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DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand9mx.2
title: Photograph of Frank Miller Bingham

description: Frank Miller Bingham, MRCS, LRCP
Born 17th September 1874, at Alfreton, the second son of Dr. Joseph Bingham, of Alfreton, Derbyshire. Educated at St. Peter's School, York, and St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School. Having qualified, he took charge for about four years of a large practice in Blackwell, Alfreton, Derbyshire, associated with the Blackwell Collieries, which had been, since the collieries were sunk, under the control of his father. Subsequently he lived at Brook House, Caton, near Lancaster, and was for five years in partnership with Dr. Scott at Hornby.  From 1911 he was in partnership in Queen's Square, Lancaster, with Dr G. R. Parker and Dr C. W. Dean, as Parker, Dean and Bingham, living at Lindon Cottage (he was in practice at Caton and Lancaster for ten years). 
A good all-round sportsman, he played cricket for Derbyshire and rugby for Blackheath and Middlesex. 
An enthusiastic territorial, he preferred to serve as a combatant than as a military doctor: Lieutenant, 5th King's Own (Royal Lancashire Regiment) Territorial Battalion, November 1910; Captain, 1914; Company Commander, May 1914; acting second in command of his battalion, 1915. After the severe fighting around Ypres in Flanders in the first two weeks of May (Second Battle of Ypres), he received three days home leave and, on the day after his return to the front, was killed in action 22nd May 1915. He had been reconnoitring some new trenches that his battalion was to occupy the following day, and as he and other officers were leaving, before daybreak, they came across a man half buried by the side of a trench which had been blown in. He insisted on stopping to dig the man out himself, which took some time, and it was daylight before all had begun to leave the trenches. The party was seen by the Germans, and he received a bullet through the heart which killed him instantaneously. 
He was buried on the edge of a wood at the front, but his grave was subsequently lost in the fighting, and he is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. 
A bronze tablet was erected in his memory by the medical profession of Lancaster and district on the outer wall of the Royal Lancaster Infirmary, unveiled 2nd December 1915 by Dr G. R. Parker, senior member of the medical profession in Lancaster. 

This photograph was taken before May 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand9wn.2
title: I Saw French Once

description: Typescript of poem prepared by Marion Scott. Published in 'The London Mercury' in 1933. Included in the Edmund Blunden edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published in 1954 and Leonard Clark's edition published in 1973. Also included in the Appendix of P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandji9.2
title: Photograph of Hubert Freeman (1)

description: Photograph of Hubert Harold Freeman, London Scottish, who died on the 1st day of the battle of the Somme. Brother of Lily Freeman.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandrie.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (50)

description: A notebook kept by Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, A Company, 42nd East Lancashire Division, believed to have been a sniper. The notebook contains a variety of material, including accounts of Snape's own movements and the operations he was involved in. He took part in the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, was in Malta later in 1915, then Egypt 1916-17, and finally France in 1917. The notebook also includes references to Gallipoli, Suvla Bay, and Anzac.

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandvop.2
title: Interview with Maggie Dabney on Jimmy Duffy

description: Interview with Maggie Dabney on her relative Jimmy Duffy, the famous Marathon Runner and Sportsman, who died 23rd April 1915. Further information about Duffy available on http://www.irishhamilton.ca/jimmy_duffy.htm
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianic2.2
title: 4th Army battlefield summary of information (1)

description: Instructions sent to my uncle second lieutenant Geoffrey Spencer of the Northamptonshire Regiment on the day that hostilities ended.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj14c.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (51)

description: A notebook kept by Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, A Company, 42nd East Lancashire Division, believed to have been a sniper. The notebook contains a variety of material, including accounts of Snape's own movements and the operations he was involved in. He took part in the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, was in Malta later in 1915, then Egypt 1916-17, and finally France in 1917. The notebook also includes references to Gallipoli, Suvla Bay, and Anzac.

