cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandssd.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj2eg.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Reports that Ivor Gurney is settled into hospital / wondering about the weather and Marion Scott's health / informs Scott that there is no chance of being sent home to 'Blighty' / good to be with a 'crowd of men' even if they are 'admittedly ill-used' / thanks Scott for writing to friends on his behalf / discusses victory at Arras / the Carnegie Quartet and the London Symphony / wonders how H.N. Howells is getting on.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjmj1.2
title: Photograph of a nurse and some patients at a Great War hospital

description: Editor's Comment:
Thomas Hourston seated far right. 

Captain Thomas Nicol Folster Hourston, 10th Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (9th (Scottish) and later 32nd Division) served as Adjutant of his battalion from 16th February 1918. He began his war as a Private, service no. 2796 in the London Regiment, and was comissioned 5th August 1916. Originally from Orkney. His Military Cross Citations are as follows:

Supplement to the London Gazette, 26th July 1917:
'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He took command of his company during the advance and handled it with great coolness and ability. Although wounded he continued to command for 48 hours.'

Supplement to the London Gazette, 10th December 1919:
'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at Joucourt and Chataigries Wood from 29th September to 5th October, 1918. During a determined counter-attack by the enemy, when the situation was very obscure, he went up on his own initiative and organised two companies in defensive positions,
completely restoring the situation at a critical time. He was of great assistance to his C.O. through five very difficult and tryirig days.'
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjnp3.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Reports that Ivor Gurney is settled into hospital / wondering about the weather and Marion Scott's health / informs Scott that there is no chance of being sent home to 'Blighty' / good to be with a 'crowd of men' even if they are 'admittedly ill-used' / thanks Scott for writing to friends on his behalf / discusses victory at Arras / the Carnegie Quartet and the London Symphony / wonders how H.N. Howells is getting on.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjp6f.2
title: Photograph of C.S.M. W. Bradford (46yrs)

description: CSM Bradford served in the Territorials  for about 25 years.
Too old for Active Service he was based in Weybourne Camp, Norforlk helping train soldiers to build Bailey Bridges
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjyl5.2
title: Embroidered postcard sent to Miss E. Simpson (2)

description: Embroidered postcard bearing the cap badge of the Royal Artillery, several Union Flags, and the dates "1914 15 1916". It is addressed to a Miss E. Simpson at an address in Bridlington, and the message begins "Dear Sister, Whatever you do never let it leave your hands". Part of a collection relating to W. H. Simpson and William Figg.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjyqb.2
title: Photograph of Captain R J Helsby, RAMC

description: The set of medals, including the Croix de Guerre and the Military Croos, awarded to Captain Helsby, RAMC, was given to the RAMC Museum in 2004.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjzf4.2
title: Phyllis Haviland Sketchbook (30)

description: Phyllis Haviland worked as a nurse throughout the Great War.  The attached images are the pages of her autograph book, in which she allowed wounded soldiers to draw sketches and write poetry.  I believe she is the nurse photographed with her patients in images 02 and 03.  04 relates to her family, and 05 has photographs of soldiers orphans.  The rest of the book contains sketches and poetry.

While most of the content seems to relate to the time when she worked at St Marks Hospital in Chelsea, London, she may have moved to a hospital in St Albans later in the War.  One or two of the later notes may have been made there.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiankk4.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Describes being wounded - but 'not badly enough' - in an attack on Good Friday (6 April 1917) / not sure exactly where he will be / informs Marion Scott that his friend and fellow poet F W Harvey is receiving all of his parcels in a prisoner of war camp / the weather / John Masefield's 'By the Bierside' / lack of money to by books, and hence a requests' list.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianmb1.2
title: A Simple Prayer Book for Soldiers (3)

description: A Simple Prayer Book for Soldiers, issued by H.M. Stationery Office by arrangement with the Catholic Truth Society. Inscribed inside the front cover "This prayer book was used by Thomas Mahoney, 1914-1916", and "died in France 1916 of wounds received". Mahoney served as a private with the 1/5th Battalion of the Border Regiment. He was killed on 7th November 1916 in the Somme region, and was buried in the Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension. Part of a collection relating to Thomas Mahoney and Archibold George Fielder, deposited by Mahoney's great-grandson.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianmhf.2
title: Items related to Henry James Mercer, member of Army Cyclist Corps (3)

