Mark H. C. Hayler personal correspondence
- AR1122/2/6
- Item
- 1916-03-23 to 1919-05-22
Includes letters, notes on experiences, Notice of arrears (1919) and work with the Friends War Victims Committee in France.
Mark H. C. Hayler personal correspondence
Includes letters, notes on experiences, Notice of arrears (1919) and work with the Friends War Victims Committee in France.
Mark H. C. Hayler's Letters Jan- June 1916
Bound letters relating to the arrest, forced enlistment and Court-Martial of Mark H. C. Hayler. Includes 2 loose sheets of notes and books read at Wandsworth prison
Clothing worn by Mark Hayler during his internment.
Includes letters sent to Non Conscription Fellowship, letters of petition from Guy Hayler (father), diary entries, list and dates of regional newspapers reporting on the case of Mark H. C. Hayler and extracts from correspondence.
Conscientious Objector Experiences
Material about the experiences of other Conscientious Objectors, mainly from the Croydon area, during the First World War. Includes a brochure about Guy Hayler printed in 1950.
Mark Henry Chambers Hayler
Conscientious Objectors who have served Two Years' Imprisonment and over
List and addresses of Conscientious Objectors, includes index at front of membership to unions and denominations of churches.
Detailing Conscription and grounds for exemption.
Additional rules published on the employment of Conscientious Objectors by work centers and other institutions.
Petition letter to Prime Minister and Letter from Mark H. C. Hayler
Letter from the mothers and wives of South London Conscientious Objectors imprisoned, calling for the granting of absolute exemption for military service to them.
The Court-Martial of Mark Guy Pearce Sep, 1916 and Roderic K. Clark, Jan 1917
Pamphlet by unknown publisher about the trial and result of trial of Mark Guy Pearce .
A self-printed pamphlet by Clark compiled of extract from the Croydon Advertiser, Court Martial statements, letters from the army and result of the trial.
Results of case before Tribunal: Croydon branch
Contains names and results of cases for Conscientious Objectors, including George Glasscock, Includes 2 letters and a sheet of facts about appeal form, written on the back of a concert programme. Stored in an envelope labeled 'Croydon Tribunal Appeal Results'
Details on the case of Mark Guy Pearce
A sheet with list of event from Jul 1916 to Jul 1918.
Papers regarding the tribunals of Mark Hayler, J.W Hill, correspondences, a poem, the Newsletter The Mufti (08/04/1916) and a publication by Mark H. C. Hayler: The Man from Battle, being a centenary Interpretation of the life and work of Guy Hayler, Social Reformer, 1850-1943.
Court-Martial of Gilbert A. Foan
Self-published recollection of the Tribunal process. Includes references to a book written by Gilbert Foan, Art and Craft of Hairdressing, which can be accessed through the Archive Collections of the Museum of Croydon.
Material concerning Wandsworth, Warwick, Wormwood Scrubs and Dartmoor Convicts Prison. Includes photographs, programmes for internally planned events and diary entries. Also includes papers about the history of the prisons, including newspaper cuttings and a Tourist brochure from the 1980s.
Internal publication shared between conscientious objectors at Dartmoor Convicts Prison. Vol 7- 15. Includes Illustrations (Cartoons)
Photographs and papers relating to Dartmoor and Wakefield
3 photographs including one postcard with 3 images, representing the interior of a cell in Wakefield prison and the interior of Warwick Prison and 2 with individuals.
Programmes for internal entertainment at the Conscientious Objector's Work center, photographs of the interior of Wakefield Prison, the 'Agricultural group' and 4 individuals including Mark Hayler, information and photo about the 'Torture Chamber' cartoons and a discharge card.
Includes general information about Dartmoor, including stories and illustrations of the prison, literature, notes on other prisons (including one by Oscar Wilde) drafts, petitions and a congratulatory note to Woodrow Wilson's Rights of all nations and the socialist government of Russia.
Programmes and concert material Dartmoor
Includes Mark H. C. Hayler's library card, a permission card of a P. Saunders, and events by the United Socialist Council and a United Missionary conference, Shakespeare and other plays. Illustrations of historic figures on the back on one programme.
Dinner: In honour of Edwin Arnold.
Dinner held for a small party of Conscientious Objectors at Dartmoor Convict Prison
Album with poems and illustrations
Contains poems, extracts, messages written in code and Latin, watercolors and designs.
Book half filled with notes on medieval English literature.
Newscuttings and newssheets: Deaths and elections
Includes articles about the death of conscientious objectors at Dartmoor, experiences , and a copy of the Student Pacifist calling for the election of Dick Sheppard.
Papers inside a 'Makrana Marble' titled diary cover relating to life in prison, including a list of issued books, hymns, photos, cartoons and the Conscientious Objectors Coat of Arms. Photographs includes activities and interiors. M. G. Pearce is identified in one of the photographs.
Programmes and Papers relating to Dartmoor
Programmes for internal entertainment at the Conscientious Objector's Work centre.
Ten Conscientious Objectors poem. A handwritten on blue paper in the style of '10 Little Indians'. Anonymous author. Appears to be in Mark H. C. Hayler's handwriting.
Extracts from Conscientious Objectors Autograph Album: Typed on brown paper. Includes quotes and poems from inmates of various prisons including Rugeley camp and wormwood shrubs.
Dartmoor National Parks tourist leaflet from 1988
Newsheets and Newspaper cuttings
Clippings from various newspapers involving events at Princetown prison, Dartmoor. Including a breakout, copies of the internal newspaper (the News Sheet), conversion of the Prison to an 'Adult School' and photographs of Conscientious Objectors (unidentified). Also includes an photograph of a dinner held in honour of MPs imprisoned during the First World War.