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Arthur Pearson (1891-1963) and his son Gordon (1919-2006) were from an English Quaker family that settled in Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century, setting up the steelworks...mehr sehenArthur Pearson (1891-1963) and his son Gordon (1919-2006) were from an English Quaker family that settled in Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century, setting up the steelworks of Smith and Pearson. As Quakers and committed to peace, they were faced with a problem with the outbreak of the two world wars. Both wanted to make a contribution to the alleviation of suffering caused by war, and both therefore became involved with the Friends Ambulance Unit. Arthur’s account, originally given as a lecture, depicts the real risks that were run and the enormous work tending the war wounded and assisting the civilian population and staving off a typhoid epidemic. Gordon’s more detailed narrative begins in Finland with the end of the Winter War, moves to Norway attacked by the Nazis, and then on to Beirut, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Sicily, Italy and up through France to Paris for the Liberation.weniger sehen