cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandk9a.2
title: Letter from Ministry of Pensions to Widow 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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandkkg.1
title: Letters from Hew Grieg

description: Hew Hutchison Grieg was born in India on 21st September 1892.  He was a son of Thomas and Alice Grieg (nee Bapty) and after fighting in the Great War, went on to become an engineer.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandl1r.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: A poem that received a fee / worried that it is 'old-fashioned' / having received a volume by Lawrence Binyon / Schubert and Schumann and setting poetry to music / thanks Marion Scott for help with poems / discusses W.B. Yeats' poetry / mentions the poet John Masefield / includes 'Song' / discusses a parcel / includes 'West Country' / strafing / wants to read some of the Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren's verse / wants to know if a collected volume of his poems would compare to his friend F.W. Harvey's / the state of the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandnfv.1
title: Photograph of Arthur Hilton in full dress with wife

description: Arthur Hilton (East Yorks) was my grandfather, killed in action 3rd May 1915. He left a widow, Hilda Hilton, daughter Hilda aged 7 (my mother) and a son Leslie aged 3.

Arthur Hilton is listed on the roll of honour in Beverley Minster and his name appears on the Menin Gate.

Editor's Comment:
Photograph of Arthur Hilton when a corporal, in full dress, with Hilda. 

From the effects of Serjeant 1062 Arthur Hilton, 1st/4th Bn. East Yorkshire Regiment, killed in action 3rd May 1915, aged 31. The husband of Hilda G. Brown (formerly Hilton), of 17, William St., Porter St., Hull, he is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. His battalion, as part of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division, was engaged in the Battle of St Julien, the second phase of the Second Battle of Ypres.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandxdz.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis'. This page includes a series of overlaying sketches by David Jones of a face and a human body. (Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' is about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjf9f.2
title: Letter sent home by 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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjfkq.1
title: Letter from Hew Grieg

description: Hew Hutchison Grieg was born in India on 21st September 1892.  He was a son of Thomas and Alice Grieg (nee Bapty) and after fighting in the Great War, went on to become an engineer.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjid4.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjj44.1
title: Photograph of Joseph Clarke

description: Photograph of Private 372328 Joseph Clarke, 8th (Post Office Rifles) Bn. London Regiment, died of wounds (aged 33) at Achiet-le-Grand near Arras, France on Sunday 9th Dec 1917. This was a rail head during the war and changed hands several times.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjqdf.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Thanks Marion Scott for her work on 'Severn and Somme' / glad that she is well / describes having moved with the regiment to region of 'eternal cultivation' / discusses Siegfried Sassoon's and Nicholson's work / discusses changes for 'Song at Morning' and 'Gloucester' / wishes Scott to dedicate something to Ivor Gurney's sister Dorothy / includes 'The Immortal Hour' / 'Questions and Answers' / pleased with the way Sidgwick and Jackson has treated Gurney and quickly closed the deal for 'Severn and Somme' / thinks it bodes well for sales and reviews.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianju12.2
title: West Country

description: A poem that received a fee / worried that it is 'old-fashioned' / having received a volume by Lawrence Binyon / Schubert and Schumann and setting poetry to music / thanks Marion Scott for help with poems / discusses W.B. Yeats' poetry / mentions the poet John Masefield / includes 'Song' / discusses a parcel / includes 'West Country' / strafing / wants to read some of the Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren's verse / wants to know if a collected volume of his poems would compare to his friend F.W. Harvey's / the state of the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjvft.1
title: Group photograph including Arthur Hilton

description: Arthur Hilton (East Yorks) was my grandfather, killed in action 3rd May 1915. He left a widow, Hilda Hilton, daughter Hilda aged 7 (my mother) and a son Leslie aged 3.

Arthur Hilton is listed on the roll of honour in Beverley Minster and his name appears on the Menin Gate.

Editor's Comment:
Men enjoying pints of beer in tented camp. 

