ABSTRACT
I first saw a photograph of John Pearman in March 1980 when I was watching the BBC television production ‘Gone for a Soldier’, a documentary history of the rank and file in the British army. Voice-over gave this extract from John Pearman’s writing:
my sincere impression is man was not made to Slaughter is Fellow man. for any other man or state although he may have ingaged himself as a hired assassin in my mind one man as as much right to the earth as another 1
