cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian88e1.2
title: Official German Cards showing wrecked British Tanks (3)

description: Photograph postcards of wrecked British tanks: a Mark IV 'Female' tank (armed with machine guns); German staff officers with five wrecked tanks in background; two wrecked Mark IVs, one 'Male' (armed with machine guns and two 6pdr guns); a wrecked Mark IV 'Female' with German soldiers to front; a ditched Mark IV 'Male' with German staff officers to front. Photographs taken at Cambrai and possibly the 'Tank Graveyard' along the Menin Road. 

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian89w9.2
title: Casualty details for Lance Corporal Herbert Oswald Simons (2)

description: Casualty details and modern in memoriam certificate from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for Lance Corporal Herbert Oswald Simons (Service Number 11602) of A Company, 7th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. He died on 11th May 1917. Part of a collection relating to Lance Corporal Simons, deposited by his nephew.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8coq.2
title: Letters of Lieutenant A. Fraser MacLean, 16th Royal Scots.  The 'Merchant Maiden' Magazine (2)

description: Gives a good administartive history, as well as detailing aspects of his toime during the war, and what he thought of life during this time.  Also provides an image of him.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8kx.2
title: Note about stores taken over by F Batt.

description: Editor's Comment:
List of stores taken over, including grenades, ammunition, and dixies. As practice grenades are mentioned, seems unlikely to be 'Trench Stores': more likely a reserve held behind the lines. 

From the effects of Lieutenant Wharton Rye Collinge, 2nd/6th (Rifle) Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment), who died of gas poisoning 7th August 1917 and is buried in Merville Communal Cemetery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8l5o.2
title: Official German Cards showing British POWs (1)

description: Photographs of Prisoners Of War: group of British prisoners in Helmets outside a church (which could have been taken at any time from mid-1916); a mixed group of British and French prisoners being marched through a town by German guards (the French wear steel helmets, the Germans Pickelhauben, the British cloth headgear: given the relative dates of introduction of steel helmets, this photograph must have been taken in late 1915 - early 1916). 

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8mnx.2
title: Photographs of James Albert Cochrane (2)

description: These are pictures of my grandfather, always known as Albert. Born 1898 and lived in Manchester

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 39261 Albert J. Cochrane, Manchester Regiment, transferred to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers (regt. number 59572), ending the war as a Sapper in the Royal Engineers (regt. number 242522).

The photograph to the right shows Pte. Cochrane with the capbadge of the Manchester Regiment (his first unit). That to the left with the capbadge of the Royal Engineers and shoulder title of a Territorial Force Royal Engineer unit (though the name is indistinct). The middle photograph shows Sapper Cochrane still in the Royal Engineers, but with the  patch of the 9th (Scottish) Division on his shoulders, implying that by this time he had transferred to the 62nd, 63rd, or 90th Field companies (or possibly the 9th Divisional Signal Company).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8nph.2
title: Photograph of William Cranston taken on Easter Sunday, 1917

description: Photo of men of the 13th Bn King's Regiment, taken at Arras 1917.

Editor's Comment:
Group photograph, soldiers standing around a captured German Maxim Machine Gun. Photograph marked: 'Official Photograph | Crown Copyright Reserved | Published by the Daily Mail'. Col. Cranston standing front far left.  

Second Lieutenant (acting Lieutenant Colonel) William James Cranston DSO, Royal Scots Fusiliers and Staff, served additionally in the North Staffordshire Regiment and commanded the 13th Bn. King's Liverpool Regiment and 3rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8o91.2
title: Artifacts relating to William Robert Jones (1)

description: Artifacts relating to Private Wiliam Robert Jones (no.22645) including letters, identification, music union card and a postcard from Italy.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8xlw.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (4)

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

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian9us.2
title: Official German Cards showing British POWs (3)

description: Photographs of Prisoners Of War: group of British prisoners in Helmets outside a church (which could have been taken at any time from mid-1916); a mixed group of British and French prisoners being marched through a town by German guards (the French wear steel helmets, the Germans Pickelhauben, the British cloth headgear: given the relative dates of introduction of steel helmets, this photograph must have been taken in late 1915 - early 1916). 

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand4se.2
title: Wharton Collinge with his parents

description: As a baby.

