Relatives remember COs

Conscientious Objectors of the first world war were remembered at a ceremony in Tavistock Square

The FAU cap of Henry Hodgkin in the hands of his grandson, Jonathan Hodgkin. | Photo: Photo: Michael Preston / © 2014 Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain.

Conscientious Objectors (COs) of the first world war were remembered at a moving ceremony in Tavistock Square on 15 May, International Conscientious Objectors Day.  Several hundred people gathered for a ceremony that included speeches, songs performed by the choir of a London school, the ‘naming of first world war conscientious objectors’ by relatives and the laying of flowers in honour of COs past and present.

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