cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6n97.2
title: Damaged church at Termonde, Belgium 1914
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ngk.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Informs Marion Scott that they are off up the line (to join in to the Ypres offensive / bring books along / 'To M. M. S.', for Scott / 'The Volunteer' / inquires about the colours changing in England / Nicholson's book / sending a notebook / things looking more hopeful for war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6o5r.1
title: The Hydra: December 1917

description: Illustrated cover of 'The Hydra' for December 1917 showing a 'Hydra' attacking a soldier, flanked by two nurses.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6qdm.2
title: Ring around the moon', memoirs of John and Frank Barnard (1)

description: Written by Mike Barnard about his father John and his uncle Fred Barnard, and their service during the First World War. Includes their recruitment - John went missing that morning and almost missed the draft because he wanted to plant the asparagus. Their service in Flanders, on the Somme, Ypres and Passchendaele. Fred Barnard was in the Artillery, and recalled how they re-captured one of their guns at Bourlon Wood. The account includes the story of the composer Ralph Vaughan-Williams, a doctor in a field hospital, hearing the Last Post.

In one attack John Barnard lost his two best pals, along with 20,000 casualties.

John Barnard witnessed the action of Capt. J.J. Crowe who won the V.C., and he remained in touch with him for many years.

Also recalled is John Barnard's journey home after his service, when he got lost walking from Evesham to Badsey "I was under an English moon, no more shell 'oles or blinking parapets."

Part of a collection relating to Lance Corporal John Barnard (52258 Worcestershire regiment), market gardener of Badsey near Evesham; and his son Mike's drawings and newspaper articles relating to the First World War.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6rag.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (7)

description: Written from the Advanced Horse Transport Depot. Now back at rest in Abbeville, Owen describes his most recent tour of the Front Line. Heavy snow made the conditions almost intolerable, especially as his Platoon had to stay in no man's land. This event formed the basis for his poem 'Exposure'. Concludes by stating that he has to go on a Transport Course. In a 'P.S.' Owen alludes to a previous visit to Abbeville, and continues his description of the 'ugliness' of the Western Front. This is letter no. 482 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6tg9.2
title: Registration card for John Barnard

description: On the card is recorded that John Barnarded attested 28/11/1916, and an official Recruiting Office (Drill Hall Pershore) Stamp is dated 5 Dec 1916.

Part of a collection relating to Lance Corporal John Barnard (52258 Worcestershire regiment), market gardener of Badsey near Evesham; and his son Mike's drawings and newspaper articles relating to the First World War.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6y76.2
title: Omens

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919) in a form very close to this one, respecting Gurney's line rejections. Found in a small green notebook used by Gurney during July-August 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6zdh.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Thanks Marion Scott for sending books / feels that overall 'Severn and Somme' is better than his friend F.W. Harvey's work, but that he is more 'assured' / tired of war, apart from comradeship / not sure what will happen / instructions as to what to do with book / 'weakness' / autumn in England / hopes that Scott is feeling better.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8171.2
title: Migrants / Toussaints

description: A draft of the last verse of Migrants and a note relating to one line of Toussaints from a small green manuscript book used by Gurney during July-August 1918.  An unidentified musical sketch is given on the facing page.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian84dx.2
title: Tales from the front', a newspaper article of memoirs of John Barnard and of the Tank 250 in Evesham

description: Article written by Mike Barnard for the Evesham Journal November 5th 1998 about his late father John Barnard "who survived some of the most horrific battles of the First World War and how a tank from one of those battles ended up in Evesham's Abbey Park."

This includes how John used to tease Mike, getting him to touch the shrapnel wound on his shoulder. John's first memories of a tank - seen at Cambrai on November 20 1917.  The story of John witnessing a young man's hair go grey overnight after a bullet skimmed across his scalp. John was wounded on at least 3 occasions, but he did once go over the top with 22,000 men and was one of only 15 who came back unscathed! There is an inset photo of John Barnard. 

The story of the Great War tank (Tank 250) that stood in Abbey Park, Evesham from 1919 is told. This includes Mike's drawing of the arrival of the tank, including a representation of his father in the top right hand corner, as well as a poppy background. This drawing was done with Mike's father's own pencil that he had carried with him in France.

