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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ambulance is a 2022 American action heist film co-produced and directed by Michael Bay and written by Chris Fedak. A co-production between New Republic...
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Richard Wainwright (politician) (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
War II, he registered as a conscientious objector and joined the Friends' Ambulance Unit, a Quaker organisation, serving in Normandy in 1944, and Antwerp...
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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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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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Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
Pledge Union. During World War II Gardiner volunteered to join the Friends' Ambulance Unit, as an alternative to military service, although he was actually...
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Fulque Agnew (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
Retrieved 3 August 2021. Friends Ambulance Unit, Civilian Relief in Europe by A Telga Davies http://www.ourstory.info/library/4-ww2/Friends/fau11.html Archived...
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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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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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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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Lewis Fry Richardson (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
Office – as superintendent of Eskdalemuir Observatory (1913–1916). Friends Ambulance Unit in France (1916–1919). Meteorological Office at Benson, Oxfordshire...
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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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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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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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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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George M. Ll. Davies (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
conditional on Work of National Importance mediated through the Friends Ambulance Unit General Service section. He first worked in a FoR[clarification...
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Cecil John Cadoux (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
Congregationalist. Linked also to the Quakers, he participated to the Friends' Ambulance Unit as a conscientious objector in the First World War. He wrote many...
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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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John Pick (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
conscientious objector during the Second World War, serving in the Friends' Ambulance Unit and then as a coalminer. Pick was born in Leicester. He was married...
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George Perry-Smith (category People associated with the Friends' Ambulance Unit)
interrupted by World War II. As a conscientious objector, he joined the Friends Ambulance Unit. He was introduced to cooking by Eric Green, a fellow member of...
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