cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian65ay.2
title: Post card from Fred Lynn to his mother (1)

description: Postcard of hospital ship, HMHS Asturias.

I guess this was just to let her know he was still alive. Don't know where it was sent from.

Fred Lynn's story
Fred's story is told here through a number of photographs and post cards that he sent to his mother. She kept them in an album, together with those from his brothers and sisters.

Frederick Lynn was the sixth of 7 surviving children of Sarah Ann and Christmas Lynn. Fred was born in 1896 and brought up in Gedney Hill in south Lincolnshire. 

Fred and his brothers Robert and John went to Lincoln to enlist in April 1916. 
Robert was not accepted. I don't know if this was because he was not fit or because he was now the head of the household (his father had died in 1915) or because he was a farmer.
Fred enlisted in the Notts and Derby Regiment of the Sherwood Foresters. He became a Lance Corporal in the 15th Battalion and was wounded in 1918. 
He was in hospital in Southampton in May 1918 but was discharged and returned to his Battalion. Tragically he was killed on 29th September 1918 and is commemorated on the Memorial at the Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium and on the war memorials in his home village of Gedney Hill.

Fred's brother John Lynn also enlisted but I have no photographs of him and very few postcards to his mother. John survived the war but died in 1918, perhaps in the flu pandemic.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian69t2.1
title: Letter from Sapper E. Grantham to his wife regarding Bravery Certificate action

description: Written in pencil on over 20 pages from an exercise book 3 days after an event for which he was awarded a Bravery Certificate (submitted separately). A Corporal was wounded but tins in his haversack (submitted separately) saved his life.

Editor's Comment:
Letter written 20th November 1917, sent 23rd November 1917 in a green 'Active Service' envelope. Transcript attached.

Sapper 146217 Ernest Grantham, 156th Field Company, Royal Engineers. The 156th Field Coy. were attached to the 16th (Irish) Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6c3r.2
title: Photographs of James Bircham and family (2)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6e92.2
title: Programme for Welcome Home Banquet, Llandrindod Wells (2)

description: Programme for Welcome Home Banquet held on 7th May 1919 at the Grand Pavilion, Llandrindod Wells.

Part of a collection relating to Walter H. Powell, Llandrindod Wells, (private / driver M2-267205 Mechanised Transport Army Service Corps). Born 1898, Walter tried to join up under-age on a number of occasions, finally succeeding in 1916. He served many months - (more than 2 years?) - in different army units in Britain, before going over to France. He served as a despatch rider for an anti-aircraft battery in 1918-1919. Walter was gassed "suffering the effects all his life". He was a founder member of Toc-H in Llandrindod, and a keen footballer - he died in 1994 aged 96. However Walter's older brothers (Cliff and Percy Powell) and his uncle (Humphrey Powell) died of wounds sustained during the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6i65.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final 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/bodleian6skf.2
title: Account of entertaining wounded Tommies in hospital, Llandrindod Wells (3)

description: Walter Powell's notes record the hotels and large houses in Llandrindod Wells which were commandeered by the War Ministry and turned "into a military hospital for Tommies coming back from France with rheumatism etc." in 1914. "This carried on to 1923". Also that "when I came home [from France] in 1919, I belonged to a Pierotte troupe and we used to go around the boys in Blue and give concerts and have a jolly time... before radio and TV we had to make our own entertainment. We were often a hundred or more. Happy days."

Part of a collection relating to Walter H. Powell, Llandrindod Wells, (private / driver M2-267205 Mechanised Transport Army Service Corps). Born 1898, Walter tried to join up under-age on a number of occasions, finally succeeding in 1916. He served many months - (more than 2 years?) - in different army units in Britain, before going over to France. He served as a despatch rider for an anti-aircraft battery in 1918-1919. Walter was gassed "suffering the effects all his life". He was a founder member of Toc-H in Llandrindod, and a keen footballer - he died in 1994 aged 96. However Walter's older brothers (Cliff and Percy Powell) and his uncle (Humphrey Powell) died of wounds sustained during the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6xnz.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Having a 'soft' time of it after time spent in the front lines / affirms that 'Purple and Black' is meant for Marion Scott / possible changes / requests books and reviews from the 'Morning Post' / mentions Robert Bridges 'Spirit of Man' / includes a list of books and verse that Ivor Gurney would read if he were at home in England.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian86so.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final 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/bodleian873k.2
title: Photographs of James Bircham and family (1)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8fa5.2
title: Embroidered post card from Fred Lynn to his mother (1)

description: One of many in her album, though most were from her son Walter, rather than from Fred.

