Crimson Roses

PRIVATE letters written between a volunteer nurse and her best friend in World War I provide a personal perspective on a conflict which left some 17 million people dead and a further 20 million wounded.

Beatrice Keir’s letters, along with private photographs and poignant drawings and autographs by men wounded in the four-year conflict, have been compiled into the book Crimson Roses: Beatrice Fraser’s First World War Letters and Memorabilia by her grand-daughter, Fiona Polak, who lives in Howick. Continue reading →