; 3rd ed, Jun 1943; 4th ed, Mar 1950; 5th ed, May
1952; 6th ed, Jun 1954
2. Enlistment for Military Service, 1st ed, May 1941; 2nd ed, May
1942
3. Enrolment for Civil Defence, Ist ed, May 1941; 2nd ed,
Mar 1942
4. Non-Fulfilment of a Condition, 1st ed, May 1941; 2nd ed,
Nov 1941; 3rd ed, Jun 1942; 4th ed, Jun 1945; 5th ed, Jun 1956
5. Non-Combatant Duties, 2nd ed, May 1941; 3rd ed,
Oct 1941; 4th ed, Mar 1942; 5th ed, Oct 1944; 6th ed, Dec 1951; 7th ed, Jun
1955
6. Compulsory Fire-watching (at work), 1st ed, Jun 1941;
2nd ed, Oct 1941; 3rd ed, Mar 1942; Addendum, Oct 1942; 4th ed (under title Fire
Guard Duty),
May 1944
7. Compulsory Fire-watching (under your Local Authority),
1st ed, Jun 1941; 2nd ed, Apr 1942; Addendum, Oct 1942; 3rd ed, Sep 1943;
Addendum, Oct 1943
8. Conscription for War Work, 1st ed, Jun 1941; 2nd ed,
Aug 1941; 3rd ed Jun 1942
9. Control of Employment, 1st ed, Jul 1941; 2nd ed,
Jul 1942; Addendum, Jun 1945; 3rd ed, Aug 1945
10. Police Court Procedure, 2nd ed, Sep 1941; 3rd ed,
May 1943; 4th ed (under title Magistrates' Court Procedure), Jan 1953
11. Work on the Land, 2nd ed Mar 1942; 3rd ed, Mar
1943;
12. Women and Military Service, 1st ed, Jan 1942, 3rd ed,
Jan 1942; 4th ed, Jan 1942; 5th ed, Jun 1942
13. Duties of Civil Defence, Nov 1943
14. Part-time Civil Defence, Jun 1944
15. Call-up for the Home Guard, Jun 1944
CO 10
10.1 Appellate Tribunal, Nos 1 (Dec 1939) & 2
(May - Aug 1940 (complete)
10.2 COs Hansard, Nos 1 -20 (complete), 27 Apr
1939 - 5 Dec 1946
Supplementary Index, 22 Jan - 19 Dec 1947
Hansard, HC, 26 Mar 1941 [National Service Bill]
Hansard, HC, 1 Apr 1941 [National Service Bill]
Hansard, HC, 2 Apr 1941 [National Service Bill]
Hansard, HC, 2 Oct 1941 [COs in agricultural work]
Hansard, HC, 2 Oct 1941 [Military Service (Oxford Group)]
Hansard, HC, 27 Jan 1942 [CO Court Martial sentences]
Hansard, HL, extract, 2 Mar 1943 [D of Bedford on the conscientious
objector - Strickland Press]
Hansard, HL, extract, 18 Jan 1944, [D of Bedford on
conscientious objectors - Strickland Press]
Hansard, HC, extract, 4 Mar 1946 [Rhys Davies on compulsory
military service]
Hansard, HC, extract, 18 Nov 1946, [No Conscription amendment
to Address on King's Speech - NCC]
Hansard, HC, extracts, 8-15 May 1947 [National Service Bill]
Hansard, HC, extracts, 26 Feb, 1 Mar, 5 Mar 1951 Reserve
& Auxiliary Forces Training Bill - CBCO]
Hansard, HC, extract, 23 Jul 1953, [conscientious objectors -
CBCO]
10.3 Pamphlets
Bernard Shaw:
On Conscientious Objection - [Extract from Everbody's Political What's What?], CBCO, 1945
A Commentary on the National Service (Armed Forces)
Act As it Affects Conscientious Objectors, 2nd ed Revised and Enlarged, CBCO, nd [?1939]
The CO and the National Service Acts - A Guide for
Men and Women Conscientious Objectors and their Advisers, CBCO, Dec 1943
Questions to CO's - Important matters to which
Conscientious Objectors should direct their thoughts; based on questions
actually put by the Tribunals, CBCO, Jan 1944
Robert Pollard: What Can COs Do?, FCO, 1942
Fenner Brockway: The CO and the Community, FCO, nd [?1942]
Douglas Rogers: We Who Sleep under the Full Moon, The Tribunal, 1944
Government and Peace, IBSA, 1939
Alfred Salter: The Faith of a Conscientious
Objector,
FPC, 1940
What's This "National Service"?, ILP, 1939
Twelve Socialist Objectors: Why We Refuse, ILP, 1940
Richard Lee: The Political Objector - A Statement
of His Case,
Bakunin Press, Glasgow, 1940
11.1: WW2+ Memoirs
Ruxton HAYWARD
Cyril HOOPER
Alan LITHERLAND
Keith MASON
William Alastair MATHESON
Derek RICKARD
Stanley SMITH
Frank UTLEY
John Charles EDWARDS in Ruth Edwards: Conscientious
Objection during National Service in Britain
Robert FOSTER
Robert HOCKLEY
Robert TOD [extract]
Joyce ALLEN
Leonard BIRD
Thomas CARLILE
Bernard HICKEN
Bernard NICHOLLS
Denis WATERS
Walter WRIGHT
11.2: WW2+ CO Obituaries/Biographies