Fred Lynn's story
Fred's story is told here through a number of photographs and post cards that he sent to his mother. She kept them in an album, together with those from his brothers and sisters.

Frederick Lynn was the sixth of 7 surviving children of Sarah Ann and Christmas Lynn. Fred was born in 1896 and brought up in Gedney Hill in south Lincolnshire. 

Fred and his brothers Robert and John went to Lincoln to enlist in April 1916. 
Robert was not accepted. I don't know if this was because he was not fit or because he was now the head of the household (his father had died in 1915) or because he was a farmer.
Fred enlisted in the Notts and Derby Regiment of the Sherwood Foresters. He became a Lance Corporal in the 15th Battalion and was wounded in 1918. 
He was in hospital in Southampton in May 1918 but was discharged and returned to his Battalion. Tragically he was killed on 29th September 1918 and is commemorated on the Memorial at the Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium and on the war memorials in his home village of Gedney Hill.

Fred's brother John Lynn also enlisted but I have no photographs of him and very few postcards to his mother. John survived the war but died in 1918, perhaps in the flu pandemic.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8gka.2
title: Account of entertaining wounded Tommies in hospital, Llandrindod Wells (2)

description: Walter Powell's notes record the hotels and large houses in Llandrindod Wells which were commandeered by the War Ministry and turned "into a military hospital for Tommies coming back from France with rheumatism etc." in 1914. "This carried on to 1923". Also that "when I came home [from France] in 1919, I belonged to a Pierotte troupe and we used to go around the boys in Blue and give concerts and have a jolly time... before radio and TV we had to make our own entertainment. We were often a hundred or more. Happy days."

Part of a collection relating to Walter H. Powell, Llandrindod Wells, (private / driver M2-267205 Mechanised Transport Army Service Corps). Born 1898, Walter tried to join up under-age on a number of occasions, finally succeeding in 1916. He served many months - (more than 2 years?) - in different army units in Britain, before going over to France. He served as a despatch rider for an anti-aircraft battery in 1918-1919. Walter was gassed "suffering the effects all his life". He was a founder member of Toc-H in Llandrindod, and a keen footballer - he died in 1994 aged 96. However Walter's older brothers (Cliff and Percy Powell) and his uncle (Humphrey Powell) died of wounds sustained during the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8jhd.2
title: Letter of appreciation after being a POW
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8mtr.1
title: Note to Sapper E. Grantham from Father

description: Editor's Comment:
Sapper 146217 Ernest Grantham, 156th Field Company, Royal Engineers. The 156th Field Coy. were attached to the 16th (Irish) Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8unp.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Having a 'soft' time of it after time spent in the front lines / affirms that 'Purple and Black' is meant for Marion Scott / possible changes / requests books and reviews from the 'Morning Post' / mentions Robert Bridges 'Spirit of Man' / includes a list of books and verse that Ivor Gurney would read if he were at home in England.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8x6m.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final 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/bodleiana9t.2
title: Post card from Fred Lynn to his mother (2)

description: Postcard of hospital ship, HMHS Asturias.

I guess this was just to let her know he was still alive. Don't know where it was sent from.

Fred Lynn's story
Fred's story is told here through a number of photographs and post cards that he sent to his mother. She kept them in an album, together with those from his brothers and sisters.

Frederick Lynn was the sixth of 7 surviving children of Sarah Ann and Christmas Lynn. Fred was born in 1896 and brought up in Gedney Hill in south Lincolnshire. 

