tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785092262719769427.post3029025803318331592..comments2023-11-16T09:27:13.533-08:00Comments on SmothPubs: From Ealing to Dyce and Dartmoor: a Third Man in the PictureSmothPubshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13111109728985633135noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785092262719769427.post-35294452527226184142018-03-20T04:15:46.277-07:002018-03-20T04:15:46.277-07:00New post on Aberdeen Protest blog, March 2018:
htt...New post on Aberdeen Protest blog, March 2018:<br />https://aberdeenprotest.wordpress.com/ - <br />Dyce Conscientious Objectors Camp Committee (1916)<br />March 19, 2018 by aberdeenprotest <br />"Dyce Camp was set up in August 1916 to house around 250 conscientious objectors who had been in prison for refusing to fight in World War One. The men were put to work breaking up granite rock for use in road building. The camp was tented, with basic facilities, and soon after arriving one man died of pneumonia. After a public outcry and a debate in Parliament, the camp was closed down in October.<br />"The men quickly formed into the Dyce Quarry Camp Committee, who campaigned about their conditions in the camp, stating that the camp was not in readiness to receive, and that there was a major lack of medical attention. To publicise their campaign the Committee published their own news-sheet, The Granite Echo, edited and published by one of the Committee, Guy Aldred (1886 – 1963). Aldred, was an author and publisher (The Bakunin Press), and an anarchist communist. He lived in Glasgow, was part of the Glasgow anarchists, and wrote and edited numerous anarchist periodicals and pamphlets.<br />"Related entries: World War Two conscientious objectors."<br /> References: The Granite Echo: Organ of the Dyce C.O.’s (2 issues 1916, issue 1 sourced online) and Dyce Work Camp, Conscientious Objectors and Public Opinion in North-East Scotland 1916: A Documentary History (Joyce Walker, 2011).<br /> Sources: The Granite Echo: Organ of the Dyce C.O.’s (2 issues 1916) (British Library)<br />SmothPubshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13111109728985633135noreply@blogger.com