cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8jiz.2
title: Diary and letters of Arthur Lumley Morgan, RAMC

description: A daily diary of an uncle in the RAMC detailing the journey on hospital ship "Gloucester Castle". 

Editor's Comment:
Diary entried 12th August - 2nd September 1916. With two letters from Pte. Morgan to his daughter one sent from Macedonia, 12th January 1917, the other from Russia, 20th January 1919. 

Pte. 8307 Arthur Lumley Morgan, Royal Army Medical Corps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8jow.1
title: Certificate of employment during the war, Richard Pindar R.A.M.C.

description: Richard Pindar's service is listed as with the 1/3rd Northumbrian (sometimes written Northumberland) Field Ambulance (RAMC, TF):
 * July 1916 - January 1918 stretcher bearer
 * January 1918 - July 1919 officers' mess waiter

Part of a collection relating to Richard Pindar R.A.M.C. (regimental number 390549) and George Pindar (regimental number 1156) 3/4th Batt. East Yorks regiment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8nir.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/bodleian8nod.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Life under fire / describes the grave of a Corporal Richard Rhodes, created by German soldiers, that Ivor Gurney visits and is much impressed by / a postponement to 'going over the top' and the reaction to it / thoughts of 'Blighty' / Maisemore Wood / thanks Marion Scott for writing to Gurney's friends / has written no more poems as yet / thinking of Scott's daughter Audrey / asks Scott to inquire as to whether the 5th Gloucesters were mentioned in dispatches / expresses joy over the coming of spring.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8uws.2
title: Photograph and Pass of Jack Barker (3)

description: Photograph and Pass for Corporal 74567 Jack Barker, 2nd Signals Coy. Royal Engineers, 4th Bde. 2nd Division.  He was a motorcycle despatch rider with the Signals and talked of Ypres, Arras and Doullongs Sur Mare. He subsequently had a family of his own, helped build Spitfires during WW2 and maintained a love of motorcycles and cars until his death in June 1975.

Editor's Comment:
Cpl. Barker is pictured with a 550 cc Triumph Model 'H'. 

Pass no. 9120 as stamped by Assistant Provost Marshal, for the period 1st December 1917 to 28th February 1918. 

Cpl. Barker appears to have transferred sometime after this pass was issued into the Tank Corps, receiving a Second Lieutenant's commission.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8vjh.1
title: Typed copy of a diary

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand1xj.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Discusses poems, particularly 'Scots', sent in a previous letter / informs Marion Scott that one letter she sent has gone missing / discusses titles for poems / asks for Scott's opinion of 'In Flanders' and 'Communion' / alludes to a collected volume / W.B. Yeats' poetry / war's progress / returning to battalion (or battle?) / asks Scott's opinion of a new poem, 'Framilode' / includes 'Framilode the Queen' / optimism in the English newspapers / a new song at the front entitled 'Victory' / a sense of weariness and waiting over potential peace negotiations / includes 'The Estaminet'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand7vp.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Describes getting caught in a 'strafe' / in reserves / playing Bach / bored of war / mistakes in battle / the terrifying noise made by machine guns / mending wires / casualties from the strafe / watching the farmers make hay / includes a musical score for 'The Song the Signallers Sung' / very pleased because Ivor Gurney might be recommended for a DCM / mentions Robert Bridges writing about Lord Kitchener / poems for the 'Saturday Westminster' / intends to ask some questions of some officers', etc. behaviour when he is back in England.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandj69.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Written from Bangour War Hospital. Concerned about Marion Scott's reaction to 'The Prussians of England' / discusses Hillaire Belloc / reports on the death of the editor Frank Sidgwick / discusses ''Annie Laurie'' / Colonel Repington / politicians and pacifists / the British Empire / reports that his health is reasonably good, given the circumstances / playing music / reference to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandjaz.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/bodleiando7l.2
title: A second page of the souvenir Air Raid supplement isssued with the Southend Standard

description: The souvenir was found amongst the effects of an aunt (1909-2005).