Fred and his brothers Robert and John went to Lincoln to enlist in April 1916. 
Robert was not accepted. I don't know if this was because he was not fit or because he was now the head of the household (his father had died in 1915) or because he was a farmer.
Fred enlisted in the Notts and Derby Regiment of the Sherwood Foresters. He became a Lance Corporal in the 15th Battalion and was wounded in 1918. 
He was in hospital in Southampton in May 1918 but was discharged and returned to his Battalion. Tragically he was killed on 29th September 1918 and is commemorated on the Memorial at the Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium and on the war memorials in his home village of Gedney Hill.

Fred's brother John Lynn also enlisted but I have no photographs of him and very few postcards to his mother. John survived the war but died in 1918, perhaps in the flu pandemic.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand39r.2
title: Programme for Welcome Home Banquet, Llandrindod Wells (1)

description: Programme for Welcome Home Banquet held on 7th May 1919 at the Grand Pavilion, Llandrindod Wells.

Part of a collection relating to Walter H. Powell, Llandrindod Wells, (private / driver M2-267205 Mechanised Transport Army Service Corps). Born 1898, Walter tried to join up under-age on a number of occasions, finally succeeding in 1916. He served many months - (more than 2 years?) - in different army units in Britain, before going over to France. He served as a despatch rider for an anti-aircraft battery in 1918-1919. Walter was gassed "suffering the effects all his life". He was a founder member of Toc-H in Llandrindod, and a keen footballer - he died in 1994 aged 96. However Walter's older brothers (Cliff and Percy Powell) and his uncle (Humphrey Powell) died of wounds sustained during the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand6b.2
title: Postcard and photo from Fred Lynn to his mother (2)

description: Postcard verse and floral, 'Greetings to my Dear Mother'
Photo of soldiers, Fred is front row (squatting down) on the right.

These both bear the message
"To Mother with Love from Fred" and were written at the same time.


Fred Lynn's story
Fred's story is told here through a number of photographs and post cards that he sent to his mother. She kept them in an album, together with those from his brothers and sisters.

Frederick Lynn was the sixth of 7 surviving children of Sarah Ann and Christmas Lynn. Fred was born in 1896 and brought up in Gedney Hill in south Lincolnshire. 

Fred and his brothers Robert and John went to Lincoln to enlist in April 1916. 
Robert was not accepted. I don't know if this was because he was not fit or because he was now the head of the household (his father had died in 1915) or because he was a farmer.
Fred enlisted in the Notts and Derby Regiment of the Sherwood Foresters. He became a Lance Corporal in the 15th Battalion and was wounded in 1918. 
He was in hospital in Southampton in May 1918 but was discharged and returned to his Battalion. Tragically he was killed on 29th September 1918 and is commemorated on the Memorial at the Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium and on the war memorials in his home village of Gedney Hill.

Fred's brother John Lynn also enlisted but I have no photographs of him and very few postcards to his mother. John survived the war but died in 1918, perhaps in the flu pandemic.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandeze.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final 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/bodleiandgd3.1
title: Autograph Book of Mrs B. Grantham.

description: Autographs of refugees from Antwerp, who may have stayed with the family in York.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandolt.2
title: Book concerning airmen of WW1 (2)

description: The book concerns the exploits of airmen of WW1 and includes Frank Smith on these pages.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandp29.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Includes 'June-to-come', dedicated to F.W. Harvey / 'Hark, Hark, the Lark' / 'Trees' / thanks Marion Scott for a recent parcel / describes letters received / being back in the trenches / discusses the possibility of death / the war in the newspapers, and at sea / defines the term 'in support' / the 'Musical Times' / thanks Scott for her kindness.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandqmv.2
title: Humourous hand drawn postcards belonging to Q. E. McCulloch (2)

description: Series depicting British soldiers in India 1913 to 1918
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandrp3.2
title: Programme for Welcome Home Banquet, Llandrindod Wells (3)

description: Programme for Welcome Home Banquet held on 7th May 1919 at the Grand Pavilion, Llandrindod Wells.

