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Following WW2 Magdalene College set out to produce a comprehensive ‘War List and Roll of Honour’ to memorialise those members of the College who were lost in the war. A circular was sent out in 1947 “to every old member of the College matriculated since 1900” requesting information to be returned on a provided notecard “to include civilian national service as well as service in the armed forces, and to include all honours, awards, and decorations.”

Over the next few years, the individual notecards were returned to Magdalene College Office. The College Office processed and consolidated the returned notecards and later commemorated those who were lost on the World War Two memorial located in the Chapel. The individual notecards were preserved and are now in the Archive.

Transcript of the 1947 Circular
'War List and Roll of Honour. Since the publication of the second College Bulletin and War List in September 1941 the College Office has attempted to maintain similar records. The office has been handicapped, however, by shortage of staff and the absence of regular information, and these records are known to be incomplete and inaccurate. The College now contemplates the production of a comprehensive War List and Roll of Honour. In order to secure the greatest possible completeness and accuracy of detail, this circular is being sent to every old member of the College matriculated since 1900. The College would be grateful for the completion and return of the enclosed card, so that existing records may be corrected and brought up to date. It is intended to include civilian national service as well as service in the armed forces, and to include also all honours, awards and decorations. Where an old member of the College is known to have lost his life as a result of the war, this circular is being addressed to his parents; it is hoped that they will supply details of their son's war service. There may be cases, however, where the College has no record of death, and where in consequence the form of address used may have caused pain to widow or parents. To them the College desires to offer the most since apologies; every effort has been made to avoid such mistakes, and it is hoped that it will be understood that those which remain are due solely to the incompleteness of the available information. Some old members of the College, or their parents, who have visited Cambridge recently or maintained correspondence with the Master or one or the Fellows, may know that the information now requested has already been given; it has been thought, however, that any attempt at discrimination in the distribution of this circular would have been likely to lead to further errors, and that the probability of some duplication was preferable to the risk of any omission. War conditions have undoubtedly caused many unrecorded change of address: many of the circulars sent out before the compilation of earlier lists were returned by the Post Office marked 'not known'. Further, the replies now received will provide the material for a thorough revision of the College address-list. The largest possible number of replies is therefore desired. Any information likely to be of assistance towards this end will be greatly received: for instance, information from one old member of the College regarding another's change of address, or concerning men matriculated before 1900, to whom, before of their war service, a copy of this circular should have been sent.'

Replies
Although most returned the completed postcard containing details of war service, others also included additional material such as letters, funeral cards, obituaries, and official military papers e.g. copies of release orders.

Statistics Gained from the Returns
747 card replies
104 additional items e.g. letters etc
784 total names (7 duplicate names listed)

129 names on the WW2 memorial
115 names on WW2 memorial have additional information on the replies [see Excel box list]
14 names on WW2 memorial, no data in Excel box list
65 names on WW1 memorial, 1 name on Excel box list

705 served in WW2
6 served in WW1
5 served in both

336 British Army
9 British Indian Army
10 Indian Army
2 Government of India
75 Civilian Defence/Service
60 H.M. Government
112 RAF
60 Royal Navy
7 US Forces
1 Merchant Navy
1 Military Police
1 United Nations Relief
2 Conscientious Objectors

14 Prisoners of War
52 mentioned in dispatches
129 medals/awards won:
26 Military Cross [these were included on the memorial]
6 DFC [Distinguished Flying Cross]
6 DSC [Distinguished Service Cross given for service at sea]
1 KCB DSO [Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath and Distinguished Service Order awarded to Trafford Leigh-Mallory]
1 GM [George Medal awarded to David Alexander Methven]

Report and valuation prepared by F. Charles Gray (Chartered Surveyor, Gray Son & Cook) on the freehold property at Nos. 31 and 32 Bridge Street.

Printed report of the University Commission, 1852.

Title page reads:
Cambridge University Commission. Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed to enquire into the state, discipline, studies, and reviews of the University and Colleges of Cambridge: Together with the evidence and an appendix.

Printed report of the University Commission, 1874 volume 3.

Title page reads:
Universities Commission. Report of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the property and income of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and of the College s and Halls Therein. Together with returns and appendix.

Vol III - Returns from the University of Cambridge, and from the Colleges and Halls therein

Printed report of the University Commission, 1874.

Title page reads:
Universities Commission. Report of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the property and income of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and of the College s and Halls Therein. Together with returns and appendix.

Vol I - Report, including abstracts and synoptical tables and appendix
Vol II - Returns from the University of Oxford, and from the Colleges and Halls therein
Vol III - Returns from the University of Cambridge, and from the Colleges and Halls therein

Report in French on headed paper to the Comité de Salut Public, addressed from Paris, signed by an unidentified person.

The document is dated in the French republican calendar system: "le 24 frimaire de l'an troisième de la République Française".