Norman Edward Albert ADAMS, Guardian (Brian Morley), 15/3/05; Independent (Glyn Hughes), 15/3/05
John AITKENHEAD: Guardian (Bob Cuddihy), 12/8/98; Times, 13/8/98
Bernard Joseph ARCHARD: Guardian (Gavin Gaughan), 7/5/08
Malcolm ARNOLD: www.malcomarnold.co.uk/biog/full_biog.php
Laurie BAKER: Guardian (Raekha Prasad), 11/4/07
Philip BARBOUR: Guardian (Roger Barbour), 2/8/10
Kenneth BARNES: Guardian, 22/6/98
Michael BARSLEY: Daily Telegraph (unsigned), 7/9/93
Jessie BASTON: Guardian (David Edmonds), 14/4/09
Maurice Warwick BERESFORD: Independent (Robin Glasscock), 14/1/06
Paul BERRY: Guardian (Marion Shaw), 26/5/99
Walter BIRMINGHAM: Guardian (Eric Moonman), 6/9/04; Times, 13/9/04
Roy BROADBENT: Guardian (Simon Hattenstone, ‘The
quiet man’ [Jim Broadbent], 13/1/03
Barry BUCKNELL: Guardian (Dennis Barker), 27 Feb 2003
Frank BLACKABY: Guardian (Frank Barnaby), 20 May 2000
Francis Charles Albert CAMMAERTS: Guardian (MRD Foot), 7/7/06
Sydney CARTER: Guardian (Paul Oestreicher), 17/3/04; Independent, 17/3/04; Times, 18/3/04
Erik CHISHOLM:
www.erikchisholm.com/ect/index.php?id=160
Kenneth Sidney COATES: Guardian (John Palmer), 30/6/10
Bob COBBING: Guardian (Robert Sheppard), 7/10/02
Hugo COLE: Guardian (Tom Sutcliffe), 3/3/96
John DOWNTON: www.natabelle.demon.co.uk/johndowntontrust/biograhies/aboutjohndownton
Islwyn Ffowc ELIS: Guardian (D Ben Rees), 22/3/04
David S EVANS: News and Reviews in Astronomy &
Geophysics,
46, (3) 3.40
Thomas Francis EVANS: Guardian (Michael Holroyd), 22/1/09
John FAIRFAX: Guardian (Adam Thorpe), 21/1/09
Donald FENTER: Guardian (Howard Horsley), 2/12/09
John FERGUSON: Peacelinks (Lesley Roff), 6-7/89
Christopher FRY (Peter Lennon, 'The gent's not for
turning'): Guardian, 8/12/97
William Richard Philip GEORGE: Daily Telegraph, 5/12/06
Hamilton (Tony) GIBSON: Guardian (Donald Rooum & Rufus
Segar), 30/4/01
Willie HAMILTON: Guardian (Andrew Roth), 27/1/00
(reneged later in WW2)
Charles HANDLEY-READ: www.vads.ahds.ac.uk/diad/article.php?year=1971&title=d.276&article=d.276.41
Edward HARRIS: Guardian (Graham Bellinger), 20/4/07
Donald HEADEY: Guardian (David, Ian & Richard
Headey), 28/7/2010
Hugh Vyvyan
HEBERT: Guardian (Tony Shelton), 18/6/07
Richard HECKSTALL-SMITH: Guardian, 22/12/04
Basil HEMBRY: Guardian (Patrick Wright/Malcolm
Harper), 22/4/96
Robert JEFFORD: Guardian (Bill Harpe), 1/12/09
John Robin JENKINS: Scotsman (Isobel Murray), 1/3/05
Aimable Robert JONCKHEERE, Independent (Tim Shallice), 13/10/05; Guardian (Richard Gregory), 21/10/05
David JONES: Guardian (David Thomas), 3/8/05
Jonah JONES: Guardian (Euan Cameron), 14/1/05
Tony KNOWLAND: Guardian (Isabel Knowland), 8/1/07
Basil LANGTON: Guardian (Eric Shorter), 5/6/03
George LEE: Guardian (Ashutosh Khandekar), 3/12/08
Ronald MALLONE: Guardian (Jonathan Mallone &
Justin Wark), 11/4/09
James MASON: www.chipperfield.org.uk/march-2007.html
Roland Glyn MATHIAS: Guardian (Sam Adams), 17/10/07
Bernard MEADOWS: Guardian (Michael McNay), 15/1/05
Alan MILTON: Guardian (Ian Henderson), 24/5/06
Alan MISTER: Harry Mister, 12/97
Colin Peter MORGAN: Guardian (Miles Salter), 16/7/10
Timothy MOORE: Guardian (Nicholas Marshall), 10/3/03
Leslie MOORHOUSE: Guardian (Tony Shelton), 22/5/06
Robin NORBURY: Guardian (Ian McHugh), 9/4/10
Raymond Morgan O’MALLEY: Guardian, 28/8/96
Robert ORGAN: www.cornwall.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=29/72
John H OXLEY: www.lawteacher.ac.uk/bulletin/114b.html
Stephen PEET: Guardian (Steve Humphries), 17/2/06
George PERRY-SMITH: Guardian (Christopher Driver), 3/10/03
Oliver POSTGATE: Times, 10/12/08
William Jack PRICHARD:
www.bramley.demon.co.uk/obits/prichard.html
Ken RICHMOND: Independent (Ian Herbert), 8/8/06
Miles (Peter) RICHMOND: Guardian (Michael McNay & John
Berger), 15/10/08
Timothy ROGERS: Guardian (David Marcus & James
Pollard), 2/6/06
Ronald H ROSE: Peacelinks (D Ben Rees), 6-7/88
Michael ROWNTREE: Guardian (Michael Barratt Brown &