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj3oz.2
title: Photograph of Edward Thorndycraft (2)

description: Photograph of Edward Thorndycraft, brother-in-law of Lily Freeman, killed 5th November 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj4wp.2
title: I Saw French Once

description: Typescript of poem prepared by Marion Scott. Published in 'The London Mercury' in 1933. Included in the Edmund Blunden edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published in 1954 and Leonard Clark's edition published in 1973. Also included in the Appendix of P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj8yj.2
title: Token of Service in Machine Gun Corps, Sgt PC Walker; Note of Appreciation Sgt PC Walker. Medals, PC Walker. Austro-Hungarian 1 Crown note. (2)

description: I was executor for a member of PC Walker's family, and found these items. Advice on the best use of the medals (I dont think any of the family survives) would be welcome
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjlz1.2
title: Appointment to be 2nd Lt. of Geoffrey Spencer, 2nd Northants
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjril.2
title: Photograph of Hubert Freeman (2)

description: Photograph of Hubert Harold Freeman, London Scottish, who died on the 1st day of the battle of the Somme. Brother of Lily Freeman.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiano7y.2
title: Photograph of George Hamilton King

description: Born in 12 Gayfield Square, Edinburgh, youngest of three brothers who all went to war and all survived. Date of birth 12-6-1885. He served in an English Regiment. His niece wrote about him, " George was quite a character - a natural comic. He was tall and stoutish." He worked in Coffee Law's, a tea merchant in Princes Street, Edinburgh. He died in 1946 of cancer. He got radiotherapy. This must have been the early days of treatment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr21f.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Mentions a misfortune involving a friend / alludes to sonnets that Ivor Gurney would like to see / inquires after Marion Scott's health / mentions an Everyman volume entitled 'Century of Essays' / includes 'Carols' / a musical score / discusses Milton's 'Paradise Lost' / the careers of friends.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleians1i.2
title: Behind the Line

description: Typescript of poem prepared by Marion Scott with corrections in ink and an added stanza in Ivor Gurney's hand. A version of the poem was included in the Edmund Blunden edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published in 1954 and Leonard Clark's edition published in 1973. Also included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianu5.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Mentions a misfortune involving a friend / alludes to sonnets that Ivor Gurney would like to see / inquires after Marion Scott's health / mentions an Everyman volume entitled 'Century of Essays' / includes 'Carols' / a musical score / discusses Milton's 'Paradise Lost' / the careers of friends.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2332.2
title: Letters from Pvt. E.T. Jones (4)

description: Letters from No1923 PvT Jones, E.T. born 03/01/1882 died 1963
1/3 County of London Yeomanry (Sharp Shooters)
1st Troop
C Squadron
Egyption Expeditionary Force

After an acident on a camel in June 1917 and a possible bout of Malaria he was declared unfit for active service.

However he stayed on in Egypt for the duration of the war carrying out admin duties Ras-el-Tin at Alexandria.  The camp changed its name to the Aliens internment camp on March 16th 1917
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian28e5.2
title: Photograph of Frank Miller Bingham (1)

description: Frank Miller Bingham, MRCS, LRCP
Born 17th September 1874, at Alfreton, the second son of Dr. Joseph Bingham, of Alfreton, Derbyshire. Educated at St. Peter's School, York, and St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School. Having qualified, he took charge for about four years of a large practice in Blackwell, Alfreton, Derbyshire, associated with the Blackwell Collieries, which had been, since the collieries were sunk, under the control of his father. Subsequently he lived at Brook House, Caton, near Lancaster, and was for five years in partnership with Dr. Scott at Hornby.  From 1911 he was in partnership in Queen's Square, Lancaster, with Dr G. R. Parker and Dr C. W. Dean, as Parker, Dean and Bingham, living at Lindon Cottage (he was in practice at Caton and Lancaster for ten years). 
A good all-round sportsman, he played cricket for Derbyshire and rugby for Blackheath and Middlesex. 
An enthusiastic territorial, he preferred to serve as a combatant than as a military doctor: Lieutenant, 5th King's Own (Royal Lancashire Regiment) Territorial Battalion, November 1910; Captain, 1914; Company Commander, May 1914; acting second in command of his battalion, 1915. After the severe fighting around Ypres in Flanders in the first two weeks of May (Second Battle of Ypres), he received three days home leave and, on the day after his return to the front, was killed in action 22nd May 1915. He had been reconnoitring some new trenches that his battalion was to occupy the following day, and as he and other officers were leaving, before daybreak, they came across a man half buried by the side of a trench which had been blown in. He insisted on stopping to dig the man out himself, which took some time, and it was daylight before all had begun to leave the trenches. The party was seen by the Germans, and he received a bullet through the heart which killed him instantaneously. 
He was buried on the edge of a wood at the front, but his grave was subsequently lost in the fighting, and he is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. 
A bronze tablet was erected in his memory by the medical profession of Lancaster and district on the outer wall of the Royal Lancaster Infirmary, unveiled 2nd December 1915 by Dr G. R. Parker, senior member of the medical profession in Lancaster. 

