cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2w16.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Discusses seeing a play / visiting the de la Mares' / collecting stamps / reading 'Oliver Twist'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2zdn.2
title: The Newfoundland Regiment During the First World War

description: The transport of the Newfoundland Regiment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian3mh.2
title: Exposure

description: Rough working. Begun in Scarborough in December 1917 and revised there in early 1918. Completed in September 1918 in France. This is no. 174 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian63mc.2
title: From the Window / Ypres - Minsterworth

description: Ivor Gurney's copy of 'War's Embers', published by Sidgwick and Jackson in May 1919. The inside cover is inscribed 'April 1925 / Ivor Gurney's markings'. The copy has pen annotations in Gurney's hand indicating where each poem was written. Gurney notes that 'From the Window' and 'Ypres - Minsterworth',  were both written at Hertford.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian63y9.2
title: The Battle of Arras 9 April-15 May 1917

description: An 18-pounder in action.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian66hz.2
title: Dicky

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand, with corrections in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. After a pencil draft included in the red notebook 52.7. 'Dicky' refers to Richard Rhodes, a corporal whom Ivor Gurney admired and whose grave he visited. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6bi8.2
title: The Menin Gate: Memorial to the Burma Military Police

description: The Menin Gate Memorial to the missing stands at the eastern exit of Ypres  in Flanders, Belgium, The gate marks the starting point for one of the main roads out of the town that led Allied soldiers to the front line during the First World War. The memorial is inscribed with 54,900 of the 'missing' British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the fierce battles around the Ypres Salient area who have no known grave. At 8pm each evening, the local police stop traffic from passing underneath the gate, and the Last Post is played by buglers from the Ypres fire station, often attended by large crowds.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6fh3.2
title: The Menin Gate

description: The Menin Gate Memorial to the missing stands at the eastern exit of Ypres  in Flanders, Belgium, The gate marks the starting point for one of the main roads out of the town that led Allied soldiers to the front line during the First World War. The memorial is inscribed with 54,900 of the 'missing' British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the fierce battles around the Ypres Salient area who have no known grave. At 8pm each evening, the local police stop traffic from passing underneath the gate, and the Last Post is played by buglers from the Ypres fire station, often attended by large crowds.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6gqq.2
title: I am the Ghost of Shadwell Stair

description: Drafted in January-February 1918 at Scarborough, and revised there in July-August 1918. This is no. 171 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6rxy.2
title: Indian Troops at Gas Mask Drill.

description: Troops wearing gas masks.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ue.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes bicycle trips made by the family.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6v3v.2
title: Toasts and Memories

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. After a draft included in a letter of 3rd January 1918. Written when Ivor Gurney was on a signalling course at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6wlp.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes Helen Thomas going to tea / childrens' tea party / stamp collecting / fireworks / a drawing by Bronwen Thomas.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian82hp.2
title: The Plain

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. After a pencil draft found in the black manuscript notebook 52.1, and in a letter of 24th November 1917 to Scott. The red pen comments in this draft are in an unidentified hand. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ap7.2
title: The Immortal Hour / To His Love

description: Ivor Gurney's copy of 'War's Embers', published by Sidgwick and Jackson in May 1919. The inside cover is inscribed 'April 1925 / Ivor Gurney's markings'. The copy has pen annotations in Gurney's hand indicating where each poem was written. Gurney notes that 'The Immortal Hour' was written at Arras, and 'To His Love' was written at Hertford.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8cln.2
title: Letter: To Myfanwy Thomas.

description: Discusses a lost tooth / Christmas / writing a verse about Myfanwy / being alone back in camp / upcoming activities / potential of being sent to France / Myfanwy's experience of the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8k1d.2
title: Letter: To Merfyn Thomas (2)

description: Envelope. Two postmarks: Passed Field Censor and Field Post Office.  Postmarked '5 MR 17'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8m47.2
title: Camps

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand with corrections by Ivor Gurney, also in pen. Gurney makes reference to the poem in a letter of 8th August 1917, but sends another draft on 14th August 1918 to Scott. Also found in the black manuscript notebook 52.7. Gurney and Scott corrected the date on various copies. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8n3w.2
title: Interval

