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News cuttings of the War

  • WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/5-WWS/1/5/1
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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

An invitation to a special service

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  • 13/10/2015

    • Part of The World Wars

An invitation from the Dean and Chapter of Leicester Cathedral, The Royal Tigers' Association, The Royal Leicestershire Regiment, to a special service of Choral Evensong in the Leicester Cathedral to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of Hohenzollern Redoubt.

Leicester Cathedral

A photograph of unknown Old Oakhamian Soldier

A black and white photograph of Jim, "an Old Oakham Boy who held the record at school" and fought in the Great War. At the back is a hand-written note addressed to Rev Edward Vere Hodge.

Richards, Newark

News cuttings of the War

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  • 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

Menu of the anniversary dinner

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  • 10/10/2015

    • Part of The World Wars

A menu for the anniversary dinner to commemorate the centenary o the Battle of Hohenzollern Redoubt held at the 4/5th Battalion, The Royal Leicestershire Regiment Officers' Dining Club on 10 October 2015. The item includes a photograph of the officers of the 1/4th Leicestershire Regiment at Luton in October 1914 and their signatures, the menu and the provenance of twelve candlesticks.

The Royal Leicestershire Regiment

Emails from Melanie Russell

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  • 15/07/2015

    • Part of The World Wars

Two emails from Melanie Russell to Jon Wills, Rachel Fairweather and Anna Bentley regarding Niall Campbell's letters and his memoir on his grandfather, Gordon Sanderson.

Anna Bentley

Gordon Sanderson

Correspondence, both emails and letters, regarding a memoir on Gordon Sanderson and the memoir written by Niall Campbell, Gordon Sanderson's grandson.

Oakham School

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