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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

Second Lieutenant Charles Caldwell Sills

  • WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/4-WWS/1/4/6-WWS/1/4/6/1
  • Sub-File
  • 26/09/2004

    • 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

Charles Caldwell Sills

Research on Charles Caldwell Sills and items donated by the family to the school.0

Roger Geoffrey Anderson

John Woodall Marshall

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

Letters from Men on Service

  • WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/4-WWS/1/4/4-WWS/1/4/4/3
  • Item
  • N/D

    • 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

Research

Research material on some soldiers and their family, most notably the Neilson brothers and the Sills family.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Lt Douglas Herbert Washington Humfrey

  • WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/3-WWS/1/3/10
  • Item
  • 1914 - 1915

    • 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

Casualty Details

The casualty details of Lieutenant D.H.W. Humfrey produced by the Commonwealth Graves Commission.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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

Typed transcript of the letter by Basil Mogridge

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

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