description: My Father was in a little-known regiment, the Army Cyclist Corps.   I am sending some photographs and other memorabilia.   A few more items will be sent later.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianmvx.2
title: Till the boys Come home (3)

description: Postcard 3 in a set of 3.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiann4l.2
title: Phyllis Haviland Sketchbook (31)

description: Phyllis Haviland worked as a nurse throughout the Great War.  The attached images are the pages of her autograph book, in which she allowed wounded soldiers to draw sketches and write poetry.  I believe she is the nurse photographed with her patients in images 02 and 03.  04 relates to her family, and 05 has photographs of soldiers orphans.  The rest of the book contains sketches and poetry.

While most of the content seems to relate to the time when she worked at St Marks Hospital in Chelsea, London, she may have moved to a hospital in St Albans later in the War.  One or two of the later notes may have been made there.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianqqb.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Reports on receiving various letters and Leo Tolstoy's 'Cossacks' / expresses regret about Marion Scott's recurring illness / reports that he has been declared fit for duty / missing 'Church Parade' / receiving a 'Poetry Review' and a 'Times Literary Supplement' / discusses a performance by the Carnegie Quartet / wonders about the progress of Scott's book / mentions 'The Shropshire Lad' / Robert Bridges / Lascelles Abercrombie in the 'Poetry Review' / discusses reaction to the death of Edward Thomas / 'Cossacks' and Tolstoy as a writer / thinks that the 'Poetry Review' may start him writing verses again.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian29h1.2
title: Items related to Henry James Mercer, member of Army Cyclist Corps (4)

description: My Father was in a little-known regiment, the Army Cyclist Corps.   I am sending some photographs and other memorabilia.   A few more items will be sent later.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2f9r.2
title: Blackout notice to Inhabitants of Orkney Islands.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2g5h.2
title: Letter sent by Driver W. H. Simpson to his sister (1)

description: Letter sent by Driver W. H. Simpson of the ASC to his sister just before leaving Farnham, telling her that he is being sent to Salonika. Part of a collection relating to W. H. Simpson and William Figg.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2hcm.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Includes a list of poems for 'Severn and Somme' / receiving a letter / glad that Marion Scott's health is improving / comments on the coming of spring / 'Strange Service' as a possible title for 'Severn and Somme' / Robert Bridges / William Watson / Brahms / the marriage of H.N. Howells / Army biscuits / the arrangement of verses / notes that he does not have it in him to write a good letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2iew.2
title: Letter, note and photograph (3)

description: Letter and note.

Letter has the stamp from and the soldier is in the dress uniform of the Royal Scots.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2oha.2
title: Information on the War (3)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2wa2.2
title: Official Army Reserve transfer documents (2)

description: Served for 25 years in the Territorials.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6168.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Reports on receiving various letters and Leo Tolstoy's 'Cossacks' / expresses regret about Marion Scott's recurring illness / reports that he has been declared fit for duty / missing 'Church Parade' / receiving a 'Poetry Review' and a 'Times Literary Supplement' / discusses a performance by the Carnegie Quartet / wonders about the progress of Scott's book / mentions 'The Shropshire Lad' / Robert Bridges / Lascelles Abercrombie in the 'Poetry Review' / discusses reaction to the death of Edward Thomas / 'Cossacks' and Tolstoy as a writer / thinks that the 'Poetry Review' may start him writing verses again.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6cx.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Includes a list of poems for 'Severn and Somme' / receiving a letter / glad that Marion Scott's health is improving / comments on the coming of spring / 'Strange Service' as a possible title for 'Severn and Somme' / Robert Bridges / William Watson / Brahms / the marriage of H.N. Howells / Army biscuits / the arrangement of verses / notes that he does not have it in him to write a good letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6dbb.2
title: Items related to Henry James Mercer, member of Army Cyclist Corps (6)

description: My Father was in a little-known regiment, the Army Cyclist Corps.   I am sending some photographs and other memorabilia.   A few more items will be sent later.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6j9l.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (17)

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

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6n66.2
title: Information on the War (1)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6q1s.2
title: Trench orders for the 143rd Infantry Brigade (1)

description: Typewritten orders with handwritten additions, including "Segt Figg" written down the side of the first page. Part of a collection relating to W. H. Simpson and William Figg.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6qm2.2
title: Special Constabulary Long Service Medal (2)

description: John Triffitt was my great-uncle.  I thought the envelope was of interest since it was unstamped but different from the usual OHMS envelopes.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6tlc.2
title: Photograph outside a bungalow

description: 4th Dorsets(?) in India
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6uvx.2
title: Letter, note and photograph (2)

description: Letter and note.

