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The World Wars Oakham School
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A letter from James Lewis

  • WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/4-WWS/1/4/4-WWS/1/4/4/6
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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

List of Old Oakhamians serving in India

A list of Old Oakhamians who served in India during World War Two, with names, regiments and years at Oakham School. Two small sheets of paper numbered A and B.

Oakham School

They fell with their faces to the foe: honouring heroes of the Great War

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

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

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