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DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand81f.2
title: Memoirs of Horrace Foakes (32)

description: An account of how my Grandfather, Horrace Foakes, won his Military medal. The medal is now displayed in the Regimental Museum in the Tower of London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandavp.2
title: Letters from Private Grattan Atkins (15)

description: A diary kept by Grattan Atkins from 1st January 1915 to 10th September 1915 (when he was shot, with a few subsequent pages on his hospitalization), is also kept by the family. 

Editor's Comment:
Letters to mother and father, sent between 15th March 1915 and 3rd August 1915, also page from diary. 

Pte. 2301 John C. Grattan Atkins, 1/23rd Bn. (County of London) Bn., Territorial Force (London Regiment), served for a time in the battalion's Trench Mortar (Reserve) Battery. The 1/23rd Bn. was part of the 47th (London) Division, joining on 11th May 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandqts.1
title: Information on the War
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandtwx.2
title: Memoirs of Horrace Foakes (30)

description: An account of how my Grandfather, Horrace Foakes, won his Military medal. The medal is now displayed in the Regimental Museum in the Tower of London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj29x.2
title: Letters from Private Grattan Atkins (8)

description: A diary kept by Grattan Atkins from 1st January 1915 to 10th September 1915 (when he was shot, with a few subsequent pages on his hospitalization), is also kept by the family. 

Editor's Comment:
Letters to mother and father, sent between 15th March 1915 and 3rd August 1915, also page from diary. 

Pte. 2301 John C. Grattan Atkins, 1/23rd Bn. (County of London) Bn., Territorial Force (London Regiment), served for a time in the battalion's Trench Mortar (Reserve) Battery. The 1/23rd Bn. was part of the 47th (London) Division, joining on 11th May 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj7wm.2
title: Memoirs of Horrace Foakes (31)

description: An account of how my Grandfather, Horrace Foakes, won his Military medal. The medal is now displayed in the Regimental Museum in the Tower of London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjasi.1
title: Post card from John Lynn to his mother

description: John was born in 1892. He was Sarah's 2nd son. He went to Lincoln to enlist - presumably in the Sherwood Foresters like his brother Fred, but I'm not certain.
John wrote "Dear Mother Arrived here at 2 o'clock yesterday quiet(sic) safe I am getting on very well hope you are getting on alright With Best Love Your Son John.

This is the only card from John, and there are no photos of him in Sarah's album. He apparently died in the flu pandemic in 1918, but I don't know what happened in between!
He is mentioned in other correspondence (from his sister to his mother), and he gave his sister Lizzie away when she got married in June 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjbtb.1
title: The Great World War Poster

description: 4ft x 3ft Oak-Framed Picture
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjj11.2
title: Memoirs of Horrace Foakes (33)

description: An account of how my Grandfather, Horrace Foakes, won his Military medal. The medal is now displayed in the Regimental Museum in the Tower of London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjmvz.2
title: Letters from Private Grattan Atkins (17)

description: A diary kept by Grattan Atkins from 1st January 1915 to 10th September 1915 (when he was shot, with a few subsequent pages on his hospitalization), is also kept by the family. 

Editor's Comment:
Letters to mother and father, sent between 15th March 1915 and 3rd August 1915, also page from diary. 

Pte. 2301 John C. Grattan Atkins, 1/23rd Bn. (County of London) Bn., Territorial Force (London Regiment), served for a time in the battalion's Trench Mortar (Reserve) Battery. The 1/23rd Bn. was part of the 47th (London) Division, joining on 11th May 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianv8x.1
title: Letter Home

description: Sadly page 18 is missing and it appears some latter pages are to.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianyu2.2
title: Memoirs of Horrace Foakes (28)

description: An account of how my Grandfather, Horrace Foakes, won his Military medal. The medal is now displayed in the Regimental Museum in the Tower of London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianz69.2
title: Letters from Private Grattan Atkins (11)

description: A diary kept by Grattan Atkins from 1st January 1915 to 10th September 1915 (when he was shot, with a few subsequent pages on his hospitalization), is also kept by the family. 

Editor's Comment:
Letters to mother and father, sent between 15th March 1915 and 3rd August 1915, also page from diary. 