Part of a collection relating to Walter H. Powell, Llandrindod Wells, (private / driver M2-267205 Mechanised Transport Army Service Corps). Born 1898, Walter tried to join up under-age on a number of occasions, finally succeeding in 1916. He served many months - (more than 2 years?) - in different army units in Britain, before going over to France. He served as a despatch rider for an anti-aircraft battery in 1918-1919. Walter was gassed "suffering the effects all his life". He was a founder member of Toc-H in Llandrindod, and a keen footballer - he died in 1994 aged 96. However Walter's older brothers (Cliff and Percy Powell) and his uncle (Humphrey Powell) died of wounds sustained during the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandsa1.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final 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/bodleiandxz6.2
title: 2 postcards from Fred Lynn to his mother (2)

description: The photo of the Camp shows a steam roller on the road. On the back Fred wrote "To Dear Mother with love from Fred.
Hut 35 in full view"
Presumably that was where he was staying.

Fred Lynn's story
Fred's story is told here through a number of photographs and post cards that he sent to his mother. She kept them in an album, together with those from his brothers and sisters.

Frederick Lynn was the sixth of 7 surviving children of Sarah Ann and Christmas Lynn. Fred was born in 1896 and brought up in Gedney Hill in south Lincolnshire. 

Fred and his brothers Robert and John went to Lincoln to enlist in April 1916. 
Robert was not accepted. I don't know if this was because he was not fit or because he was now the head of the household (his father had died in 1915) or because he was a farmer.
Fred enlisted in the Notts and Derby Regiment of the Sherwood Foresters. He became a Lance Corporal in the 15th Battalion and was wounded in 1918. 
He was in hospital in Southampton in May 1918 but was discharged and returned to his Battalion. Tragically he was killed on 29th September 1918 and is commemorated on the Memorial at the Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium and on the war memorials in his home village of Gedney Hill.

Fred's brother John Lynn also enlisted but I have no photographs of him and very few postcards to his mother. John survived the war but died in 1918, perhaps in the flu pandemic.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianhi8.2
title: June-to-Come / Hark, Hark the Lark / Trees

description: Includes 'June-to-Come', dedicated to F.W. Harvey / 'Hark, Hark, the Lark' / 'Trees' / thanks Marion Scott for a recent parcel / describes letters received / being back in the trenches / discusses the possibility of death / the war in the newspapers, and at sea / defines the term 'in support' / the 'Musical Times' / thanks Scott for her kindness.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj1p7.2
title: Account of entertaining wounded Tommies in hospital, Llandrindod Wells (1)

description: Walter Powell's notes record the hotels and large houses in Llandrindod Wells which were commandeered by the War Ministry and turned "into a military hospital for Tommies coming back from France with rheumatism etc." in 1914. "This carried on to 1923". Also that "when I came home [from France] in 1919, I belonged to a Pierotte troupe and we used to go around the boys in Blue and give concerts and have a jolly time... before radio and TV we had to make our own entertainment. We were often a hundred or more. Happy days."

Part of a collection relating to Walter H. Powell, Llandrindod Wells, (private / driver M2-267205 Mechanised Transport Army Service Corps). Born 1898, Walter tried to join up under-age on a number of occasions, finally succeeding in 1916. He served many months - (more than 2 years?) - in different army units in Britain, before going over to France. He served as a despatch rider for an anti-aircraft battery in 1918-1919. Walter was gassed "suffering the effects all his life". He was a founder member of Toc-H in Llandrindod, and a keen footballer - he died in 1994 aged 96. However Walter's older brothers (Cliff and Percy Powell) and his uncle (Humphrey Powell) died of wounds sustained during the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj8qc.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final 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/bodleianjalg.2
title: Book concerning airmen of WW1 (1)

description: The book concerns the exploits of airmen of WW1 and includes Frank Smith on these pages.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjbmt.2
title: Humourous hand drawn postcards belonging to Q. E. McCulloch (1)

description: Series depicting British soldiers in India 1913 to 1918
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjdoh.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjeyq.1
title: Set of four postcards kept throughout war by Sapper E. Grantham

description: Editor's Comment:
Set of four postcards captioned 'Fight the Good Fight': no. 1 depicts a Church Parade with shell in aircraft in background; no. 2 a Second Lieutenant in a trench with open bible; no. 3 a Second Lieutenant praying by a field gun carriage; no. 4 a wounded Second Lieutenant being visited by Christ. 

