Abbreviations have been used for some common terms in the data. We have noted these below:
absol = absolutist
Ald = Alderman
AFS = Auxiliary Fire Service
AFSC = American Friends Service Committee
agr = Agriculture
APF = Anglican Pacifist Fellowship
ARP = Air Raid Precautions
asst = assistant
AT = Appellate Tribunal
att = attender
ave = Avenue
AWOL = absent without leave
BRC = British Red Cross
cd = could
CAW = civil ambulance work
C of E = Church of England
CD or Cd = Civil Defence
Cllr = Councillor
CM = Court Martial
CO = Conscientious Objector
co = Company
Col = Colonel
coll = college
cond = conditional exemption
Co-op = Co-operative Society
CPFLU = Christian Pacifist Forestry & Land Unit
ct = Court
cttee = committee
dept = department
DNA = did not appear
E = East
educ = educated
FAU = Friends Ambulance Unit
FOR = Fellowship of Reconciliation
FRS = Friends Relief Service
FWRVS = Friends War Victims Relief Unit
f/t = full time
Govt = Government
IBSA =International Bible Students
Impt = imprisonment
j = joined
JW = Jehovah's Witness
LT = Local tribunal
Mag or Mags = Magistrate's Court
mem = member
Meth = Methodist
MP = Member of Parliament
MPF = Methodist Peace Fellowship
mths = months
N = North
NCC = Non Combat Corps
NCS =Non-combat service
NFS = National Fire Service
n g = not given
OTC = Officer Training Corps
PPU = Peace Pledge Union
p/t = part time
Pte = Private
RAMC = Royal Army Medical Corps
RC = Roman Catholic
rd = road
ref = refused
rel = religion
rep = representative
res = resigned
ret = returned
S = South (or shillings)
sch = school
sol = solicitor
st = Street
s/t = spare time
SW = South West (or Saffron Walden Quaker School)
uncond = unconditional exemption
UNRRA = United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration
W = West
WNI = work of national importance
yrs = years