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

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.

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

A collection of material which focuses on Old Oakhamians who fell in the First World War, containing personal and family items and research.

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.

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).

A letter from Niall Campbell to Jon Wills regarding his grandfather Gordon Sanderson and the Sanderson memorial in Dehli, enclosing a list of the Gordon Sanderson Memorial subscribers and a copy of an article on Sanderson at IIC art gallery. The items are numbered A to F.

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.