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Object description
Excellently written, detailed memoir (367pp ts) concerning the development of his pacifist beliefs during the 1930s, the outbreak of war in 1939 and his decision to join the Friends Ambulance Unit as a driver/mechanic, training at a FAU camp near Birmingham in 1940 (and again in 1941), subsequent service in London's Bethnal Green Hospital and at various public shelters in the East End during the `Blitz', selection for overseas service with the Hadfield Spears Mobile Hospital in June 1941, initially in Palestine and then attached to the 1st Free French Brigade during operations in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia until April 1944, in Italy with the 1st French Motorised Division on the Garigliano River and advance northwards until August 1944 when the Division transfers to southern France, ending with a description of the circumstances surrounding the abolition of the Hadfield Spears Mobile Hospital at the end of the war.
Content description
Excellently written, detailed memoir (367pp ts) concerning the development of his pacifist beliefs during the 1930s, the outbreak of war in 1939 and his decision to join the Friends Ambulance Unit as a driver/mechanic, training at a FAU camp near Birmingham in 1940 (and again in 1941), subsequent service in London's Bethnal Green Hospital and at various public shelters in the East End during the `Blitz', selection for overseas service with the Hadfield Spears Mobile Hospital in June 1941, initially in Palestine and then attached to the 1st Free French Brigade during operations in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia until April 1944, in Italy with the 1st French Motorised Division on the Garigliano River and advance northwards until August 1944 when the Division transfers to southern France, ending with a description of the circumstances surrounding the abolition of the Hadfield Spears Mobile Hospital at the end of the war.
History note
Cataloguer SWW
History note
Catalogue date 1998-07