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DOI: 10.5287/bodleian1xv.2
title: A. G. A. V.

description: Manuscript in pen in Edmund Blunden's hand. This is a recollection of Arthur G. A. Vidler, Blunden's friend and fellow student at Christ's Hospital. Also one of the officers present at the 'Feast of Five', described in 'Undertones of War' (1928). The title is not, as far as is known, a reference to the poem with the same name. The final page does not appear to be related to the narrative. It contains various references to music, a reference to a ghost of a soldier, and sketches of a bishop and a Japanese man.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian26ew.2
title: Roland Leighton, with his inscription
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2d8.2
title: Edward Brittain, Roland Leighton and Victor Richardson
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2eel.2
title: Roland Leighton's grave
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2u17.2
title: Morninghem: Field Maps, 1917

description: Part of a folder that contains maps drawn and signed during Edmund Blunden's training for 3rd Ypres near St Omer, July 1917. This map is drawn in coloured pencil in blue and red.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2yxt.2
title: Memory, Hamel, Aug '16: Field Maps, 1917

description: Part of a folder that contains maps drawn and signed during Edmund Blunden's training for 3rd Ypres near St Omer, July 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6epf.2
title: Supplement, Attack on a Thick Wood: Field Maps, 1917

description: Part of a folder that contains maps drawn and signed during Edmund Blunden's training for 3rd Ypres near St Omer, July 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6sux.2
title: C Area, Attack on Lineuse: Field Maps, 1917

description: Part of a folder that contains maps drawn and signed during Edmund Blunden's training for 3rd Ypres near St Omer, July 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8guq.2
title: Barbinghem Attack: Field Maps, 1917

description: Part of a folder that contains maps drawn and signed during Edmund Blunden's training for 3rd Ypres near St Omer, July 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand3pa.2
title: Attack on a Thick Wood: Field Maps, 1917

description: Part of a folder that contains maps drawn and signed during Edmund Blunden's training for 3rd Ypres near St Omer, July 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandher.2
title: 2nd Attack: Field Maps, 1917

description: Part of a folder that contains maps drawn and signed during Edmund Blunden's training for 3rd Ypres near St Omer, July 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandi99.2
title: Roland Leighton in uniform

description: The portrait he sent to Vera Brittain in December 1914.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjke2.2
title: Zudausques: Field Maps, 1917

description: Part of a folder that contains maps drawn and signed during Edmund Blunden's training for 3rd Ypres near St Omer, July 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr8eo.2
title: Roland Leighton
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian29a2.2
title: War Diary: Page 9

description: Thomas' battalion await to march to the front line.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2vsh.2
title: War Diary: Inside Cover

description: Walkers back-loop pocket book, bound in pig skin and priced at 2 shillings. The cover pages are creases, suggesting that he was carrying the pocket book either when he was knocked over by a shell blast from a 5.9 shell on the 8th of April, or when he was killed at an oservation post while directing the fire of 244 Battery during the opening barrage of the Battle of Arras.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2zcc.2
title: Reverse of Trenches and Kitchener's Wood: Field Maps, 1917

description: Part of a folder that contains maps drawn and signed during Edmund Blunden's training for 3rd Ypres near St Omer, July 1917. This map is in red, green and black ink.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian64tu.2
title: Reverse of Richebourg: Field Maps, 1917

description: Part of a folder that contains maps drawn and signed during Edmund Blunden's training for 3rd Ypres near St Omer, July 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6dvx.2
title: War Diary: Page 11

description: It's bitterly cold as Thomas' battalion continue towards the front line. Thomas mostly discusses the domestic matters at hand, finding billets and cooking meals, describing his time as ""merry"" An enemy plane is spotted overhead
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6hl5.2
title: Trenches and Kitchener's Wood: Field Maps, 1917

description: Part of a folder that contains maps drawn and signed during Edmund Blunden's training for 3rd Ypres near St Omer, July 1917. This map is in red, green and black ink.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6lkz.2
title: War Diary : Page 1

