Oakham School Archives

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1911 - 1915

A black and white photograph of Jack Dewar, sitting by a tent. Possibly from his time at Oakham School and possibly at a O.T.C. Camp.

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The Humf Letters

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06/05/2003

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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

News cuttings of the War

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1914-08-31 - 1916-06-11

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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

John Woodall Marshall

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1911 - 1916

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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

Military photograph of Lancelot John Austen Dewar

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1915 - 1916

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A black and white photograph of Lancelot John Austen Dewar in his Royal Marines Light Infantry uniform.

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News cuttings of the War

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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

Oakham School in The Great War

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1914 - 1918

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A booklet containing extracts from the Oakham School magazines during the war.

Oakham School

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

The Dewar Family