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WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/4
Sub-Series
1908 - 2018

Part of The World Wars

Research material on some soldiers and their family, most notably the Neilson brothers and the Sills family.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

A letter from George Robson

WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/4-WWS/1/4/3-WWS/1/4/3/1
Item
18/09/2017

Part of The World Wars

A letter from George Robson to the Headteacher regarding research on Donald Francis Neilson for the unveiling of a commemorative plaque at St Bees School, Cumbria.

George Robson

Douglas Alexander Hall

WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/4-WWS/1/4/7
File
19/03/1997

Part of The World Wars

Two letters between D. Devenport and Terence Treanor regarding Douglas Alexander Hall, enclosing a copy of the Roll of Honour, photographs and entries from "Rutland in the Great War". Items are numbered A to F.

Terence Treanor

News cuttings of the War

WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/5-WWS/1/5/1
Item
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/1/5/2
Item
1916-11-13 - 1918-05-23

Part of The World Wars

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

Buchanan Family

Oakham School in The Great War

WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/5-WWS/1/5/4
Item
1914 - 1918

Part of The World Wars

A booklet containing extracts from the Oakham School magazines during the war.

Oakham School

Loughborough Vicar's Son

WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/1-WWS/1/1/1
Item
11/1916

Part of The World Wars

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

N/D

The Humf Letters

WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/3-WWS/1/3/1
Item
06/05/2003

Part of The World Wars

A letter from Colin Edgar to Dr Joe Spence, Headmaster, enclosing "The Humf Letters".
"The Humf Letters" is a work by Colin Edgar, compiling letters sent by Lt. Douglas Herbert Washington Humfrey to Betty Dawes from the front during the First World War.

Colin Edgar

Gordon Sanderson

WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/6
Sub-Series
2015 - 2016

Part of The World Wars

Correspondence, both emails and letters, regarding a memoir on Gordon Sanderson and the memoir written by Niall Campbell, Gordon Sanderson's grandson.

Oakham School

World War One