description: Thomas says his farewells to Family and Friends before leaving for France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian85kp.2
title: A portrait of Vera Brittain

description: Portrait sent to Roland Leighton.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian89t4.2
title: Reverse of Dispositions of D Coy: Field Maps, 1917

description: Part of a folder that contains maps drawn and signed during Edmund Blunden's training for 3rd Ypres near St Omer, July 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandefj.2
title: Potijze: Field Maps, 1917

description: Part of a folder that contains maps drawn and signed during Edmund Blunden's training for 3rd Ypres near St Omer, July 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiands8o.2
title: Reverse of Condition of Trenches on 23 July 1917: Field Maps, 1917

description: Part of a folder that contains maps drawn and signed during Edmund Blunden's training for 3rd Ypres near St Omer, July 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandwvq.2
title: War Diary: Page 5

description: Thomas travels to Gloucester to visit his friend Haines.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiani3e.2
title: Richebourg: Field Maps, 1917

description: Part of a folder that contains maps drawn and signed during Edmund Blunden's training for 3rd Ypres near St Omer, July 1917. This map is in red, black and blue ink.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj8fd.2
title: Dispositions of D Coy: Field Maps, 1917

description: Part of a folder that contains maps drawn and signed during Edmund Blunden's training for 3rd Ypres near St Omer, July 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjn8k.2
title: Condition of Trenches on 23 July 1917: Field Maps, 1917

description: Part of a folder that contains maps drawn and signed during Edmund Blunden's training for 3rd Ypres near St Omer, July 1917. Printed in red, blue and black ink.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjz9l.2
title: Roland Leighton in uniform

description: The portrait he sent to Vera Brittain in December 1914.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianmar.2
title: War Diary: Page 3

description: The soldiers' guns arrive; Thomas lectures on map reading and learns to ride a motorcyle. His wife Helen sends him Shakespears' sonnets.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiannsy.2
title: St George's Hospital and Bay, Malta

description: The hospital Vera Brittain was stationed at as a V.A.D between 1916 and 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2fgd.2
title: War Diary: Page 29

description: Writes of his tiredness and lack of sleep. Describes a German graveyard and the wildlife he sees whilst observing. Fills sandbags for the forthcoming Battle of Arras.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2hhs.2
title: Notes for a Short Course of Scouting

description: Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page is the reverse of the one containing notes on general Allied strategy for how to defeat Germany.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6h7.2
title: Notes for a Short Course of Scouting

description: Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page details the general Allied strategy for how to defeat Germany.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6tqs.2
title: War Diary: Page 23

description: Describes his frustration at ""doing nothing"" Writes letters. Note the planes overhead and the fall of a German plane. Describes the surrounding landscape and wildlife.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6wri.2
title: Notes for a Short Course of Scouting

description: Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian86lm.2
title: A. G. A. V.

description: Manuscript in pen in Edmund Blunden's hand. This is a recollection of Arthur G. A. Vidler, Edmund's friend and fellow student at Christ's Hospital. Also one of the officers present at the 'Feast of Five', described in 'Undertones of War' (1928). The title is not, as far as is known, a reference to the poem with the same name. The final page does not appear to be related to the narrative. It contains various references to music, a reference to a ghost of a soldier, and sketches of a bishop and a Japanese man.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8crb.2
title: Crater Fighting on Vimy Ridge: Field Maps, 1917

description: Part of a folder that contains maps drawn and signed during Edmund Blunden's training for 3rd Ypres near St Omer, July 1917. This map dates from April-May 1916, reused as a means for comparison for this attack. This map is in black ink.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8pq7.2
title: War Diary: Page 17

description: Discusses the approaching spring as the sun starts to thaw the snow. Writes letters home, reads Shakespeare's Sonnets and receives 17 letters himself.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand16a.2
title: War Diary: Page 7