Letter has the stamp from and the soldier is in the dress uniform of the Royal Scots.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6wvy.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Includes a list of poems for 'Severn and Somme' / receiving a letter / glad that Marion Scott's health is improving / comments on the coming of spring / 'Strange Service' as a possible title for 'Severn and Somme' / Robert Bridges / William Watson / Brahms / the marriage of H.N. Howells / Army biscuits / the arrangement of verses / notes that he does not have it in him to write a good letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8417.2
title: Photograph of three soldiers (2)

description: Photograph of three soldiers, one of whom may be Sergeant Arthur William Figg. The inscription on the back begins "With Best Wishes for Xmas", but also includes the date "2/6/18". Part of a collection relating to W. H. Simpson and William Figg.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian84mr.2
title: Special Constabulary Long Service Medal (1)

description: John Triffitt was my great-uncle.  I thought the envelope was of interest since it was unstamped but different from the usual OHMS envelopes.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8899.2
title: Photograph of AJ Bartlett
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8cv5.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Includes a list of poems for 'Severn and Somme' / receiving a letter / glad that Marion Scott's health is improving / comments on the coming of spring / 'Strange Service' as a possible title for 'Severn and Somme' / Robert Bridges / William Watson / Brahms / the marriage of H.N. Howells / Army biscuits / the arrangement of verses / notes that he does not have it in him to write a good letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8lvq.2
title: Death Penny'
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8pme.2
title: Photograph 4th Dorsets in India

description: Photograph of a sports team(?)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8r66.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Reports on receiving various letters and Leo Tolstoy's 'Cossacks' / expresses regret about Marion Scott's recurring illness / reports that he has been declared fit for duty / missing 'Church Parade' / receiving a 'Poetry Review' and a 'Times Literary Supplement' / discusses a performance by the Carnegie Quartet / wonders about the progress of Scott's book / mentions 'The Shropshire Lad' / Robert Bridges / Lascelles Abercrombie in the 'Poetry Review' / discusses reaction to the death of Edward Thomas / 'Cossacks' and Tolstoy as a writer / thinks that the 'Poetry Review' may start him writing verses again.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8s61.2
title: Press cutting

description: A press cutting recording the presentation to Captain R J Helsby of an illuminated album in recognition of the award to him of the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre for bravery in France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiancar.2
title: Official Army Reserve transfer documents (1)

description: Served for 25 years in the Territorials.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianda5c.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandble.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Includes a list of poems for 'Severn and Somme' / receiving a letter / glad that Marion Scott's health is improving / comments on the coming of spring / 'Strange Service' as a possible title for 'Severn and Somme' / Robert Bridges / William Watson / Brahms / the marriage of H.N. Howells / Army biscuits / the arrangement of verses / notes that he does not have it in him to write a good letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandd3g.2
title: Information on the War (6)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianddpa.2
title: Letter sent by Driver W. H. Simpson to his sister (3)

description: Letter (with envelope) sent by Driver W. H. Simpson of the ASC to his sister while he was in the No 2 Australian General Hospital in Boulogne recuperating from an injury to his leg caused by the horses in his care. Part of a collection relating to W. H. Simpson and William Figg.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandh3x.2
title: Physical Instructors of No 4 Co 1/4 Dorsets

description: Harry Britten who took the photographs was accidentally killed in Basra, Mesopotamia, when a gun exploded, on the 19th of August 1915
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandtb3.2
title: Cartoon of 'The Doc'

description: A cartoon of Captain R J Helsby - 'The Doc' - medical officer of the 20th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandtuq.2
title: Letter sent by Driver W. H. Simpson to his sister (1)

description: Letter (with envelope) sent by Driver W. H. Simpson of the ASC to his sister while he was in the No 2 Australian General Hospital in Boulogne recuperating from an injury to his leg caused by the horses in his care. Part of a collection relating to W. H. Simpson and William Figg.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandwbs.2
title: Items related to Henry James Mercer, member of Army Cyclist Corps (5)

description: My Father was in a little-known regiment, the Army Cyclist Corps.   I am sending some photographs and other memorabilia.   A few more items will be sent later.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandysy.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (18)

