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EPISODE · Mar 24, 2016 · 4 MIN

Hear the story of the only Derry man killed in the #EasterRising

from BBC Radio Foyle · host BBC Radio Foyle

One British soldier remembers how he was caught up in the Easter Rising - but did you know the only #Derry man killed during the fighting was also a soldier? As we approach the 100th anniversary of the Rising, our reporter Freya McClements has been looking at some of the local links to the rebellion. Among them is the story of Second Lieutenant Charles Love Crockett of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. She went in search of his grave in the city cemetary in the company of military historian Richard Doherty...

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