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Back to Episodes"My Uncle Robert" - A Remembrance Day Special
Season 4
Episode 2
Published 3 years, 9 months ago
Description
Remembrance Day is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth member states since the end of the First World War to honour armed forces members who have died in the line of duty. This weeks' guest, Beulah Coombs, shares the true story of a World War 1 Jamaican soldier and how, through a series of amazing and incredible coincidences, his family came to discover his fate, nearly 100 years after his death, her Uncle Robert. She is a former teacher, lecturer and now author of the book - My Uncle Robert: The True Story of a Forgotten Jamaican World War 1 Soldier.
Links:
https://www.beulahcoombs.com
debbiewilliamspodcast.com
Title Music: Bouncy-Spongy by Ketsa, licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.