Sapper 146217 Ernest Grantham, 156th Field Company, Royal Engineers. The 156th Field Coy. were attached to the 16th (Irish) Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjiz8.2
title: 2 postcards from Fred Lynn to his mother (4)

description: The photo of the Camp shows a steam roller on the road. On the back Fred wrote "To Dear Mother with love from Fred.
Hut 35 in full view"
Presumably that was where he was staying.

Fred Lynn's story
Fred's story is told here through a number of photographs and post cards that he sent to his mother. She kept them in an album, together with those from his brothers and sisters.

Frederick Lynn was the sixth of 7 surviving children of Sarah Ann and Christmas Lynn. Fred was born in 1896 and brought up in Gedney Hill in south Lincolnshire. 

Fred and his brothers Robert and John went to Lincoln to enlist in April 1916. 
Robert was not accepted. I don't know if this was because he was not fit or because he was now the head of the household (his father had died in 1915) or because he was a farmer.
Fred enlisted in the Notts and Derby Regiment of the Sherwood Foresters. He became a Lance Corporal in the 15th Battalion and was wounded in 1918. 
He was in hospital in Southampton in May 1918 but was discharged and returned to his Battalion. Tragically he was killed on 29th September 1918 and is commemorated on the Memorial at the Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium and on the war memorials in his home village of Gedney Hill.

Fred's brother John Lynn also enlisted but I have no photographs of him and very few postcards to his mother. John survived the war but died in 1918, perhaps in the flu pandemic.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjna6.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final 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/bodleianjsd7.1
title: Postcard sent to Sapper Grantham by Sister

description: Editor's Comment:
Sapper 146217 Ernest Grantham, 156th Field Company, Royal Engineers. The 156th Field Coy. were attached to the 16th (Irish) Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjt2l.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Includes 'June-to-come', dedicated to F.W. Harvey / 'Hark, Hark, the Lark' / 'Trees' / thanks Marion Scott for a recent parcel / describes letters received / being back in the trenches / discusses the possibility of death / the war in the newspapers, and at sea / defines the term 'in support' / the 'Musical Times' / thanks Scott for her kindness.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianqkv.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final 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/bodleiansvc.2
title: 2 postcards from Fred Lynn to his mother (3)

description: The photo of the Camp shows a steam roller on the road. On the back Fred wrote "To Dear Mother with love from Fred.
Hut 35 in full view"
Presumably that was where he was staying.

Fred Lynn's story
Fred's story is told here through a number of photographs and post cards that he sent to his mother. She kept them in an album, together with those from his brothers and sisters.

Frederick Lynn was the sixth of 7 surviving children of Sarah Ann and Christmas Lynn. Fred was born in 1896 and brought up in Gedney Hill in south Lincolnshire. 

Fred and his brothers Robert and John went to Lincoln to enlist in April 1916. 
Robert was not accepted. I don't know if this was because he was not fit or because he was now the head of the household (his father had died in 1915) or because he was a farmer.
Fred enlisted in the Notts and Derby Regiment of the Sherwood Foresters. He became a Lance Corporal in the 15th Battalion and was wounded in 1918. 
He was in hospital in Southampton in May 1918 but was discharged and returned to his Battalion. Tragically he was killed on 29th September 1918 and is commemorated on the Memorial at the Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium and on the war memorials in his home village of Gedney Hill.

Fred's brother John Lynn also enlisted but I have no photographs of him and very few postcards to his mother. John survived the war but died in 1918, perhaps in the flu pandemic.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianwoy.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Includes 'June-to-come', dedicated to F.W. Harvey / 'Hark, Hark, the Lark' / 'Trees' / thanks Marion Scott for a recent parcel / describes letters received / being back in the trenches / discusses the possibility of death / the war in the newspapers, and at sea / defines the term 'in support' / the 'Musical Times' / thanks Scott for her kindness.