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Les Tortévalais

Issue 31 of "Les Tortévalais", the Torteval Parish magazine published in Autumn 2019. The content includes an article on Guernsey's first decorated airman of World War Two (pp.37-40), focussing on Roy Langlois ('36). A thank you note addressed to Charlotte McCrory is attached.

Torteval Parish, Guernsey

Photographs related to Donald Francis Neilson

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  • 18/10/2018
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A letter from George Robson regarding Donald Francis Neilson's life and achievements at St Bees School and enclosing 14 photographs. The photographs are of St Bees School, the Foundation panels, cricket team photographs and various photographs of Donald Neilson.

St Bees School

The Old St Beghian

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  • 07/2017
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Four pages printed from St Bees School's website. The article was published in the school magazine The Old St Beghian no.191, regarding the inscriptions on the panels in the Foundation dining room and individual entries from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission registers of the eight Old Beghians who fell in the Great War, including Donald Francis Neilson.

St Bees School

Notes on Oliver Henry Cecil Odell

Two notes from Nigel Webb to Jon Wills, quoting research by Brian Needham regarding the Oliver Henry Cecil Odell bequest and his family.

Nigel Webb

A card from Bob Allen to Jon Wills

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  • 30/09/2015
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A card from Bob to Jon Wills regarding the anniversary dinner on 10 October 2015. The card shows the memorial to The Royal Leicestershire Regiment at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire.

Captain R.J. Allen

Emails from Melanie Russell

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  • 15/07/2015
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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

A letter from Captain R.J. Allen to Jon Wills

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  • 24/09/2015
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A letter from Captain R.J. Allen, president of the 4/5th Battalion The Royal Leicestershire Regiment Officers' Association, to Jon Wills regarding the arrangements for the anniversary dinner on 10 October 2015.

Captain R.J. Allen

Menu of the anniversary dinner

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  • 10/10/2015
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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

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