cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6age.2
title: Interview with L.J. Ounsworth, Royal Artillery (part 6)

description: Last part of six sections of a recording of a long interview with L.J. Ounsworth, Royal Artillery (interviewer unknown), continues directly from the fifth part. Length 30 mins approx, includes: introduction of wireless to the battery so they can communicate with the observer planes. Later, after the Armistice, he describes the ill-feeling towards strikers on the home front, in particular some Welsh miners who were drafted into his battery weeks after the Armistice. He also describes disturbances and riots with police [military police?] on stations in England as former troops (already discharged) try to board trains which soldiers are not allowed to travel on.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6atz.2
title: Memoire as letter: "The First Tanks" by William Ernest Foster

description: Letter detailing Pte. Foster's part in the first ever use of Tanks in battle, the attack on Flers, 15th Spetember 1916. 
Accoring to T. Pidgeon, 'The Tanks at Flers', vol. 1, Appendices 1 and 2, Pte. Foster served as a gunner in Tank D24, 751, commanded by Lt. W. Stones, part of no.4 section, D coy.  Heavy Section Machine Gun Corps. His unit was attached to the 50th Division on 15th September 1916. This tank got as far as the 1st objective on that day having passed over/through the German front line. The area of action was around Martinpuich.

Pte. 200816 William Ernest Foster, D Coy. Heavy Section, Machine Gun Corps (later D Bn. Heavy Branch, Machine Gun Corps and 4th Bn. Tank Corps), served originally in the Machine Gun Corps (Motors).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6dfv.2
title: Photograph of Pvt. Alick Milne  Cameron Highlanders (3)

description: He attended Watsons College; and died aged 18 at the battle of Loos 1915

Scrap book articles including a poem by Conen Doyle
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6dlx.2
title: Photograph of Frank Brown (2)

description: Photograph of Frank Brown in the uniform of the Norfolk Regiment (indicated by cap badge). Note the Long Service / Good Conduct chevron (one for two years service) on his lower left sleeve. 


Cpl. Frank Brown lied about his age to join the Norfolk Regiment. He transferred to the Tanks, training at Barnham nr. Thetford before going to France. He later became a Serjeant.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6jas.2
title: Various object left me by A.V. Woods (1)

description: I am sorry, but I know very little about the pieces. All brought back from France by Mr. Albert V. Woods member of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6kbm.2
title: Naval Armistice terms with a complete list of the interned German High Seas Fleet (18)

description: Extracts of naval armistice terms including a complete list of the interned German High Seas Fleet.
Obtained by Captain Leard MBE from a friend.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6qjz.2
title: Percy Watson (2)

description: Attached are photographs of Corporal Percy Watson, who originally enlisted with the 7th Battlion, Mancheser Regiment and then was merged into the East Lancashire Regiment towards the end of the war. The 7th Manchester Regiment was a Terattorial Regiment and as Percy was a butcher by trade, it is believed that he was the Butcher to the regiment. 

Percy was born on the 27th August 1888 in Burnley to Alfred Watson and Ellen Walters. He married Bertha Lakin on the 16th November 1908 in Chorlton cum Hardy, Manchester. They had two children, Stanley, born in 1909 and Marjorie born in 1912. She is still alive but has limited memories of her father as she was six at the time of his death. 

Attached are letters to his wife Bertha, including one written the day he was killed. 

There is a detailed letter stating how Percy was killed, his death certificate, letters from the Commonwealth War Graves on both his burial and re burial and a very heartfelt letter written in August 1918 where he is clearly very certain that he will die in the trenches. 

There are also postcards from Percy's children and his wife for his birthday. These have shrapnel holes through them as he had them on his person when he was killed. Pictures are also attached of Percy and his family
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6rqu.2
title: Postcards from John Inch Low and Tommy Macartney (22)

description: Postcards from John Inch Low sent from Bombay, Basra (x3), Chambery, Suez, London, Salonika, Shatt-al-Arab (waterway) near Basra, France, Ferviaria (Italy), Egypt, Aden, Port Said.

Silk postcard from Tommy Macartney, France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6trs.2
title: Dead Germans in trench (1)

description: Official photograph of dead Germans in teir front line trench near Guillemont France.

