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Friends Ambulance Unit

 Organization

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Horace Gundry Alexander Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-140
Abstract

Horace Alexander was born in England in 1889 and died in the United States in 1989. As a life-long member of the Religious Society of Friends, he was interested in Indian rights and worked with Gandhi and others for many years to lobby for it. He wrote books about Gandhi and other subjects.

Dates: 1915-1989

Balderston Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-299
Abstract The collection contains correspondence of the family of C. Canby Balderston, a prominent Quaker and businessman. He served with the Friends Relief Service and the Relief Commission for Belgium during WWI and both of his sons, Frederick Emery Balderston and Robert W. Balderston, were COs in WWII, working as ambulance drivers. Frederick E. Balderston (1923-2007) married Judith Braude (1926-1993) in 1949. A significant part of the collection consists of her childhood and college...
Dates: 1853-1949

Crauder family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1352
Abstract

This collection contains materials from the Crauder family, mostly from Bob Crauder, a prominent Quaker who worked all over the globe.

Dates: 1829 - 2011

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
Abstract

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
Abstract 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

L. Hollingsworth Wood papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1175
Abstract Primarily correspondence related to Wood's activities in areas of peace, civil rights, African American education, and Quaker education. Wood was founding member of American Civil Liberties Union, American Friends Service Committee, and National Urban League. He was president of the Urban League for 26 years; elected in 1917 to Fisk University Board of Trustees; and a member of Haverford College Board of Managers. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Roger N. Baldwin, W. E. B. DuBois, Rufus...
Dates: 1903-1953

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World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 3
Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Society of Friends 2
African Americans -- Education 1
Bird watching -- Great Britain 1
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