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A letter from Colin Edgar to Nigel Lashbrook

A letter from Colin Edgar to Nigel Lashbrook, Headmaster, regarding the Great War commemorations and suggesting several plays the Drama department could perform or the occasion, including the short play "The Humf Letters".

Colin Edgar

Research

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

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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

Record of Donald Francis Neilson

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The entry for Donald Francis Neilson, printed from the Leicestershire War Memorials Projects website.

Leicestershire War Memorials Project

Letters from Men on Service

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A page from "The Stag" comprising letters from Men on Service, including a note from Colin Francis Scott.

The Stag

Ephemera

The sub-series include three large scrapbook containing news paper cuttings of every of the First World War, research booklets, a book donated to the school and several photographs.

Oakham School

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

Gordon Sanderson

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

Oakham School

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