cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6kbc.1
title: Service details of Private Patrick O'Malley

description: Details of service and places visited by Private Patrick O'Malley of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers (Service Number 12871) from his enlistment in 1914 to his discharge in 1920 (includes landing at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli on 7th August 1915), ending with details of his marriage to Mary Fallon (sic) in 1924. Part of a collection relating to Thomas Fallan, his brother Michael James Fallan, and Patrick O'Malley.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6nyr.2
title: A Memoir of his service by W.R.Smith , Driver , R.E. (10)

description: This memoir was handwritten in a small notebook by my father when he was 83 years old . As far as I know , it was from memory ,as I never saw any diaries etc. in his house . To me this seems remarkable . I typed it up (badly) about 20 years ago, and am pleased if it is of interest ,as my Dad would have been . I willl submit a couple of photos of him ,and a few other bits  .
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6s6z.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Having a 'soft' time of it after time spent in the front lines / affirms that 'Purple and Black' is meant for Marion Scott / possible changes / requests books and reviews from the 'Morning Post' / mentions Robert Bridges 'Spirit of Man' / includes a list of books and verse that Ivor Gurney would read if he were at home in England.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6z2d.1
title: Postcard sent home from training by Joseph Bullock

description: My grandfather Joseph Bullock, who was a Private in the Devonshire Regiment and Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. He served in Mesopotamia and India. I have some Christmas cards that he sent to my mother and some English postcards sent while training.

Editor's Comment:
Postcard of a painting of a girl asleep with soldier doll, captioned: 'Dreaming of Her Soldier Boy!'

Pte. 3744 (later 202513) Joseph W. G. Bullock, 2/5th Bn. Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, later served with the Devonshire Regiment (service no. 78526).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8fw3.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Thanks Marion Scott for recent letters / discusses H.N. Howells and his work / compares it to 'Time and the Soldier', which he includes / also includes 'Influences' / wonders how many poems a collected volume of his own work will need / discusses being cold / Francis Ledwidge's poems and newspapers' reaction to them / Lawrence Binyon's verses / Bach / Ernest Walker's opinion of Ivor Gurney's songs / includes 'Poor Folk' / the ending of his 'soft job' / things to look forward to back in England.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8g6p.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Describes current experience of life in the mud and trenches / alterations to verses / includes 'Song of Pain and Beauty' / expresses pleasure that two songs by Ivor Gurney will be performed / mentions a note from Vaughan Williams / not taking much notice of shelling and snipers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8hge.1
title: Group photograph including George Powell

description: George Powell was a very small man and was enlisted into The Welsh Bantams. Being of a very young age when the war began he joined by stating he was older than his correct age. By the end of the Great War George had spent a year in hospital suffering horrific injuries.

Editor's Comment:
Photograph taken in training camp. Two men are armed with Magazine Lee Enfield rifles. 

Private George Powell would have enlisted as a Bantam in the 17th or 18th (Serivice) Bns. (1st or 2nd Glamorgans), The Welsh Regiment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8i2j.1
title: Postcard sent home from training by Joseph Bullock

description: My grandfather Joseph Bullock, who was a Private in the Devonshire Regiment and Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. He served in Mesopotamia and India. I have some Christmas cards that he sent to my mother and some English postcards sent while training.

Editor's Comment:
Postcard of a painting of an Officer (a General, according to the gold lace on the peak of the cap) cradling Child, with caption: 'Say Good-Night, Daddy, not Good-bye!'

