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Radio Oxford,08 Nov 2024,9 mins

The war memorial hidden in the woods

Secret Oxfordshire

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In Youlbury Wood near Oxford, stands a war memorial with a particularly poignant inscription. But who were the ‘youthful band who played as children amidst these woods’? 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.

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