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You may be familiar with the story of Operation Mincemeat, the naval deception that took place during the Second World War, in which the body of a homeless man was deposited off the coast of Spain, d…

In the first term following the reopening of Wycombe Abbey in May 1946, the closure of the underground bunker used by General Doolittle for his wartime campaign took place. The bunker had been constr…

Downe House has connections with several Schools, however, the historical connection with Queen’s Gate School is rather exceptional, dating back to the Second World War. Miss Olive Willis, Founder of…

Welcome to the BOBOR project, My name is Derek Blezard, I am the development Director for SDS Group, and I will be the link between the BSA schools who wish to participate, and the team of SDS develo…

Marlborough College as an extensive Roll of Honour digital heritage website. Together with SDS Group, Marlborough College were able to fully digitise their historic records of fallen Marlburian Marl…

Roll of Honour World War I 1914-1918  Name Gowans, James (Jimmie)  Rank: Lance-Corporal (in Strathallan Archive).  Private on Commonwealth War Graves website    Service No. S/9869  Regiment: Argyll …

Roll of Honour World War I 1914-1918  Name: Harley, Allan Langlands  Rank: Private     Service No. S/42003  Regiment: Seaforth Highlanders 4th Bn.  Died 09/05/1918  Age 18  Buried or commemorated at…

Roll of Honour World War I 1914-1918  Name Mollison, George  Rank: Gunner       Service No. 126292  Regiment: Royal Field Artillery 34th Bty. 189th Bde.  Died 24/09/1917 Age 20  Buried or commemorat…

Roll of Honour World War I 1914-1918  Survived the War Name Charles B Binnie Regiment: Royal Marine Labour Corps  Survived the war  In detail: One of Strathallan’s initial day pupils at Bridge of All…

Cranleigh School has an extensive Roll of Honour digital heritage website. Together with SDS Group, Cranleigh School were able to fully digitise their historic records of fallen Cranleighans Cranlei…

Roll of Honour World War II 1939-1945   Click here for the original word document for World War 1 : Roll of Honour World War I.docx  Click here for the orginal word document for World War 2 : Roll of…

Gresham's School has an extensive Roll of Honour digital heritage website. Together with SDS Group, Gresham's School were able to fully digitise their historic records of fallen Greshamians . Gresha…

Rugby School has an extensive Roll of Honour digital heritage website. Together with SDS Group, Rugby School were able to fully digitise their historic records of fallenRugbeians Rugby School were a…

St Catherine's has an extensive Roll of Honour digital heritage website. Together with SDS Group, St Catherine's were able to fully digitise their historic records of fallen Past Pupils St Catherine…

Lettice Curtis was enrolled at Benenden because her parents “wanted the girls in the family to be educated so they could earn their own livings” and joined Hemsted House in 1927. She was an avid spor…

On 3 August 1944 at 12.30pm Capitaine Jean Maridor, a pilot with 91 Squadron RAF, died while successfully preventing a flying bomb from hitting its target: the buildings of Benenden School which at t…

After Benenden, Vanessa read Physiology at Oxford and trained at St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, following nine generations of doctors in her family.   In 1985 Vanessa joined the British Army an…

Click Below to download the Roll of Honour for Ashville College Ashville College Remembrance Service RofH 1.doc   Ashville College  Roll Of Honour Charles Roberts  Ronald Benson Norman Small  Thomas …

An examination of the Eagle House Book of Remembrance and the school magazine’s summer 1920 issue’s list of ‘Our Noble Dead’ gives a de-duplicated total of 51 military fatalities among its old boys d…