Editor's Comment:
Lieutenant Wharton Rye Collinge, 2nd/6th (Rifle) Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment), died of gas poisoning 7th August 1917 and is buried in Merville Communal Cemetery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand57r.2
title: Letters of Lieutenant A. Fraser MacLean, 16th Royal Scots.  The 'Merchant Maiden' Magazine (1)

description: Gives a good administartive history, as well as detailing aspects of his toime during the war, and what he thought of life during this time.  Also provides an image of him.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiande39.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (1)

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

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandf1p.2
title: Despatches of William Cranston (5)

description: A collection of the 'Mentions in Despatches' of William Cranston 1914-18.

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant (acting Lieutenant Colonel) William James Cranston DSO, Royal Scots Fusiliers and Staff, served additionally in the North Staffordshire Regiment and commanded the 13th Bn. King's Liverpool Regiment and 3rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandg2f.2
title: Hand Made Dagger (Trench Art), Lambert Fell, Yorkshire Regiment. (6)

description: These items were given to me by my late mother.
The postcard/ birthday card was from my grandfather LAMBERT FELL who was a 2nd Lieutenant to my mother for her birthday on 11th May.
The 2 daggers have been hand made.
1. Appears that the handle is made from old shell cartridges.
2. Has SOMME crudely engraved.

Editor's Comment:
Acting Serjeant 21164 Lambert Fell, Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards), later Temporary Seond Lieutenant, Labour Corps (Comissioned 2nd April, 1918).
The second knife, in the form of a scimitar, is of copper presumably sourced from the driving band of a shell. Punched decoration, including the word 'SOMME'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandjxb.2
title: Group photographs including William Cranston (3)

description: Undated photos of groups of officers taken during the Great War.  In the first Col Cranston is front centre in the uniform of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, in the second he is pictured front centre with a Machine Gun Corps badge, and in the third front, 4th from right with an East Lancashire Regiment badge.

Editor's Comment:
The first photograph is of the officers of the 13th Bn. King's Liverpool Regiment, the second of the officers of a Machine Gun Corps Battalion (probably the 3rd), the third of the officers of a Divisional Headquaters taken after the war (Note War and Victory medal ribbons). 

Second Lieutenant (acting Lieutenant Colonel) William James Cranston DSO, Royal Scots Fusiliers and Staff, served additionally in the North Staffordshire Regiment and commanded the 13th Bn. King's Liverpool Regiment and 3rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandsbp.2
title: Hand grenade lecture notes by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (44)

description: A handwritten notebook containing notes written by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (Service Number 2090) of the East Riding Yeomanry about a lecture on hand grenades. The book includes information about topics including explosives, trench catapults, the West Spring Gun, and the Stokes Gun, and is illustrated with diagrams. Part of a collection relating to Robert Rafton, deposited by his great-niece.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandvyc.2
title: Group photographs including William Cranston (1)

description: Undated photos of groups of officers taken during the Great War.  In the first Col Cranston is front centre in the uniform of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, in the second he is pictured front centre with a Machine Gun Corps badge, and in the third front, 4th from right with an East Lancashire Regiment badge.

Editor's Comment:
The first photograph is of the officers of the 13th Bn. King's Liverpool Regiment, the second of the officers of a Machine Gun Corps Battalion (probably the 3rd), the third of the officers of a Divisional Headquaters taken after the war (Note War and Victory medal ribbons). 

Second Lieutenant (acting Lieutenant Colonel) William James Cranston DSO, Royal Scots Fusiliers and Staff, served additionally in the North Staffordshire Regiment and commanded the 13th Bn. King's Liverpool Regiment and 3rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandzqj.2
title: Photographs of Cologne and British occupation (3)

description: Photographs of British occupation of Cologne: a parade with bagpipers; general views of the city and cathedral; an Austin series 3 armoured car in a square. 

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.

No. 44 Casulaty Clearing Station was located in Cologne from April, 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj3yn.2
title: Group photographs including William Cranston (2)

description: Undated photos of groups of officers taken during the Great War.  In the first Col Cranston is front centre in the uniform of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, in the second he is pictured front centre with a Machine Gun Corps badge, and in the third front, 4th from right with an East Lancashire Regiment badge.

