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be consolidated together in what is now
known as the Wellington College Collection.
Catalogued and accounted for centrally, the
collection should be preserved as a living
repository for at least the next thousand years.
To this end, following the earlier work
of Common Room members Mark Baker,
Robert Sopwith and Nick Ritchie, much
work has been done in the past two years.
A large quantity of our holding was restored
to College from storage in London and a
new room set up. Where ‘Ma Bennett’ once
presided over the laundry and linen processes
deep under Hall, huge sliding storage shelving
has been erected.
The holding of Dormitory Books (fasti) and
albums are now safe, as is Prince Albert’s Gift
of Books and documents on the foundation of
the College. Many more of the latter are in the
Royal Collection at Windsor. The Wellington
Year Books and Wellingtonians are currently
being digitized and soon will be available to
students, staff and accredited members of the
Wellington community, including members of
the ow Society. These should be accessible
from September 2011. In due course much
else besides will be scanned and put on a data
base. Plans are being made to open up the
Collection to pupils as part of Middle Year
Programme research projects.
e ag l e s ta n da r d o f t h e 1 0 5 t h r e g i m e n t
imperial french army
ention has been made
of the British Military
Tournament 2010, organised by Major General
Sir Evelyn Webb-Carter
[S 1959–1963]. During the performances,
there was an incident from the battle of
Waterloo of 1815, re-enacting the seizing
of the Imperial Eagle Standard of the 105th
Regiment of France. (An eagle is the emblem
of empire.) Capturing a regimental standard or colours was a signal honour for one
side and disaster for the other. Waterloo
was a ‘close run thing’ as Arthur Duke of
Wellington said modestly and with genuine
remorse for losing so many friends.
Captain Clark of the Royal Dragoons,
who seized the Eagle, was the progenitor
of boys who attended Wellington College
in due course?—?true heroum filii?—?na