Grigor McLelland) 30/10/07
Fred SANGER:
www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/aug/05/nobelprizes
Derek SENIOR: Guardian (unsigned), 7/12/88
Bernard SMITH: Guardian (Peter Smith), 19/1/06
Cedric SMITH: Times (unsigned), 21/2/02
Tony SMYTHE: Guardian (Peter Townsend & Michael
Randle), 9/4/04
Henry STARKEY: Guardian (Claire Cock-Starkey),
26/7/10
Arthur STRAW: Guardian (Andrew Roth, ‘Jack Straw’),
21/3/01
Richard SYMONDS: Guardian (Godfrey Hodgson), 9/8/06; Guardian (Grigor McLelland &
Catherine Robinson), 16/8/06
Leslie TARLTON: Newspeace, (Molly Slade), 5/83
Hallam TENNYSON: Guardian (Angela Pleasance & Jill
Bacon), 6/1/06
Meredith Wooldridge THRING: Independent (Rob Thring),
30/9/06
Frank TOWNLEY: [? Peacelinks] (Margaret ? Townley), ? 1993
Peter TOWNSEND: Guardian (Tim Hinton), 26/7/06
Stephen Edmund VERNEY: Guardian (Colin Slee), 24/11/09
Richard WAINWRIGHT: Guardian (Michael Meadowcroft),
16/1/03
Max WALTERS: Independent (Peter Marren), 13/12/05
Donald WATSON: Independent (Phil Davison), 24/11/05
Brian WAY: Guardian (Laurence Harbottle), 21/3/06
David WEBSTER: Guardian (Robert Rowland), 12/8/03
Richard WIGGS: Guardian (unsigned), 12 /7/01
John WIGZELL: Guardian (Clare Wigzell), 12/1/06
Raymond WILLIAMS: ‘Class Warrior who became an
academic literary giant’, by Illtyd Harrington, Islington Tribune, 4/7/08
Geoffrey WILSON: Independent, 17/7/04
Eldred WRIGHT: Daily Telegraph, 18/5/07
Bryan WYNTER: www2.warwick.ac.uk./services/art/artist/bryanwynter
Jersey COs
12.1: William GA Gardner: The Story of a
Group of British War Resisters who fell into Enemy Hands in the German-Occupied
Channel Islands in World War 2, unpublished TS, 1991 (Bound edition)
Ditto (Loose-leaf, slightly shorter copy)
12.2: Bill Gardner: 'Happy Snaps', photocopied pages
of photographs, Jersey, Germany and 1960 [1980]
Bill Gardner: 'Potted Biographies', typescript list of
Jersey COs, 1980
Jack Nutley: 'Jack - An autobiographical sketch',
extract from Oasis,
Jul 1989, being a reprint from Quaker Monthly, Sep 1988
Wilfred A Buttery: Jersey 1940-45 under the German
Occupation by
a Conscientious Objector who was there, unpublished typescript, nd [?1980s]
Victor Graham: Synopsis of 'Close to the Madding
Crowd', unpublished typescript, [1989]
Howard Horsburgh: 'Jersey', one chapter of unpublished
typescript 'Bloody Conchie', 1989
12.3: Peace News extracts, 26/4/40, 2/7/40,
30/5/41, 15/1/43, 22/1/43, 19/2/43, 1/6/45, 8/6/45, 22/6/45, 13/7/45, 23/6/50
Pacifist Service Bureau: Secretary's Report, in PPU
Annual Report for 1940
PPU Executive Minutes, 9 Apr 1946, re Hugh Flinn
expenses claim
Denis Hayes: Challenge of Conscience, 1949, photocopy extract re
Jersey COs
Rebecca West: The Meaning of Treason, 2nd ed 1952, photocopy
extract re Denis John Leister and Eric Reginald Pleasants
Extract from Minutes of PPU National Council, 25/26
Feb 1952 re above
Edwin Foley: Appointment with Mars, FoR, nd [? 1960s]
John Bulloch: The Traitors, 1966, photocopy extract re
Eric Pleasants
Roger E Harris: Islanders Deported, photocopy extract
Winston Ramsey: The War in the Channel Islands -
Then and Now,
1981, photocopy extract, ch 6, 'The Post-war Period', re Denis John Leister and
Eric Pleasants
Jean Jacqmain: "The Occupation of the Channel
Islands 1940-1945 - A counter example of nonviolent civilian defence", Studies
in Nonviolence,
No 9, PPU, Jun 1981
Newscuttings, Times, 22/6/90, Guardian, 26/6/90, 27/6/90 re CITV
documentary, Swastika over Britain, 26/6/90
"Precious Archive Documents Stolen", Jersey
Evening Post,
17 Dec 1991
"Jersey thieves take incriminating records of
German occupation", Guardian, 19 Dec 1991
Newscuttings, Guardian and Times, 2/12/92 re release of WW2 CI
files, and mention of James Gilbert
"Channel isle's Nazi hell exposed at last", Express, 20/11/96
Bill Hetherington: "Captive Conscience", Peace
Matters, No