Editor's Comment:
'Official Photograph Issued for Press Bureau by "Topical". Presumably taken soon after the Battle of Guillemont (launched 18th August, village taken 3rd September 1916) during the Battle of the Somme.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6usv.2
title: Postcard home (2)

description: My grandmother's brother, George Frederick Bamforth had never been outside Yorkshire/Lincolnshire until he joined the Royal Artillery and was posted to Italy.  His postcard home talks of the heat and of grapes and oranges growing outside.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6xy.2
title: News of the World report on Zeppelin Raid (1)

description: News of the World, Sunday 17th June 1917 with headline 'Zeppelin Destroyed on East Coast'. From collection of Driver William Smith , R.E.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian84jp.2
title: Percy Watson (1)

description: Attached are photographs of Corporal Percy Watson, who originally enlisted with the 7th Battlion, Mancheser Regiment and then was merged into the East Lancashire Regiment towards the end of the war. The 7th Manchester Regiment was a Terattorial Regiment and as Percy was a butcher by trade, it is believed that he was the Butcher to the regiment. 

Percy was born on the 27th August 1888 in Burnley to Alfred Watson and Ellen Walters. He married Bertha Lakin on the 16th November 1908 in Chorlton cum Hardy, Manchester. They had two children, Stanley, born in 1909 and Marjorie born in 1912. She is still alive but has limited memories of her father as she was six at the time of his death. 

Attached are letters to his wife Bertha, including one written the day he was killed. 

There is a detailed letter stating how Percy was killed, his death certificate, letters from the Commonwealth War Graves on both his burial and re burial and a very heartfelt letter written in August 1918 where he is clearly very certain that he will die in the trenches. 

There are also postcards from Percy's children and his wife for his birthday. These have shrapnel holes through them as he had them on his person when he was killed. Pictures are also attached of Percy and his family
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8hbx.2
title: Naval Armistice terms with a complete list of the interned German High Seas Fleet (16)

description: Extracts of naval armistice terms including a complete list of the interned German High Seas Fleet.
Obtained by Captain Leard MBE from a friend.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8lsw.2
title: Postcard home (1)

description: My grandmother's brother, George Frederick Bamforth had never been outside Yorkshire/Lincolnshire until he joined the Royal Artillery and was posted to Italy.  His postcard home talks of the heat and of grapes and oranges growing outside.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8otp.2
title: Certificate of Identity of William Ernest Foster (1)

description: Certificate of Identity and Provisional Protection Certificate of Pte. Foster, used for chashing his temporary pension allowance.

Pte. 200816 William Ernest Foster, D Coy. Heavy Section, Machine Gun Corps (later D Bn. Heavy Branch, Machine Gun Corps and 4th Bn. Tank Corps), served originally in the Machine Gun Corps (Motors).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8pr7.2
title: Emergency Certificate of British Nationality of George Henry Morton (2)

description: Emergency certificate of British Nationality, issued as a Passport to allow George Morton (b. 4th July 1900) to return to Britain via France. 

George Henry Herbert Morton has no medal card in the Nation Archives records, suggesting that he went overseas too late to qualify for the War or Victory Medals. He seems to have been attached to the staff of the British Air Attache in Madrid, Lt. Col. Sandy, and has been photographed for this document in the early (and short lived) 1918 pattern Other Ranks uniform unique to the Royal Air Force.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8rpq.2
title: Percy Watson (5)

description: Attached are photographs of Corporal Percy Watson, who originally enlisted with the 7th Battlion, Mancheser Regiment and then was merged into the East Lancashire Regiment towards the end of the war. The 7th Manchester Regiment was a Terattorial Regiment and as Percy was a butcher by trade, it is believed that he was the Butcher to the regiment. 

Percy was born on the 27th August 1888 in Burnley to Alfred Watson and Ellen Walters. He married Bertha Lakin on the 16th November 1908 in Chorlton cum Hardy, Manchester. They had two children, Stanley, born in 1909 and Marjorie born in 1912. She is still alive but has limited memories of her father as she was six at the time of his death. 

Attached are letters to his wife Bertha, including one written the day he was killed. 

There is a detailed letter stating how Percy was killed, his death certificate, letters from the Commonwealth War Graves on both his burial and re burial and a very heartfelt letter written in August 1918 where he is clearly very certain that he will die in the trenches. 

