Callum Tindal-Draper, Cornwall killed fighting in Ukraine

"We begged and begged him not to go. But Callum said, 'Dad, I'm not frightened of bullies and what's going on in Ukraine is awful, and... - www.falmouthpacket.co.uk

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Callum Tindal-Draper, aged 22, from Gunnislake, was killed in action while serving with the foreign volunteer platoon in the country's struggle against Russia. In an interview with the BBC, his father Steven Draper said he begged his son not to travel to Ukraine, but he told him he was "not frightened of bullies". "We begged and begged and begged him not to go," his father said.

"But Callum said 'dad, I'm not frightened of bullies and what's going on in Ukraine is awful and someone needs to stand up for these people'." In the same interview, his mother Caroline Tindal said she had visited him in September and he seemed as if he had found "who he was meant to be". "It was such a transformation and he said to me 'mum, coming out here was the.



.. Luke O'Reilly, PA.