Pte. 3744 (later 202513) Joseph W. G. Bullock, 2/5th Bn. Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, later served with the Devonshire Regiment (service no. 78526).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ift.2
title: Medals of Frank Miller Bingham (1)

description: Frank Miller Bingham, MRCS, LRCP
Born 17th September 1874, at Alfreton, the second son of Dr. Joseph Bingham, of Alfreton, Derbyshire. Educated at St. Peter's School, York, and St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School. Having qualified, he took charge for about four years of a large practice in Blackwell, Alfreton, Derbyshire, associated with the Blackwell Collieries, which had been, since the collieries were sunk, under the control of his father. Subsequently he lived at Brook House, Caton, near Lancaster, and was for five years in partnership with Dr. Scott at Hornby.  From 1911 he was in partnership in Queen's Square, Lancaster, with Dr G. R. Parker and Dr C. W. Dean, as Parker, Dean and Bingham, living at Lindon Cottage (he was in practice at Caton and Lancaster for ten years). 
A good all-round sportsman, he played cricket for Derbyshire and rugby for Blackheath and Middlesex. 
An enthusiastic territorial, he preferred to serve as a combatant than as a military doctor: Lieutenant, 5th King's Own (Royal Lancashire Regiment) Territorial Battalion, November 1910; Captain, 1914; Company Commander, May 1914; acting second in command of his battalion, 1915. After the severe fighting around Ypres in Flanders in the first two weeks of May (Second Battle of Ypres), he received three days home leave and, on the day after his return to the front, was killed in action 22nd May 1915. He had been reconnoitring some new trenches that his battalion was to occupy the following day, and as he and other officers were leaving, before daybreak, they came across a man half buried by the side of a trench which had been blown in. He insisted on stopping to dig the man out himself, which took some time, and it was daylight before all had begun to leave the trenches. The party was seen by the Germans, and he received a bullet through the heart which killed him instantaneously. 
He was buried on the edge of a wood at the front, but his grave was subsequently lost in the fighting, and he is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. 
A bronze tablet was erected in his memory by the medical profession of Lancaster and district on the outer wall of the Royal Lancaster Infirmary, unveiled 2nd December 1915 by Dr G. R. Parker, senior member of the medical profession in Lancaster. 

Editor's Comment:
1914-15 Star, War and Victory Medals with ribbons.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8wm1.1
title: Casualty details for Lance Corporal Herbert Oswald Simons

description: Casualty details and modern in memoriam certificate from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for Lance Corporal Herbert Oswald Simons (Service Number 11602) of A Company, 7th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. He died on 11th May 1917. Part of a collection relating to Lance Corporal Simons, deposited by his nephew.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianac8.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Describes a lovely day without parade / discusses the order of poems for 'Severn and Somme' / 'bad news' regarding friend H.N. Howells / John Masefield's sonnets / an unspecified 'song' / news about Russian in the 'Echo de Paris' / includes 'England the Mother'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianbhx.1
title: Certificate of Service of Frank Harold Elletson

description: Part of a collection relating to Frank Harold Elletson, Royal Marine Artillery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand3a9.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing letter. Also contains letter of 28th March 1917 from Ivor Gurney to Marion Scott.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand41g.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand6zx.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/bodleiand82p.2
title: Notes on the service of Sgt G Gardner (2)

description: This is a synopsis from the diary of Sgt G Gardner that was submitted earlier
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand8no.2
title: Letter sent home by Frank Miller Bingham (4)

description: Frank Miller Bingham, MRCS, LRCP
Born 17th September 1874, at Alfreton, the second son of Dr. Joseph Bingham, of Alfreton, Derbyshire. Educated at St. Peter's School, York, and St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School. Having qualified, he took charge for about four years of a large practice in Blackwell, Alfreton, Derbyshire, associated with the Blackwell Collieries, which had been, since the collieries were sunk, under the control of his father. Subsequently he lived at Brook House, Caton, near Lancaster, and was for five years in partnership with Dr. Scott at Hornby.  From 1911 he was in partnership in Queen's Square, Lancaster, with Dr G. R. Parker and Dr C. W. Dean, as Parker, Dean and Bingham, living at Lindon Cottage (he was in practice at Caton and Lancaster for ten years). 
A good all-round sportsman, he played cricket for Derbyshire and rugby for Blackheath and Middlesex. 
An enthusiastic territorial, he preferred to serve as a combatant than as a military doctor: Lieutenant, 5th King's Own (Royal Lancashire Regiment) Territorial Battalion, November 1910; Captain, 1914; Company Commander, May 1914; acting second in command of his battalion, 1915. After the severe fighting around Ypres in Flanders in the first two weeks of May (Second Battle of Ypres), he received three days home leave and, on the day after his return to the front, was killed in action 22nd May 1915. He had been reconnoitring some new trenches that his battalion was to occupy the following day, and as he and other officers were leaving, before daybreak, they came across a man half buried by the side of a trench which had been blown in. He insisted on stopping to dig the man out himself, which took some time, and it was daylight before all had begun to leave the trenches. The party was seen by the Germans, and he received a bullet through the heart which killed him instantaneously. 
He was buried on the edge of a wood at the front, but his grave was subsequently lost in the fighting, and he is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. 
A bronze tablet was erected in his memory by the medical profession of Lancaster and district on the outer wall of the Royal Lancaster Infirmary, unveiled 2nd December 1915 by Dr G. R. Parker, senior member of the medical profession in Lancaster.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandcas.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/bodleiandl3s.1
title: Details of journey undertaken by Private Patrick O'Malley

