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Menu of the anniversary dinner

  • WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/5-WWS/1/5/7-WWS/1/5/7/1
  • Item
  • 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

4/5th Battalion The Royal Leicestershire Regiment Anniversary Dinner

A booklet from the event including: photo of the 1/4th regiment at Luton in 1914, their signature, the wine list and menu for the dinner, an inscription from the Hohenzollern Memorial and the provenance of 12 candlesticks. There are several inserts including: a thank you for your attendance note to Jon Wills, A flyer for the special Evensong in Leicester Cathedral to commemorate the battle and a letter to Jon Wills with some information on the battle, OOs, the dinner and the evensong. 4 ITEMS

They fell with their faces to the foe: honouring heroes of the Great War

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

News cuttings of the War

  • WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/5-WWS/1/5/3
  • Item
  • 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

News cuttings of the War

  • WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/5-WWS/1/5/2
  • Item
  • 1916-11-13 - 1918-05-23
  • Part of The World Wars

Hard cover album containing newspaper cuttings from each day of the First World War. Second volume of a series of three, compiled by the Buchannan family.

Buchanan Family

Death Penny

A death penny awarded to Oliver Henry Cecil Odell who died during the First World War. Includes a small display card and a sheet deciphering the symbols of the plaque.

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Rutland and the Great War

The second edition of the book "Rutland and the great War. A lasting tribute to a great and noble part", compiled by George Phillips, with a section entitled "Oakham School War record" (pp.198-204).

George Phillips

News cuttings of the War

  • WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/5-WWS/1/5/1
  • Item
  • 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

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