Online Resources for Sherborne School and the Second World War:
- Online Exhibition: Sherborne School and the Second World War
- Sherborne School WW2 Roll of Honour
- Prisoners of War and Internees in the Second World War
- The Bombing of Sherborne on 30 September 1940
- Essays written by boys at Sherborne School about their experiences during the bombing of Sherborne on 30 September 1940
- Civilian casualties of the bombing of Sherborne on 30 September 1940
- Air Ministry Report on the bombing of Sherborne, 1946
- Shirburnians and the Battle of Britain, 1940
- Shirburnians and Dunkirk
- The story of Firefly, one of the ‘Little Ships of Dunkirk’, 1940
- No.617 Sherborne School Flight ATC
- The School House boys who captured a German airman
- Sherborne’s Kindertransport Children
- Remembering the US Army soldiers who died in Sherborne Park on 20 March 1944
- Memorial to members of C Company, 294th Engineer Combat Battalion, US Army, killed in an anti-tank mine explosion in Sherborne Park on 20 March 1944 (flickr)
- Memorial to members of 294th Engineer Combat Battalion, US Army, killed in action during the Second World War, who were based in Sherborne from February to June 1944 (flickr)
- Second World War documents at the Dorset History Centre
- VE Day celebrations in Sherborne, 8 May 1945
- Lieutenant A.T.W. Austin: Sherborne’s D-Day hero
- Tony Bethell and the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III
- Herr Brack: temporary German master – and Nazi spy?
- Squadron Leader Peter Devitt and the bombing of Sherborne
- Major Henry Carey Druce (1921-2007), SAS officer
- John Durnford (1920-1995): OS WW2 Poet
- Lieutenant J.H. Grayburn: Sherborne’s A Bridge too Far hero
- Peter Clifton Richards, civilian internee at the Santo Tomás Internment Camp, Manila
- Bob Thomas (1922-1944): A Sherborne soldier’s home thoughts from abroad
- Alan Turing OBE, PhD, FRS (1912-1954)
- Lieutenant J.P. Whitham, casualty of the SS Lisbon Maru
- A visit by the Hitler Youth to Sherborne School on 17 July 1935
- Evelyn Waugh’s six-month stationing at Sherborne during the Second World War
See also:
- Shirburnians and the Indian Rebellion 1857-1859
- Shirburnians and the South African Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902)
- Shirburnians and the First World War (1914-1919)
- 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)
- Patrick Francis, Vivat Shirburnia. Sherborne School and the Great War, 1914-1918 (London & Oxford, Impress, 2014). Photography by David Ridgway.
- Patrick Francis, Old Yet Ever Young. A New History of Sherborne School (Exeter, Short Run Press, 2020). Photography by David Ridgway.
- Henry More (a 67), Sherborne at War. Including a reappraisal of the 1940 air raid on Sherborne (Sherborne Museum, 2023)
For further information about the Sherborne School Archives please contact the School Archivist.
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