Sentry box

A sentry box is a small shelter with an open front in which a sentry or person on guard duty may stand to be sheltered from the weather. Many boxes are decorated in national colours.^[1]

^ Compare: Sturgis, Russell, ed. (1901). Sturgis' Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture and Building: An Unabridged Reprint of the 1901-2 Edition. Dover Architecture. Vol. 1 (Unabridged reprint ed.). Courier Corporation (published 2013). pp. 343–344. ISBN 9780486148403. Retrieved 2015-12-30. BOX. [...] A small shelter for one or more persons engaged in specific duties; as, in military usage, a small movable wooden hut to afford shelter for a sentry, often somewhat elaborately decorated with the national colours: a sentry box [...].

[1] Compare: Sturgis, Russell, ed. (1901). Sturgis' Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture and Building: An Unabridged Reprint of the 1901-2 Edition. Dover Architecture. Vol. 1 (Unabridged reprint ed.). Courier Corporation (published 2013). pp. 343–344. ISBN 9780486148403. Retrieved 2015-12-30. BOX. [...] A small shelter for one or more persons engaged in specific duties; as, in military usage, a small movable wooden hut to afford shelter for a sentry, often somewhat elaborately decorated with the national colours: a sentry box [...].

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Sentry box

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