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The war memorial hidden in the woods
Both World War One and World War Two feel like a lifetime ago. Have you ever thought about what war memorials are made from? What lives did people lead before going to war?
In Youlbury Wood near Oxford, stands a war memorial with a particularly poignant inscription. But who were the 鈥榶outhful band who played as children amidst these woods鈥�?
Carla Buckingham goes in search of the stories of the people remembered on the memorial, and discovers how one name in particular leads all the way to the home of English rugby.
