File. Democratic Rights for the Armed Forces

Scope and Content

Including:

a) Civil Liberty Pamphlets regarding - Civil Liberty issues in Parliament (Jan 1945), Civil Liberty in the Armed Forces (Aug 1946)

b) NCCL Annual Report and Balance Sheet 1946-7, regarding rights in the forces page 5 and 18.

c) Correspondence regarding the rejection of Cymbalists petition. Aug 1947.

d) Press cuttings including case of 16 NCOs' petition against sentences in Corfu, 263 paratroops on mutiny charge, publishing of names of those who refused to buy commanding officer a watch, discussion of mutiny act, discussion of civil procedure vs court martialling, anti-semitism in army, reconstitution of Territorial Army, Nov 2 1946, marriage allowances for men under 21, unlawful detention of soldiers, political discrimination, RAF bill of rights, demobilisation protest strikes in Egypt, Nov 1946.

e) Case of Corporal Sherman, 1946.

f) Case of Barr including letter from Private Barr to his mother 23/4/46, and record of charges.

g) Discussion of the campaign 'Freedom in the Armed Forces.'

h) Death of Private Shaw in the Guardroom at Tel-Al-Kabir.

i) mentions of Cymbalist, Spector's Draft, Court Martial Procedure, cases of close arrest

j) Draft leaflet of 'Soldiers are Citizens.'

k) Courts Martial Scrapped - replaced with juries of rankers.

l) Case of John William Hellard. 1948.

m) Death of Lt Gaisbury

n) Democracy and the Armed Forces, Submitted by Brian Groombridge.

o) Unions in the forces, compiled by R D Leakey.

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