Partial transcription:
"Paris le 24 frimaire de l’an troisième de la République Française, une et indivisible.
Rapport
Au Comité de Salut Public
Le Citoyen Henrion Directeur général des transports militaires de l’armée de Sambre et Meuse, nous fait connaitre le trait de Bravoure du C[itoye]n Pomme Charretier de la division Hautenot, qui n’a pas craint de s’exposer à une mort presque certaine en bravant le feu de l’ennemi pour sauver à la republique la perte de deux chevaux qui s’etaient échappé et avaient été sous les palissades entre la porte de la ville et le fort st jean.
Le trait de Bravoure du cit[oy]en Pomme ne doit pas rester sans récompense : mais comme la capacité et les connaissances de ce citoyen ne répondent pas à son généreux dévouement à l’intérêt de la république, il est impossible de l’élever a un grade supérieur, on ne peut que le reconnaitre par une simple gratification.
Le comité est prié de fixer la récompense que mérite le citoyen Pomme."

Gives names and addresses for the Master, Fellows, and then undergraduates organised year of study for the years Michaelmas term 1934 - Michaelmas term 1939.

Gives names and addresses for the Master, Fellows, and then undergraduates organised year of study.

Michaelmas term 1940 - this includes a list of names of students that were evacuated to Cambridge - Bartlett School of Architecture (University of London), Bedford College for Women (University of London), London School of Economics and Political Science (housed at Peterhouse College), Queen Mary College (housed at King's College), and St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College

Michaelmas term 1945
Easter term 1946
Michaelmas term 1946
Lent term 1947
Michaelmas term 1947
Michaelmas term 1948
Michaelmas term 1949

Gives names and addresses for the Master, Fellows, and then undergraduates organised year of study.

Michaelmas term 1950
Michaelmas term 1951
Michaelmas term 1952
Michaelmas term 1953
Michaelmas term 1954
Michaelmas term 1955
Lent term 1956
Michaelmas term 1956
Michaelmas term 1957
Michaelmas term 1958
Michaelmas term 1959

Gives names and addresses for the Master, Fellows, and then undergraduates organised year of study.

Michaelmas term 1960 - 1968 and volume 91 1969-70

Gives names and addresses for the Master, Fellows, and then undergraduates organised year of study.

Volume 92 1970-71
Volume 93 1971-72
Volume 94 1972-73
Volume 95 1973-74
Volume 96 1974-75
Volume 97 1975-76
[there is no volume 98 but there doesn't seem to be a gap in the years]
Volume 99 1976-77
Volume 100 1977-78
Volume 101 1978-79
Volume 102 1979-80

Gives names and addresses for the Master, Fellows, and then undergraduates organised year of study.

Volume 103 1980-81
Volume 104 1981-82
Volume 104(A) 1982-83
Volume 104 (B) 1983-84
Volume 105 1984-85
Volume 106 1985-86
Volume 107 1986-87
Volume 108 1987-88
Volume 109 1988-89
Volume 110 1989-90

Gives names and addresses for the Master, Fellows, and then undergraduates organised year of study.

Volume 111 1990-91
Volume 112 1991-92
Volume 113 1992-93
Volume 114 1993-94
Volume 115 1994-95
Volume 116 1995-66
Volume 117 1996-97
Volume 118 1997-98
Volume 119 1998-99
Volume 120 1999-2000

Gives names and addresses for the Master, Fellows, and then undergraduates organised year of study.

Volume 121 2000-2001
Volume 122 2001-2002
Volume 123 2002-2003
Volume 144 2003-2004

Resignation and accompanying letter from George Sandby

Transcript of letter

Dear Sir,

As Mr Wallop is very desirous of being invested with the Mastership of Magdalen as soon as may be, I with great readiness transmit my resignation of it to you. It is an office, which, I hope will afford him much more pleasure, than it ever gave to,

Dear Sir,
Your most humble, and obedient servant
George Sandby

Transcript of resignation [there is a red wax seal fixed to the resignation]

I George Sandby Doctor in Divinity master of St Mary magdalen College in the University of Cambridge do for divers and good considerations me thereunto moving, freely, and voluntarily, give up, and resign, all my right title interest in and to the said Mastership into the hands of the Honourable St John Griffin Griffin Knight of the Path Patron thereof and Visitor of the said College. In witness whereunto I have set my hand and seal this twenty fifth day of April, and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy four,
G. Sandby

Resignation of the Hon. George Neville of the Mastership which is signed and sealed.

Retailing in the next Millennium GKN Lecture 1999 by Sir Richard Greenbury.

A substantial collection of correspondence, books and memorabilia, photographs, slides and audio-visual materials, drafts for books, lectures and poems, bequeathed to the College; together with the diaries of Dorothea Richards, which run from 1912 to 1986. The main archival collection is in 62 boxes and 50 notebooks. There is also a notable collection of Chinese scrolls, for which a special scrolarium table was constructed after the bequest came to the Old Library . Although many books and papers were removed and destroyed, or lost in flooding, during the lifetime of the donors, what remains gives a comprehensive representation.

Framed black and white photograph of Robert Latham (Pepys Librarian).

Rolls-Royce. A History of Enerprise by Francis, Lord Tombs of Brailes.