cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6qg1.2
title: The Sleeping Beauty

description: Written in August-October 1914 at Bagneres. Revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 101 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6r95.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6rk1.1
title: Song at Morning

description: Manuscript in pen in an Marion Scott's hand. An unfinished pencil draft exists in the red manuscript notebook 52.7. Ivor Gurney discusses the poem with Scott in letters dating from 27th June and 29th September 1917. Included in 'Severn and Somme' (1917).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6tve.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Worried about Marion Scott's health / setting John Masefield's 'By the Bierside' to music / a cartoon in 'Punch' / receiving letters from friends / reading / requests for parcels / fear of death and sickness vs. fear of death in battle / thank friends for letters and 'ask them when the war will be over' / books / Shelley / changes in the war / describes battle / the weather / French poets and the war / having time to play and write music / a small fragment of verse beginning 'The careless writer...'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6uq7.2
title: Letter from Major C Charrington to Mrs C Carr re death of Leslie George Carr (1)

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/bodleian6xqo.1
title: What's in Time

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. 'Eadem Semper' ('Ever the Same') is the motto of the Gloucester Regiment. The final section suggests an Irish 'curse poem'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6xvu.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6y3t.2
title: Photograph of Leslie George Carr, London Regiment

description: Photo of Captain Leslie George Carr (later MC and Bar), London Regiment (my great uncle). Died of wounds in Boulogne Military Hospital, April 27th 1918, 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. 

Note the stripe on the lower left sleeve, introduced in July 1916 and signifying that the wearer has been wounded as a result of enemy action (those returned in Casulaty lists  qualified for the badge).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian837z.1
title: Photos of Percy Powell, Herefordshire Regiment

description: William Pervical Weatherley 'Percy' Powell was the middle son of W.J. and Clara Powell, and older brother of Walter Powell. He died of his wounds in 23 July 1917, having been discharged from the army 2nd June 1916 after suffering perforated eardrums.

Part of a collection relating to Walter H. Powell, Llandrindod Wells, (private / driver M2-267205 Mechanised Transport Army Service Corps). Born 1898, Walter tried to join up under-age on a number of occasions, finally succeeding in 1916. He served many months - (more than 2 years?) - in different army units in Britain, before going over to France. He served as a despatch rider for an anti-aircraft battery in 1918-1919. Walter was gassed "suffering the effects all his life". He was a founder member of Toc-H in Llandrindod, and a keen footballer - he died in 1994 aged 96. However Walter's older brothers (Cliff and Percy Powell) and his uncle (Humphrey Powell) died of wounds sustained during the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian84gf.2
title: The Sleeping Beauty

description: Written in August-October 1914 at Bagneres. Revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 101 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian856r.2
title: Letter to wife of Captain Gordon Wilfred Ritchie Rudkin,Military Cross.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ej7.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Feels ashamed about a previous 'grumbling' letter / thanks Marion Scott for her letters, and for help with his songs / glad that she like recent verses, and is including more / describes writing at the front / H.N. Howells / music / a photograph / books and requesting the 'Penny Poets' / availability of bread / desire for a salad and fresh food / describes a machine gun with a musical score / the infantry's taste in songs / a poem by John Masefield / the military situation / running in to acquaintances / wonders what Scott will think of new poems / the 'intellectual exercise' of writing verse and letters in war / a packet received by a fellow soldier from a girl / musing about what the girl is like / F.W. Harvey in a newspaper / requests a volume by John Masefield / includes 'Strange Service'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8hjl.1
title: Grave Register for the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli

description: Book: 'Introduction to the Register of the Helles Memorial Gallipoli' [with 'The Helles Memorial Register'] (Imperial War Graves Commission, 1927), on which is commemorated William Henry Parry. 

From the family effects of Lance Corporal 838 William Henry Parry, 1st/6th Bn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, was killed in action 23rd August 1915, aged 23. The son of Moses Parry, of 7, Assheton Terrace, Carnarvon, he is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8j9m.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8jkf.1
title: Maisemore

description: Manuscript in pen in an Marion Scott's hand. After a draft included in a letter of 8th November 1918. Included in 'Severn and Somme' (1917).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8lq3.2
title: Embroidered Cap Badges of William Freeman Baker, Welsh Regiment (1)

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/bodleian8pv2.2
title: Strange Service

description: Feels ashamed about a previous 'grumbling' letter / thanks Marion Scott for her letters, and for help with his songs / glad that she like recent verses, and is including more / describes writing at the front / H.N. Howells / music / a photograph / books and requesting the 'Penny Poets' / availability of bread / desire for a salad and fresh food / describes a machine gun with a musical score / the infantry's taste in songs / a poem by John Masefield / the military situation / running in to acquaintances / wonders what Scott will think of new poems / the 'intellectual exercise' of writing verse and letters in war / a packet received by a fellow soldier from a girl / musing about what the girl is like / F.W. Harvey in a newspaper / requests a volume by John Masefield / includes 'Strange Service'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8uql.1
title: Laventie

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Another version of the poem exists under the title 'Laventie Front'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8uv4.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8vkb.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian9s5.2
title: Letter from Major C Charrington to Mrs C Carr re death of Leslie George Carr (2)

