Research on Charles Caldwell Sills and items donated by the family to the school.0

Research file compiled by O.O. Roger Anderson ('39) on Second Lieutenant Charles Caldwell Sills, 1st Battalion South Wales Borderers. The file include photographs, Sills family history, copies of The History of the South Wales Borderers, maps, and extracts from he battalion's war diary.

Photographs and documents relating to Launcelot John Austen Dewar and his brother David Dewar.

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.

A letter written by Basil Mogridge to Joan from the front and items related to the donation of the letter.

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.

Research material on some soldiers and their family, most notably the Neilson brothers and the Sills family.

A page from "The Stag" comprising letters from Men on Service, including a note from Colin Francis Scott.

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.

A collection of material which focuses on Old Oakhamians who fell in the First World War, containing personal and family items and research.