Part of a collection relating to Lance Corporal John Barnard (52258 Worcestershire regiment), market gardener of Badsey near Evesham; and his son Mike's drawings and newspaper articles relating to the First World War.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8esg.2
title: Poster: Britannia ""Remember Scarborough! Enlist Now""
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8idy.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Thanks Marion Scott for sending books / feels that overall 'Severn and Somme' is better than his friend F.W. Harvey's work, but that he is more 'assured' / tired of war, apart from comradeship / not sure what will happen / instructions as to what to do with book / 'weakness' / autumn in England / hopes that Scott is feeling better.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8jat.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (6)

description: Written from the Advanced Horse Transport Depot. Now back at rest in Abbeville, Owen describes his most recent tour of the Front Line. Heavy snow made the conditions almost intolerable, especially as his Platoon had to stay in no man's land. This event formed the basis for his poem 'Exposure'. Concludes by stating that he has to go on a Transport Course. In a 'P.S.' Owen alludes to a previous visit to Abbeville, and continues his description of the 'ugliness' of the Western Front. This is letter no. 482 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8s93.2
title: Battle of Neuve Chappel 1915. A general scene showing damage to several buildings
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8vrd.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (2)

description: Describes conditions of dug-out and being under fire. Refers to a recent parcel from home containing provisions. This is letter no. 491 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8y5k.2
title: Dulce et Decorum Est

description: Written at Craiglockhart in the first half of October 1917, and revised at Scarborough or possibly Ripon in January-March 1918. This is no. 144 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand89n.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing letter. Stamped '2 September 1917'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandce6.1
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain

description: Describes sitting in a dug-out / a German sniper / recent activities of British artillery / the experience of shelling / the set-up of his dugout / the shelling later on / the danger of stray bullets / the dangers of getting in and out of the trenches / having a bullet come past close to his head / officers' duties / the mud / amusing names for the various trenches / much love to Vera.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianddx2.2
title: Tank 250

description: Photocopy of a photo of Tank 250 from the First World War, which was installed permanently in the Upper Abbey Park, Evesham. Next to the tank is a pram.

Part of a collection relating to Lance Corporal John Barnard (52258 Worcestershire regiment), market gardener of Badsey near Evesham; and his son Mike's drawings and newspaper articles relating to the First World War.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandjf.2
title: Migrants

description: A manuscript draft probably for the poem Migrants, published in War's Embers (1919).  From a small green manuscript book used by Gurney in July-August 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandkdu.2
title: 1st Battalion, The Nigeria Regiment entrain at Kaduna for Lagos
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandny8.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Time to stop thanking one another / glad that Marion Scott likes new poems / Sidgwick and Jackson think that the book might be out in September / 'Camps' / glad that a notebook has arrived and pleased Scott / Robert Bridges.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandoz4.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (9)

description: Written from the Advanced Horse Transport Depot. Now back at rest in Abbeville, Owen describes his most recent tour of the Front Line. Heavy snow made the conditions almost intolerable, especially as his Platoon had to stay in no man's land. This event formed the basis for his poem 'Exposure'. Concludes by stating that he has to go on a Transport Course. In a 'P.S.' Owen alludes to a previous visit to Abbeville, and continues his description of the 'ugliness' of the Western Front. This is letter no. 482 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandqbz.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (3)

description: Describes falling down a shell-hole at Le Quesnoy-en-Santerre and then his subsequent journey to a Field Hospital and thence to the Clearing Station. This is letter no. 494 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandtyf.2
title: "A noisy arrival" of Tank 250 (Artist's impression of the arrival in Evesham Upper Abbey Park) (1)

description: Drawing by Mike Barnard of the "noisy arrival" of Tank 250 from the First World War, which was to be installed permanently in the Upper Abbey Park, Evesham. (Drawing done in 1998).

In the top right hand corner of one of the drawings is Mike's representation of his father John Barnard, in uniform, with a poppy background. This drawing was done with Mike's father's own pencil that he had carried with him in France.

Mike Barnard "The British tank was driven from bridge Street, down the Fleece Yard (now the park entrance) by Sammy Grove. It hit the wall in the narrowest part, knocking it down, much to the delight of schoolchildren who had assembled to watch the historic occasion. The tank was stripped of its guns and the engines were subsequently removed. In later years it was surrounded by a hedge and a fence. It was cut into pieces in the Second World War for conversion into munitions."

Part of a collection relating to Lance Corporal John Barnard (52258 Worcestershire regiment), market gardener of Badsey near Evesham; and his son Mike's drawings and newspaper articles relating to the First World War.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianduje.2
title: To F.W.H.

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Also included in a letter of September 1918 to Marion Scott. The 'F.W.H.' refers to the poet F.W. Harvey, a friend of Gurney's who was reported missing in August 1916 but was later known to have been taken prisoner. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Found in a small green notebook used by Gurney during July-August 1918. The first stanza on the left hand page is from an unpublished poem.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj2xe.2
title: How an unknown became immortal', an article by Mike Barnard

description: Article written by Mike Barnard for the Evesham Journal November 10th 2005 about his late father John Barnard's memories of serving near Zillebeke Lake, 1919/1920 and the commemoration and honouring of the Unknown Soldier, and the soldiers' positive attitude towards that gesture.

