Online Resources for Sherborne School and the First World War:
- Sherborne School WW1 Roll of Honour
- Old Shirburnian Navy and Army List, 1914-1919 (3rd ed., 1921)
- Sherborne School’s First World War Memorial
- Impressions of France by Geoffrey O’Hanlon (pdf)
- Sherborne Town War First World War Memorial (pdf)
- Sherborne Preparatory School First World War Memorial (flickr)
- Sir Reginald Blomfield & the School’s First World War Memorial
- Old Shirburnians & the first day of the Battle of the Somme
- Sherborne School & the Greenhill VA Hospital
- Dr McEnery and the Sherborne Urban Military Service Tribunals
- E.J. Bolton, Some Memories 1916-17 (Privately published, 1939?). A personal account of serving as a Lieutenant in the Dorset Regiment, 3rd Bn. (Reserve), attached 5th Bn.
- Karl Henry Culpin (1893-1917): T.S. Eliot’s friendship with a Sherborne Schoolmaster
- A Testament of Truth: Charles Hudson & Vera Brittain
- Denis Eagar’s War Hymn, September 1914
- The Third Battle of Ypres, 1917
- Experiences in the RFC by Lieutenant Antony Henry Whitford-Hawkey, November 1917
- Alec Waugh and The Loom of Youth (1917)
- Alec Waugh’s postcard from Mainz, 1918 (pdf)
- Armistice celebrations at Sherborne School
- Herbert Arnould Olivier: the Shirburnian War Artist & the Treaty of Versailles, 1919
Copies of Patrick Francis’s book, Vivat Shirburnia: Sherborne School and the Great War, 1914-1918 (2014) can be purchased from the School Shop.
See also:
- Shirburnians and the Indian Rebellion 1857-1859
- Shirburnians and the South African Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902)
- Shirburnians and the Second World War (1939-1945)
- Shirburnians and the 1982 Falklands Conflict
- Shirburnians and the First Gulf War (1990-1991)
- Victoria Cross Recipients
- Roll of Honour
- Lives Lost in Service (1919-1939, 1946 to date)
For further information about the Sherborne School Archives please contact the School Archivist.
Return to the School Archives homepage.