There are also postcards from Percy's children and his wife for his birthday. These have shrapnel holes through them as he had them on his person when he was killed. Pictures are also attached of Percy and his family
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8v5t.2
title: Postcards from John Inch Low and Tommy Macartney (25)

description: Postcards from John Inch Low sent from Bombay, Basra (x3), Chambery, Suez, London, Salonika, Shatt-al-Arab (waterway) near Basra, France, Ferviaria (Italy), Egypt, Aden, Port Said.

Silk postcard from Tommy Macartney, France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian9ca.2
title: Christmas card home

description: From George Frederick Bamforth to his mother.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianbh2.2
title: Naval Armistice terms with a complete list of the interned German High Seas Fleet (14)

description: Extracts of naval armistice terms including a complete list of the interned German High Seas Fleet.
Obtained by Captain Leard MBE from a friend.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiancy9.2
title: Postcard from Driver William Smith , R.E, (1)

description: Postcard sent by Driver William Smith , R.E from front. Picture shows a ruined house on the 'Rue Emile Legrelle' (?) and writing describes seeing the houses (or similar) being destroyed.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand9g1.2
title: Autograph Album of Arthur G Morgan (Royal Navy) (31)

description: We think that Arthur put this album together whilst in the Navy Hospital in Plymouth in 1916-7. It contains poems, cartoons and drawings by his fellow sailors. It also contains two poems added in 1979 shortly before his death.
My wife Andrea bought his house 15 St Hildas Road, Griffithstown, Pontypool after his death in about 1982. Although all of Arthur's posessions had been removed, this album was left behind. We have looked sfter it ever since. I'm not sure who owns the album or the copyright.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandbdp.2
title: News of the World report on Zeppelin Raid (2)

description: News of the World, Sunday 17th June 1917 with headline 'Zeppelin Destroyed on East Coast'. From collection of Driver William Smith , R.E.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianddqy.2
title: John Booth in the First World War
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandhba.2
title: Emergency Certificate of British Nationality of George Henry Morton (1)

description: Emergency certificate of British Nationality, issued as a Passport to allow George Morton (b. 4th July 1900) to return to Britain via France. 

George Henry Herbert Morton has no medal card in the Nation Archives records, suggesting that he went overseas too late to qualify for the War or Victory Medals. He seems to have been attached to the staff of the British Air Attache in Madrid, Lt. Col. Sandy, and has been photographed for this document in the early (and short lived) 1918 pattern Other Ranks uniform unique to the Royal Air Force.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandl3f.2
title: Naval Armistice terms with a complete list of the interned German High Seas Fleet (19)

description: Extracts of naval armistice terms including a complete list of the interned German High Seas Fleet.
Obtained by Captain Leard MBE from a friend.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandlea.2
title: Percy Watson (7)

description: Attached are photographs of Corporal Percy Watson, who originally enlisted with the 7th Battlion, Mancheser Regiment and then was merged into the East Lancashire Regiment towards the end of the war. The 7th Manchester Regiment was a Terattorial Regiment and as Percy was a butcher by trade, it is believed that he was the Butcher to the regiment. 

Percy was born on the 27th August 1888 in Burnley to Alfred Watson and Ellen Walters. He married Bertha Lakin on the 16th November 1908 in Chorlton cum Hardy, Manchester. They had two children, Stanley, born in 1909 and Marjorie born in 1912. She is still alive but has limited memories of her father as she was six at the time of his death. 

Attached are letters to his wife Bertha, including one written the day he was killed. 

There is a detailed letter stating how Percy was killed, his death certificate, letters from the Commonwealth War Graves on both his burial and re burial and a very heartfelt letter written in August 1918 where he is clearly very certain that he will die in the trenches. 

There are also postcards from Percy's children and his wife for his birthday. These have shrapnel holes through them as he had them on his person when he was killed. Pictures are also attached of Percy and his family
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandovo.2
title: Postcards from John Inch Low and Tommy Macartney (23)

description: Postcards from John Inch Low sent from Bombay, Basra (x3), Chambery, Suez, London, Salonika, Shatt-al-Arab (waterway) near Basra, France, Ferviaria (Italy), Egypt, Aden, Port Said.