Editor's Comment:
Note sword is worn.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2du2.2
title: Postcard of Military Hospital

description: This is where my grandfather John King recovered after being shot in the foot in France. On the back he wrote to May, my 'grandmother' (They were married in 1918):
"This is a view of the house. What do you tink of it, May? The part we stay in is in the right hand corner. You can see it."
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2hr7.2
title: Photograph of Geoffrey Spencer and comrades (1)

description: Geoffrey Spencer is front row, 2nd left, with comrades
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2kro.2
title: Letter: To Mrs. Voynich.

description: Writes to tell Mrs Voynich that it is his 27th birthday / thanks her for some chocolates she has sent and for her help with French vocabulary / says that he intends to take a walking trip of the country after the war, if possible / praises French courtesy and the beauty of their buildings / reports that the men sometimes speak badly of the towns, but only because there are no cinemas / inquires after Mrs Voynich's health and London / the possible pleasures of living away from one's friends / reports that he has managed not to be hurt, and that mentally he is feeling calmer / the disappearance of one of his friends in battle / discusses a book of poetry entitled 'Spirit of Man' / includes a draft of the poem 'Serenity' / discusses the serious and grand nature of living through this particular part of history.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2l7a.2
title: The Poets of My County

description: Manuscript in ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. This poem was found in notebook GA 45457 labelled 'Best Poems'. Mentions poets F.W. Harvey, John Masefield, Lascelles Abercrombie, John Taylor, W.W. Gibson, W.H. Davies and W.E. Henley. Included in the Leonard Clark edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published in 1973, and  P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2t1f.2
title: Group Photograph taken in Edinburgh

description: My grandfather John King is on the left. Queens Own Cameron Highlanders. Served in France and was shot in the foot. Unfortunately I do not know who the others are.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2tpi.2
title: Photograph of Lawrence Crisp, Royal Engineers

description: Editor's Comment:
Sapper 216741 Lawrence Crisp, Royal Engineers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2y6q.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (55)

description: A notebook kept by Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, A Company, 42nd East Lancashire Division, believed to have been a sniper. The notebook contains a variety of material, including accounts of Snape's own movements and the operations he was involved in. He took part in the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, was in Malta later in 1915, then Egypt 1916-17, and finally France in 1917. The notebook also includes references to Gallipoli, Suvla Bay, and Anzac.

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2z9p.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (63)

description: A notebook kept by Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, A Company, 42nd East Lancashire Division, believed to have been a sniper. The notebook contains a variety of material, including accounts of Snape's own movements and the operations he was involved in. He took part in the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, was in Malta later in 1915, then Egypt 1916-17, and finally France in 1917. The notebook also includes references to Gallipoli, Suvla Bay, and Anzac.

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian64af.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (61)

description: A notebook kept by Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, A Company, 42nd East Lancashire Division, believed to have been a sniper. The notebook contains a variety of material, including accounts of Snape's own movements and the operations he was involved in. He took part in the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, was in Malta later in 1915, then Egypt 1916-17, and finally France in 1917. The notebook also includes references to Gallipoli, Suvla Bay, and Anzac.

