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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

Oakham School and the Great War, 1914-1918

  • REF-REF/1-REF/1/3
  • Item
  • 2014
  • 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

Remembrance Sunday in Chapel

  • CHA-CHA/2-CHA/2/2-CHA/2/2/11
  • Item
  • 14/11/1999
  • 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

Act of Remembrance

  • CHA-CHA/1-CHA/1/9-CHA/1/9/5
  • Item
  • 2018-11-06 - 2018-11-09
  • 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

Photocopy of the original letter by Basil Mogridge

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

A letter from D.L.P. Humfrey to John Darrall

A letter from David L.P. Humfrey, Stuart Humfrey's son, to Rev John Darrall, School Chaplain, regarding his father's sporting achievements at school and after, his own time at Oakham School and memories of school teachers.

David Lawrence Pargiter Humfrey

News cuttings of the War

  • WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/5-WWS/1/5/3
  • Item
  • 1918-05-24 - 1920
  • 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

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