description: Thomas leaves for France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand5b1.2
title: Reverse of Shrewsbury Forest: Field Maps, 1917

description: Part of a folder that contains maps drawn and signed during Edmund Blunden's training for 3rd Ypres near St Omer, July 1917. This map is in red and black ink. Inscribed by Blunden 'Map used during the Menin Road operations'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianddmo.2
title: War Diary: Page 25

description: Heavy artillery fire on Arras and Ronville. Describes how he is narrowly missed by shells after climbing a chimney in Arras to observe. Notes the first thrush he has heard singing whilst in France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandth4.2
title: War Diary: Page 27

description: On duty at Battery but not much firing to be done. Describes the beauty of Arras and the surrounding countryside. Discusses religion.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandzgf.2
title: Notes for a Short Course of Scouting

description: Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page contains notes on how to secure and record intelligence information.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj7hu.2
title: War Diary: Final pages (a)

description: Poetical notes
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjgg1.2
title: Notes for a Short Course of Scouting

description: Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. Reverse of a page containing notes on how to obtain and record intelligence information.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjlb6.2
title: Shrewsbury Forest: Field Maps, 1917

description: Part of a folder that contains maps drawn and signed during Edmund Blunden's training for 3rd Ypres near St Omer, July 1917. This map is in red and black ink. Inscribed by Blunden 'Map used during the Menin Road operations'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjy6f.2
title: War Diary: Page 19

description: It's cold and wet. Thomas travels to Fosseux to pick up cash and gas helmets. Notes troops of turbaned Indians with ""Hun prisoners"" Laments doing office work whilst the troops go out to the trenches. Records the sound of artillery fire nearby and that the blast of 18-punders near his billet blow the mortar from ruins against the window linen. Discussed the wildlife.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiankgj.2
title: War Diary: Page 21

description: There is incessant artillery fire and shelling, German prisoners and taken. Thomas pieces together airplane photos and identifies gun positions. Two English planes fall.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian23we.1
title: A Recognition

description: Manuscript draft of poem in red and black ink in Edmund Blunden's hand. Correction in ink and pencil. The poem was published in 'Masks of Time' (1925) and 'Undertones of War' (1928).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian244v.1
title: Battalion in Rest

description: Page 286 from a first edition of 'Undertones of War' (1928) showing the final two stanzas of poem 'Battalion At Rest'. The prose section of the, apart from the help of a few maps, entirely from memory while Blunden was teaching in Tokyo between 1924 and 1927. Annotations in Blunden's hand added later at an unknown date. Alongside stanza 5 he writes, 'Ashford', and alongside stanza 6 he writes 'Naylor'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2g26.2
title: War Diary: Notebook Cover
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian614i.2
title: War Diary: Page 8

description: Thomas' battalion arrives in Harve, France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6i3g.2
title: War Diary: Front Cover

description: Walkers back-loop pocket book, bound in pig skin and priced at 2 shillings. The cover pages are creases, suggesting that he was carrying the pocket book either when he was knocked over by a shell blast from a 5.9 shell on the 8th of April, or when he was killed at an observation post while directing the fire of 244 Battery during the opening barrage of the Battle of Arras.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6j2o.1
title: Day Dies on the Marshes / Summer in the Trenches / NAPU

description: Manuscript in ink of three unpublished poems in Edmund Blunden's hand. This is a clean draft without corrections.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6umm.1
title: April in the Salient

description: Manuscript of an unpublished poem in Edmund Blunden's hand. On the back of the paper Blunden has written 'Summer term 1917'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian882l.1
title: At Gouzeaucourt, early 1918

description: Manuscript in ink in Edmund Blunden's hand. Corrections also in ink. Published as 'Gouzeaucourt: The Deceitful Calm' in 'Undertones of War' (1928). Refers to the point after Blunden was taken out of the Passchendaele battle in January 1918, and were sent down to the 5th Army Front which would be overrun by the Germans on 21 March 1918 during the St Michael's offensive, after Blunden had returned to England. Written on the reverse of New Zealand Government Office paper.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8lmx.1
title: A. G. A. V.