From the effects of Serjeant 1062 Arthur Hilton, 1st/4th Bn. East Yorkshire Regiment, killed in action 3rd May 1915, aged 31. The husband of Hilda G. Brown (formerly Hilton), of 17, William St., Porter St., Hull, he is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. His battalion, as part of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division, was engaged in the Battle of St Julien, the second phase of the Second Battle of Ypres.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr2de.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Written while Ivor Gurney was on a signalling course at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland. Mentions 'Photographs' / gives some instructions / asks if his book is a success / includes 'To His Love' / 'Photographs'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr2y6.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianregx.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: A poem that received a fee / worried that it is 'old-fashioned' / having received a volume by Lawrence Binyon / Schubert and Schumann and setting poetry to music / thanks Marion Scott for help with poems / discusses W.B. Yeats' poetry / mentions the poet John Masefield / includes 'Song' / discusses a parcel / includes 'West Country' / strafing / wants to read some of the Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren's verse / wants to know if a collected volume of his poems would compare to his friend F.W. Harvey's / the state of the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiansyl.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiantyr.1
title: Letter: To J W Haines.

description: Informs J.W. Haines that Ivor Gurney is not able to write at the moment / jealous of Haines' travels / discusses W. W. Gibson's 'Empty Cottage' / wants to know about the people that Haines sees in the countryside / describes not being allowed by medics to go into town / violin sonatas / H.N. Howells / wishes to go home to Gloucester / includes 'Migrants'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianusr.2
title: Medals, Memorial Plaque and Scroll of John Dawson (9)

description: Memorial Plaque, scroll, and War and Victory medals. 

Pte. 267220 John Dawson, 1/7th Bn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment, was killed in action 14th August 1917 aged 22. The son of Mr. and Mrs. William Dawson, of Cockhill Place, Bellshill, Lanarkshire, he is buried in New Irish Farm Cemetery. The 1/7th Bn., part of the 48th (South Midland) Division, were waiting to for heavy rain to clear for the attack on Langemarck to commence, the second phase of the Third Battle of Ypres.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianxh.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis'. This page includes a sketch in the margins of what appears to be a column. (Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' is about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianynl.1
title: Photograph of sister and nephews carried by Albert Reed

description: Glyn Austin, was born on 18th January 1916 having been conceived while his father was recuperating from wounds in 1915, having been sent home to Neath Hospital near Swansea. He never met his father, and never knew what had happened to him, except that he had been "lost in France". My father's mother Caroline Austin was left with Glyn, aged 2, and Freddie, aged 5, who was later killed by the Mumbles Train on 3rd July 1919. She also lost a brother, Albert George Reed, who was awarded a Military Medal and died on 5th July 1917, and had another brother David William Reed who returned very badly wounded. She also lost a brother-in-law, Sidney George Austin, who was killed on 13th September 1916, remembered on the Thiepval Memorial. Unsurprisingly she would never talk to my father about any of this and never remarried.
With the increased availability of information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission we were able to trace my grandfather to a cemetery near Ypres, and in October 1999 took my father, then 83, to visit his fathers' grave. It seemed doubly ironic that the grave had been there unknown to any of us for over 80 years and my father had served as an aircraftman in 1939-40 only a short distance away at Vitry-en Artois near Arras. In fact, we were able to find that little aerodrome the following day.
There are a number of photos of Albert Reed, David Reed, and Caroline with Glyn and Freddie, some of which have been to the Front, and have come back, I assume, showing the effects of this as they appear to be stained by blood, mud, rain or whatever.

Photograph of Caroline Austin with her children, Freddie and Glyn, sent to her brother Albert George Reed (brother-in-law of Thomas Richard Austin), and returned with his effects. 

