Fighting for King and Country
George Pearce was one of 25,000
Croydon men
who went to fight in the 'Great War'.
In 3 months
half a million men died
around the area of Ypres
in Belgium.
There were protests
against war in 1914.
Thousands of people refused to fight
because of their beliefs.
After the First World War,
some of these people
struggled to find work
because of discrimination.