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Albert Chapman was a devout and committed Christian who at the outbreak of the First World War faced a moral dilemma, should he fight in the name of his country, or should he follow his Christian teachings not to harm his fellow man? I believe that he made a compromise between these two choices. His story comes in the form of postcards, photographs and diaries, for one of the most tragic periods in recent history.
Only a selection of the postcards have been displayed on these pages but a full set at high resolution can be found here .
Incidentally, most of the postcards in this collection have the placenames defaced with a lead pencil. I presume that this constituted adequate censorship, should they fall into enemy hands don't-you-know... Some of the cards have been much more effectively censored, the placenames have been cut off!
Extensive details of the time covered in these pages are available as a series of interviews by Private Cook made in 1986 at the IWM and available here.
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