Pte. 2301 John C. Grattan Atkins, 1/23rd Bn. (County of London) Bn., Territorial Force (London Regiment), served for a time in the battalion's Trench Mortar (Reserve) Battery. The 1/23rd Bn. was part of the 47th (London) Division, joining on 11th May 1915.
DOI: 10.6073/pasta/601fa530bbb731b6696dd4803a2b7b91
title: Non-continous meteorological data from Butternut Key Weather Tower, Florida Bay, Everglades National Park, April 2001 thru January 2006
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian21ly.2
title: Letters from Private Grattan Atkins (20)

description: A diary kept by Grattan Atkins from 1st January 1915 to 10th September 1915 (when he was shot, with a few subsequent pages on his hospitalization), is also kept by the family. 

Editor's Comment:
Letters to mother and father, sent between 15th March 1915 and 3rd August 1915, also page from diary. 

Pte. 2301 John C. Grattan Atkins, 1/23rd Bn. (County of London) Bn., Territorial Force (London Regiment), served for a time in the battalion's Trench Mortar (Reserve) Battery. The 1/23rd Bn. was part of the 47th (London) Division, joining on 11th May 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian25ey.1
title: War savings card
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2g7j.2
title: Shell case trench art (1)

description: A shell case that has been shaped into a jug and decorated with (among other things) a picture of a soldier holding a gun, and underneath the handle, the inscription "Windy corner. Steel helmets to be worn". The artwork depicts "Soldiers risking life and limb to visit Mlle Armentiers, for pleasures of the flesh". Part of a collection relating to Mr Greenwood Kitching of the Bradford Pals.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2jjl.2
title: My Dear Ralph: Letters from a family at war 1914-1918 (1)

description: This is a scanned copy of the book "My Dear Ralph: Letters from a family at war 1914-1918" (1994) by Diana M. Scarisbrick. The books contains extracts from letters  to and from members of Ms. Scarisbrick's mother's family during the First World War. Many of the letters were collected and edited by her uncle, Fr. Ralph Bains, S.J., to which many of the letters were addressed.

Scarsbrick, D. M. (1994) "My Dear Ralph: Letters of a family at war 1914-1918" London: Minerva Press.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2xbo.1
title: Letter from Pt Matthew Coulson to relative

description: Letter to relatives from Matthew in training camp before going to France to fight with 7th Northants Regt. Piognant as he was killed the next year in November 1915 leaving a wife and 3 children. He came from Polbrook in Northamptonshire where he was one of 12 children. 

Editor's Comment
Pte. 17229 Matthew Couslon, 7th Bn. Northamptonshire Regiment, is commemorated on the Loos Memorial. Interestingly, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records him as having been killed in action on 27th September 1915. The 24th Division, of which the 7th Northamptonshires were part, was heavily engaged on the 26th September, the second day of the Battle of Loos, suffering more than 3,900 casulaties. The unit had only concentrated in France on 4th September. The tradition of his date of death being sometime in November 1915 may be traced to a commemorative 'Service Record' label on the back of a photograph frame. This was perhaps the month in which the family were notified of his death.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian3ri.2
title: Memoir of George Holloway describing army training

description: This is a further transcription of the diaries of my Grandfather Pte George Holloway about his training for the Machine Gun Corps.

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 133253 George Holloway, 19th Machine Gun Bn., Machine Gun Corps (attached 19th (Western) Division).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian62rt.1
title: Last letter home of Sgt. H. Godfrey

description: Last letter home of Sgt. H. Godfrey, who was killed in action, 17th February 1917, and is buried in plot IX, row A, grave 2, Regina Trench Cemetery near Albert on the Somme.
With a short descriptive piece written by his nephew, Mr. A. Godfrey.


Editors Comment:
From Commonwealth War Graves Commission records:
Sgt. H D Godfrey, 51841, 11th Bn. Royal Fusiliers, age 21, was the son of Mrs. Martha W. Godfrey, of 59, Lime Walk, Highfield, Oxford.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian69zw.2
title: Sidney Gobourn's

description: Editor's Comment:
Pte. S/21662 Sidney Gobourn, Cameron Highlanders.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ko4.2
title: Shell case trench art (3)

description: A shell case that has been shaped into a jug and decorated with (among other things) a picture of a soldier holding a gun, and underneath the handle, the inscription "Windy corner. Steel helmets to be worn". The artwork depicts "Soldiers risking life and limb to visit Mlle Armentiers, for pleasures of the flesh". Part of a collection relating to Mr Greenwood Kitching of the Bradford Pals.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6n3d.1
title: Letter from Major C Charrington to Mrs C Carr re death of Leslie George Carr

description: This letter, dated May 13th 1918, is from Major CW Charrington to Mrs C Carr (my great grandmother) of Lewisham, expressing his sympathy over the death of her son Captain Leslie George Carr, MC and Bar(my great uncle), aged 21.