16, Winter 1996/7
12.4: Correspondence:
Andrew Golden (Sunday Mirror), 1987-90
Victor Graham [formerly Croft], 1989-90
Howard Horsburgh, 1989-98
William Gardner, 1990-98
J Edouard Slade, 1990-93
Maureen Spinks, 1990
Shamus Wade, 1992
Adam Kemp (Box Productions), 1992-93
Wilf Buttery, 1994
13.1: WW2+ Personalia A-J
Horace Alfred ACOMB
PPU Receipt 2/6,19/9/39
Information circular, Conscientious Objectors, citing York Advisory Bureau
Certificate of PPU membership, 18/9/39
Tribunal application, Leeds, 19/12/39
Tribunal result (conditional), 16/1/40
MLNS letter re certificate of CO registration, 16/1/40
MS letter, 19/1/40, Albert (unidentified) to HA re
notes of hearing
TS notes of Tribunal hearing, 15/1/40
Peter Charles AMSDEN
Photocopy Tribunal application, London, 20/12/47
Tribunal result (non-combatant), 1/3/48
MLNS letter re certificate of CO registration, 1/3/48
NCC paybook extract, 3/6/48
Release leave certificate, 22/2/50
Release leave railway ticket, 22/2/50
Raymond Alfred ANDREWS
MS memoir, “The development of our pacificism”
Tribunal application (2 copies), 4/11/39
Letters of support, Cecil George Andrews & Wilfred
Guy, 26/1/40
Notice of appeal, 26/1/40
Tribunal result, 30/1/40
MLNS letter to call at EE, 4/5/40
MLNS letter directing work in agriculture/forestry,
3/6/40
MLNS notice to Tribunal of RAA’s refusal of specified
work, 4/7/40
Notice of Tribunal hearing, 15/7/40
Tribunal result, 16/7/40
MLNS letter threatening removal of CO registration,
18/7/40
Tribunal application, 1/8/40
Donald
John Leo Raymond ARMITAGE
Photocopy of drawing as in Peace News, 11/9/37
Note 6/93, from sister Ursula Sendall re previous item
Photograph, ?1939, of DA in wheelchair
Tribunal application, Manchester, pp1-2 only, 15/4/40
Obituary, Peace News, 8/11/40, 'Donald Armitage'
Leslie BARNES
Tribunal application, Smethwick, 11/5/40
Letter of support, Revd J Clifford Mitchell, 9/5/40
MLNS receipt of application, 13/5/40
Notice of Tribunal hearing, 11/7/40
Tribunal decision, 22/7/40
MS letter, LB/MLNS requesting change of employment
from cost clerk to hospital porter, 14/5/41
MS note re difficulties in changing employment,
15/5/41
Letter. MLNS/LB, re change of employment, 19/5/41
Letter, MLNS/LB, requesting interview, 24/5/41
MS note. LB/employer requesting pay increase; MS note,
employer/LB, refusing, 13/6/41
MLNS letter re request for change of employment,
6/6/41
MS draft letter, LB/MLNS, 7/6/41
MS letter, LB/MLNS, re request to change employment,
16/6/41
Letter, MLNS/LB, refusing request to change
employment, 18/6/41
Letter, MLNS/LB, refusing request to change
employment, nd
MLNS notice of hearing for 11/7/41, 5/7/41
MLNS letter to Revd J C Mitchell, 14/7/41
MLNS letter adjourning hearing, 16/7/41
Notice of appeal hearing for 25/7/41, 21/7/41
MLNS letter requesting interview, 31/7/41
MS letter requesting result of appeal, 17/9/41
MLNS letter re appeal, 19/9/41
MLNS letter giving permission to leave present
employment, 17/11/41
MLNS form specifying change, 17/11/41
MLNS letter enquiring re employment, 7/1/42
MS reply reporting change to cost account clerk job,
13/1/41
MLNS letter re change, 21/1/42
Referral to Tribunal, 23/1/42
Notice of hearing for 2/2/41, 27/1/42
Tribunal decision (conditions: land/fulltime
CD/hospital), 5/2/42
Notice of decision, 5/2/42
MLNS letter requesting details of employment, 4/3/42
MS reply notifying work as hospital porter, 10/3/42
MLNS response re work, 19/3/42
Letter from FAU, 17/5/42
FAU offer of interview for 26/9/42, 22/9/42
FAU letter reporting passing of medical examination,
29/9/42
FAU letter of acceptance with conditions, to start,
4/11/42, 27/10/42
MS letter to MLNS, 12/11/42
Notice of hearing on 16/2/43, 9/2/43
Tribunal decision, allowing transfer to FAU, 16/2/43
Notice of decision, 18/2/43
MLNS release from register, 10/7/46
MLNS letter of release, 10/7/46
Alexander (Alan) Henry BELL