Editor's Comment:
Private 15249 Albert George Reed, M.M., 2nd/5th Bn. Leicestershire Regiment, was killed in action 5th July 1917, aged 25. The son of Joseph and Mary Ann Reed, of 61, Rodney St., Swansea, he is buried in Metz-en-Couture Communal Cemetery British Extension.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianzm3.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: A poem that received a fee / worried that it is 'old-fashioned' / having received a volume by Lawrence Binyon / Schubert and Schumann and setting poetry to music / thanks Marion Scott for help with poems / discusses W.B. Yeats' poetry / mentions the poet John Masefield / includes 'Song' / discusses a parcel / includes 'West Country' / strafing / wants to read some of the Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren's verse / wants to know if a collected volume of his poems would compare to his friend F.W. Harvey's / the state of the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian11e.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Thinking of 'what's in store' / reserve better than front lines / describes how the army has forced Ivor Gurney to get along better with people / thinks about possible death, and expresses some contentment / takes comfort in his 'English Preludes' and verses / working on the sonnet 'England' for the 'Sonnets 1914' sequence / John Masefield's 'Good Friday'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian22pr.2
title: Time and the Soldier

description: Thanks Marion Scott for recent letters / discusses H.N. Howells and his work / compares it to 'Time and the Soldier', which he includes / also includes 'Influences' / wonders how many poems a collected volume of his own work will need / discusses being cold / Francis Ledwidge's poems and newspapers' reaction to them / Lawrence Binyon's verses / Bach / Ernest Walker's opinion of Ivor Gurney's songs / includes 'Poor Folk' / the ending of his 'soft job' / things to look forward to back in England.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian252d.2
title: Letter sent home by 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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian27ua.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Thanks Marion Scott for recent letters / discusses H.N. Howells and his work / compares it to 'Time and the Soldier', which he includes / also includes 'Influences' / wonders how many poems a collected volume of his own work will need / discusses being cold / Francis Ledwidge's poems and newspapers' reaction to them / Lawrence Binyon's verses / Bach / Ernest Walker's opinion of Ivor Gurney's songs / includes 'Poor Folk' / the ending of his 'soft job' / things to look forward to back in England.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2lc1.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2mvw.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Describes being wounded - but 'not badly enough' - in an attack on Good Friday (6 April 1917) / not sure exactly where he will be / informs Marion Scott that his friend and fellow poet F W Harvey is receiving all of his parcels in a prisoner of war camp / the weather / John Masefield's 'By the Bierside' / lack of money to by books, and hence a requests' list.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ool.2
title: Letter (2)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2phm.1
title: Photographs and documents relating to David Bell

description: David Bell was my wife's Great grandfather, Killed at Arras 11th April 1917.The man with the horse and cart is his grown up son. 

Editor's Comment:
Family photograph including Pte. Bell; Letter from his Platoon officer (2nd Lieut. Alexander Ferguson) informing the family of his death, sent 14th April 1917; transcript of battalion War Diary from 12th April 1917, noting casualties (among whom was Lt. Ferguson, wounded).

Private S/18613 David Bell, 11th Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was killed in action 11th April 1917, and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. The 11th Bn., part of the 15th (Scottish) Division, were taking part in the First Battle of the Scarpe, the first phase of the Arras Offensive.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian5cf.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian65w7.2
title: Poor Folk

description: Thanks Marion Scott for recent letters / discusses H.N. Howells and his work / compares it to 'Time and the Soldier', which he includes / also includes 'Influences' / wonders how many poems a collected volume of his own work will need / discusses being cold / Francis Ledwidge's poems and newspapers' reaction to them / Lawrence Binyon's verses / Bach / Ernest Walker's opinion of Ivor Gurney's songs / includes 'Poor Folk' / the ending of his 'soft job' / things to look forward to back in England.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian67es.2
title: Letter sent home by Frank Miller Bingham (3)

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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6eal.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Tells Marion Scott that she, of all Ivor Gurney's friends, writes the most interesting letters / hopes that she is feeling better / thanks her for her help preparing 'Severn and Somme' / wonders about people's reactions to it / 'premonitions' / Russia / discusses a recent photograph of Gurney that he sent to Scott / wishes to be back in England worrying about musical compositions / hopes that people will continue to write letters when peace comes / includes 'Peace'.