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                  Defending Box Village    Summer 2018         Issue 20

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If the Germans had invaded Britain during World War 2 we would have depended on these men to protect us. Who were they and what did they do? We tell the story of Box's Dad's Army for the first time.
Evacuee Children
Scores of lonely youngsters come to Box
In Military Service
When almost everyone was on war duties
Dunkirk Evacuation
Box's men who returned
Life at Home
Rationing, gas masks and Bingham Hall Café

People Index

Aust Family
Were they involved in notorious Box murder?

Your WW2 Tributes
Box service men & women

Military Camps
Soldiers everywhere


Jim Shannon
Box resident and Cricket Cub scorer

Edwardian Love Story
Told in postcards (right)

Sheppards at The Glenn
Family at community heart
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Places Index

Donald Moss
With your help the 1943  crash site found

Earthcaches in Box
Geo Week in England but exactly what is it?

Box Post Office Marks
Before shop was built (left)
Box NATS Trails 2018
50th Anniversary walks including Shockerwick (right)

Devizes Road
Box's newest toll road; houses and occupants

Box Library History Project
Free meetings open to all

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Box Tunnel Myth
Definitive Answer

Ambrose Satchell
More about Henley (right)

Captain Woodgate
Tax returns in 1893
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Boys' School 1927
Can you identify anyone please?

Chaffey Double Funeral
Tragedy affecting all residents

Mesdames Pinker and Diffell
Ladies of Box Hill
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Tudor and Stuart Box,
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Box in the Reformation and the English Civil War

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Railway and Quarry Age, 1830 - 1870
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