The Missing Corporal with Dan Snow | Beyond the Memorial
A schoolboy actor becomes a missing name on a memorial. Historian Dan Snow joins host Jen Baldwin to investigate a name on his local war memorial: Samson Holman. Through census returns, newspapers and military records, a village schoolboy emerges from the archives before disappearing on the Somme. How do you remember…
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