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Corporal Boal: A Song for a Berwick Great War Hero

Coporal John Edgar Boal was a Berwick Grammar School pupil who was tragically killed in 1916, in the Somme. This video celebrates his service and also highlights the endangered huts of Ness, one of which - the 1908 Speirs classroom - John will have used for woodwork lessons. Visit our YouTube channel to watch.

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