Bim’s war
Tara Craig tells the story of one man’s experience in world war one
My father was a conscientious objector. There are some letters somewhere’.
These words, from a largely forgotten conversation between Dorking Friends Joan Macalpine and Su Johnston last December, led to the opening, for the first time in several decades, of two string-tied old cardboard boxes. They also prompted a fascinating journey of discovery.
Languishing out of reach on a top shelf, the letters held the secrets and worries of three tumultuous years with the Friends War Victims Relief Committee (FWVRC). They were written by a young man finding his way through life.
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