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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D7250/1
TitleFirst World War Memorial record
Date[21st cent.]
DescriptionIncludes:
Poem by Lawrence Binyon dedicated to the School's Old Boys who fell in the First World War, original poem dated Sept 1914;
photographs of the various sites of the school and the old school war memorial plaque;
transcript list of the School's Old Boys who fell in the First World War;
list of the locations for the cemeteries and memorials;
details of the war memorial displayed at Da Vinci Community College, Derby which originally belonged to Derby Central Boys' School;
plans and details of the Old Boys cemeteries;
copy newscuttings about the war memorial;
a short biography of the Bishop of Derby [taken from www.wikipedia.org/];
road maps showing the locations of the war graves;
a short history of the Battle of the Somme, 1 Jul - 18 Nov 1916; and
the addresses for the various locations for the Derby Central Boys School and its predecessors, and physical details of the School War Memorial with statistics of those commemorated and for the construction of the Memorial.
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorDerby Central School
FormatPrinted
TermFirst World War (1914-1918)
Poems
War dead
War memorials
Clippings
Biography
Road maps
First Battle of the Somme (1916)
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