A photograph of boys on far side
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A photograph in black and white of boys planting potatoes on Far Side during the Second World War.
Oakham School
A photograph of boys on far side
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A photograph in black and white of boys planting potatoes on Far Side during the Second World War.
Oakham School
Old Oakhamian Military War service
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A CD entitled "Old Oakhamian Military War Service".
Oakham School
They fell with their faces to the foe: honouring heroes of the Great War
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An article published in The Independent on Sunday on the publication of a new book, "Wisden on the Great War", and focussing on the Oakham School 1st cricket XI of 1914 and the five boys in the team who fell in the Great War. The article is spread on two pages, numbered A and B.
The Independent on Sunday
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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
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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
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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.
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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
The War Graves Commission Photographic Project
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Two CDs containing photographs of the graves of Old Oakhamians who are buried in Commonwealth cemeteries. One CD entitled Rutland & 'The Great War A Lasting Tribute to a Great & Noble Part' and the other is entitled 'Old Oakhamians TWAPP'. The envelop is kept separate from the CDs.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Oakham School in The Great War
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A booklet containing extracts from the Oakham School magazines during the war.
Oakham School
Photocopy of the original letter by Basil Mogridge
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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