- WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/4
- Sub-Series
- 1908 - 2018
Part of The World Wars
Research material on some soldiers and their family, most notably the Neilson brothers and the Sills family.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Part of The World Wars
Research material on some soldiers and their family, most notably the Neilson brothers and the Sills family.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
A collection of material which focuses on Old Oakhamians and their military careers. The bulk of the collection focuses on the two World Wars and research of the OOs who sadly fell.
The strongest part of this sub-fonds is the material relating to the First World War. It contains research on many Old Oakhamians and whole OO families who fought during the conflict such as the Humfreys and the Scotts. Much of the material is paper research but there are some original photographic material included.
WWS/2 focuses on the Second World War. Most of the collection looks at Oakham between 1939 and 1945 or the commemorations that have subsequently occurred.
Oakham School
Part of The World Wars
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
Part of The World Wars
Print out of the photograph of St Bees' 1908 Cricket team.
St Bees School
Part of The World Wars
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
Part of The World Wars
The script of the short play "The Humf Letters", based on Colin and Anne Edgar's work compiling letters sent from the Western front by Douglas Humfrey to Betty Dawes. The play was written by Year 12 Drama A-level pupils of St Bartholomew's School, Newbury.
St Bartholomew's School
Part of The World Wars
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
Part of The World Wars
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.
N/D
Part of The World Wars
Photographs and documents relating to Launcelot John Austen Dewar and his brother David Dewar.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Lt Douglas Herbert Washington Humfrey
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