Oakham School Archives

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06/05/2003

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

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

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1918 - 1929

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Photographs and documents relating to Launcelot John Austen Dewar and his brother David Dewar.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Douglas Alexander Hall

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19/03/1997

Part of The World Wars

Two letters between D. Devenport and Terence Treanor regarding Douglas Alexander Hall, enclosing a copy of the Roll of Honour, photographs and entries from "Rutland in the Great War". Items are numbered A to F.

D. Devenport

Basil Mogridge