MLNS registration before moving from Peterborough,
27/1/45
Certificate of CO registration, 1946
MS note for Tribunal, nd
Tribunal application, 17/2/51
Letter of support from Alan J Watson, 7/10/51
Letter of support from Grace Fielder, 17/10/51
Tribunal decision (removed from register), 19/10/51
Notice of appeal, 9/11/51
Appellate decision (conditional – hospital), 11/12/51
Letter, Mount Vernon Hospital, job offer, x-ray
porter, 11/1/52
CO registration card after moving to Hillingdon,
4/12/53
MLNS letter of release from CO register, 24/3/54
Raymond George BONIFACE
Local newscutting (paper & date uncertain, ?1940),
of S.W. Tribunal hearing
Letter, 23/3/40, HC Williams (initialled Cyril Wright)
to RB, offering fruit delivery work
Letter, 27/10/41, Cyril Maudsley to RB, rejecting
application as chauffeur
Letter, 30/3/45, MLNS to RB, stating freedom to take up
any work
Certificate of CO registration (unconditional),
7/12/45
Alexander BRYAN
Copy letters 19-20/3/40 supporting Tribunal
application
Tribunal application, Leeds, 20/3/40
Copy of covering letter, Alice Walker, re notes of
Tribunal hearing
TS notes of Tribunal hearing, 23/4/40
Fuller copy of previous
Tribunal result (removed from register), 24/4/40
MLNS letter re certificate of registration, 24/4/40
Copy letter AB to Mr Long 25/4/40, re hearing
Letter, 7/5/40, JR Whiting York Meeting to Reginald
Cox, Sheffield Meeting re AB's appeal
Notice of appeal, 10/5/40
Letter, 21/6/40, from Sheffield Young Friends to
Appeal tribunal explaining letter, 19/4/40, to Leeds tribunal
Appeal result (non-combatant duties), 10/10/40
Copy letter, 9/41, to whom it may concern, re
non-compliance with civil defence duties
Application for post-prison appeal, c 5/42
Letter, 18/5/42, JW Saunders to Appeal tribunal
supporting AB
Appeal result (conditional), 26/5/42
MLNS covering letter re release from conditional
obligation, 19/11/46
Notice re release from conditional obligation,
19/11/46
Dennie Willoughby BUGLER
Newscutting (paper & date uncertain ?1940 of S.W.
Tribunal hearing
Clifford George COOK
Tribunal application, London, 19/4/40
MLNS letter re fresh certificate of provisional CO
registration, 24/4/40
Notice, 22/8/40, of Tribunal hearing, 28/8/40
Letter, 28/8/40, Sidney Franklin to CC re Tribunal
result
MLNS covering letter, 30/8/40, re Tribunal result
Tribunal result (conditional), 29/8/40
FoR broadsheet, Service in the Community, 10/7/40
PSU letter, 16/9/40, to CC re PSU work
PSU application form
PSU broadsheet on function and work
CPFLU letter, 26/9/40, to CC re work
CPFLU leaflet
CPFLU application form
MLNS notice, 23/9/40, re employment exchange advice on
finding work
MLNS letter, 8/10/40, requesting information re work
secured
Certificate, 7/8/45, of CO registration
MLNS covering letter, 14/5/46, re release from
conditional obligation
Notice, 14/5/46, re release from conditional
obligation
George W COX
Copy statement to Tribunal, 28/2/40 (unconditional
registration)
Cecil DAVIES
Daily Express, 3/5/39, 'Conchie No 1'
Az Est (Hungary), 6/5/39, 'Tobbezer angol fiatalember es
fiatal leany a kotelezo katonai szolgalat ellen'
Az Est (Hungary), 6/5/39, ' "Masok harcolhatnak, en nem
harcolok" '
Letter, 6/5/39, Arthur Rablen to CD re previous two
items
Cornishman & Cornish Telegraph, 10/5/39, 'To correspondents'
Cornishman & Cornish Telegraph, 10/6/39, 'Fiddling like
modern Neros'
Derek Arthur FANE
Tribunal application (London), (unconditional
registration), 11/1/44
Memoir, 7/93 re hearing, 16/3/44
Leslie James GORE
Tribunal application (London), (pp 1-2 only), 15/9/41
Local observer's report of hearing, 7/10/41
Extracts from Appendices to Burnham Report 1945
referring to war service equivalence to teaching service for purposes of
teachers' salary scales and superannuation rights.
Letter from MLNS 24/10/56 reporting personal documents
destroyed, but giving details of Tribunal registration and release date.
