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Ephemera

WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/5
Sub-Series
1914 - 2015

Part of The World Wars

The sub-series include three large scrapbook containing news paper cuttings of every of the First World War, research booklets, a book donated to the school and several photographs.

Oakham School

A letter from Colin Edgar to Nigel Lashbrook

WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/3-WWS/1/3/8
Item
11/10/2012

Part of The World Wars

A letter from Colin Edgar to Nigel Lashbrook, Headmaster, regarding the Great War commemorations and suggesting several plays the Drama department could perform or the occasion, including the short play "The Humf Letters".

Colin Edgar

World War One

WWS-WWS/1
Series
1908 - 2018

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

Loughborough Vicar's Son

WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/1-WWS/1/1/1
Item
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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Douglas Alexander Hall

WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/4-WWS/1/4/7
File
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

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

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

Gordon Sanderson

WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/6
Sub-Series
2015 - 2016

Part of The World Wars

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

Oakham School

The Humf Letters

WWS-WWS/1-WWS/1/3-WWS/1/3/1
Item
06/05/2003

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

Oakham School in The Great War