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had been mentioned in dispatches in 1918.
Averil's 1918 military passport (Image courtesy of The Honorable
Society of King’s Inns, from the Averil Deverell Spurling archive)
By the beginning of 1919 Averil was home facing, like others,
the devastation wreaked on once familiar social structures in
such a close community. The World War I memorial at
Woodenbridge stands as a silent granite testament to the high
death toll. Each slab bearing the names of individual places, the
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