Editor's Comment:
The citation for Leslie George Carr's MC read as follows:
Supplement to the London Gazette, 26th July 1918:
'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He remained behind with his Lewis gun till his company had taken up a new position, covering the withdrawl and inflicting heavy losses on the enemy at close range. On each occasion, when he rejoined his company, he immediately reorganised and gave battle. During the whole operation he showed great ability and coolness under very difficult conditions.' 

Citation for the bar:
Supplement to the London Gazette, 16th September, 1918:
'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during a hostile attack, when, with two companies, he held on to a position and covered the retirement of the battalion until it was complete. With great skill he then withdrew his men through a gap in the enemy's lines, and succeeded in rejoining the battalion without the loss of a man. (M.C. gazetted 26th July, 1918.)'

Capt. Leslie Carr, 1st Bn. London Regt., 167 Bde., 56th Division, (and sometime attached 4th Bn. South Staffordshire Regt.) died of wounds 27th April 1918, and is buried in plot VII. B. 42, Boulogne Eastern Cemetery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8drv.1
title: Postcard with drawing of Rouen
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8hoz.2
title: Shell case trench art (2)

description: A shell case that has been shaped into a jug and decorated with (among other things) a picture of a soldier holding a gun, and underneath the handle, the inscription "Windy corner. Steel helmets to be worn". The artwork depicts "Soldiers risking life and limb to visit Mlle Armentiers, for pleasures of the flesh". Part of a collection relating to Mr Greenwood Kitching of the Bradford Pals.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8j9.2
title: My Dear Ralph: Letters from a family at war 1914-1918 (2)

description: This is a scanned copy of the book "My Dear Ralph: Letters from a family at war 1914-1918" (1994) by Diana M. Scarisbrick. The books contains extracts from letters  to and from members of Ms. Scarisbrick's mother's family during the First World War. Many of the letters were collected and edited by her uncle, Fr. Ralph Bains, S.J., to which many of the letters were addressed.

Scarsbrick, D. M. (1994) "My Dear Ralph: Letters of a family at war 1914-1918" London: Minerva Press.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8mb8.2
title: Diary of George Holloway describing an operation north of Bethune (2)

description: This is a transcription of part of the diaries of Pte George Holloway of the Machine Gun Corps.

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 133253 George Holloway, 19th Machine Gun Bn., Machine Gun Corps (attached 19th (Western) Division).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8s3j.1
title: Embroidered Cap Badges of William Freeman Baker, Welsh Regiment

description: Two Embroidered Cushion covers, one (with Welsh Regiment Cap badge of three feathers) sewn by Willam Baker while convalescing from seven shrapnel wounds received at Ypres. He was sent to hospital in Lowestoft, and later transferred to Cowley Road Hospital, Oxford. The second cover (the 'Rising Sun' Cap badge of the Australian Imperial Force) was given to him by an Australian soldier while in hospital.

Recollections of William Baker's daughter, Dorothy May Strongitharm (nee Baker):

'My father's parents ran a building and decoratorsw business and my father worked in his father's office 'till the Great War when he left to be a soldier. He was posted to the Welsh Regiment, they having had many losses.'
'My father came home from the trenches, and his clothes used to be full of lice, my mother used to take off his clothes and put them in the outhouse 'till they could be boiled in the copper and the lice killed. My father was finally wounded and was at Lowestoft, my mother visited him there, he was later brought to Oxford to the Cowley Road Hospital, which was a hospital for the wounded. I can well remember visiting him, we used to do drawings for him and make woolen golliwogs.'

Recollections of William Baker's granddaughter, Barbara Strongitharm':

'Like so many others who had fought in the First World War battlefields, he could never erase from his memory the horrific time he had experienced in the trenches. I can remember him speaking about the trench rats and also of how the young new recruits were given rum to dull their senses before they fixed bayonets and went 'over the top.'

