A photograph of Frederick Wingfield Douglass
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A black and white photograph of Frederick Wingfield Douglass in his military uniform.
Frank J. Hill
A photograph of Frederick Wingfield Douglass
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A black and white photograph of Frederick Wingfield Douglass in his military uniform.
Frank J. Hill
They fell with their faces to the foe: honouring heroes of the Great War
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An article published in The Independent on Sunday on the publication of a new book, "Wisden on the Great War", and focussing on the Oakham School 1st cricket XI of 1914 and the five boys in the team who fell in the Great War. The article is spread on two pages, numbered A and B.
The Independent on Sunday
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The Spring 2016 issue of "The Green Tiger", the magazine of The Riyal Tigers' Association, The Royal Leicestershire Regiment, containing a feature on the centenary of the Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt and the anniversary dinner attended by Jon Wills, representing E.G. Langdale (pp. 14-20). Enclosed is a note from Captain R.J. Allen sending the magazine to Jon Wills.
Captain R.J. Allen
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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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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 letter from Captain R.J. Allen to Jon Wills
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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
A photograph of unknown Old Oakhamian Soldier
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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
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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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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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Niall Campbell