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Category: Attitudes - Towards the War in General
Ada Reece (DF) Diary 5.8.14, 7.8.14, 11.9.14, 6.12.14, 22.9.14, 22.10.14, 31.3.15.
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Category: Attitudes - Towards the War in General
K. Courtney (DF) Diaiy. Constant references. Subject was a pacificist. See for example pp. 5-12 August 1914.
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Category: Attitudes - Towards the War in General
See Barry, Dawson, Webb, Keene papers (DF) Set A. Letter 23.8.14 re 'dreadful happenings' of the last few weeks and the anxiety etc. of loved ones parting. Also of the rightness of the cause.
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Category: Attitudes - Towards the War in General
Barry, Dawson, Webb, Keene papers (DF) Set B (b). Letter 6.7.15 from L.G. Barry (a 2nd Lt. A.S.C.) to E.B. Dawson - 'I'm m not actually engaged in slaughter. What else is it?" He is repairing wagons; outdoor life suits him; he thrives.
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Barry, Dawson, Webb, Keene papers (DF) Set B (iii). Letter 23.9.14 from Minna Keene to E.B. Dawson - unthinkable "that men kill one another like that...civilisation put back 100 years."
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C. Eshbom (GS) Long letter analysing the causes of the war. File 1, item 1.16/9/14.
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E. Speed (AFE) - Letter 28,18.11.17. from his aunt in South Africa to his mother after Speeds death. "Something not right in such young lads taking up the strenuous duties demanded in the trenches? 20 is young enough. - son wishes to go to fight in Europe but father will not let him until he finishes education. War looks like it will go on for another 5 years 'but if it is his duty I will not prevent him from going.'
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Category: Attitudes - Towards the War in General
W.D. Churchill (DF). Sermons esp. Aug. 1914. 'God has allowed this great test of our character'. Oct. 1914 and August 1916.
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See C.J. Lane (GS) - bundle of letters from family returned with his effects when he was killed. Many references towards war in general.
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Walley M. (DF) This lady appears oblivious to anything outside the domestic scene.
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Stancliffe bros (GS) Hunting diary, entry for war years following 19th Jan.1914 'A certain William seriously interfered with all sport...he was run to ground in Holland...as the field started quarrelling amongst themselves, nothing was done about'
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F.Orelbar (DF) Handwritten manifesto by Robert Bourne, 3.8.14. promising to protect his workers from rises in the price of bread and to share with their families any diminution in the ration.
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