No. 54650 Pte. William Freeman Baker, The Welsh Regiment, discharged on 19th February 1919.

Editor's Comment:
The two rectangular bars of colour in the upper corners of the Australian cover are battalion patches, signifying the 59th Infantry Bn., 15th Bde., 5th Australian Division. Australian units differed from other Commonwealth forces in that they did not wear distinguishing badges in their caps, but instead used a system of coloured cloth patches sewn onto the upper arms of the tunic. Their shape indicated the division, one colour the Brigade, another the battalion.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8w2v.2
title: Photograph of two swords

description: Part of a collection relating to Mr Greenwood Kitching of the Bradford Pals.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandbcn.2
title: Letters from Private Grattan Atkins (21)

description: A diary kept by Grattan Atkins from 1st January 1915 to 10th September 1915 (when he was shot, with a few subsequent pages on his hospitalization), is also kept by the family. 

Editor's Comment:
Letters to mother and father, sent between 15th March 1915 and 3rd August 1915, also page from diary. 

Pte. 2301 John C. Grattan Atkins, 1/23rd Bn. (County of London) Bn., Territorial Force (London Regiment), served for a time in the battalion's Trench Mortar (Reserve) Battery. The 1/23rd Bn. was part of the 47th (London) Division, joining on 11th May 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandklz.1
title: Photograph of A. H. J. King, A.S.C.

description: Arthur Henry James King, Motor Transport Division, Army Service Corps, M2-119352, Joined army 25th August 1915, Demobilised 9th April 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandlil.2
title: Shell case trench art (4)

description: A shell case that has been shaped into a jug and decorated with (among other things) a picture of a soldier holding a gun, and underneath the handle, the inscription "Windy corner. Steel helmets to be worn". The artwork depicts "Soldiers risking life and limb to visit Mlle Armentiers, for pleasures of the flesh". Part of a collection relating to Mr Greenwood Kitching of the Bradford Pals.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjer9.2
title: Diary of George Holloway describing the battle of Champagne (1)

description: This is a transcription of the diaries of Pte George Holloway of the Machine Gun Corps.

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 133253 George Holloway, 19th Machine Gun Bn., Machine Gun Corps (attached 19th (Western) Division).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjfl4.1
title: Items of F. G. Didcock

description: From 'rubbish' being discarded when person died. Rubbish was 'sorted' by brother-in-law when his sister-in-law died.

Editors Comment:
Part of a collection of material apparently beloning to Francis Didcock and Harry Fowler, who met while serving together in Italy.
No. 203801 Pte. Harry Fowler, 1/4th Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment, 48th Division.
From Australian War Memorial Records: No. 52502 Pte. Francis George Didcock, D Coy., 5th Bn. Australian Imperial Force. Joined 18th July 1918, demobilised 25 September 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjpcp.2
title: Memoir of George Holloway describing joining up

description: This is a transcription of the diaries of Pte George Holloway of the Machine Gun Corps.

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 133253 George Holloway, 19th Machine Gun Bn., Machine Gun Corps (attached 19th (Western) Division).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjuio.2
title: Shell case trench art (5)

description: A shell case that has been shaped into a jug and decorated with (among other things) a picture of a soldier holding a gun, and underneath the handle, the inscription "Windy corner. Steel helmets to be worn". The artwork depicts "Soldiers risking life and limb to visit Mlle Armentiers, for pleasures of the flesh". Part of a collection relating to Mr Greenwood Kitching of the Bradford Pals.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrd2t.2
title: Photograph of the 13th BN Royal Fusiliers

description: This famous photograph of the 13th Royal Fusiliers hangs in the Imperial War Museum. In this photograph is Horace Foakes, the jubiliant soldier wearing braces, just behind the shoulder of the French soldier to the right.

A letter describing how this photograph was taken, and the memoirs of Horace Foakes have been submitted separtately to the archive.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianreaj.2
title: Letters from Private Grattan Atkins (18)

description: A diary kept by Grattan Atkins from 1st January 1915 to 10th September 1915 (when he was shot, with a few subsequent pages on his hospitalization), is also kept by the family. 

Editor's Comment:
Letters to mother and father, sent between 15th March 1915 and 3rd August 1915, also page from diary. 

