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They fell with their faces to the foe: honouring heroes of the Great War

An article published in The Independent on Sunday on the publication of a new book, "Wisden on the Great War", and focussing on the Oakham School 1st cricket XI of 1914 and the five boys in the team who fell in the Great War. The article is spread on two pages, numbered A and B.

The Independent on Sunday

News cuttings of the War

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  • 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

A letter from Captain R.J. Allen to Jon Wills

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  • 24/09/2015
  • Part of The World Wars

A letter from Captain R.J. Allen, president of the 4/5th Battalion The Royal Leicestershire Regiment Officers' Association, to Jon Wills regarding the arrangements for the anniversary dinner on 10 October 2015.

Captain R.J. Allen

A photograph of unknown Old Oakhamian Soldier

A black and white photograph of Jim, "an Old Oakham Boy who held the record at school" and fought in the Great War. At the back is a hand-written note addressed to Rev Edward Vere Hodge.

Richards, Newark

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

Emails from Melanie Russell

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  • 15/07/2015
  • Part of The World Wars

Two emails from Melanie Russell to Jon Wills, Rachel Fairweather and Anna Bentley regarding Niall Campbell's letters and his memoir on his grandfather, Gordon Sanderson.

Anna Bentley

Gordon Sanderson

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

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

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