During World War II, it was used as an observation post by the local Home Guard and Observer Corps.
The home guard are back on duty at the town's Garrison chapel, where there are plans to establish a military heritage centre.
Hugill was too young to know his grandfather, while his father - who served as a Sergeant-at-Arms in the Home Guard during WWII - was reluctant to speak about his wartime experiences.
The restored Georgian chapel - taken over by the local council in 2003 - was being occupied by members of the Glamorgan Home Guard, a living history group, to recreate wartime Pembrokeshire.
"We didn't know anything about his involvement in the Auxiliary Units, as far as my grandmother was concerned he was just part of the Home Guard - they used it as a masquerade, " Mrs Mogford said.
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While the role of the Home Guard during World War II has been widely celebrated, very little is known of their counterparts in the Auxiliary Units, who would have been Britain's last line of defence in the event of a Nazi invasion.
And the vessel was also called on during her transit home, to guard a merchant ship against piracy in the Gulf of Aden.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty has a weekly radio program and last week he broadcast from the National Guard's home base, Camp Ripley.
Guard our own home fronts, I mean that's to me - I don't know, I don't know what they've accomplished by going over there.
Like most other homeschooled children I know, they are instead out making sandwiches for the soup kitchen, interacting with patients in a nursing home, providing a color guard for the state legislature session, then getting a chance to attend a luncheon and speak with the other attendees.
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But Thursday night, Popovich and the Spurs stuck it to the NBA and commissioner David Stern by having its three stars, Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili, plus starting guard Danny Green sent home to San Antonio to rest, while the remaining Spurs faced off against the Miami Heat in a nationally televised game from Miami.
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But with every legislator determined to protect bases and guard units in his or her home district, it looks harder and harder to see how money can be freed for this shopping spree.
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Didier Drogba was injured in the Fulham penalty area when Essien headed home and Hughes conceded his side were caught off guard.
Members of the Guard and Reserve also serve here at home, stepping in to keep our communities safe when emergencies or natural disasters threaten our security.
Nets general manager Billy King was able to convince star point guard Deron Williams to resist going back home to Texas and taking less money from Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks.
It was challenged by a security guard who wanted to keep his gun in his home.
"The Wagah border had become his home, and everybody here was his family, " said one border guard, Asim.
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Many American workers were caught off-guard in January, when they saw their annual take-home pay shrink by hundreds of dollars due to a broad-based increase in payroll taxes.
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Though a great enthusiast for all things crocodile-related - he once seriously considered the logistics of keeping one in his home as a pet - Packham says humans always need to be on their guard when in the vicinity of such animals.
Crown Princess Mette-Marit, for instance, moved freely among mourners at a gathering in the home town of her step-brother, Trond Berntsen, who was on guard at the Labour Party youth camp on Utoya island and one of the first to be killed.
Tulafono was on his way back home from Hawaii on Tuesday night on one of two U.S. Coast Guard transport planes delivering aid.
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Wilson Chandler had 16 points and Corey Brewer and Kosta Koufos added 13 points apiece for the Nuggets, who are one win shy of matching their longest home winning streak since Jan. 28-April 20, 1989, despite missing injured point guard Ty Lawson.
Let us pray for the members of our military who guard that freedom every day, and who may be spending this holiday far away from home.
Beau serves as Delaware's Attorney General and recently returned home from Iraq where he served as a Captain in the 261st Signal Brigade of the Delaware National Guard.
Williams, the Nets' star point guard, was seven assists shy of 5, 000 for his career entering Brooklyn's home game Tuesday night against the Los Angeles Lakers.
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"I think this was a classic example of using National Guard troops who were not prepared in any sense, " Castner's father tells us from his home in Wisconsin.
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