# Sentry box

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Sentry_box
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Sentry_box.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentry_box
> Source revision: 1327018966
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

{{Short description|Booth erected to provide shelter to a sentry}}
[[File:King Tut Presidential Police Dog Sentry Box 1929.jpg|thumb|A sentry box in [Washington, DC](/source/Washington%2C_DC) in 1929]]

A '''sentry box''' is a small [shelter](/source/shelter_(building)) with an open front in which a [sentry](/source/Picket_(military)) or person on [guard](/source/Security_guard) duty may stand to be sheltered from the weather. Many boxes are decorated in [national colours](/source/national_colours).<ref>
Compare: {{cite book
| year              = 1901
| editor1-last          = Sturgis
| editor1-first         = Russell
| editor1-link          = Russell Sturgis
| title                 = Sturgis' Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture and Building: An Unabridged Reprint of the 1901-2 Edition
| url                   = https://books.google.com/books?id=j9wAW2YleywC
| series                = Dover Architecture 
| volume                = 1
| edition               = Unabridged reprint
| publisher             = Courier Corporation
| publication-date      = 2013
| pages                  = 343–344
| isbn                  = 9780486148403
| accessdate            = 2015-12-30
| quote                 = 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 [...].
}}
</ref>

==In literature==
The sentry box at the entrance to [Buckingham Palace](/source/Buckingham_Palace) features in the poem of the same name by [A. A. Milne](/source/A._A._Milne) in the collection ''[When We Were Very Young](/source/When_We_Were_Very_Young)'' and in the illustration by [E. H. Shepard](/source/E._H._Shepard) which accompanied it.

{{commonscat|Sentry boxes}}

==See also==
* [Police box](/source/Police_box)
* [Bartizan](/source/Bartizan)
* [Guardhouse](/source/Guardhouse)
* [Outpost](/source/Outpost_(military))
* [Blockhouse](/source/Blockhouse)

==References==
{{reflist}}

Category:House types
Category:Security guards

{{law-enforcement-stub}}

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Sentry box](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentry_box) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentry_box?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.