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. After pencil drafts in the black manuscript notebook 64.5.6 and the green manuscript notebook 64.5.6. Another draft included in at letter of 27th August 1918 to Scott. Written while Ivor Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ucu.2
title: Raiding party of the 1/8th (Irish) King's Liverpool Regiment (55th Division)

description: Photograph taken on the morning after the raid on night of 17-18th April 1916.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8vue.2
title: Toasts and Memories

description: Ivor Gurney's copy of 'War's Embers', published by Sidgwick and Jackson in May 1919. The inside cover is inscribed 'April 1925 / Ivor Gurney's markings'. The copy has pen annotations in Gurney's hand indicating where each poem was written. Gurney notes that 'Toasts and Memories' was written in Hertford.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8vyi.2
title: The Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele)  31 July-10 November 1917

description: Battle of Pilckem Ridge 31 July - 2 August 1917. German prisoners waiting to be interrogated.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8zqg.2
title: I am the Ghost of Shadwell Stair

description: Drafted in January-February 1918 at Scarborough, and revised there in July-August 1918. This is no. 171 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianc11.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Discusses seeing a play / visiting the de la Mares' / collecting stamps / reading 'Oliver Twist'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand66k.2
title: Music

description: Begun in October 1916 and revised in August to November 1917 at Craiglockhart. This is no. 95 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandfm9.2
title: Dicky

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. After a pencil draft included in the red notebook 52.7. 'Dicky' refers to Richard Rhodes, a corporal whom Ivor Gurney admired and whose grave he visited. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandghl.2
title: Exposure

description: Rough working. Begun in Scarborough in December 1917 and revised there in early 1918. Completed in September 1918 in France. This is no. 174 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandot6.2
title: Dug-out

description: Equipped with gas-proof curtains.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandumt.2
title: Letter: To Merfyn Thomas (4)

description: Discusses the need the recognise the different sound of incoming and outgoing artillery fire, with the hope that his son never has to learn it, but conversely prompts him to join an OTC (Public School : Officers Training Corps). Notes that the snow causing problems in munition supplies and a problematic office typewriter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandzeq.2
title: The Stone-Breaker

description: Ivor Gurney's copy of 'War's Embers', published by Sidgwick and Jackson in May 1919. The inside cover is inscribed 'April 1925 / Ivor Gurney's markings'. The copy has pen annotations in Gurney's hand indicating where each poem was written. Gurney notes that 'The Stone-Breaker', was written at Ypres and Hertford.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandzwm.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes bicycle trips made by the family.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiangg4.2
title: Letter: To Merfyn Thomas (1)

description: Discusses military life, his travel to camp (making a note that the ticket collector was a 'lady') and the countryside.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianidc.2
title: Chemical Warfare in the Twentieth Century

description: The First World War: A German infantryman using a frying pan as an improvised gas alarm gong. Battle of the Aisne, between Reims and Laon.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj5ml.2
title: Interval

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. After pencil drafts in the black manuscript notebook 64.5.6 and the green manuscript notebook 64.5.6. Another draft included in at letter of 27th August 1918 to Scott. Written while Ivor Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj9r.2
title: Toussaints

description: Ivor Gurney's copy of 'War's Embers', published by Sidgwick and Jackson in May 1919. The inside cover is inscribed 'April 1925 / Ivor Gurney's markings'. The copy has pen annotations in Gurney's hand indicating where each poem was written. 'Toussaints', Gurney notes, was written at Hertford. He has also written out two additional stanzas and indicated to add them between stanzas 3 and 4.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjat8.2
title: 16th lancers on the March

description: Shown on horseback on Western Front.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjgex.2
title: War's Embers

description: Ivor Gurney's copy of 'War's Embers', published by Sidgwick and Jackson in May 1919. The inside cover is inscribed 'April 1925 / Ivor Gurney's markings'. The copy has pen annotations in Gurney's hand indicating where each poem was written. These pages show the 'also by' works pages listing 'Severn and Somme', and the 2nd title page, inscribed 'Marion Scott'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjgw5.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes bicycle trips made by the family.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjh6r.2
title: The Show

description: Drafted in November 1917 at Scarborough and revised in May 1918 at Ripon. The image shows the poem's epigraph.  This is no. 152 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjl3y.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes Helen Thomas going to tea / childrens' tea party / stamp collecting / fireworks / a drawing by Bronwen Thomas.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjsho.2
title: Exposure

description: Begun in Scarborough in December 1917 and revised there in early 1918. Completed in September 1918 in France. This is no. 174 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjxmg.2
title: Letter: To Merfyn Thomas (1)

description: Envelope. Two postmarks: Passed Field Censor and Field Post Office.  Postmarked '5 MR 17'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr8wr.2
title: Letter: To Merfyn Thomas (2)

description: Discusses learning to ride a motorcycle, that the Army Service Corps have arrived for the guns (four) and the heavy kit; packing the permitted 55lbs of personal items for the boat train.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrbw.2
title: Exposure

description: Begun in Scarborough in December 1917 and revised there in early 1918. Completed in September 1918 in France. This is no. 174 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianvka.2
title: Drifting Leaves / Contrasts

description: Ivor Gurney's copy of 'War's Embers', published by Sidgwick and Jackson in May 1919. The inside cover is inscribed 'April 1925 / Ivor Gurney's markings'. The copy has pen annotations in Gurney's hand indicating where each poem was written. Gurney notes that 'Drifting Leaves' was written at Gloucester, and 'Contrasts' was written at Arras.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianxgy.2
title: In a Ward

