Quaker tribute to Richmond sixteen

Peace witness remembered on Sunday 30 June

The peace witness of sixteen conscientious objectors who were imprisoned in Richmond Castle in 1916 was remembered on Sunday 30 June by British Quakers.  A group of Friends visited the cells where the men were imprisoned and also held an open-air Meeting for Worship in the castle grounds.

The event was organised by the Northern Friends Peace Board. It was one of a number of events to celebrate the centenary of the organisation. These included a thirty-five-mile walk of witness from Richmond Castle to Menwith Hill – a walk linking two significant sites of peace witness that span the first hundred years of the Board.

Among Friends at the event on Sunday was Marjorie Gaudie of Great Ayton Quaker Meeting. Marjorie is the daughter-in-law of Norman Gaudie, of Great Ayton Meeting, who was one of the sixteen conscientious objectors imprisoned in the castle in 1916.

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