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Visit with peace activists Fred Snyder and Siegfried Bartel

Two Second World War veterans who later became peace activists, Siegfried Bartel and Fred Snyder, met for the first time in November 1993. Bartel had been an officer in the German army and Snyder was an Allied radar mechanic. The two met at dinner at John and Carrie Harder' home after Bartel spoke for a week at Rockway Mennonite Collegiate, sharing his faith journey to Christian pacifism. Left to right: Addae Morgan (who was living with the Harders), Fred Snyder, Siegfried Bartel, Lorraine Snyder (Fred's wife), John Harder.

Alternative Service cabin at Montreal River camp

  • CA MAO 2011-1 4
  • Item
  • 1987

Photo is of a log cabin on the grounds of the Twilight Resort in Montreal River Harbour, Ontario. The cabin housed Mennonite Alternative Service men during World War II. Carved into one of the logs are the names of Alternative Service workers Wilmer Wagler (Shakespeare, Ontario), Emerson Wagler (Shakespeare, Ontario), Moses G. Martin and Joe Martin (Wallenstein, Ontario). The man identified as Moses G. Martin could possibly be Morris Martin or Mahlon Martin; no Moses G. Martin is found in the Alternative Service lists.

Ruth Fletcher

Trees Planted by Conscientious Objectors

This is a photo of the trees planted during WWII by conscientious objectors north of Campbell River, Vancouver Island. In the foreground, with backs to the camera are (left to right): Jake Wiebe of Black Creek, B.C.; Rudy Regehr of CMBC, Winnipeg; and Frank Dyck of Winnipeg.

Unknown

Norman R. Landis Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/464SC
  • Collection
  • 1972-1973

The collection includes correspondence and materials regarding World War I Conscientious Objectors.

Landis, Norman R.

Group discussion on WWII alternative service

Two photos very similar to one used in Bull., SSCM, May 31, 1963, p.4. Group discussion on WWII alternative service, led by panel at front: E.J.. Swalm, J. B. Martin, H.H. Epp, Cornelius Baerg, Enos Bearinger, Pete Neufeld, Fred Cressman. Negs for these 2 photos and 7 negs show additional views of the group.

Epp, Henry H., 1925-2010

Roy Buchanan Manuscript

  • US MCUSAA HM1/360
  • Collection
  • circa 1950

Two typewritten, unpublished manuscripts describing Buchanan's experiences as a conscientious objector in World War I and and his subsequent service work in France.  These memoirs cover the years 1917 to1919.

The chapters of the manuscript are titled as follows:

Manuscript: [World War I Experience, 1917-1918], 125 pages

Preface

Chapter I: How I Became a Mennonite

Chapter II: Going to Camp

Chapter III: First Army Camp Experience

Chapter IV: Transferred to the Remount Depot

Chapter V: Taken to the Guard-House

Chapter VI: Other Guard-House Experiences

Chapter VII: Cooking and Eating Outside

Chapter VIII: The Dark Hour

Chapter IX: Released from the Guard-House

Chapter X:  From the Remount Depot to the 163rd Depot Bridge

Chapter XI: First Experiences in the Depot Brigade

Chapter XII: The Two Spies

Chapter XIII: Second Guard-House Experience

Chapter XIV: Interviewed by the Board of Inquiry

Chapter XV: To Fort Leavenworth

Chapter XVI: To Fort Riley, and Last Days of Army Camp Experiences

Manuscript: “Experience in Relief and Reconstruction Service During and following World War One, 1918-1919.”  149 pages

Chapter I: From a Military Training Camp to a Relief Unit

Chapter II: In Waiting Before Going to France

Chapter III: Trip to France

Chapter IV: Paris, The Hub

Chapter V:  Some Bits of History

Chapter VI: At Ornans

Chapter VII:  A Trip into the Juras

Chapter VIII: Discharged from the Army

Chapter IX: From Ornans to the Verduin Sector

Chapter X: At Grange-Le-Compte

Chapter XI: A Trip to Verdun and Over Battle Fields

Chapter XII:  Little George

Chapter XIII: At Aubreville and Avocourt

Chapter XIV: Diary of One Week

Chapter XV: A Trip to the Alps Mountains

Chapter XVI:  A Trip to Germany and other Places

Chapter XVII:  Last Days in France, and Back to America

Buchanan, Roy

Timothy R. Falb Collection 1979-1984

  • US MCUSAA HM1/603
  • Collection
  • 1945-1984

A small set of research materials collected by Timothy Falb in the course of conducting three research projects -- one on the post World War II volunteers who shipped livestock overseas, one on Mennonite scholar and educator Edward Yoder, and one on the history of two sister congregations in Ohio, Martins Mennonite Church and Pleasant View Mennonite Church. Also included is an interview with Aldis Gerber, a conscientious objector during WWI. The richest sources of material in this collection are the oral histories. Researchers should note that no transcriptions are available for these oral histories.

The materials are divided into series by subject.

Falb, Timothy R., 1956-

Oscar R. Miller Photographs and Booklet

  • US MCUSAA HM1/365
  • Collection
  • circa 1944-1946

Materials created by a conscientious objector and Civilian Public Service worker during World War II.  The collection consists of 132 black and white negatives depicting various Civilian Public Service camps and miscellaneous scenes from Miller's travels, and 1 color print of Sidling Hill Civilian Public Service Camp in Pennsylvania.  Also includes a booklet entitled On Sequoia Trails, which depicts live at Civilian Public Service Camp #107 in Three Rivers, California.

Miller, Oscar R., 1925-

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