Editor's Comment:
From the cover: '"Southend Standard" | Air Raid Supplement | Thursday, May 13, 1915'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandoip.1
title: Pay book

description: Pay book
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandqqn.1
title: Postcard Portrait of RAF Cadet Christopher Grey
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandv6v.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/bodleianijh.2
title: On Guard Duty' - Story of Leonard Haynes

description: At some point gransha spent some time at No 1 Dysentry Camp, 24 Stationary Hospital Rouen. Whether the family story about his encounter with the Prince of Wales happened here I have been unable to find out.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj36t.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/bodleianj52q.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis'. This page includes a sketch by David Jones of a long canoe or long ship. (Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' is about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj65.1
title: Postcard to William Schofield

description: Sent to William in September 1917 who unfortunately died in October 1917
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianja7o.2
title: Photograph of a child in uniform, U.S. Soldier Boy

description: Almost every American boy wanted to be a soldier "just like Daddy!"
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjaiz.1
title: Pay book for John Witham

description: Pay Book
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjcvz.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Written while Ivor Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital, where he was sent following numerous suicide threats. Describe surroundings / is glad that recent verses please Marion Scott / promises more to come / mentions 'Crickley Hill' Edward Thomas / includes the poem 'Migrants', which he says is one of his best things / thinks that he may be allowed to play the piano / thanks Scott for some flower that she sent to Warrington / includes 'Twigworth Vicarage' / 'Interval' /a few more to come / a visit to Gloucester Cathedral / reports on books sent as gifts by friends.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjdu1.2
title: Photograph and Pass of Jack Barker (2)

description: Photograph and Pass for Corporal 74567 Jack Barker, 2nd Signals Coy. Royal Engineers, 4th Bde. 2nd Division.  He was a motorcycle despatch rider with the Signals and talked of Ypres, Arras and Doullongs Sur Mare. He subsequently had a family of his own, helped build Spitfires during WW2 and maintained a love of motorcycles and cars until his death in June 1975.

Editor's Comment:
Cpl. Barker is pictured with a 550 cc Triumph Model 'H'. 

Pass no. 9120 as stamped by Assistant Provost Marshal, for the period 1st December 1917 to 28th February 1918. 

Cpl. Barker appears to have transferred sometime after this pass was issued into the Tank Corps, receiving a Second Lieutenant's commission.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjonu.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjr6l.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Written from the Bangour War Hospital. Describes reading an article in the 'Times Literary Supplement' on Horace Walpole / will include some new verses / sorrow over friends being sent away from the hospital / the situation of Italy and the war / hopes that Marion Scott's health is improving / includes 'The Target', 'The Prussians of England' and ''Annie Laurie''.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjra4.2
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/bodleianjyxd.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Discusses poems, particularly 'Scots', sent in a previous letter / informs Marion Scott that one letter she sent has gone missing / discusses titles for poems / asks for Scott's opinion of 'In Flanders' and 'Communion' / alludes to a collected volume / W.B. Yeats' poetry / war's progress / returning to battalion (or battle?) / asks Scott's opinion of a new poem, 'Framilode' / includes 'Framilode the Queen' / optimism in the English newspapers / a new song at the front entitled 'Victory' / a sense of weariness and waiting over potential peace negotiations / includes 'The Estaminet'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianmsv.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Discusses changes to poems / 'Gloucester Lad' / an anthology of poems from the publishers Sidgwick and Jackson / the quality of the 'War Poets', including Rupert Brooke, F.W. Harvey, Lawrence Binyon, W. W. Gibson and G. K. Chesterton / more verses to come  includes 'Purple and Black' / 'Song and Pain' / beautiful moments in war / a new friend / includes a musical score of 'We've been happy...' / friends from college / Shakespeare's sonnets.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianoay.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Mentions J.E. Patterson / Hillaire Belloc's essays / enjoyed Marion Scott's descriptions of 'the West' / existing as a soldier 'on a diet of Shakespeare and Folk Songs' / comments on a sonnet by Rupert Brooke sent to Ivor Gurney by Marion Scott from Brooke's '1914' sonnet sequence that Gurney does not like / mentions Thomas Hardy's 'The Dynasts' / happy to be leaving camp and going to billets / wonders what will happen next to the regiment / includes 'To the Poet Before Battle', which Gurney labels a 'sonnet' / asks Scott to criticise it, and not to think of Wordsworth / reports that the battalion will be reviewed by Lord Kitchener soon / playing in the band / a piece in the trench journal '5th Gloucester Magazine' by F.W. Harvey.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianozl.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/bodleian2cv9.1
title: Details and a letter from a barn written by William Fear
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2dd2.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Writing while the battalion sleeps / includes 'Firelight' / doesn't like cleaning up / includes an untitled verse for the Regimental Sergeant Major / hoping for leave / interested in Marion Scott's comparison between musical and poetic forms / thinking of a time after the war / describes writing 'Firelight' as the fire goes out.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2dy1.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parethesis' entitled 'Invenimus eam in Campis silvae'. This page includes a rough sketch by David Jones of what appears to be a landscape. (Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' is about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2o2p.2
title: Framilode the Queen