Part of a collection relating to Lance Corporal John Barnard (52258 Worcestershire regiment), market gardener of Badsey near Evesham; and his son Mike's drawings and newspaper articles relating to the First World War.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj4i3.2
title: Strange Meeting

description: This is no. 148 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj7y1.2
title: "A noisy arrival" of Tank 250 (Artist's impression of the arrival in Evesham Upper Abbey Park) (2)

description: Drawing by Mike Barnard of the "noisy arrival" of Tank 250 from the First World War, which was to be installed permanently in the Upper Abbey Park, Evesham. (Drawing done in 1998).

In the top right hand corner of one of the drawings is Mike's representation of his father John Barnard, in uniform, with a poppy background. This drawing was done with Mike's father's own pencil that he had carried with him in France.

Mike Barnard "The British tank was driven from bridge Street, down the Fleece Yard (now the park entrance) by Sammy Grove. It hit the wall in the narrowest part, knocking it down, much to the delight of schoolchildren who had assembled to watch the historic occasion. The tank was stripped of its guns and the engines were subsequently removed. In later years it was surrounded by a hedge and a fence. It was cut into pieces in the Second World War for conversion into munitions."

Part of a collection relating to Lance Corporal John Barnard (52258 Worcestershire regiment), market gardener of Badsey near Evesham; and his son Mike's drawings and newspaper articles relating to the First World War.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjazu.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (1)

description: Describes conditions of dug-out and being under fire. Refers to a recent parcel from home containing provisions. This is letter no. 491 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjfda.2
title: A soldier of the The West Indies Regiment near Deir el Belah, Palestine 1917
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjhh.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (1)

description: Describes falling down a shell-hole at Le Quesnoy-en-Santerre and then his subsequent journey to a Field Hospital and thence to the Clearing Station. This is letter no. 494 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjj9p.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Thanks Marion Scott for sending books / feels that overall 'Severn and Somme' is better than his friend F.W. Harvey's work, but that he is more 'assured' / tired of war, apart from comradeship / not sure what will happen / instructions as to what to do with book / 'weakness' / autumn in England / hopes that Scott is feeling better.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjvkw.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Time to stop thanking one another / glad that Marion Scott likes new poems / Sidgwick and Jackson think that the book might be out in September / 'Camps' / glad that a notebook has arrived and pleased Scott / Robert Bridges.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjwe8.1
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain

description: Describes reading Vera Brittain's letters by candlelight and responding to them / the state of the trenches and dugouts / location of the platoon / a bullet passing Roland Leighton's head as he shaved / potential for remaining in the sector / forgetting about danger and the potential for death / graves in the wood / wonders how much he should share with Vera / mending barbed wire on detail / idealism and the war / anticipates a future together with Vera.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjx2c.2
title: To F. W. H.

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand of part of 'To F.W.H.'. Also included in a letter of September 1918 to Marion Scott. The 'F.W. H.' refers to the poet F.W. Harvey, a friend of Gurney's who was reported missing in August 1916 but was later known to have been taken prisoner. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Found in a small green notebook used by Gurney during July-August 1918. On the facing page Gurney is a sketch of an unidentified musical score dedicated to Margaret Hunt.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianks7.2
title: Notification of medals to be awarded to John Barnard for service during the war

description: Part of a collection relating to Lance Corporal John Barnard (52258 Worcestershire regiment), market gardener of Badsey near Evesham; and his son Mike's drawings and newspaper articles relating to the First World War.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianp7t.2
title: Dulce et Decorum Est

description: Written at Craiglockhart in the first half of October 1917, and revised at Scarborough or possibly Ripon in January-March 1918. This is no. 144 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr8i5.2
title: Hidden Tales

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. another manuscript draft of the poem exists in the black notebook 64.5.6. Marion Scott also made a fair copy. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919). From a small green notebook used by Gurney in July-August 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianuyk.2
title: Poster: A female figure calls for just retribution
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianyih.2
title: Kitchener recruiting poster
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianysi.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianz6w.2
title: Ring around the moon', memoirs of John and Frank Barnard (2)

description: Written by Mike Barnard about his father John and his uncle Fred Barnard, and their service during the First World War. Includes their recruitment - John went missing that morning and almost missed the draft because he wanted to plant the asparagus. Their service in Flanders, on the Somme, Ypres and Passchendaele. Fred Barnard was in the Artillery, and recalled how they re-captured one of their guns at Bourlon Wood. The account includes the story of the composer Ralph Vaughan-Williams, a doctor in a field hospital, hearing the Last Post.

In one attack John Barnard lost his two best pals, along with 20,000 casualties.

John Barnard witnessed the action of Capt. J.J. Crowe who won the V.C., and he remained in touch with him for many years.

Also recalled is John Barnard's journey home after his service, when he got lost walking from Evesham to Badsey "I was under an English moon, no more shell 'oles or blinking parapets."

