- WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/2
- Sub-Series
- 1915 - 2010
Part of The World Wars
A letter written by Basil Mogridge to Joan from the front and items related to the donation of the letter.
Basil Mogridge
Part of The World Wars
A letter written by Basil Mogridge to Joan from the front and items related to the donation of the letter.
Basil Mogridge
Part of The World Wars
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
Second Lieutenant Charles Caldwell Sills
Part of The World Wars
Research file compiled by O.O. Roger Anderson ('39) on Second Lieutenant Charles Caldwell Sills, 1st Battalion South Wales Borderers. The file include photographs, Sills family history, copies of The History of the South Wales Borderers, maps, and extracts from he battalion's war diary.
Roger Geoffrey Anderson
Lt Douglas Herbert Washington Humfrey
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
Part of The World Wars
Research material on some soldiers and their family, most notably the Neilson brothers and the Sills family.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Part of The World Wars
A page from "The Stag" comprising letters from Men on Service, including a note from Colin Francis Scott.
The Stag
Part of The World Wars
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
Part of The World Wars
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
Part of The World Wars
Photographs and documents relating to Launcelot John Austen Dewar and his brother David Dewar.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Typed transcript of the letter by Basil Mogridge
Part of The World Wars
A transcript of the letter sent by Basil Mogridge to Joan on 17 September 1915 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.
Basil F.W. Mogridge