A Tomb With a View – The Stories & Glories of Graveyards: A Financial Times Book of the Year by Peter Ross

Author:Peter Ross [Ross, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2020-09-02T16:00:00+00:00

These men. One was a footballer and accounts clerk; the second, a miner and fine tenor; the third, a teacher and lay preacher. They are all now prisoners. Held within the castle’s thick stone walls and the even stronger keep of their own faith.

Darkness be over me, My rest a stone . . .

Norman Gaudie. Alfred Myers. John Hubert Brocklesby, known as Bert. They and thirteen of their fellows will come to be known as the Richmond Sixteen. They are conscientious objectors, conchies, cowards to many, respected by few. They will not fight, and they will not do any sort of work that helps the fight. For this they have lost their freedom, though not, it seems, their voices.

Yet in my dreams I’d be

Nearer, my God, to thee.

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