Letter from LCC 1/2/57 re alternative service
qualifying under Burnham Report
Letter from NUT 23/6/58 re alternative service not
qualifying under Burnham Report
William GREEN
Circular to customers of Reliance Window Cleaning
Service, Chingford, Essex), nd, explaining prospective inability to continue
service due to refusal of recognition by Tribunal
Notice, 3/9/46, of release from Tribunal conditions
Notice, 3/9/46, of requirement to comply with any
relevant Essential Work Order
Thomas GRIFFIN
Tribunal application (North West), 23/12/39
Notice, 15/2/40, of Tribunal hearing, 23/2/40
Letter of support from Murdo McLennan, Congregational
Minister, 21/2/40
Transcript of hearing, 23/2/40
Certificate of CO registration, 23/2/40
Tribunal decision (conditional), 27/2/40
Letter from MLNS re non-compliance with condition,
22/3/41
MS letter to MLNS re refusal to register under Civil
Defence (Compulsory Enrolment) Order, 12/11/41
Letter from MLNS re non-compliance with condition,
12/11/41
Letter from Liverpool prison to wife, 8/1/42
MS letter to Lancaster ILP, 1/2/44
3 MS letters to Lancaster Guardian, 12/3/44, 2/7/44,
16/7/44
Notice of release from condition, 6/6/46
Notice of requirement to comply with any relevant
Essential Work Order, 6/6/46
Notice, 17/6/46, of cessation of Essential Work Order,
25/6/46
Brenda Lucy HARLE
Certificate of CO registration (conditional), 9/4/43
[copy]
William Edward HARLE
Tribunal application (South Western), 20/11/43 [copy]
Tribunal decision (conditional), 31/1/44 [copy]
Cover letter for registration certificate, 31/1/44
[copy]
Henry George HAYDEN
Notice, 24/4/41, of provisional CO registration
MLNS letter, 28/4/41, re inclusion in Schedule of
Reserved Occupations
Notice, 21/8/42, of cessation from reserved occupation
Tribunal application (London), 19/4/41
Notice, 28/8/42, of Tribunal hearing, 4/9/42
Tribunal decision (conditional), 8/9/42
Notice, 8/9/42, re present occupation
Certificate, 8/12/42, of CO Registration
Notice, 6/6/46, of release from Tribunal conditions
Notice, 6/6/46, of requirement to comply with any
relevant Essential Work Order
MS copy Tribunal statement, apparently of HGH's
brother
MS grounds of appeal by HGH's brother
MS note of evidence by HGH on behalf of brother
MS note of Tribunal finding re HGH's brother
Leo HELD
MS diary, Oxford & Wormwood Scrubs prisons, 1943
Harold Reginald Roy HISCOCKS
Tribunal application (Southern), 1/7/40
Letter, 4/5/40, FH Coles, as evidence to Tribunal
Statement, Knowle & Totterdown (Bristol) Christian
Pacifist Group, as evidence to Tribunal
Notice of appeal against Local Tribunal, 18/7/40
Appeal Tribunal result (conditional), 27/11/40
Notice, 6/12/40, re present occupation
Certificate, 7/7/41, of CO registration
Notice, 1/5/46, of release from Tribunal conditions
Notice, 1/5/46, of requirement to comply with any
relevant Essential Work Order
Hugh Morris HUGHES
MLNS letter, 8/8/40, re inclusion in Schedule of
Reserved Occupations
Military Service (Hardship) Cttee notice, 2/5/41, re
hearing of Appeal against Part-Time Fire Prevention Duties
MS(H)C result (refused), 7/5/41
Letter (in Welsh) solicitors to HMH, 25/9/41
Local press cutting re prosecution and fines on HMH
and Griffin WILLIAMS for refusing firewatching duties in quarry
Local press cutting (in Welsh) re above
Tribunal application (in Welsh) (Cardiff), 2/7/43
Covering letter, 8/7/43, re Tribunal result
Tribunal result (conditional), 8/7/43
Notice, 8/7/43, re present occupation
MLNS letter, 4/6/46, re release group date
George A HUMPHREY
2 letters, 23/10/45 & 5/11/45 (Feltham Prison,
Middx), GAH to Jimmie Brown, re Appeal against Local Tribunal
Thomas Herbert ILLINGWORTH
Tribunal application (Fulham), 26/2/40
Letter as character witness, AJ Fitch, 8/3/40
Notice of Tribunal hearing, 8/7/40
Notice of Tribunal result (non-combatant)
Letter re Appellate Tribunal, 4/11/40
Notice of Appellate Tribunal hearing, 28/11/40
Letter THI to PPU explaining Appellate Tribunal result
(conditional), 23/2/91
Ronald Ian JEFFREY
Tribunal application (2 pages only), 22/3/40
?Yorkshire Evening Post, 11/9/41, 'Prison for Objector'
- At York Magistrates' Court, six months' sentence plus £25 fine for failing to
comply with court order for medical examination
Christmas card from CBCO, signed Fenner Brockway,
Stuart Morris, Denis Hayes et al
Letters RIJ in Pacifist, Oct 1971 & Jun 1976, re
CO experience
Letter RIJ to Radio Times (? np), 21/11/91 re CO
experience
Correspondence RIJ/PPU re CO material, 26/5-8/9/92
13.2: WW2+ Personalia K-Z
Alec William Raleigh KEAY
Letter of Welcome as member of APF, 24/6/40
Copy correspoence from Sir Richard Acland MP and Post
Warden at Upper Brook St, Westminster, re dedication of PSU firefighters,