description: Details of a journey undertaken by Private Patrick O'Malley (Service Number 12871) of the 6th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers, as part of Expeditionary Force Egypt to France. Gives information about travel from Egypt via Italy to France, battle in the Aigne-Picardie area of the Somme on the 8th October 1918 (O'Malley received a gunshot wound to the chest; casualty numbers also given), details of daily life, the Armistice, and discharge. Part of a collection relating to Thomas Fallan, his brother Michael James Fallan, and Patrick O'Malley.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandn44.2
title: Letter sent home by Frank Miller Bingham (2)

description: Frank Miller Bingham, MRCS, LRCP
Born 17th September 1874, at Alfreton, the second son of Dr. Joseph Bingham, of Alfreton, Derbyshire. Educated at St. Peter's School, York, and St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School. Having qualified, he took charge for about four years of a large practice in Blackwell, Alfreton, Derbyshire, associated with the Blackwell Collieries, which had been, since the collieries were sunk, under the control of his father. Subsequently he lived at Brook House, Caton, near Lancaster, and was for five years in partnership with Dr. Scott at Hornby.  From 1911 he was in partnership in Queen's Square, Lancaster, with Dr G. R. Parker and Dr C. W. Dean, as Parker, Dean and Bingham, living at Lindon Cottage (he was in practice at Caton and Lancaster for ten years). 
A good all-round sportsman, he played cricket for Derbyshire and rugby for Blackheath and Middlesex. 
An enthusiastic territorial, he preferred to serve as a combatant than as a military doctor: Lieutenant, 5th King's Own (Royal Lancashire Regiment) Territorial Battalion, November 1910; Captain, 1914; Company Commander, May 1914; acting second in command of his battalion, 1915. After the severe fighting around Ypres in Flanders in the first two weeks of May (Second Battle of Ypres), he received three days home leave and, on the day after his return to the front, was killed in action 22nd May 1915. He had been reconnoitring some new trenches that his battalion was to occupy the following day, and as he and other officers were leaving, before daybreak, they came across a man half buried by the side of a trench which had been blown in. He insisted on stopping to dig the man out himself, which took some time, and it was daylight before all had begun to leave the trenches. The party was seen by the Germans, and he received a bullet through the heart which killed him instantaneously. 
He was buried on the edge of a wood at the front, but his grave was subsequently lost in the fighting, and he is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. 
A bronze tablet was erected in his memory by the medical profession of Lancaster and district on the outer wall of the Royal Lancaster Infirmary, unveiled 2nd December 1915 by Dr G. R. Parker, senior member of the medical profession in Lancaster.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandpk.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: A poem that received a fee / worried that it is 'old-fashioned' / having received a volume by Lawrence Binyon / Schubert and Schumann and setting poetry to music / thanks Marion Scott for help with poems / discusses W.B. Yeats' poetry / mentions the poet John Masefield / includes 'Song' / discusses a parcel / includes 'West Country' / strafing / wants to read some of the Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren's verse / wants to know if a collected volume of his poems would compare to his friend F.W. Harvey's / the state of the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandrzy.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Trying to read letters under fire / expresses displeasure at technical criticism of verses by Robert Bridges / what Ivor Gurney intends his verse to accomplish / copying out a poem by the English poet 'John Drinkwater' / concern over a lost letter / wishes that he spoke German, in order to read German newspapers / the state of the mail / desire to visit 'Blighty'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandtnw.2
title: Letter to harold p3
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianf2j.2
title: Letter sent home by Frank Miller Bingham (4)

