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Philemon L. Frey Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/825
  • Collection
  • 1917-1973

Personal papers of a conscientious objector during World War I and Mennonite pastor in Ohio. The bulk of the material consists of sermons organized by topic..  Also included are photographs from Camp Sherman, where Frey was stationed during the First World War, and a journal recording the names of other conscientious objectors at Camp Sherman and their visitors.  A small amount of correspondence from the World War I and World War II eras may also be found in these papers.

Frey, Philemon L., 1896-1984

Pumping water on fire

  • CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1.6-1
  • Item
  • [between 1942 and 1944]

An Alternative Service worker pumps water onto a fire. Caption on back reads, "pumping water on fire."

Brubacher, Isaac

Richard Wideman Memoir and Military Documents

  • US MCUSAA HM1/375SC
  • Collection
  • 1918-1919, undated

A brief memoir describing Wideman's experiences as a conscientious objector during World War and copies of his military discharge papers. Also includes some biographical information about Wideman compiled by his daughter. Researchers should note that this collection includes no original documents, but rather black and white photocopies.

Wideman, Richard, 1896-1978

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Two typewritten, unpublished manuscripts describing Buchanan's experiences as a conscientious objector in World War I and and his subsequent service work in France.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

Snowplow at Montreal River

  • CA MAO 2015-1-67
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Alternative Service workers piled onto a snowplow at Montreal River

Sauder, Stanley

Sorting chocolate bars to sell at camp

  • CA MAO 2015-1-69
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Stanley Sauder and Irvin Bender (Baden, Ontario) sort chocolate bars to sell to their fellow Alternative Service workers at Montreal River.

Unknown

Stanley Sauder and fellow farm workers

  • CA MAO 2015-1-61
  • Item
  • [between 1943 and 1946]

Stanley Sauder with Kim Kempen and his sister. The sister was their cook on the Reid farm.

Unknown

Stanley Sauder and friends at camp

  • CA MAO 2015-1-75
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Alternative Service workers, including Stanley Sauder, pose for the camera inside a tent

Unknown

The barn Stanley Sauder worked on

  • CA MAO 2015-1-63
  • Item
  • [between 1943 and 1946]

Stanley Sauder did carpentry work on this barn on the Reid farm during an Alternative Service assignment

Sauder, Stanley

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