19-20/9/40
Certificate of provisional CO registration
PC acknowledging FAU application
Tribunal application (Fulham), 9/5/40
Letter as character witness, Revd FR ?Dickinoor,
19/10/40
Letter as character witness, Allan D Worcester,
19/10/40
Letter of moral support, John, 21/10/40
Letter of moral support, ?, 21/10/40
Notice of Tribunal result, 23/10/40, (non-combatant)
Notice re medical examination, 4/12/40
Medical questionnaire re above
MS & TS copies of letter re registration and
medical examination, 2/12/40
Letter as character witness, JJ Burke, 2/12/40
MLNS letter asserting expiry of time limit for appeal,
19/12/40
Letter AWRK to MLNS denying receipt of Tribunal case
papers, 23/10/40
MLNS covering letter re second copy of case papers,
3/1/41
Notice of Appeal, 8/1/41
MLNS letter re Appeal, 2/5/41
Notice of Appellate Tribunal hearing, 23/5/41
Notice of Appellate Tribunal result (conditional)
MLNS correspondence re obtaining suitable work,
31/5/41-12/11/42
David MAXWELL
FAU/FAU INTERNATIONAL SERVICE member's record book,
1954-56 [copy]
Undated TS of article in ISSI magazine on taboo on
pacifism in FAU
J ROBINSON
Order of Appellate Tribunal (conditional), 18/9/41
[copy]
Frank A SHERRY
Letter to James Brown re 2 Courts-Martial as airman
turned CO, 28/8/44
JB's notes re voluntary enlistment and subsequent
change of feelings
Letter to JB from FAS' brother James W Sherry in
response to letter to FAS' mother, 4/9/44
2 letters to JB re C-M, 18/9/44
C-M statement, 18/9/44
Letter JWS to JB, 22/9/44
Letter to JB re C-M result, (3 months), 23/9/44
Letter to JB re transfer to prison, 26/9/44
3 letters FAS' mother G Sherry to JB re Tribunal,
4-22/10/44
MS and TS copies of Tribunal statement
Frederick Clifford SHUTTLEWORTH
Tribunal application (Midlands), 5/12/43 [copy]
Robert Howard Mckenzie STEWART
Tribunal application (North Western), 10/4/40
Letter as character witness, Dr E?V Fitch, 21/6/43
Letter as character witness, Revd G Worsley, 24/6/43
Tribunal application shows non-combatant (rec RAMC)
result, 24/6/43
CBCO letter re status of RAMC personnel, 5/7/43
CBCO Broadsheet 5, 'Non-Combatant Duties'
Notice of appeal, 15/7/43
MLNS letter re appeal, 15/7/43
CBCO letter re RAMC etc, 19/7/43
Notice of Appellate Tribunal hearing, 12/8/43
Notice of Appellate Tribunal result (conditional),
12/8/43
Medical Defence Union letter re definition of EMS
hospital, 13/11/44
MLNS letter re above, 16/11/44
MDU letter re above, 22/11/44
BMA letter re above, 20/12/44
CBCO letter re release from conditions, 1/2/46
Central Medical War Cttee letter re above, 25/4/46
Certificate of Registration as CO, 15/3/46
MLNS notices of release from conditions, 23/12/46
Owen Wallace TAYLOR
Reprint by Conscience, Autumn 1998, of report in Harrow
Observer,
20/9/41, of prosecution in Wealdstone Magistrate's Court for refusing to comply
with Court order for med examination (12 months' imprisonment)
Joseph WEBSTER
Copy of CBCO letter re Court-Martial as airman
becoming CO, 3/1/44
Copy of CBCO letter to JW's father re above, 3/1/44
Letter to James A Brown asking him to be C-M Friend,
5/1/44
Copy Summary of Evidence asserting absence without
leave since 28/1/42 and deficiency in articles of clothing.
MS & TS notes of interview by JAB, 7/1/44
(reference to different summary of evidence from that above - mention of
voluntary surrender)
MS notes of interview by JAB, 13/1/44
Letter to JAB enc C-M statement, c 15/1/44
Letter JAB to to JW acknowledging above, 16/1/44
Letter JAB to RAF CO re C-M date, 20/1/44
Letter 21/1/44 to JAB notifying C-M date, 28/1/44
Copy Charge Sheet, alleging desertion 28/1/42-15/12/43
TS copy of C-M statement
MS & TS copies of Advisory Tribunal statement,
7/2/44
Letter as character witness, Matt Stewart, 19/3/44
Letter as character witness, Sapper Neil Kelly, nd
Letter, 28/11/44, JAB to Tribunal referring to
Advisory Tribunal's recommendation 24/3/44 for discharge with direction to coal
mining (reason for further Tribunal hearing was ?application for variation of conditions)
Cyril WILSON
Copy of CBCO letter re dismissal of Tribunal
application, 30/1/56
14.1: Advisory Committee on Conscientious Objectors
Extract from NCCL Annual Report, 1963 re 2 airmen
imprisoned for attempting to form CND group, having developed conscience re
nuclear weapons
Hampstead Group, Committee of 100: 'Why Did You Become
a Serviceman?' [1964]
Extract from Peace News, 14 July 1967, re hearing by
Appellate Tribunal of SAC Trevor Auty, turned Jehovah's Witness after one year
in RAF.
Extract from Guardian, 5 Nov 1969, re Corporal
Roger Keith Phillips reduced to ranks for going AWOL because he 'could not in
all honesty open fire on unarmed people'.
