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    The Friends' Ambulance Unit (FAU) was a volunteer ambulance service, founded by individual members of the British Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)...
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  • The Hadfield-Spears Ambulance Unit was an Anglo-French volunteer medical unit which served initially with the 4th French army in Lorraine, eastern France...
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    Quakers (redirect from Society of Friends)
    War II, Friends' opposition to war was put to the test. Many Friends became conscientious objectors and some formed the Friends Ambulance Unit, aiming...
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  • Robert W. Service – British Red Cross volunteer Olaf Stapledon – Friends' Ambulance Unit volunteer Gertrude Stein – volunteer in France Hugh Walpole – Red...
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  • Roland Penrose (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    Berkshire. In August 1918, as a conscientious objector, he joined the Friends' Ambulance Unit, serving from September 1918 with the British Red Cross in Italy...
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  • Watson telling her about the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU), and she began to work with them, becoming one of the unit's first female members. She stayed...
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    Arthur Cecil Pigou (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    Cambridge, but during the vacations was an ambulance driver at the front for the Friends' Ambulance Unit, and insisted on undertaking jobs of particular...
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  • Richard Stanley Peters (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    conscientious objector in the Second World War, he served in the Friends Ambulance Unit and with the Friends Relief Service in 1940–1944. From his marriage in 1942...
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  • Kingsley Martin (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    for Martin, however, by the other boys. He decided to join the Friends' Ambulance Unit. He was sent for initial training to Jordans, Buckinghamshire....
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    F. R. Leavis (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    Cambridge after his first year as an undergraduate and joined the Friends' Ambulance Unit (FAU) at York in 1915. After the introduction of conscription in...
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  • Lionel Penrose (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    school in 1916, he served, as a conscientious objector, with the Friends' Ambulance Unit/British Red Cross in France until the end of the First World War...
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  • Patrick Barr (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    people in the Blitz in London's East End before serving with the Friends' Ambulance Unit in Africa. There he met his wife Anne "Jean" Williams, marrying...
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  • Olaf Stapledon (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    as a conscientious objector. Stapledon became an ambulance driver with the Friends' Ambulance Unit in France and Belgium from July 1915 to January 1919;...
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    Henry Nevinson (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    on India for the Manchester Guardian. In 1914 he co-founded the Friends' Ambulance Unit and later in World War I was a war correspondent, being wounded...
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  • F. R. G. Heaf (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    interrupted by the First World War. in 1915 he volunteered for the Friends' Ambulance Unit, where he served briefly, but was then allowed to complete his...
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  • the Friends' Ambulance Unit in 1914, but following Alan's death enlisted in the Royal Field Artillery. Eric Lloyd joined the Friends Ambulance Unit in...
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  • John Rawlings Rees (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    London Hospital when the First World War broke out. He joined the Friends Ambulance Unit in 1914, and later became a Medical Officer in the Royal Army Medical...
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  • John Addey (astrologer) (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    where he read English literature. He left university and joined the Friends Ambulance Unit. While working there, he was struck down by severe Ankylosing Spondylitis...
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  • Stephen Peet (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    father, a conscientious objector in World War II, serving with the Friends Ambulance Unit in London, north Africa and Greece, where he was taken prisoner...
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    Geoffrey Winthrop Young (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    conscientious objector, was active in the FAU, the Friends' Ambulance Unit. Sent to Italy he drove ambulances sometimes in the thick of battle, and as such...
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  • Kenneth Hudson (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    War he registered as a conscientious objector, serving in the Friends' Ambulance Unit. After the Second World War he worked in Germany in the Entnazifizierung...
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    Donald Swann (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    he registered as a conscientious objector and served with the Friends' Ambulance Unit (a Quaker relief organisation) in Egypt, Palestine and Greece....
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  • C. R. W. Nevinson (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    excluded. At the outbreak of World War I, Nevinson joined the Friends' Ambulance Unit and was deeply disturbed by his work tending wounded French and...
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  • Lancelot Hogben (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    Cross in France, under the auspices of the Friends' War Victims Relief Service and then the Friends' Ambulance Unit. He then returned to Cambridge, and was...
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  • Elizabeth Cadbury (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    own death in 1951, aged 93. During World War II, she invited the Friends' Ambulance Unit to establish its training centre in the grounds. The grounds were...
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    Philip Noel-Baker (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    mater. During the First World War, Baker organised and led the Friends' Ambulance Unit attached to the fighting front in France (1914–1915), and was then...
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    Laurie Baker (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    Second World War, as a conscientious objector, he served in the Friends Ambulance Unit. After a short spell on the south coast of England and mostly looking...
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  • Maurice Broomfield (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    World War he was a conscientious objector, working in the Friends Ambulance Unit as an ambulance driver in the London Blitz, and after the war for Save the...
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  • Sydney Carter (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    registered as a conscientious objector in World War II and joined the Friends' Ambulance Unit, serving in Egypt, Palestine and Greece. In 1964 he married his...
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  • Ronald Ossory Dunlop (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
    and worked on the land in the General Service section of the Friends' Ambulance Unit. His first one-man show (1928) was at the Redfern Gallery in Cork...
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