Oakham School Archives

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

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1914-08-31 - 1916-06-11

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

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

Gordon Sanderson

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2015 - 2016

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Correspondence, both emails and letters, regarding a memoir on Gordon Sanderson and the memoir written by Niall Campbell, Gordon Sanderson's grandson.

Oakham School

A letter from Niall Campbell to Jon Wills

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24/04/2015

Part of The World Wars

A letter from Niall Campbell to Jon Wills regarding his grandfather Gordon Sanderson and the Sanderson memorial in Dehli, enclosing a list of the Gordon Sanderson Memorial subscribers and a copy of an article on Sanderson at IIC art gallery. The items are numbered A to F.

Niall Campbell

Mike Atherton on the roll call of talent cut down in the Great War

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2014

Part of The World Wars

An article published in a newspaper regarding the publication of a new book, "Wisden on the Great War", and focussing on the 1914 Oakham School cricket team and the five boys who fell in the First World War.

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Rutland and the Great War

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2014

Part of The World Wars

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

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

Loughborough Vicar's Son

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11/1916

Part of The World Wars

One newspaper cutting reporting Lancelot John Austen Dewar's death at the front during the Battle of the Somme on 13 November 1916.

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Order of Service for Dedication of Memorial

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05/01/1918

Part of The World Wars

An order of service for the dedication of a memorial in memory of Lancelot John Austen (Jack) Dewar, Second Lt. Royal Marines Light Infantry at Holy Trinity Church, Loughborough, on Saturday 5 January 1918.

Holy Trinity Church, Loughborough

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