In later life,  George Victor Stanley  became headmaster of Nottingham School, with a talent for woodcuts.  C. Harold Fitch  followed in his father's footsteps and became vicar of Melton Mowbray. He made a name for himself a
 The first - the Red Book - would not be out of place at a management retreat in 2017. There are team building exercises where strengths and weaknesses are on humorous display. There are sheets of music from C. Harold Fitch. Towards the back there ar
    The second book - the Grey Book - has entries from the NCC at Calais. There are poems, sketches, cartoons and quotes - all signed with name and address.
    It is the third book below that is the most important.
 This small grey sketchbook is a book of beliefs - written and signed by young men whose lives were on the line. They faced court martial for refusing to handle barbed wire, which they saw as a weapon of war.  One by one, on 7 December 1917, they wro
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