The presentation will describe in detail the personal journey of the speaker's grandfather during and after the First World War: firstly as a founder member of The Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU), a pioneering humanitarian organisation active on the Western Front from October 1914 onwards: and Corder Catchpool's very different experience from 1917-19 as a prisoner of conscience back in England.
Reference will also be made to a number of other COs from the north-east of England, notably the group known as the Harwich Frenchmen, who were the first non-combatants to be sentenced to death in WW1 for refusing to take up arms, and whose courageous personal witness led to the eventual recognition of conscientious objection to war as an internationally-accepted human right throughout the world.
Talk by Andrew Greaves, Corder Catchpool's grandson.
This event is hosted by Cambridge Quakers. To find out more about Quakers visit: quaker.org.uk/about-quakers
