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A black-and-white portrait inside an oval frame shows a man in a military cap and tunic, with text printed below his image.

Hugh Ernest Corby, Boxworth

Post Office, High Street, Boxworth

History of the Post Office, Boxworth

A section of a 1901 Ordnance Survey map showing the village of Boxworth, including labels for the School, Smithy, and P.O.

Post Office, Boxworth OS map 1901

1911 Post Office

Alfred William Corby, 53, blacksmith, b Bucks

Fanny, 51, b Lolworth

Hugh Earnest [sic], 13, working on farm,  b Boxworth

Hilda Beatrice, 12,  b Boxworth

James Benjamin, 10,  b Boxworth

Elsie Louise, 8,  b Boxworth

Hugh enlisted with the Cambridge Battalion when he was only 16. He died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1st July 1916.

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