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. A pencil draft of the poem exists in the notebook 64.5.7. This draft shows revisions to the final two lines. Written while Ivor Gurney was a patient at Lord Derby's War Hospital being treated for shell shock. The poem was published in 'The Spectator' on 11th January 1919. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian22ud.2
title: Letter: To Merfyn Thomas (5)

description: Discusses the large amount of paperwork he has; wishes his son goodbye and includes various family salutations, expresses the hope that Merfyn will not become a soldier before he returns.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian238c.2
title: Front Line Trench Held by 1/7th Sherwood Foresters.

description: Barbed wire gate to let down to form a block against raiders.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian247d.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes a broken doll / asks after the family / wishes for a playmate.  Includes drawing of a cottage inscribed 'For Daddy'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian271k.2
title: Letter: To Merfyn Thomas (2)

description: Discusses the gift of a torch; a German barrage; pay; poor roads.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ld6.2
title: Toasts and Memories

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. After a draft included in a letter of 3rd January 1918. Written when Ivor Gurney was on a signalling course at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2q2e.2
title: Spells and Incantation

description: Probably drafted when Owen was staying at the Regent Palace Hotel in London, in mid-November 1917. This is no. 121 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2rfb.2
title: The Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) 31 July-10 November 1917

description: Two officers using the bonnet and front wheels of a destroyed lorry as a seat while looking at the map.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2tak.2
title: Eternal Treasure

description: Typescript prepared by Marion Scott. After a draft included in a letter of 24th August 1917 to Scott. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2xvh.2
title: Old Martinmas Eve / After Music

description: Ivor Gurney's copy of 'War's Embers', published by Sidgwick and Jackson in May 1919. The inside cover is inscribed 'April 1925 / Ivor Gurney's markings'. The copy has pen annotations in Gurney's hand indicating where each poem was written. Gurney notes that 'Old Martinmas Eve' was written at Gloucester, and 'After Music' was written at Ypres.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian422.2
title: An Imperial Elegy

description: Written on the same paper as 'Purgatorial Passions', so possibly written when Owen was on a musketry course in 1916. This is no. 69 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian5d1.2
title: Toasts and Memories

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. After a draft included in a letter of 3rd January 1918. Written when Ivor Gurney was on a signalling course at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian625z.2
title: Ladies of Charity / Dust

description: Ivor Gurney's copy of 'War's Embers', published by Sidgwick and Jackson in May 1919. The inside cover is inscribed 'April 1925 / Ivor Gurney's markings'. The copy has pen annotations in Gurney's hand indicating where each poem was written. Gurney notes that 'Ladies of Charity' and the opening of 'Dust' were written at the Bangour War Hospital near Edinburgh.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian65gg.2
title: Letter: To Merfyn Thomas (3)

description: Discusses Hun (German) prisoners; turbaned Indian soldiers; obtaining helmets ('for the men') and a jack-knife for himself; discomfort while British guns fire.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian664m.2
title: The Send-Off

description: Drafted in April-May 1918 at Ripon and revised at Scarborough in July 1918. This is no. 165 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'. Titled here as 'The Draft'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian67jv.2
title: Upstairs Piano / Hidden Tales

description: Ivor Gurney's copy of 'War's Embers', published by Sidgwick and Jackson in May 1919. The inside cover is inscribed 'April 1925 / Ivor Gurney's markings'. The copy has pen annotations in Gurney's hand indicating where each poem was written. Gurney has amended 'Upstairs Piano', in pen in the margins, and at the end he writes, 'Best poem on music'. He notes that 'Hidden Tales' was written in Hertford.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6934.2
title: Golden Hair

description: This is no. 125 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6gkn.2
title: War's Bright Embers

description: From a folio entitled 'War's Bright Embers'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6jou.2
title: Drawings: To Edward Thomas.

description: Album of drawings of animals made by one or more of Edward Thomas' children.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6m45.2
title: The Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) 31 July-10 November 1917

description: Fatigue party clearing mud from a road with mud scoops.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6mps.2
title: Migrants

description: Ivor Gurney's copy of 'War's Embers', published by Sidgwick and Jackson in May 1919. The inside cover is inscribed 'April 1925 / Ivor Gurney's markings'. The copy has pen annotations in Gurney's hand indicating where each poem was written. Gurney notes that 'Migrants' was written at Hertford.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ugi.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Mentions an upcoming trip to London / 'kitty' and a 'black lamb'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian824x.2
title: Purgatorial Passions

description: Possibly drafted when Owen was in Aldershot attending a musketry course. This is no. 70 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian88o4.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas

description: Describes a broken doll / asks after the family / wishes for a playmate.  Includes drawing of a cottage inscribed 'For Daddy'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8a4m.2
title: General Scenes on the Western Front During the First World War: Battle of Ypres, 1917

description: Battle of Ypres. A water-cart stuck in mud to the axle, one wheel and one horse having gone over the edge of the brushwood track.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8d5p.2
title: Dust / Aberdonian

description: Ivor Gurney's copy of 'War's Embers', published by Sidgwick and Jackson in May 1919. The inside cover is inscribed 'April 1925 / Ivor Gurney's markings'. The copy has pen annotations in Gurney's hand indicating where each poem was written. Gurney notes that 'Dust' was written at the Bangour War Hospital near Edinburgh.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8fgt.2
title: Letter: To Merfyn Thomas (1)

description: Envelope. Two postmarks:  Passed Field Censor and Field Post Office dated '21 FE 17'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8lgb.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes a picnic / an encounter with gypsies / drunken men in a pond / drawing of 'Daddy', 'Hardy' and 'Merfyn'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8m3z.2
title: Exposure

description: Rough working. Begun in Scarborough in December 1917 and revised there in early 1918. Completed in September 1918 in France. This is no. 174 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8n2t.2
title: Drawings: To Edward Thomas.

description: Album of drawings of animals made by one or more of Edward Thomas' children.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8tjw.2
title: To M.M.S.

description: Ivor Gurney's copy of 'War's Embers', published by Sidgwick and Jackson in May 1919. The inside cover is inscribed 'April 1925 / Ivor Gurney's markings'. The copy has pen annotations in Gurney's hand indicating where each poem was written. This page shows the publishing date and an inscription and poem dedicated 'To M.M.S.' (Marion Scott').
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8zkc.2
title: Ladies of Charity

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Part of the 'Hospital Pictures' series. After manuscript drafts in the black manuscript notebook 52.1, in which the poem is titled 'Nurses', and a draft sent in an envelope dated 17th November 1917 to Scott. Possibly written while Ivor Gurney was on a signalling course at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian97j.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Says that she is sending strawberries / passes on kisses from rest of family.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiana71.2
title: Letter: To Merfyn Thomas (1)

description: Envelope. Date stamped London '20 SEP 16'. Sent from Handel Street, London, where Thomas was posted at the Royal Artillery School.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandfnf.2
title: Purgatorial Passions

description: Possibly drafted when Owen was in Aldershot attending a musketry course. This is no. 70 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandjsm.2
title: Eternal Treasure

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. After a draft included in a letter of 24th August 1917 to Scott. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandkq9.2
title: Companion - North-East Dugout / The Miner

description: Ivor Gurney's copy of 'War's Embers', published by Sidgwick and Jackson in May 1919. The inside cover is inscribed 'April 1925 / Ivor Gurney's markings'. The copy has pen annotations in Gurney's hand indicating where some poems were written.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandqn1.2
title: Everyday Life During the First World War

description: Men carry trench mortar bombs in canvas carriers on their backs as they rest on light railway trucks, Brielen.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianduj.2
title: Letter: To Merfyn Thomas (4)

description: Discusses the men naming their individual field guns; wearing of shoes instead of boots; and his minor irritations with another officer.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandv9b.2
title: Toasts and Memories

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. After a draft included in a letter of 3rd January 1918. Written when Ivor Gurney was on a signalling course at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandxw4.2
title: Letter: To Merfyn Thomas (1)

description: Envelope. Postmarked '26 JA 17'
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandyio.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Drawing of a cottage inscribed 'For Daddy'.  Included with letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj39i.2
title: Eternal Treasure

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. After a draft included in a letter of 24th August 1917 to Scott. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjbn6.2
title: Trench Warfare during the First World War

description: Battle of Ypres. Infantrymen wear bandoliers of ammunition in a support trench at Wieltje.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjemj.2
title: Exposure

description: Rough working. Begun in Scarborough in December 1917 and revised there in early 1918. Completed in September 1918 in France. This is no. 174 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjfql.2
title: Upstairs Piano

description: Ivor Gurney's copy of 'War's Embers', published by Sidgwick and Jackson in May 1919. The inside cover is inscribed 'April 1925 / Ivor Gurney's markings'. The copy has pen annotations in Gurney's hand indicating where each poem was written. Gurney notes that 'Upstairs Piano', which he has amended in pen in the margins, was 'Best poem on music'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjfs.2
title: Trench Warfare on the Western Front During the First World War

description: Trench Layout and Conditions: Men of the 2nd Australian Division using a periscope in a front line trench, Croix du Bac, near Armentieres.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjiwu.2
title: Letter: To Merfyn Thomas (3)

description: Discusses transport to Portsmouth or Southampton; a new commander and poor weather.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjoik.2
title: Drawings: To Edward Thomas.

description: Album of drawings of animals made by one or more of Edward Thomas' children.