Conscience Matters exhibition
Edwin featured in the Conscience Matters exhibition at the Scottish War Museum in Edinburgh Castle, 8 Mar 2019 - 26 Jan 2020. It explored the little-known story of British conscientious objectors during the Second World War.
When war was declared, Edwin, a committed pacifist, registered as a conscientious objector. Granted conditional exemption he was assigned to hospital work. He was an orderly in Killearn Hospital, Stirlingshire in 1943 and Raigmore Hospital, Inverness in early 1944. Later that year he was posted to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
The display included two of Edwin's drawings:
When war was declared, Edwin, a committed pacifist, registered as a conscientious objector. Granted conditional exemption he was assigned to hospital work. He was an orderly in Killearn Hospital, Stirlingshire in 1943 and Raigmore Hospital, Inverness in early 1944. Later that year he was posted to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
The display included two of Edwin's drawings:
- War, October 1939, a heart-felt reaction to the outbreak of WW2 just one month before.
- Untitled (Man with Bandaged Head), circa 1943-1944, probably a patient at one of the hospitals Edwin worked in.