description: Discusses poems, particularly 'Scots', sent in a previous letter / informs Marion Scott that one letter she sent has gone missing / discusses titles for poems / asks for Scott's opinion of 'In Flanders' and 'Communion' / alludes to a collected volume / W.B. Yeats' poetry / war's progress / returning to battalion (or battle?) / asks Scott's opinion of a new poem, 'Framilode' / includes 'Framilode the Queen' / optimism in the English newspapers / a new song at the front entitled 'Victory' / a sense of weariness and waiting over potential peace negotiations / includes 'The Estaminet'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2r5w.2
title: Medals, Memorial Plaque and Scroll of John Dawson (2)

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/bodleian2ssf.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Includes 'To England - A Note', in Marion Scott's hand / glad that Scott's health has improved / hoping for warmer weather / discusses 'By the Bierside' by John Masefield and Ivor Gurney's setting of it to music / mentions 'For England' and 'February Day' / discusses possible titles: 'Songs Before Dawn' / gives Scott leave to make changes / includes alterations for the 'Preface' to the collected volume / changes for 'To Certain Comrades' / gives Scott leave to deal with punctuation and 'Carol' / working on another sonnet / mentions potential publishers, with Sidgwick and Jackson as the preferred option / a new lyric forming beginning 'Starlight in Water'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2tdm.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/bodleian2x9a.1
title: Newspaper article

description: Reports the winning of the Military Medal by Lance Corporal 9849 W.M.H Brown for Bravery in Face of the Enemy and saving a comrade.  he eventually ended up as an RSM
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian62e7.1
title: Letter from Annie Grieg

description: Annie  Renton Grieg was born in England on 22nd February 1885.  She was a daughter of Thomas Hutchison Grieg, a minister, and Alice Renton Grieg (nee Bapty).  Annie was a nurse during and after the First World War.

During the conflict she was a nurse at a tented hospital near Chanteloup, Troyes, France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian63ot.2
title: Photograph of Russian Field Hospital

description: This is a very rare image.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6bcd.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/bodleian6bqv.1
title: Letter: To H.N. Howells.

description: Discusses current mood / praises H.N. Howells' self-discipline and talent at music / thanks Howells for 'generous' letter / discusses depression following the death of a friend ('F.W. H.') / describes his friends gifts and predictions as to what he might have become had he lived / unable to work / talks about living in times where 'good' battles 'evil' / the responsibilities of artists / death / praises the courage of his battalion / reliance on comradeship in war / the pride, courage and courtesy of French civilians.  [F.W. Harvey, it was to be discovered shortly afterwards, had not been killed but had been captured on 17 August, seeing out the remainder of the war in prison camps.]
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6f9c.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/bodleian6fks.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Describes a 'bang' nearby / will return soon to the trenches / hopes that Marion Scott is well / discusses the book 'Friends' / recent poems and soldiers' slang in verse / intends to write another sonnet and describes it / discusses Scott's opinions of 'Flanders', 'Poor Folk' and 'To Certain Comrades' / includes 'After-Glow', dedicated to F.W. Harvey / 'Beauty', which Ivor Gurney notes, 'Bully beef at fault'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6m5w.1
title: A Cameron Captured'

description: 1,2,3 Attestation papers
4,5,6 Two group photographs: new recruits
7 Card: To father
8 Letter: Wounded
9 First page of New Testiment
10 Letter: Reported missing
11 Card:  Captured and wounded
12 Card:  Captured
13 Letter:  Parcel
14 Letter;  Quedlinburg POW camp
15 Letter:  Food parcel
16 Card:  Recovered from wound
17 Card:  Parcel
18 Letter; To mother
19 POW money
20 Card:  Started work as POW
21,22,23 Card:  Parcels
24 Card: To mother
25 Letter: To mother
26 Letter: To mother
27,28 Cards:  Parcels
29 POW concert programme
30,31 POW Group photo.
32 Letter:  To mother
33 Card:  From Holland (on his way home)
34 Letter:  King George letter to POWs'
35 Certificate:  Ensuring funds while seeking employment
36 Certificate:  Transfer to Z reserve
37 Summary of POW mail
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ndu.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Discusses poems, particularly 'Scots', sent in a previous letter / informs Marion Scott that one letter she sent has gone missing / discusses titles for poems / asks for Scott's opinion of 'In Flanders' and 'Communion' / alludes to a collected volume / W.B. Yeats' poetry / war's progress / returning to battalion (or battle?) / asks Scott's opinion of a new poem, 'Framilode' / includes 'Framilode the Queen' / optimism in the English newspapers / a new song at the front entitled 'Victory' / a sense of weariness and waiting over potential peace negotiations / includes 'The Estaminet'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6qol.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian7vi.1
title: Extract from traveling diary of James Ryan from Dardanelles Turkey
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8aa8.1
title: Pre-war details for William Fear
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8de3.1
title: Photographs with bullet hole

description: The pictures are of a wife and child sent to her husband.
Immediately after the birth he went to France where he received and kept the photographs in his wallet.  