description: Frank Miller Bingham, MRCS, LRCP
Born 17th September 1874, at Alfreton, the second son of Dr. Joseph Bingham, of Alfreton, Derbyshire. Educated at St. Peter's School, York, and St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School. Having qualified, he took charge for about four years of a large practice in Blackwell, Alfreton, Derbyshire, associated with the Blackwell Collieries, which had been, since the collieries were sunk, under the control of his father. Subsequently he lived at Brook House, Caton, near Lancaster, and was for five years in partnership with Dr. Scott at Hornby.  From 1911 he was in partnership in Queen's Square, Lancaster, with Dr G. R. Parker and Dr C. W. Dean, as Parker, Dean and Bingham, living at Lindon Cottage (he was in practice at Caton and Lancaster for ten years). 
A good all-round sportsman, he played cricket for Derbyshire and rugby for Blackheath and Middlesex. 
An enthusiastic territorial, he preferred to serve as a combatant than as a military doctor: Lieutenant, 5th King's Own (Royal Lancashire Regiment) Territorial Battalion, November 1910; Captain, 1914; Company Commander, May 1914; acting second in command of his battalion, 1915. After the severe fighting around Ypres in Flanders in the first two weeks of May (Second Battle of Ypres), he received three days home leave and, on the day after his return to the front, was killed in action 22nd May 1915. He had been reconnoitring some new trenches that his battalion was to occupy the following day, and as he and other officers were leaving, before daybreak, they came across a man half buried by the side of a trench which had been blown in. He insisted on stopping to dig the man out himself, which took some time, and it was daylight before all had begun to leave the trenches. The party was seen by the Germans, and he received a bullet through the heart which killed him instantaneously. 
He was buried on the edge of a wood at the front, but his grave was subsequently lost in the fighting, and he is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. 
A bronze tablet was erected in his memory by the medical profession of Lancaster and district on the outer wall of the Royal Lancaster Infirmary, unveiled 2nd December 1915 by Dr G. R. Parker, senior member of the medical profession in Lancaster.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj1zh.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj7nv.2
title: Notes on the service of Sgt G Gardner (1)

description: This is a synopsis from the diary of Sgt G Gardner that was submitted earlier
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjhzm.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/bodleianjjnk.2
title: Forwarding Letter sent with Medals of Frank Miller Bingham

description: Frank Miller Bingham, MRCS, LRCP
Born 17th September 1874, at Alfreton, the second son of Dr. Joseph Bingham, of Alfreton, Derbyshire. Educated at St. Peter's School, York, and St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School. Having qualified, he took charge for about four years of a large practice in Blackwell, Alfreton, Derbyshire, associated with the Blackwell Collieries, which had been, since the collieries were sunk, under the control of his father. Subsequently he lived at Brook House, Caton, near Lancaster, and was for five years in partnership with Dr. Scott at Hornby.  From 1911 he was in partnership in Queen's Square, Lancaster, with Dr G. R. Parker and Dr C. W. Dean, as Parker, Dean and Bingham, living at Lindon Cottage (he was in practice at Caton and Lancaster for ten years). 
A good all-round sportsman, he played cricket for Derbyshire and rugby for Blackheath and Middlesex. 
An enthusiastic territorial, he preferred to serve as a combatant than as a military doctor: Lieutenant, 5th King's Own (Royal Lancashire Regiment) Territorial Battalion, November 1910; Captain, 1914; Company Commander, May 1914; acting second in command of his battalion, 1915. After the severe fighting around Ypres in Flanders in the first two weeks of May (Second Battle of Ypres), he received three days home leave and, on the day after his return to the front, was killed in action 22nd May 1915. He had been reconnoitring some new trenches that his battalion was to occupy the following day, and as he and other officers were leaving, before daybreak, they came across a man half buried by the side of a trench which had been blown in. He insisted on stopping to dig the man out himself, which took some time, and it was daylight before all had begun to leave the trenches. The party was seen by the Germans, and he received a bullet through the heart which killed him instantaneously. 
He was buried on the edge of a wood at the front, but his grave was subsequently lost in the fighting, and he is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. 
A bronze tablet was erected in his memory by the medical profession of Lancaster and district on the outer wall of the Royal Lancaster Infirmary, unveiled 2nd December 1915 by Dr G. R. Parker, senior member of the medical profession in Lancaster.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjq1q.2
title: Time and the Soldier / Influences

