| Description | During World War One, Bull Street Social Union asked Friends to provide accounts of their war-time experiences which were then typed up by members of the Union and read out at its meetings. The letters provide an insight into the varied experiences of Birmingham Friends. Some Friends served in the armed forces, some, as conscientious objectors, were members of the Friends Ambulance Unit (an alternative to military service while still contributing to the war effort), others worked in hospitals or were imprisoned for their pacifist beliefs. Some letters were from wives about their husbands, some from mothers about their sons. At the end of the war, Bull Street Social Union wrote to Friends returning from the war to welcome them back.
An index of authors is provided with the letters and is copied below:
Bull Street Social Union to all returning Friends
Barlow, F.C. to Harry G Jones
Bellows, J. Earnshaw
Browne, Ronald - written by Mrs Browne
Dow, Frank W.
Dow, John Charles
Dow, Joseph Henry - written by Mrs Dow
Evans, Carrick
Fearnsides, Joseph T.
Gaynor, Heydon
Gibbons, Marjorie E.
Gibbons, R.B.
Grimley, H.
Grubb, Alfred V.
Harper, Gilbert J.
Heath, Spencer
Hickman, Ernest
Jarvis, Ewart W.
Kirton, Caroline T.
Lingford, H.S.W.
Little, Wilfred R.
Littleboy, Wilfred E.
Parsons, Sidney
Patching, Geoffrey A.
Pollard, Clive R.
Price, Dick
Pritchard, Edmund
Sharp, Josephine B - about her husband
Southall, Colin - written by Mrs Southall
Southall, Eric P - written by Mrs Southall
Sykes, Joseph
Thompson, Gilbert |