CBCO: Procedure for Application for Discharge on
Conscience Grounds, Feb 1972
Eric R Sly: 'Conscientious Objection Today', Young
Quakers,
March 1973
BWNIC: Some Information for Discontented Soldiers
[1975]
Extract from QR&AI on procedures for CO discharge
[Jul 1975]
Letter from Craig Jackson to 'Ken' [?Weller] re he
& 'Ian' hoping to be discharged from the Army on complaining of
indoctrination to obey orders without question [nd ?1970s]
Extract from Guardian, 5 Nov 1974 re Marine Chris
Byrne awaiting discharge as CO
Extract from Newspeace, Mar 1977 by Stephen Rowland
re his Army officer discharge as CO in 1971
Extracts from the Pacifist, Jul 1976,by Stephen Rowland
[fuller version of above] and Stephen M re his soldier discharge as CO in Jun
1976
Correspondence re Army Officer discharge as CO of
Michael Biggs [1979]
Correspondence with Nicholas Thompson re possible
soldier discharge as CO [1979]
Correspondence with TUC re latter's [negative] views
on COs in the armed forces and the workplace [1979]
Correspondence with MoD re ACCO [1979]
Letter to MoD re Armed Forces reservists [1979 - ?no
reply]
Letter from MoD notifying Army officer discharge as CO
of WJ Ainslie [1980]
CBCO: Information for Men and Women in the Armed
Forces [1980]
Correspondence re Kieran Crowder (also mentioning
'Robin') re possible airmen discharge as COs [1983]
Guardian: 'Bomb order refused', 2 Jan 1987 [re incident in
1956]
Correspondence from MoD re Austin Vince, Army officer
discharged via ACCO [1989-90]
PPU: letter to Independent re regular Armed Forces CO discharge [1991]
The Times: 'Objectors should be told rights', [1991]
AI: re regular Armed Forces COs [1991]
Correspondence with MoD re Finlay MacLennan, refused
Army officer discharge by ACCO (includes Memo on details of ACCO) [1991]
Letter to Peter Kilfoyle MP re his interest in ACCO
[1994]
Correspondence with MoD re Richard Bennett, Marine
discharged via ACCO [1996]
Extract from Peace Matters, Autumn 1996, re above
Extract from Civil Liberties: Cases & Materials, 4th ed 1995, SH Bailey, DJ
Harris & BL Jones, Butterworths, re ACC0
At Ease: Conscientious Objection, 1998
PPU: Information for members of British Armed
Forces, 1998
Extract from QR&AI re procedures for CO discharge
[1986]
Letter, Army Land Command to At Ease re reservist CO
[?Regular Reserve/TA], 2000
Judy Kerr: Breaking Ranks’, Big Issue, 26 May-1 Jun 2003
14.2: Vic Williams
David Pallister: 'Deserter who plans to fight for
peace', Guardian,
31/1/91
Daily Star: 'Shame of deserter', 2/3/91
Observer: 'Anti-Gulf-war deserter surrenders after 72 days',
10/3/91
Vic Williams Defence Campaign: circular, 17/6/91
Gwyn Gwyntopher: circular, 14/7/91
Vic Qilliams Defence Campaign: Drop the Charges, Aug 1991
Vic Williams Defence Fund: circular, Aug 1991
Vic Williams Defence Fund: circular, Sep 1991 (revised
version of preceding)
Vic Williams Defence Campaign: Drop the Charges, Sep 1991
Heather Mills: 'Soldier faces life sentence for Gulf
War refusal', Independent on Sunday, 8/9/91
Christopher Lockwood: ‘Gunner denies going absent to
avoid serving in Gulf War’, Daily Telegraph, 9/9/91
Daily Telegraph: 'Soldier denies Gulf War desertion",
10/9/91
Charles Oulton: 'Soldier defends Gulf War
protest", Independent, 11/9/91
Times: 'Soldier wrote to CO while on run', 11/9/91
Tim Butcher: 'Soldier tells why he went AWOL', Daily
Telegraph,
11/9/91
FoR England: Letter to Chief of Defence Staff, 11/9/91
Message, FoR to Bill Hetherington, 11/9/91
Tim Butcher: 'Gulf War objector given 14 months' jail
for desertion', Daily Telegraph, 12/9/91
Will Bennett: 'Gulf protest soldier gets 14 months for
desertion', Independent, 12/9/91
Peter Victor: 'Deserter jailed 14 months after
anti-war campaign', The Times, 12/9/91
Jamie Dettmer: 'How peace army was handed a propaganda
victory', The Times, 12/9/91
David Gardner, 'Anger at 14-month sentence for Gulf
deserter', Daily Mail, 12/9/91
Daily Mail: 'Lucky deserter', 12/9/91
Vic Williams Defence Campaign: circular, Sep 1991
Guardian: 'Amnesty backs Gulf deserter', 3/10/91
Vic Williams Defence Campaign: Release Vic Now, Oct 1991
PPU: letter to VWDC re preceding, 23/10/91
Manchester Evening News: 'Gulf Deserter in
"Civvy" Jail', 4/11/91
Vic Williams Defence Campaign: Keeping up the
Pressure, Nov
1991
FoR: Silent Vigil in Support of Vic Williams, Nov 1991
Vic Williams Defence Campaign: Vic Williams to be
Released,
Apr, 1992
Observer: 'Soldier freed', 19/4/92