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

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj23q.2
title: Information on the War (5)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj2pf.2
title: Photograph of three soldiers (1)

description: Photograph of three soldiers, one of whom may be Sergeant Arthur William Figg. The inscription on the back begins "With Best Wishes for Xmas", but also includes the date "2/6/18". Part of a collection relating to W. H. Simpson and William Figg.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj7b7.2
title: Information on the War (4)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj7ux.2
title: Letter sent by Driver W. H. Simpson to his sister (2)

description: Letter (with envelope) sent by Driver W. H. Simpson of the ASC to his sister while he was in the No 2 Australian General Hospital in Boulogne recuperating from an injury to his leg caused by the horses in his care. Part of a collection relating to W. H. Simpson and William Figg.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjk3m.2
title: Photograph Half way to Simla

description: [4th Dorsets in India?]
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjm5n.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiank9k.2
title: Photograph of soldiers, India

description: A few of the section after Church Parade - Gary Foster, Troubridge, Crawford, Bullen, Coffer, Carden, Randle, Amey, Holloway, Poore EJ, Rendle, Castle, Dacombe A, Picket a [4th Dorsets in India?]
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianxd8.2
title: Letter, note and photograph (1)

description: Letter and note.

Letter has the stamp from and the soldier is in the dress uniform of the Royal Scots.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianyer.2
title: Letter sent by Driver W. H. Simpson to his sister (1)

description: Letter sent by Driver W. H. Simpson of the ASC to his sister Ethel describing his recent activities, including going to see the aeroplane schools at Farnborough. The letter is written on YMCA headed notepaper. Part of a collection relating to W. H. Simpson and William Figg.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianyhu.2
title: Information on the War (2)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianz5y.2
title: Trench orders for the 143rd Infantry Brigade (2)

description: Typewritten orders with handwritten additions, including "Segt Figg" written down the side of the first page. Part of a collection relating to W. H. Simpson and William Figg.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian22nn.2
title: Letter Home (2)

description: Sadly page 18 is missing and it appears some latter pages are to.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2afc.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (23)

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

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2bvy.2
title: Will of Joseph Ernest Scott, R.G.A. (2)

description: World War One Army documents belonging to my Grandfather, born May 7th 1889, died 1973

Editors Comment:
Taken from back of Paybook, opened on 1 December 1918
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2iy4.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Mentions receiving two new letters / John Masefield's 'By the Bierside' / discusses a new book by Rudyard Kipling / includes an addition to the 'Preface' of 'Severn and Somme' / includes a portion of 'Trees' / smoking pipes in the Music Room / wonders what is in store from tomorrow as the battalion goes back on 'Active Service' / feeling fit and well-fed at present / may include new verses in next letter / comments on the importance of letters / curses the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2wzb.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Mentions receiving two new letters / John Masefield's 'By the Bierside' / discusses a new book by Rudyard Kipling / includes an addition to the 'Preface' of 'Severn and Somme' / includes a portion of 'Trees' / smoking pipes in the Music Room / wonders what is in store from tomorrow as the battalion goes back on 'Active Service' / feeling fit and well-fed at present / may include new verses in next letter / comments on the importance of letters / curses the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian69r6.2
title: Trees

description: Mentions receiving two new letters / John Masefield's 'By the Bierside' / discusses a new book by Rudyard Kipling / includes an addition to the 'Preface' of 'Severn and Somme' / includes a portion of 'Trees' / smoking pipes in the Music Room / wonders what is in store from tomorrow as the battalion goes back on 'Active Service' / feeling fit and well-fed at present / may include new verses in next letter / comments on the importance of letters / curses the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ip7.2
title: Will of Joseph Ernest Scott, R.G.A. (1)

description: World War One Army documents belonging to my Grandfather, born May 7th 1889, died 1973

Editors Comment:
Taken from back of Paybook, opened on 1 December 1918