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Missing from the War Memorial by David Roberts

David Roberts looks at a Buxton College Casualty missing from the College War memorial

Buxton College Boy who became Britain’s first elected Communist MP(who might have met Lenin ?)- by David Roberts

Peter Edward Glaser -Taking Buxton College to the Moon by David Roberts

Peter Edward Glaser did not actually go the Moon, but he was a project manager for NASA – getting a large scientific device on to the surface of the Moon, getting it to work and by all accounts it still working today

Mr Mason's Boys- German Jewish refugee boys at Buxton College in the 1930s

Following on from the story of Heinz Thannhauser, David Roberts uncovers the stories of two more German Jewish refugee pupils who attended Buxton College in the 1930s and later emigrated to the United States

A Buxton College boy who went to Harvard and died with the American Air Force in Italy by David Roberts

David Roberts puts together the story of Heinz Thannhauser , a German-Jewish refugee who attended Buxton College in the 1930s, went to Harvard and died with the American Air Force in Italy in 1944