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News cuttings of the War

  • WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/5-WWS/1/5/1
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  • 1914-08-31 - 1916-06-11
  • Part of The World Wars

Hard cover album containing newspaper cuttings from each day of the First World War. First volume of a series of three, compiled by the Buchannan family.

Buchanan Family

News cuttings of the War

  • WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/5-WWS/1/5/3
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  • 1918-05-24 - 1920
  • Part of The World Wars

Hard cover newspaper cuttings album relating to the First World War, with cuttings from "Punch" and other First World War ephemera, enclosing an Army certificate of identity of Nancy Bevan, a War Office letter regarding the resignation of Captain John Neville Buchanan, the Commission in Grenadier Guards of Second Lieutenant John Neville Buchanan and President Wilson's New Declaration of Freedom.

Buchanan Family

Rutland and the Great War

The second edition of the book "Rutland and the great War. A lasting tribute to a great and noble part", compiled by George Phillips, with a section entitled "Oakham School War record" (pp.198-204).

George Phillips

Oakham School and the Great War, 1914-1918

  • REF-REF/1-REF/1/3
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  • 2014
  • Part of Reference

A monograph written by Brian Needham on the life at Oakham School during the First World War and on the Old Oakhamians who fell is the First World War. A more complete version, 479 pages.

Brian Needham

The Dewar Family

Photographs and documents relating to Launcelot John Austen Dewar and his brother David Dewar.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Loughborough Vicar's Son

One newspaper cutting reporting Lancelot John Austen Dewar's death at the front during the Battle of the Somme on 13 November 1916.

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Basil Mogridge

A letter written by Basil Mogridge to Joan from the front and items related to the donation of the letter.

Basil Mogridge

Letter from Peter F. Wynter Bee to the School Bursar

A letter from Peter F. Wynter Bee to the School Bursar, sending a copy of Basil Mogridge's letter to the school. Peter Wynter Bee found the letter in his grandmother's belongings. Basil had sent Joan a letter from the front during the First World War on 17 September 1915.

Peter F. Wynter Bee

Photocopy of the original letter by Basil Mogridge

A photocopy of the original letter sent by Basil Mogridge to Joan describing his life in the trenches, being buried alive during an attack, men being wounded, and the story of the miraculous survival of a cake sent by Joan.

Basil Mogridge

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