Silk postcard from Tommy Macartney, France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandqcl.2
title: Postcards from John Inch Low and Tommy Macartney (27)

description: Postcards from John Inch Low sent from Bombay, Basra (x3), Chambery, Suez, London, Salonika, Shatt-al-Arab (waterway) near Basra, France, Ferviaria (Italy), Egypt, Aden, Port Said.

Silk postcard from Tommy Macartney, France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandwfw.2
title: Photograph of Pvt. Alick Milne  Cameron Highlanders (2)

description: He attended Watsons College; and died aged 18 at the battle of Loos 1915

Scrap book articles including a poem by Conen Doyle
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandwlq.2
title: Photograph of Frank Brown (1)

description: Photograph of Sjt. Frank Brown in the uniform of the Tank Corps. Note part of the white Tankers badge on the right sleeve above the serjeants stripes, and bands of coloured cloth (barely visible) on his epaulettes, indicating the Tank battalion he served with. 

Cpl. Frank Brown lied about his age to join the Norfolk Regiment. He transferred to the Tanks, training at Barnham nr. Thetford before going to France. He later became a Serjeant.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj2qh.2
title: Silk Christmas card sent by Arthur Burdett Collins

description: The card was sent by my great uncle, Arthur Burdett Collins to his mother, Elizabeth Collins,who lived in Berriew, Powys, Wales.  He is known to have fought in the Battle of the Somme. The card is made with a flap and the greeting inserted into the pocket. Arthur Burdett Collins emigrated to Canada in 1928 and no more contact was made with him. The card remained at the family home in Wales until 2004 when it was presented to his children, after they were traced in Canada through family history research. 

Editor's Comment:
'Happy Xmas', church with Holly, bells, and Mistletoe. Two Arthur B. Collins appear in the Medal Card index of the Nation Archives, and both served in the Royal Engineers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj4g6.2
title: Autograph Album of Arthur G Morgan (Royal Navy) (32)

description: We think that Arthur put this album together whilst in the Navy Hospital in Plymouth in 1916-7. It contains poems, cartoons and drawings by his fellow sailors. It also contains two poems added in 1979 shortly before his death.
My wife Andrea bought his house 15 St Hildas Road, Griffithstown, Pontypool after his death in about 1982. Although all of Arthur's posessions had been removed, this album was left behind. We have looked sfter it ever since. I'm not sure who owns the album or the copyright.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjavk.2
title: Postcards from John Inch Low and Tommy Macartney (24)

description: Postcards from John Inch Low sent from Bombay, Basra (x3), Chambery, Suez, London, Salonika, Shatt-al-Arab (waterway) near Basra, France, Ferviaria (Italy), Egypt, Aden, Port Said.

Silk postcard from Tommy Macartney, France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjaw.2
title: Postcards from John Inch Low and Tommy Macartney (26)

description: Postcards from John Inch Low sent from Bombay, Basra (x3), Chambery, Suez, London, Salonika, Shatt-al-Arab (waterway) near Basra, France, Ferviaria (Italy), Egypt, Aden, Port Said.

Silk postcard from Tommy Macartney, France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjkbf.2
title: Captured Belgian field gun, manned by Germans (1)

description: Captured belgium fieldgun manned by German artillerymen.  

Editor's Comment:
Photograph 'Copyright | Newspaper Illustrations Ltd.'

Most German Artillery units wore a Pickelhaube (spiked helmet) with ball fitting to the top; the man sitting would appear to be a reservist from Bayern (Bavaria), which did not adopt the Kugel (ball) top until 1916, and continued to wear the Model 1886 Pickelhaube with squared visor (the man standing wears the Model 1895 Pickelhaube with rounded visor, by comparison).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjpdz.2
title: Official Certificate of Identity Form for Driver William Smith , R.E, plus newspaper cutting

description: Official Certificate of Identity Form for Driver William Smith , R.E (Sick and Wounded), plus newspaper cutting from Evening News, November 14th 1929.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianju31.2
title: Naval Armistice terms with a complete list of the interned German High Seas Fleet (20)

description: Extracts of naval armistice terms including a complete list of the interned German High Seas Fleet.
Obtained by Captain Leard MBE from a friend.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianl3r.2
title: Money Belt with Badges belonging to Frank Brown

description: Money Belt with Norfolk Regiment cap badge and pair of shoulder titles (T | 4 | Norfolk) of the 4th (Territorial) Bn Norfolk Regiment attached.