description: Page 303 from a first edition of 'Undertones of War' (1928) showing the poem 'A. G. A. V.'. The prose section of the volume was written, apart from the help of a few maps, entirely from memory while Blunden was teaching in Tokyo between 1924 and 1927. Annotations in Blunden's hand added later at an unknown date. He writes in the margin, 'St Omer: Feast of Five. Described by me in a letter published soon after (1917) in The Blue.'
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8r4b.2
title: War Diary: Page 4

description: Printed inside cover of the pocket book.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8x3t.2
title: War Diary: Back Cover
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian94w.1
title: Another View of Aveluy

description: Manuscript in ink on brown paper in Edmund Blunden's hand. Signed 'E. B.' On the reverse side of the page Blunden offers an explanation for the experience that inspired the poem.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandanm.2
title: War Diary: Page 10

description: Thomas' battalion continue it's journey to the front line via train. Thomas discusses the snow and wildlife he sees during the journey.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandyoh.1
title: Decline and Fall

description: Manuscript in ink of an unpublished poem in Edmund Blunden's hand. This is a clean draft without corrections. Signed 'E.B.'
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj2mk.2
title: War Diary: Notebook Back Cover
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjmn5.2
title: War Diary: Page 6

description: Thomas's battalion continues it's preparations to leave for France. Thomas laments his ill health.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianvw2.2
title: Notes for a Short Course of Scouting

description: Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page details the interactions of scouts and a made-up company commander detailing information.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianz21.2
title: War Diary: Page 2

description: Thomas makes preparations to leave for France. On the 13th he makes reference to verses that he wrote. These can be found in the diary's last page.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian215e.2
title: War Diary: Page 20

description: Thomas wonders why the Germans do not retaliate on the Arras guns. Describes the ruins of the surrounding landscape but notes how the wildlife still flourishes. Notes his evening meal as dull.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian25vn.1
title: On Reading That the Rebuilding of Ypres Approached Completion

description: Page 307 from a first edition of 'Undertones of War' (1928) showing the poem 'On Reading That the Rebuilding of Ypres Approached Completion'. The prose section of the volume was written, apart from the help of a few maps, entirely from memory while Blunden was teaching in Tokyo between 1924 and 1927. Annotations in Blunden's hand added later at an unknown date.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian3jf.2
title: War Diary: Page 28

description: Discusses preparing reports and panoramas for the Heavy Artillery Group, military matters, dreams, and the landscape.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian67n4.1
title: Letter: To Charlotte Blunden.

description: Letter from Edmund Blunden to his sister Charlotte ('Lottie' or 'Loggia'). Writes that he has sent money, and wants Charlotte to ask him immediately if she needs more in the future / asks after the situation, and if she is being provided for in Plymouth / bad weather and mud at the front / the battalion doctor contracting trench fever and having been replaced / letters from home discussing events at Christ's Hospital.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian83fc.2
title: War Diary: Page 18

description: The weather is too hazy to make observation possible and Thomas spends his time in the dug-out censoring letters and ""on guns"" Thomas notes the surrounding landscape and wildlife and comments on the local women hanging up clothes to dry on the barbed wire. Goes to Arras to begin showing sectors and arcs on 1/10000 maps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8mis.2
title: War Diary: Final Pages (b)

description: The final pages of the pocket book contain what is undoubtedly the last poem that Edward Thomas wrote. The poem shows a strong influence of Shakespeare's sonnets, for as his diary and letters show, he read Shakespeare regularly each night during the short time he was stationed in France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8tnz.1
title: Letter: To Charles Blunden.

