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Typed transcript of the letter by Basil Mogridge

A transcript of the letter sent by Basil Mogridge to Joan on 17 September 1915 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.

Basil Fullelove West Mogridge

John Woodall Marshall

Photocopies of various research resources on John Woodall Marshall from Ancestry, Rutland Remembers, Graves Registration Report Form, The London Gazette, including two print outs of photographs, presented by Michael Hawker, archaeologist Leicester University. Items numbered A to P.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Basil Mogridge

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

Oakham School

A letter from James Lewis

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  • 27/11/2013

    • Part of The World Wars

A letter from James Lewis sending the medals of O.B. Trooper Scott, including the Natal 1906 medal.

James Lewis

Letters from the Scott Family to the school

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  • 21/10/2014

    • Part of The World Wars

Five letters from members of the Scott family agreeing to loan temporarily Joseph Scott's war medals to the school for display and safe keeping.

Terence Hardyman Scott

News cuttings of the War

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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

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  • 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

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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The Humf Letters

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

Douglas Alexander Hall

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

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