CPS Worker 006196 - Lord, Charles R.

CPS Worker 006196 - Lord, Charles R.

Birth year: 1920

Denomination: Friend

Original occupation: Student

Occupation after CPS: Social work/former missionary (Africa), UCC pastor

Drafted from: Grinnell , Iowa, United States

Entered CPS: 11 17, 1942

Left CPS: 4 21, 1946

CPS Units:

Notes:

Charles Lord secretly took photos when he was at Byberry (CPS Camp No. 49) which showed the poor conditions of mental hospitals at the time. Some of the photos he took can be seen at: A Mental Ward Exposed, NPR.

 

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CPS Unit # 49
Chorus, Summer 1944. Walter Kirk, Tom Riggs, Charlie Lord, Bernard Lehman, Don Riggs, me, Harold Barton, Roy Simon (?), Jane Terhume (?), Marjorie Levissy (?), Ruth Wandt (?), Bob Reuman (?) Bob Steele, Ann Martin, Jean Riggs, Margarette (?) Riggs, Harriet Frakie (?), Edith Farley, Grace G. Riggs, Ruby Kirk, Elann (?)Shrine.
Digital Image from Wayne D. Sawyer Papers in Civilian Public Service: Personal Papers & Collected Material (DG 056), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Camp No. 152
Charles Lord, a CPS worker and sea-going cowboy, at Port Said with fez hat standing on top of cattle shed.
Brethren Historical Library and Archives
CPS Camp No. 152
Charles Lord, a CPS worker and sea-going cowboy, looking out at Gibraltar.
Brethren Historical Library and Archives

Other material