Friends Ambulance Unit
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Friends Ambulance Unit Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends Ambulance Unit
Abstract
Collection contains pamphlets, periodicals, and annual reports.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1914-1954
Friends' Ambulance Unit photographs
Collection — Othertype PA-135
Identifier: SFHL-PA-135
Overview
The Friends Ambulance Unit was a volunteer ambulance service that operated during both World Wars as well as for a period after WWII (1946-1959). It was founded by a group of British Quakers and most of the volunteers were registered conscientious objectors. This collection contains loose black and white photos (now in sleeves) of the Friends Ambulance Unit in Syria and France. Some of the photos in this collection ran in Harper's Bazaar.
Dates:
1941 - 1943
Josiah P. Marvel papers
Collection — Othertype SC-221
Identifier: SFHL-SC-221
Overview
Josiah P. Marvel (1896-1959) was a Quaker, who worked with the American Friends Service Committee in France in 1940-41 and in 1942 became the chairman of the Quaker Emergency Service in New York City. This collection contains primarily Marvel's files on the Quaker Emergency Service, including its Civilian Readjustment Committee (a clinic that offered men arrested for soliciting sex with other men the option of psychiatric care in lieu of a prison sentence). The collection also includes a...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1942 - 1966
Filtered By
- Subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Society of Friends 2
- Church work with gays -- Society of Friends 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
- Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Humanitarian assistance -- Quakers 1
- International relief 1
- International relief -- France 1
- International relief -- Syria 1
- Prison reformers -- United States 1
- Quaker prison reformers -- United States 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Reconstruction (1914-1939) 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities 1
- Society of Friends -- International assistance 1
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Society of Friends 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain 1 + ∧ less
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