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Part of The World Wars
A page from "The Stag" comprising letters from Men on Service, including a note from Colin Francis Scott.
The Stag
Part of The World Wars
A page from "The Stag" comprising letters from Men on Service, including a note from Colin Francis Scott.
The Stag
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.
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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
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
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
Part of The World Wars
A booklet containing extracts from the Oakham School magazines during the war.
Oakham School
Photocopy of the original letter by Basil Mogridge
Part of The World Wars
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 Fullelove West Mogridge
A letter from D.L.P. Humfrey to John Darrall
Part of The World Wars
A letter from David L.P. Humfrey, Stuart Humfrey's son, to Rev John Darrall, School Chaplain, regarding his father's sporting achievements at school and after, his own time at Oakham School and memories of school teachers.
David Lawrence Pargiter Humfrey
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
Part of The World Wars
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