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Friends' Ambulance Unit

The Friends' Ambulance Unit (FAU) was a volunteer ambulance service, founded by individual members of the British Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), in line with their Peace Testimony. The FAU operated from 1914 to 1919, 1939 to 1946 and 1946 to 1959 in 25 different countries around the world. It was independent of the Quakers' organisation and chiefly staffed by registered conscientious objectors.

Records[edit]

Much archival material has survived and has been deposited at the Library of the Society of Friends, Friends House, Euston Road, London.

American Ambulance Great Britain

American Ambulance Field Service

Hadfield-Spears Ambulance Unit

Miles, James E.; Tatham, Meaburn (1919). The Friends' Ambulance Unit, 1914–1919: a record. London: Swarthmore Press.

Tegla Davies, Arfor (1947). . London: George Allen & Unwin Limited. LCCN 48022555. Archived from the original on 12 May 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2012.

Friends Ambulance Unit – The Story of the F.A.U. in the Second World War 1939–1945

Clifford Barnard (1999). Two weeks in May 1945: Sandbostel Concentration Camp and the Friends Ambulance Unit. London: Quaker Home Service.  0-85245-315-9.

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Bush, Roger (1998). FAU : the third generation : Friends Ambulance Unit post-war service and international service 1946–1959. York: William Sessions Limited.  1-85072-211-0.

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Smith, Lyn (1998). Pacifists in Action: Experience of the Friends Ambulance Unit in the Second World War. York: William Sessions Limited.  1-85072-215-3.

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Embers of War: Letters from a Relief Worker in the British Zone of Germany, 1945-46 (1997) London, Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781860643125

McClelland, Grigor

FAU films: The Unit (Stephen Peet, 1941); Friends Ambulance Unit (1939-1946) (Stephen Peet, 1943-1946).

FAU journal The Chronicle 1939-1946.

Records of First World War personnel of the Friends Ambulance Unit are searchable at

http://fau.quaker.org.uk/search-view

Quakers and World War I

The Library of the Society of Friends

- A blog from the Library of the Society of Friends

Quaker Strongrooms

Quaker Service Memorial Trust

's experiences in WW I

Olaf Stapledon

David Elwyn Morris' experience of FAU China Convoy - .

China Changed my Mind