WWI – Page 2 – Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum

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Mar

Featured: The Great War POW Album and Pilot’s Log Book of Lt. Frederick Matthews Recently donated to the museum was an incredible collection of items relating to Frederick Matthews, often referred to as ‘Eric’, who served with the Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars and later the Royal Flying Corps. Eric’s story is already featured in our Airpower display in the museum’s permanent exhibition space, alongside copies of images now part of…

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Nov

An incredible story from the SOFO Museum Archives, Captain J Shaw’s account of how he became a Great War POW and his involvement in a number of escape attempts was originally published in three instalments in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry’s Regimental Journal from September 1931 to January 1932. A few years later, in March 1939, the Journal would also publish a number of Shaw’s sketches of the tunnel which he…

Osmond Bartle Wordsworth (Image used with the kind permission of the Warden and Scholars of Winchester College)

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Nov

Osmond Bartle Wordsworth – An Unknown Officer killed during the Great War has now been identified as collateral descendant of poet William Wordsworth In late October, volunteers at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock received good news after years of research that took them on a journey from a garden in Northern France to across the United Kingdom, Australia, The United States of America, Ireland, Canada -and back to…

Tag: WWI

Featured: The Great War POW Album and Pilot’s Log Book of Lt. Frederick Matthews

A Great War Great Escape – Captain Shaw and the Holzminden Escape Tunnel

Osmond Bartle Wordsworth – The Missing Great War Officer Finally Identified