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
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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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 photograph of unknown Old Oakhamian Soldier
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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
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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
Menu of the anniversary dinner
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A menu for the anniversary dinner to commemorate the centenary o the Battle of Hohenzollern Redoubt held at the 4/5th Battalion, The Royal Leicestershire Regiment Officers' Dining Club on 10 October 2015. The item includes a photograph of the officers of the 1/4th Leicestershire Regiment at Luton in October 1914 and their signatures, the menu and the provenance of twelve candlesticks.
The Royal Leicestershire Regiment
Gordon Sanderson (1886-1915). Architect, archaeologist, soldier.
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A memoir on Gordon Sanderson written by Niall Campbell, his grandson, containing copies of Gordon Sanderson's drawings.
Niall Campbell
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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
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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
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A death penny awarded to Oliver Henry Cecil Odell who died during the First World War. Includes a small display card and a sheet deciphering the symbols of the plaque.
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A letter from Niall Campbell to Jon Wills
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A letter from Niall Campbell to Jon Wills regarding his memoir on Gordon Sanderson.
Niall Campbell