Pte. 2301 John C. Grattan Atkins, 1/23rd Bn. (County of London) Bn., Territorial Force (London Regiment), served for a time in the battalion's Trench Mortar (Reserve) Battery. The 1/23rd Bn. was part of the 47th (London) Division, joining on 11th May 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrl5.2
title: Letters from Private Grattan Atkins (19)

description: A diary kept by Grattan Atkins from 1st January 1915 to 10th September 1915 (when he was shot, with a few subsequent pages on his hospitalization), is also kept by the family. 

Editor's Comment:
Letters to mother and father, sent between 15th March 1915 and 3rd August 1915, also page from diary. 

Pte. 2301 John C. Grattan Atkins, 1/23rd Bn. (County of London) Bn., Territorial Force (London Regiment), served for a time in the battalion's Trench Mortar (Reserve) Battery. The 1/23rd Bn. was part of the 47th (London) Division, joining on 11th May 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianubl.1
title: Photograph of Private Matthew Coulson, 7th Northants Regt, in Commemorative Frame

description: Photo in metal frame of France on the back his service record states he was killed in November 1915. 

Editor's Comment
Pte. 17229 Matthew Couslon, 7th Bn. Northamptonshire Regiment, is commemorated on the Loos Memorial. Interestingly, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records him as having been killed in action on 27th September 1915. The 24th Division, of which the 7th Northamptonshires were part, was heavily engaged on the 26th September, the second day of the Battle of Loos, suffering more than 3,900 casulaties. The unit had only concentrated in France on 4th September. The discrepancy between the official record and the photograph label may possibly be explained by the family not having been notified of Pte. Coulson's death until November 1915. The date on the photograph frame itself (1914-1918) suggests that it is a commemorative piece, made after the armistice. The 'Service Record' label is likewise a private, rather than official, document, most likely filled out by a member of Pte. Coulson's family.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianz7h.2
title: Letter describing how the photograph after an advance on the Somme (13th Royal Fusiliers) was taken (1)

description: This letter is from the son of Horace Foakes to his family. It describes how a famous photograph of a group of soldiers (13th BN Royal Fusiliers) was taken after their advance on the Somme on the 7th July 1916.

The photograph has been contributed separately to the archive, along with Horace Foakes memoirs of how he won his military medal.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian277z.2
title: My Dear Ralph: Letters from a family at war 1914-1918 (4)

description: This is a scanned copy of the book "My Dear Ralph: Letters from a family at war 1914-1918" (1994) by Diana M. Scarisbrick. The books contains extracts from letters  to and from members of Ms. Scarisbrick's mother's family during the First World War. Many of the letters were collected and edited by her uncle, Fr. Ralph Bains, S.J., to which many of the letters were addressed.

Scarsbrick, D. M. (1994) "My Dear Ralph: Letters of a family at war 1914-1918" London: Minerva Press.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ita.2
title: Photograph of Albert Ville recovering after being wounded

description: This is photo of my grandfather recovering from his wounds after his return to 'blighty'. He was badly wounded at Elverdinge near Ypres on August 23rd 1918 and two of his comrades were killed in the same incident.

Editor's Comment:
Pte. Ville wears the Hospital 'Blues' uniform.

Pte. 555020 Albert Edward Ville, 16th Bn. (Queen's Westminster Rifles) London Regiment, served overseas in the 22nd Bn. (The Queen's), service no. 698199, and 11th Bn. (Finsbury Rifles), London Regiment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2p5a.1
title: British War and Victory Medals

description: British War Medal (left) and Victory Medal (right), both without ribbons. Part of a collection relating to Walter Goodwill.

Unfortunately, due to a technical error we are unable to say who this contribution was made by. If you contributed this item, please contact us, and we will amend the details attached to this submission.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2uux.2
title: My Dear Ralph: Letters from a family at war 1914-1918 (8)

description: This is a scanned copy of the book "My Dear Ralph: Letters from a family at war 1914-1918" (1994) by Diana M. Scarisbrick. The books contains extracts from letters  to and from members of Ms. Scarisbrick's mother's family during the First World War. Many of the letters were collected and edited by her uncle, Fr. Ralph Bains, S.J., to which many of the letters were addressed.

Scarsbrick, D. M. (1994) "My Dear Ralph: Letters of a family at war 1914-1918" London: Minerva Press.