Meeting in open air at Saltley…a group of soldiers in khaki formed part of the audience, and one of them persisted in interrupting towards the end of my address. I told him that we would not be bullied by soldiers and the audience cheered me, but the fellow’s offensiveness rather spoiled the meeting.

2 June 1915. Diary entry by John Bruce Glasier (1859-1920), Socialist and pacifist [GP/2/1/22]. This week’s war: 44.