Oakham School in The Great War
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- 1914 - 1918
Part of The World Wars
A booklet containing extracts from the Oakham School magazines during the war.
Oakham School
Oakham School in The Great War
Part of The World Wars
A booklet containing extracts from the Oakham School magazines during the war.
Oakham School
Part of The World Wars
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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Part of The World Wars
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
Oakham School and the Great War, 1914-1918
Part of Reference
A monograph written by Brian Needham on Old Oakhamians who fell in the First World War.
Brian Needham
Oakham School and the Great War, 1914-1918
Part of Reference
A monograph written by Brian Needham on the life at Oakham School during the First World War and on the Old Oakhamians who fell is the First World War. A more complete version, 479 pages.
Brian Needham
Part of Chapel
Order of service for a series of three services the Act of Remembrance for the Centenary of the Armistice from 6 to 9 November 2018.
Oakham School
Part of Chapel
Two photographs of Edward Jarron, Head Boy, laying a wreath during the Remembrance Sunday service in 1999 in the School Chapel. Photographs A and B.
Oakham School
Part of The World Wars
Hard cover newspaper cuttings album relating to the First World War, with cuttings from "Punch" and other First World War ephemera, enclosing an Army certificate of identity of Nancy Bevan, a War Office letter regarding the resignation of Captain John Neville Buchanan, the Commission in Grenadier Guards of Second Lieutenant John Neville Buchanan and President Wilson's New Declaration of Freedom.
Buchanan Family
Part of The World Wars
The second edition of the book "Rutland and the great War. A lasting tribute to a great and noble part", compiled by George Phillips, with a section entitled "Oakham School War record" (pp.198-204).
George Phillips
Photocopy of the original letter by Basil Mogridge
Part of The World Wars
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