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Research material on some soldiers and their family, most notably the Neilson brothers and the Sills family.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

World War One

A collection of material which focuses on Old Oakhamians who fell in the First World War, containing personal and family items and research.

Oakham School

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

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

The Dewar Family

Photographs and documents relating to Launcelot John Austen Dewar and his brother David Dewar.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Lt Douglas Herbert Washington Humfrey

  • WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/3-WWS/1/3/10
  • Item
  • 1914 - 1915

    • Part of The World Wars

A large print out of a photograph of Lt Douglas Herbert Washington Humfrey in a trench on the Western front during the First World War.

N/D

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

The Humfrey Family

The sub-series focuses on the Humfrey Family, more particularly on Stuart and Douglas Humfrey, and include "The Humf Letters".

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

News cuttings of the War

  • WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/5-WWS/1/5/1
  • Item
  • 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

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