description: Thanks Marion Scott for recent letters / discusses H.N. Howells and his work / compares it to 'Time and the Soldier', which he includes / also includes 'Influences' / wonders how many poems a collected volume of his own work will need / discusses being cold / Francis Ledwidge's poems and newspapers' reaction to them / Lawrence Binyon's verses / Bach / Ernest Walker's opinion of Ivor Gurney's songs / includes 'Poor Folk' / the ending of his 'soft job' / things to look forward to back in England.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjv4u.2
title: Letter sent home by Frank Miller Bingham (3)

description: Frank Miller Bingham, MRCS, LRCP
Born 17th September 1874, at Alfreton, the second son of Dr. Joseph Bingham, of Alfreton, Derbyshire. Educated at St. Peter's School, York, and St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School. Having qualified, he took charge for about four years of a large practice in Blackwell, Alfreton, Derbyshire, associated with the Blackwell Collieries, which had been, since the collieries were sunk, under the control of his father. Subsequently he lived at Brook House, Caton, near Lancaster, and was for five years in partnership with Dr. Scott at Hornby.  From 1911 he was in partnership in Queen's Square, Lancaster, with Dr G. R. Parker and Dr C. W. Dean, as Parker, Dean and Bingham, living at Lindon Cottage (he was in practice at Caton and Lancaster for ten years). 
A good all-round sportsman, he played cricket for Derbyshire and rugby for Blackheath and Middlesex. 
An enthusiastic territorial, he preferred to serve as a combatant than as a military doctor: Lieutenant, 5th King's Own (Royal Lancashire Regiment) Territorial Battalion, November 1910; Captain, 1914; Company Commander, May 1914; acting second in command of his battalion, 1915. After the severe fighting around Ypres in Flanders in the first two weeks of May (Second Battle of Ypres), he received three days home leave and, on the day after his return to the front, was killed in action 22nd May 1915. He had been reconnoitring some new trenches that his battalion was to occupy the following day, and as he and other officers were leaving, before daybreak, they came across a man half buried by the side of a trench which had been blown in. He insisted on stopping to dig the man out himself, which took some time, and it was daylight before all had begun to leave the trenches. The party was seen by the Germans, and he received a bullet through the heart which killed him instantaneously. 
He was buried on the edge of a wood at the front, but his grave was subsequently lost in the fighting, and he is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. 
A bronze tablet was erected in his memory by the medical profession of Lancaster and district on the outer wall of the Royal Lancaster Infirmary, unveiled 2nd December 1915 by Dr G. R. Parker, senior member of the medical profession in Lancaster.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjwab.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis'. This page includes a sketch of a woman's face. (Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' is about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjysg.2
title: A Memoir of his service by W.R.Smith , Driver , R.E. (8)

description: This memoir was handwritten in a small notebook by my father when he was 83 years old . As far as I know , it was from memory ,as I never saw any diaries etc. in his house . To me this seems remarkable . I typed it up (badly) about 20 years ago, and am pleased if it is of interest ,as my Dad would have been . I willl submit a couple of photos of him ,and a few other bits  .