Cpl. Frank Brown lied about his age to join the Norfolk Regiment. He transferred to the Tanks, training at Barnham nr. Thetford before going to France. He later became a Serjeant.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianpwe.2
title: Autograph Album of Arthur G Morgan (Royal Navy) (33)

description: We think that Arthur put this album together whilst in the Navy Hospital in Plymouth in 1916-7. It contains poems, cartoons and drawings by his fellow sailors. It also contains two poems added in 1979 shortly before his death.
My wife Andrea bought his house 15 St Hildas Road, Griffithstown, Pontypool after his death in about 1982. Although all of Arthur's posessions had been removed, this album was left behind. We have looked sfter it ever since. I'm not sure who owns the album or the copyright.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianzkr.2
title: Percy Watson (3)

description: Attached are photographs of Corporal Percy Watson, who originally enlisted with the 7th Battlion, Mancheser Regiment and then was merged into the East Lancashire Regiment towards the end of the war. The 7th Manchester Regiment was a Terattorial Regiment and as Percy was a butcher by trade, it is believed that he was the Butcher to the regiment. 

Percy was born on the 27th August 1888 in Burnley to Alfred Watson and Ellen Walters. He married Bertha Lakin on the 16th November 1908 in Chorlton cum Hardy, Manchester. They had two children, Stanley, born in 1909 and Marjorie born in 1912. She is still alive but has limited memories of her father as she was six at the time of his death. 

Attached are letters to his wife Bertha, including one written the day he was killed. 

There is a detailed letter stating how Percy was killed, his death certificate, letters from the Commonwealth War Graves on both his burial and re burial and a very heartfelt letter written in August 1918 where he is clearly very certain that he will die in the trenches. 

There are also postcards from Percy's children and his wife for his birthday. These have shrapnel holes through them as he had them on his person when he was killed. Pictures are also attached of Percy and his family
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2193.2
title: Percy Watson (12)

description: Attached are photographs of Corporal Percy Watson, who originally enlisted with the 7th Battlion, Mancheser Regiment and then was merged into the East Lancashire Regiment towards the end of the war. The 7th Manchester Regiment was a Terattorial Regiment and as Percy was a butcher by trade, it is believed that he was the Butcher to the regiment. 

Percy was born on the 27th August 1888 in Burnley to Alfred Watson and Ellen Walters. He married Bertha Lakin on the 16th November 1908 in Chorlton cum Hardy, Manchester. They had two children, Stanley, born in 1909 and Marjorie born in 1912. She is still alive but has limited memories of her father as she was six at the time of his death. 

Attached are letters to his wife Bertha, including one written the day he was killed. 

There is a detailed letter stating how Percy was killed, his death certificate, letters from the Commonwealth War Graves on both his burial and re burial and a very heartfelt letter written in August 1918 where he is clearly very certain that he will die in the trenches. 

There are also postcards from Percy's children and his wife for his birthday. These have shrapnel holes through them as he had them on his person when he was killed. Pictures are also attached of Percy and his family
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian23rj.2
title: German postcards (3)

description: Propoganda postcards
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2a1k.2
title: Photograph by Peter Dudley Stuart of an RFC friend (4)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2f65.2
title: Photograph of Pvt. Alick Milne  Cameron Highlanders (9)

description: He attended Watsons College; and died aged 18 at the battle of Loos 1915

Scrap book articles including a poem by Conen Doyle
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2fkd.2
title: Dead Germans in trench (2)

description: Official photograph of dead Germans in teir front line trench near Guillemont France.

Editor's Comment:
'Official Photograph Issued for Press Bureau by "Topical". Presumably taken soon after the Battle of Guillemont (launched 18th August, village taken 3rd September 1916) during the Battle of the Somme.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2xte.2
title: Letter, Photograph and newspaper clipping relating to William Burgon (1)

description: Letter to 'Pat' from William Burgon; completed over two weeks.
1914 Photo, William is on the right
Newspaper reporting Williams death and a photo, he is second from the right.