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6fgs.2
title: Group photo taken at Haxby Road Military Hospital, Stapleford Park

description: My Grandfather John King, born 23/10/1878 Edinburgh, is on the right. He was shot in the foot in France. He nearly lost his foot but did recover. Always walked with a limp afterwards. Served in Queens Own Cameron Highlanders. On leave before he was injured, could not sleep in a bed due to having flees and bed being too soft.
Unfortunately I do not know the other men.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6g2v.2
title: Photograph of Lily Freeman, sister of Hubert Freeman (1)

description: Photograph of Lily Freeman, the recipient of an embroidered 'London Scottish' postcard sent by her brother, Hubert Freeman, killed 1st July 1916, and sister-in-law of Edward Thorndycraft, killed 5th november 1915
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ogw.2
title: The Poets of My County

description: Manuscript in ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. This poem was found in notebook GA 45457 labelled 'Best Poems'. Mentions poets F.W. Harvey, John Masefield, Lascelles Abercrombie, John Taylor, W.W. Gibson, W.H. Davies and W.E. Henley. Included in the Leonard Clark edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published in 1973, and  P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6pj2.2
title: The Silent One

description: Manuscript in ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. This poem was found in notebook GA 45457 labelled 'Best Poems'. Manuscript in ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. This poem was found in notebook GA 45457 labelled 'Best Poems'. Included in the Edmund Blunden edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published in 1954, Leonard Clark's edition published in 1973, and  P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6r3.2
title: Official Christmas card from Geoffrey Spencer, Northants Regt

description: 6th Battalion, Northants regt, official christmas card from Geoffrey Spencer to his parents
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6w6b.2
title: Letter of commendation re Geoffrey Spencer

description: Letter from Hugo M Harvey, 2nd Lt, Officer of No.10 Platoon, 7th Battalion, commending the bravery of Geoffrey and his brother Tom when they became detached from their regiment (7th Battalion, Northants Regt) and doing excellent work with another battalion.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian89aa.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (60)

description: A notebook kept by Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, A Company, 42nd East Lancashire Division, believed to have been a sniper. The notebook contains a variety of material, including accounts of Snape's own movements and the operations he was involved in. He took part in the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, was in Malta later in 1915, then Egypt 1916-17, and finally France in 1917. The notebook also includes references to Gallipoli, Suvla Bay, and Anzac.

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8bjr.2
title: O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy

description: Manuscript in ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. This poem was found in notebook GA 45457 labelled 'Best Poems'. Manuscript in ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. This poem was found in notebook GA 45457 labelled 'Best Poems'. The title is after the American poet Walt Whitman, and the 'Michael of line 16 refers to the Archangel who barred Adam and Eve from Paradise. Included in the Edmund Blunden edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published in 1954, and in the Appendix of P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8c6s.2
title: ID book of Geoffrey Spencer, Northants regiment
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8kg7.2
title: Photograph of Lily Freeman, sister of Hubert Freeman (2)

description: Photograph of Lily Freeman, the recipient of an embroidered 'London Scottish' postcard sent by her brother, Hubert Freeman, killed 1st July 1916, and sister-in-law of Edward Thorndycraft, killed 5th november 1915
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8llq.2
title: Photograph of Herbert Ernest Wilson, Royal Flying Corps (1)

description: 51702 Herbert Wilson served in 19 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. He weighed 9st 11 lbs and was 5 foot 9 1/2 inches tall.

Editor's Comment:
Herbert Wilson here wears the Plastron fronted ('Maternity') Jacket of the Royal Flying Corps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8yk6.2
title: Newspaper cutting concering Private J.L. Clinch, 3rd. Mortar Battery (Australian Army)

description: This is a photograph of Private James Lewis Clinch, who went to Australia in 1911 in seach of adventure. Rode fench in the Austalian outback and then enlisted at Casino, New South Wales on April 26th 1915. He was sent to Egypt for training and ended up at Gallopoli (we obtained a late Gallopoli medal for him in 1984) After that he was sent to the Battle of the Somme, where he was wounded and then returned back home to England. He never said much about the war, but did mention that he had seen a young boy who was wounded trying to push his insides back into his stomach.