Editor's Comment:
The first photograph is of the officers of the 13th Bn. King's Liverpool Regiment, the second of the officers of a Machine Gun Corps Battalion (probably the 3rd), the third of the officers of a Divisional Headquaters taken after the war (Note War and Victory medal ribbons). 

Second Lieutenant (acting Lieutenant Colonel) William James Cranston DSO, Royal Scots Fusiliers and Staff, served additionally in the North Staffordshire Regiment and commanded the 13th Bn. King's Liverpool Regiment and 3rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj51z.2
title: William Cranston's DSO

description: Award of DSO 1918.

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant (acting Lieutenant Colonel) William James Cranston DSO, Royal Scots Fusiliers and Staff, served additionally in the North Staffordshire Regiment and commanded the 13th Bn. King's Liverpool Regiment and 3rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj83l.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (2)

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

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

description: These items were given to me by my late mother.
The postcard/ birthday card was from my grandfather LAMBERT FELL who was a 2nd Lieutenant to my mother for her birthday on 11th May.
The 2 daggers have been hand made.
1. Appears that the handle is made from old shell cartridges.
2. Has SOMME crudely engraved.

Editor's Comment:
Acting Serjeant 21164 Lambert Fell, Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards), later Temporary Seond Lieutenant, Labour Corps (Comissioned 2nd April, 1918).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjgqd.2
title: Photographs of Cologne and British occupation (5)

description: Photographs of British occupation of Cologne: a parade with bagpipers; general views of the city and cathedral; an Austin series 3 armoured car in a square. 

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.

No. 44 Casulaty Clearing Station was located in Cologne from April, 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjl72.2
title: Character Certificate.  Private Henry Wood (2)

description: Private Wood joined the Royal Scots in September 1914 and is believed to have served in Salonica, Greece.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4760367
title: Local Patron Saint

description: Story collected by Isabelle Martin, a student at Clones (Clochar Lughaidh) school (Clones, Co. Monaghan) (no informant identified).
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Sr. Máire.
description: Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5105860
title: There was an old man named Johnny Boyle who lived in an old house at Crush-a-Roddy.

description: Story collected by Alphonsus G. O' Kelly, a student at Walterstown school (Walterstown, Co. Meath) from informant John Byrd.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Proinseas, Bean Uí Cheallaigh.
description: Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5124119
title: Local Shipwreck

description: Story collected by Stasia Rossiter, a student at Tagoat school (Tagoat, Co. Wexford) from informant John Murphy.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Pádraig Coilféir.
description: Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4760368
title: Local Patron Saint

description: Story collected by a student at Clones (Clochar Lughaidh) school (Clones, Co. Monaghan) (no informant identified).
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Sr. Máire.
description: Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5105864
title: An old man names Pat Byrd was coming home one night on the Church Road.

description: Story collected by Alphonsus G. O' Kelly, a student at Walterstown school (Walterstown, Co. Meath) from informant John Byrd.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Proinseas, Bean Uí Cheallaigh.
description: Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4760370
title: Local Fairs

description: Story collected by Isabel Martin, a student at Clones (Clochar Lughaidh) school (Clones, Co. Monaghan) (no informant identified).
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Sr. Máire.
description: Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5119643
title: Buying and Selling

description: Story collected by Joan Moran, a student at Tyrrellspass (2) school (Tyrrellspass, Co. Westmeath) (no informant identified).
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mrs Payne.
description: Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5119644
title: Local Cures

description: Story collected by a student at Knockaville school (Knockaville, Co. Westmeath) (no informant identified).
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher C. de Búrca.
description: Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5105869
title: The priests who were appointed C. C. after Father Tom Langan were from 1872...

description: Story collected by a student at Ardcath school (Ardcath, Co. Meath) (no informant identified).
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Seosamh S. Ó Duinnithín.
description: Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5124120
title: Dunbrody Abbey

description: Story collected by a student at Shelbaggan Convent school (Shelbaggan, Co. Wexford) (no informant identified).
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher An tSr M. Breandán.
description: Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5119645
title: Old Crafts - Rush Candle-Making

description: Story collected by a student at Glascorn school (Glascarn, Co. Westmeath) (no informant identified).
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mrs Hope.
description: Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.
DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_5124124
title: Buried Gold

description: Story collected by a student at Mayglass school (Mayglass, Co. Wexford) from informant Phil Parle.
description: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Seósamh P. Mac Shomáis.
description: Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.