The hole or tear in them indicates the bullet that killed him.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8kk7.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Reports on receiving various letters and Leo Tolstoy's 'Cossacks' / expresses regret about Marion Scott's recurring illness / reports that he has been declared fit for duty / missing 'Church Parade' / receiving a 'Poetry Review' and a 'Times Literary Supplement' / discusses a performance by the Carnegie Quartet / wonders about the progress of Scott's book / mentions 'The Shropshire Lad' / Robert Bridges / Lascelles Abercrombie in the 'Poetry Review' / discusses reaction to the death of Edward Thomas / 'Cossacks' and Tolstoy as a writer / thinks that the 'Poetry Review' may start him writing verses again.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8kxe.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/bodleian8qcj.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/bodleian8qqw.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Writes from the Bangour War Hospital. Has just finished writing some 'unsatisfactory' verse / reports on health, and being kept to bed and a 'light diet' / good to rest and here soldiers' stories / fills Marion Scott in on movements and events leading up to his leaving France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8sd4.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Discusses poems, particularly 'Scots', sent in a previous letter / informs Marion Scott that one letter she sent has gone missing / discusses titles for poems / asks for Scott's opinion of 'In Flanders' and 'Communion' / alludes to a collected volume / W.B. Yeats' poetry / war's progress / returning to battalion (or battle?) / asks Scott's opinion of a new poem, 'Framilode' / includes 'Framilode the Queen' / optimism in the English newspapers / a new song at the front entitled 'Victory' / a sense of weariness and waiting over potential peace negotiations / includes 'The Estaminet'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8vov.2
title: Photograph of Rumanian Nurse

description: This is a very rare image.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandd78.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Discusses poems, particularly 'Scots', sent in a previous letter / informs Marion Scott that one letter she sent has gone missing / discusses titles for poems / asks for Scott's opinion of 'In Flanders' and 'Communion' / alludes to a collected volume / W.B. Yeats' poetry / war's progress / returning to battalion (or battle?) / asks Scott's opinion of a new poem, 'Framilode' / includes 'Framilode the Queen' / optimism in the English newspapers / a new song at the front entitled 'Victory' / a sense of weariness and waiting over potential peace negotiations / includes 'The Estaminet'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandqv9.2
title: Medals, Memorial Plaque and Scroll of John Dawson (3)

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/bodleiandtiy.2
title: Framilode the Queen

description: Discusses poems, particularly 'Scots', sent in a previous letter / informs Marion Scott that one letter she sent has gone missing / discusses titles for poems / asks for Scott's opinion of 'In Flanders' and 'Communion' / alludes to a collected volume / W.B. Yeats' poetry / war's progress / returning to battalion (or battle?) / asks Scott's opinion of a new poem, 'Framilode' / includes 'Framilode the Queen' / optimism in the English newspapers / a new song at the front entitled 'Victory' / a sense of weariness and waiting over potential peace negotiations / includes 'The Estaminet'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandu9q.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Describes the current village that the regiment is staying in / asks after Marion Scott's influenza, and hopes that the rest of the family is well / wants to write a verse about the village that the regiment is now staying in / discusses possible titles for a collected volume / includes 'Home-sickness' / 'Servitude' / instructs that these two sonnets, as well as 'For England', 'Pain', and one other will form the sequence 'Sonnets 1914' /  explains what they are meant to signify / discusses a travel volume about South America entitled 'By Land and Sea' / wonders about Germany's potential collapse / hopes that he has not offended Scott with a recent 'outburst' over 'The Fire Kindled'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianduss.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/bodleiangsa.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Includes a list of poems for 'Severn and Somme' / receiving a letter / glad that Marion Scott's health is improving / comments on the coming of spring / 'Strange Service' as a possible title for 'Severn and Somme' / Robert Bridges / William Watson / Brahms / the marriage of H.N. Howells / Army biscuits / the arrangement of verses / notes that he does not have it in him to write a good letter.