description: Letter from Edmund Blunden to his father Charles. Dated 'Sunday'. Thanks Charles for a parcel / will send a cheque soon, when he has ink / describes how 'splendidly' the aeroplanes have been doing recently, apart from one that was shot down behind the German lines and, casually, the pilot taken prisoner / describes a recent working party that was particularly dangerous / quotes Tennyson / shells / asks after news from Plymouth.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand2z6.1
title: The Prophet

description: Page 297 from a first edition of 'Undertones of War' (1928) showing the poem 'The Prophet'. The prose section of the volume was written, apart from the help of a few maps, entirely from memory while Blunden was teaching in Tokyo between 1924 and 1927. Annotations in Blunden's hand added later at an unknown date.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand7a5.1
title: The Cook Speaks Again

description: Manuscript in ink of an unpublished poem in Edmund Blunden's hand. Corrections in ink.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandb7x.2
title: War Diary: Page 26

description: Goes to the front trench observation post through rain and mud. Shelled all night with no shelter, food, or warm clothes.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianfvc.1
title: Letter: To Edmund Blunden.

description: Letter in ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. Congratulates Edmund Blunden on winning the 'Hawthornden Prize', which was announced in 'The Times' on 30 June 1922 / discusses Blunden's 'The Shepherd' (1920) / mentions his own poem 'The Giant Puffball' / discusses writing pastoral poetry / mentions Lascelles Abercrombie / includes Gurney's poem 'First Spring'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj6z8.1
title: The Death Glen (Ancre Valley)

description: Manuscript in ink in Edmund Blunden's hand. This is a clean draft without corrections.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjcay.1
title: Rebuke To An Ex-Soldier

description: Manuscript in ink of an unpublished poem in Edmund Blunden's hand. Numerous corrections in ink.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjej1.2
title: War Diary: Page 30

description: Moves to dug-out and describes the continuous roar or artillery fire and shelling. The 8th April 1917 is the last entry in the diary.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjooj.1
title: In Festubert

description: Page 28 showing the poem 'In Festubert' in 'The Waggoner' (1920). Corrections, particularly heavy in the second stanza, in pencil in Edmund Blunden's hand.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjp7m.2
title: War Diary: Page 24

description: Ronville is heavily shelled and the bombardment of the German front lines. Describes the singing of the birds above.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr52.2
title: War Diary: Page 22

description: Discusses gun fire towards the German lines, annoying ""the Hun"" with artillery. Notes the ruinous landscape and the weather preventing observation.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrefn.2
title: War Diary: Page 16

description: Discusses his battalions movement towards the front line on the Arras Road, the landscape shows more evidence of the war as Thomas notes the shell holes, trenches, graveyards, and the sounds of artillery fire and shell blasts in the distance. Thomas laments not going on trench Reconnaissance, instead censoring men's letters.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2e9g.2
title: The Path

description: This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'The Path' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ipj.2
title: List of contents

description: Collation of texts by R. George Thomas
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2sk3.1
title: Letter: To Charlotte Blunden.

description: Letter from Edmund Blunden to his sister Charlotte ('Lottie' or 'Loggia'). Describes how quickly time seems to be moving / life after the war / receiving letters from friends / in training and being made a signaller / 'memorials of Yalding' by Charlotte /relations between the ranks and senior officers / a boxing tournament / the local French people: their visages and dress / would write more, but the mail is being collected.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6614.2
title: List of contents

description: Collation of texts by R. George Thomas
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian69ib.2
title: War Diary: Inside Back Cover
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6b69.1
title: The Sentry's Mistake

description: Manuscript in red and black ink in Edmund Blunden's hand. Corrections in black ink. The poem was published in 'Masks of Time' (1925) and 'Undertones of War' (1928).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6vwt.2
title: List of contents

description: Collation of texts by R. George Thomas
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ysa.1
title: The Derelict Grim Skeleton

description: Manuscript in ink and pencil of an unpublished poem in Edmund Blunden's hand. This is a clean draft without corrections.