English Heritage project aims to preserve war objectors' graffiti

Fragile walls at Richmond Castle bear rare first-hand testimonial from men who refused to serve in first world warIn 1916 a conscientious objector, condemned by a tribunal for refusing to serve in the first world war, took up a pencil and very neatly explained his plight on the whitewashed wall of his cell in Richmond Castle in Yorkshire.“‘I Percy F Goldsbrough of Mirfield was brought up from Pontefract on Friday August 11 1916 and put in this cell for refusing to be made into a sold