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/bodleiand15q.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Feels ashamed about a previous 'grumbling' letter / thanks Marion Scott for her letters, and for help with his songs / glad that she like recent verses, and is including more / describes writing at the front / H.N. Howells / music / a photograph / books and requesting the 'Penny Poets' / availability of bread / desire for a salad and fresh food / describes a machine gun with a musical score / the infantry's taste in songs / a poem by John Masefield / the military situation / running in to acquaintances / wonders what Scott will think of new poems / the 'intellectual exercise' of writing verse and letters in war / a packet received by a fellow soldier from a girl / musing about what the girl is like / F.W. Harvey in a newspaper / requests a volume by John Masefield / includes 'Strange Service'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand45p.1
title: Photograph of 60 Pdr. Gun

description: From the effects of Gunner 310573 Morris Hughes, 1st/1st Welsh Heavy Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery. Having lost his leg during the war he remained in the army and became a butcher.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand74s.2
title: Photograph of Leslie George Carr's MC and Bar

description: Photo of Captain Leslie George Carr's MC and Bar (died of wounds in Boulogne Military Hospital, April 27th 1918, 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/bodleiand8h7.2
title: The One Remains

description: Drafted earlier, but revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 100 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandl5h.1
title: Medals of Moses Parry

description: War and Victory Medals of Private Moses Parry.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiando92.1
title: England the Mother

description: Manuscript in pen in an Marion Scott's hand. Ivor Gurney had a great deal of trouble with the poem and discussed it in numerous letters throughout 1917. Included in 'Severn and Somme' (1917).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandos1.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandtlt.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Worried about Marion Scott's health / setting John Masefield's 'By the Bierside' to music / a cartoon in 'Punch' / receiving letters from friends / reading / requests for parcels / fear of death and sickness vs. fear of death in battle / thank friends for letters and 'ask them when the war will be over' / books / Shelley / changes in the war / describes battle / the weather / French poets and the war / having time to play and write music / a small fragment of verse beginning 'The careless writer...'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandtw2.2
title: The One Remains

description: Drafted earlier, but revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 100 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandvy.1
title: Photograph of men of Welsh Heavy Battery in Cart

description: Gunner 310573 Morris Hughes, 1st/1st Welsh Heavy Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery. Having lost his leg during the war he remained in the army and became a butcher.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianide.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj7we.2
title: The One Remains

description: Drafted earlier, but revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 100 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjas6.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjdjv.1
title: Laventie Front

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Another version of the poem exists under the title 'Laventie'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjjhs.2
title: The Sleeping Beauty

description: Written in August-October 1914 at Bagneres. Revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 101 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianju5j.1
title: Memorial Plaque and Medals of William Parry

description: Memorial Plaque, 1914-15 Star, War and Victory Medals of William Henry Parry. 

Lance Corporal 838 William Henry Parry, 1st/6th Bn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, was killed in action 23rd August 1915, aged 23. The son of Moses Parry, of 7, Assheton Terrace, Carnarvon, he is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjy5x.2
title: Strange Service

description: Feels ashamed about a previous 'grumbling' letter / thanks Marion Scott for her letters, and for help with his songs / glad that she like recent verses, and is including more / describes writing at the front / H.N. Howells / music / a photograph / books and requesting the 'Penny Poets' / availability of bread / desire for a salad and fresh food / describes a machine gun with a musical score / the infantry's taste in songs / a poem by John Masefield / the military situation / running in to acquaintances / wonders what Scott will think of new poems / the 'intellectual exercise' of writing verse and letters in war / a packet received by a fellow soldier from a girl / musing about what the girl is like / F.W. Harvey in a newspaper / requests a volume by John Masefield / includes 'Strange Service'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjz57.2
title: Demobilisation Certificate for Frederick Matson

description: Demobilisation Certificate ('Demob Chit')
Sgt Frederick Mateson R.A.S.C.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiank3o.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Worried about Marion Scott's health / setting John Masefield's 'By the Bierside' to music / a cartoon in 'Punch' / receiving letters from friends / reading / requests for parcels / fear of death and sickness vs. fear of death in battle / thank friends for letters and 'ask them when the war will be over' / books / Shelley / changes in the war / describes battle / the weather / French poets and the war / having time to play and write music / a small fragment of verse beginning 'The careless writer...'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiannqg.2
title: Marriage certificate for Frederick Matson

description: Marriage certificate.
Frederick Matson and Margaret Egan
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianre74.1
title: Photograph of mounted troops stood by horses

description: From the effects of Gunner 310573 Morris Hughes, 1st/1st Welsh Heavy Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery. Having lost his leg during the war he remained in the army and became a butcher.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianwjw.1
title: Tobacco

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. This version was used in Edmund Blunden's and Leonard Clark's editions of Gurney's poems in 1954 and 1973 respectively. A shorter version was printed in 'The London Mercury' in 1924.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianznp.2
title: The Sleeping Beauty

description: Written in August-October 1914 at Bagneres. Revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 101 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian238e.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian27ql.1
title: Photograph of Walter Powell, Mechanised Transport A.S.C. on a Maudsley 3-ton munitions truck

description: Walter Powell is sat in the Maudsley truck, middle (X marked above his head). His note on the reverse records that in the picture from left to right are "David Thomas, Walter Powell, Bill Babage, George Stephens, Corporal 'Skip' from Seattle, Canada [sic] David let me drive this Maudsley lorry - TNT cylinders - On fatigue - Widnes, Runcorn, Chester, back to Queens Ferry - also to Liverpool over ferry".

Part of a collection relating to Walter H. Powell, Llandrindod Wells, (private / driver M2-267205 Mechanised Transport Army Service Corps). Born 1898, Walter tried to join up under-age on a number of occasions, finally succeeding in 1916. He served many months - (more than 2 years?) - in different army units in Britain, before going over to France. He served as a despatch rider for an anti-aircraft battery in 1918-1919. Walter was gassed "suffering the effects all his life". He was a founder member of Toc-H in Llandrindod, and a keen footballer - he died in 1994 aged 96. However Walter's older brothers (Cliff and Percy Powell) and his uncle (Humphrey Powell) died of wounds sustained during the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian29k9.2
title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission record

description: Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2cs7.1
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).