🎧 Excavated Trenches on the Somme with Teddy Corrigan
20th Century
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20m
Teddy Corrigan is the custodian of the Ulster Tower in Thiepval, with his wife, Phoebe. He works in remembrance of the soldiers who died in the Great War.
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