Part of a collection relating to Lance Corporal John Barnard (52258 Worcestershire regiment), market gardener of Badsey near Evesham; and his son Mike's drawings and newspaper articles relating to the First World War.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian21lp.2
title: Photograph of Corporal John Henry Kelty with patients and nurses (2)

description: Corporal 33404 John Henry Kelty, known as Harry was my grandfather. He was born in Newton Heath Manchester in 1890. 

He was in the territorial army before joining the Manchester Regiment for war service.

He became a sergeant (gas NCO) and was transferred between battalions due, I assume, to losses. He was wounded and returned to England spending time in No. 1 War Hospital Reading and another hospital which I do not know it's name.  My grandfather is on the front left hand side of the photograph.

He did not return to the front due to losing a large portion of his right calf muscle from the gunshot wound. He was eventually discharged in December 1918. He spent some time in Germany after the war and eventually became a manager of the Yates' Wine Lodge in Manchester.
He died in 1956, a year before my birth.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian21tx.1
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain

description: Describes searching for a sniper / will move to another farm in the evening / difficulty of transporting all of Vera Brittain's lovers / asks if she will keep them.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2c3o.2
title: Letter To Colin Owen (3) / With an Identity Disc

description: Talks about his plans for after the War, which involves keeping pigs and living in Kent. Includes a version of 'Sonnet - With an Identity Disc', an early version of 'To My Friend (with an Identity Disc)'. Written from the 13th Casualty Clearing Station, Gailly, France. This is letter no. 498 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2g6v.2
title: Dickie New shot in the legs
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2gw1.2
title: Officers and men of the 129th Baluchis Regiment on the outskirts of Wytschaete, Belgium
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2muo.2
title: While I Write

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. An alternative version exists in manuscript notebook 67.8. The version shown here was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). Written while Gurney was either at Barnwood House asylum, Gloucester (September-December 1922) or Stone House, Dartford, Kent (the City of London Mental Hospital where Gurney stayed from December 1922 until his death).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2n7m.2
title: Solace of Men

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand being a draft of a poem titled 'Tobacco the weed', later renamed 'Solace of Men' and published in War's Embers (1919). Gurney wrote two other poems on the subject: 'Tobacco' and 'Tobacco Plant'. This is from a small green notebook used by Gurney during July-August 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2oij.2
title: African workers on the bank of the Orange River.  German East African Campaign
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2p6q.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2x41.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (3)

description: Having rejoined his Regiment Owen discusses preparations prior to the battle at St Quentin. In a postscript he notes a lack of letters from his mother. This is letter no. 502 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian3x7.1
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain

description: Describes going for a walk to keep warm / occurances of 'trench foot' amongst the men / losing the ability to admire sunsets / going around the trenches with the C. O. / leave and the strangeness of returning to England after the experience of war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian61zo.2
title: Photographs of the diary of Corporal John Henry Kelty (3)

description: Corporal 33404 John Henry Kelty, known as Harry, was my grandfather. He was born in Newton Heath Manchester in 1890. 

He was in the territorial army before joining the Manchester Regiment for war service.

He became a sergeant (gas NCO) and was transferred between battalions due, I assume, to losses. He was wounded and returned to England spending time in No. 1 War Hospital Reading and another hospital which I do not know it's name. 

He did not return to the front due to losing a large portion of his right calf muscle from the gunshot wound. He was eventually discharged in December 1918. He spent some time in Germany after the war and eventually became a manager of the Yates' Wine Lodge in Manchester.
He died in 1956, a year before my birth.

These are photographs of a diary he kept, which strangely ends on the day his brother 1714 Private Frank Kelty died. 

A transcript of the diary, photographs, and information on his brother Frank have been submitted separately.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian628b.2
title: Letter To Leslie Gunston (1)

description: Incomplete (and wrongly dated in 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'). Includes versions of 'Roundel'. Possibly written from the 13th Casualty Clearing Station, Gaily, France. This is letter no. 255 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian65oc.2
title: Small Green Notebook

description: Rear cover of small green notebook used by Gurney during July-August 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6gpy.1
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain

description: Describes exchanging billets with Edward Brittain's men / the contemplative vs. the active life / Vera Brittain's 21st birthday.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6kz2.2
title: Eternal Treasure

description: Includes some things that Ivor Gurney forgot in an earlier letter of the same day / 'Eternal Treasure'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6mlt.2
title: Letter To Colin Owen (4)

description: Talks about his plans for after the War, which involves keeping pigs and living in Kent. Includes a version of 'Sonnet - With an Identity Disc', an early version of 'To My Friend (with an Identity Disc)'. This is letter no. 498 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6qnt.2
title: Whitby Abbey after the German naval bombardment of December 1914