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College Air Raid Precautions: Junior Bursar

Manuscript and typescript papers concerning preparations for war-time emergencies during the First World War (1914-1918) and Second World War (1939-1945). Includes:

  1. A list of manuscripts and books deposited in the Muniment Room on 9th February 1915;

  2. A report compiled and signed by the Junior Bursar, Lewis E. Shore, to consider what action should be taken in view of possible injury to the College by hostile aircraft, dated 10th February 1915. Includes College map;

  3. Air Raid Precautions Scheme and Standing Instructions to Staff created by the Junior Bursar, John Douglas Cockcroft, and dated August 1939;

  4. Extract from unconfirmed Minutes of Council, dated 30th October 1936, concerning admission of the Trinity College Librarian to St. John's College Library;

  5. Abstract of unconfirmed Minutes of Council, dated 2nd February 1939, concerning measures in case of a national emergency. Measures include the appointment of J.S. Boys-Smith as Deputy in the event of the Junior Bursar leaving Cambridge, and the removal of valuable manuscripts and records from the Library to the strong room in the new building;

  6. Air Raid Precautions Scheme, dated 27th September 1938.

John Douglas Cockcroft

Memorial Services 1919-2022

1919 and 1946-2022. Notices and orders of service of memorial and funeral services for College members held in the Chapel. Includes order of service for Memorial Service for members of the College and Choir School and College servants who died on active service in the First World War. Also included is a list of those invited to the College's memorial service for those who lost their lives in the Second World War held on 8 Dec 1946; College guidelines and seating plan for memorial services held in Chapel and the order of service for the funeral of Alan Herbert Illingworth Swift held in the Church of St Mary the Great.

Includes orders of service for the memorial services of: James Stanley Bezzant (1967); John Douglas Cockroft (1967); Professor Sir Christopher Martin Dobson (2020); Claude William Guillebaud (1971); Robert Aubrey Hinde (2017); Edward Donald James (2018); Norman Brooke Jopson (1969); Peter Anthony Linehan (2022); James Wilson Millen (1966); Professor Stroud Francis Charles (Toby) Milsom (2016); William George Palmer (1969); Edward Craddock Ratcliff (1967); Frederick Sanger (2014); Alan Gilbert Smith (2018); Alan Herbert Illingworth Swift (1963); Francis Puryer White (1969)

Notices for the memorial services of: Professor Anderson (1959); Professor Baker (1956); John Renford Bambrough (1999); Bertram Hughes Farmer (1996); Francis Harry Hinsley (1998); Peter Arundel Jewell (1998); Mr Kendon (1960); Dyfrig Gruffydd Morgan (1998); Henry Mathison Pelling (1997); Sir James Wordie (1962)

Documents relating to the memorial services of: The Dean (1951); Professor Roger Griffin (n.d.); The Master (1952); The President (1950); Sir Percy Winfield (1953); Mr Yule (1951)

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