cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjzn7.2
title: Memoir: 'The Lost Years', by Frederick Boland, Royal Artillery (3)

description: A memoir of my grandfather's (Frederick William Boland c1872 - 1929) service in the Royal Artillary which was originally published in the 'Clonmel Chronicle' (Ireland).

Editor's Comment:
Corporal L/44761 Frederick William Boland, 189th Bde. Royal Field Artillery, later clerk, Artillery Depot, Rouen, and Artillery Headquaters, Second Army, transferred during the war into the Royal Garrison Artillery, with the service no. 185591.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianlf1.2
title: Letter home written by 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes about the Christmas truce of 1914 (1)

description: Letter home written by my uncle, 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes, about the Christmas truce of 1914.

He was killed at Neuve Chapelle on 10th March 1915, and I think the location for the letter is probably similar.

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant Albert Brainerd Raynes, Royal Sussex Regiment, attached 2nd Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment, was killed in action on 10th March 1915, aged 20. The son of Albert Edward and Alice Mary Raynes, of 201, Denman St., Nottingham, he is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. Lieutenant Raynes fell on the opening day of the battle of Neuve Chapelle, his battalion taking part in the attack of the 8th Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianmgi.2
title: Memoir: 'The Lost Years', by Frederick Boland, Royal Artillery (9)

description: A memoir of my grandfather's (Frederick William Boland c1872 - 1929) service in the Royal Artillary which was originally published in the 'Clonmel Chronicle' (Ireland).

Editor's Comment:
Corporal L/44761 Frederick William Boland, 189th Bde. Royal Field Artillery, later clerk, Artillery Depot, Rouen, and Artillery Headquaters, Second Army, transferred during the war into the Royal Garrison Artillery, with the service no. 185591.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiantbo.2
title: Campaign photographs by Frederick Parson Dickerson (29)

description: Frederick Dickerson was in the Royal Army Service Corps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianwl3.2
title: "Blighty" Thanksgiving service attended by Sapper E. Grantham (2)

description: Editor's Comment:
Service sheet, 'A "Blighty" Thanksgiving Service for your last evening in France', with pencilled note: 'Last night in France 29.1.1919.'

Sapper 146217 Ernest Grantham, 156th Field Company, Royal Engineers. The 156th Field Coy. were attached to the 16th (Irish) Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiany9m.2
title: Folk melody?

description: Pencil sketch of a folk-like melody in Ivor Gurney's hand. From a Black notebook inscribed 'Pvt Gurney 241282 / Gloucester', used by Ivor Gurney between November 1917 and January 1918, whilst Gurney was at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland on a signalling course. The diary includes some early drafts of poems, notes on the camp and military matters, sketches, lists, musical scores, addresses and sums. The rear cover of the book and following pages reveal a cigarette burn-like hole.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian1qr.2
title: Letter home written by 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes about life in the trenches (3)

description: Letter home written by my uncle, 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes, about life in the trenches. 

Location probably Neuve Chapelle.

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant Albert Brainerd Raynes, Royal Sussex Regiment, attached 2nd Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment, was killed in action on 10th March 1915, aged 20. The son of Albert Edward and Alice Mary Raynes, of 201, Denman St., Nottingham, he is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. Lieutenant Raynes fell on the opening day of the battle of Neuve Chapelle, his battalion taking part in the attack of the 8th Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2662.2
title: Diary as a P.O.W. of C.S.M Peter McNally of the 4th Batt. East Yorks (15)

description: Notebook containing a diary kept by Company Sergeant Major Peter McNally of the 4th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment during his time as a prisoner of war. The diary covers the period from 26th May 1918 to 5th October that year.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian26r.2
title: Diary as a P.O.W. of C.S.M Peter McNally of the 4th Batt. East Yorks (14)

description: Notebook containing a diary kept by Company Sergeant Major Peter McNally of the 4th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment during his time as a prisoner of war. The diary covers the period from 26th May 1918 to 5th October that year.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2cn1.2
title: Embroidered Postcard of Cloth Hall, Ypres, in Ruins (2)

description: Part of collection of L Cpl Bernard Kemp.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2gvu.2
title: April Anthem

description: Pencil draft in Ivor Gurney's hand of a poem that appears to have grown out of another that begins 'To think that Belgium still is crucified'. From a Black notebook inscribed 'Pvt Gurney 241282 / Gloucester', used by Ivor Gurney between November 1917 and January 1918, whilst Gurney was at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland on a signalling course. The diary includes some early drafts of poems, notes on the camp and military matters, sketches, lists, musical scores, addresses and sums. The rear cover of the book and following pages reveal a cigarette burn-like hole.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2odm.2
title: Memoir: 'The Lost Years', by Frederick Boland, Royal Artillery (17)

description: A memoir of my grandfather's (Frederick William Boland c1872 - 1929) service in the Royal Artillary which was originally published in the 'Clonmel Chronicle' (Ireland).

Editor's Comment:
Corporal L/44761 Frederick William Boland, 189th Bde. Royal Field Artillery, later clerk, Artillery Depot, Rouen, and Artillery Headquaters, Second Army, transferred during the war into the Royal Garrison Artillery, with the service no. 185591.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2roi.2
title: Postcard kept throughout war by Sapper E. Grantham (2)

description: Editor's Comment:
Sapper 146217 Ernest Grantham, 156th Field Company, Royal Engineers. The 156th Field Coy. were attached to the 16th (Irish) Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2vvf.2
title: Diary as a P.O.W. of C.S.M Peter McNally of the 4th Batt. East Yorks (19)

description: Notebook containing a diary kept by Company Sergeant Major Peter McNally of the 4th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment during his time as a prisoner of war. The diary covers the period from 26th May 1918 to 5th October that year.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2xmj.2
title: Letter from Mr Walter C Baynes to Walter 'Dem" Baynes (2)

description: Letter from father to son. Son is awaiting demobilisation. Letter discusses election and various local politics. Walter Baynes (junior) served on the Somme. Brother (Arthur Baynes) served in the Navy. Father and mother - Walter and Bertha Baynes - ran china shop in Wakefield.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2yq2.2
title: Letter home written by 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes about life in the trenches (4)

description: Letter home written by my uncle, 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes, about life in the trenches. 

Location probably Neuve Chapelle.

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant Albert Brainerd Raynes, Royal Sussex Regiment, attached 2nd Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment, was killed in action on 10th March 1915, aged 20. The son of Albert Edward and Alice Mary Raynes, of 201, Denman St., Nottingham, he is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. Lieutenant Raynes fell on the opening day of the battle of Neuve Chapelle, his battalion taking part in the attack of the 8th Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian63fl.2
title: Postcard sent to Sapper Grantham by Sister (2)

description: Editor's Comment:
Sapper 146217 Ernest Grantham, 156th Field Company, Royal Engineers. The 156th Field Coy. were attached to the 16th (Irish) Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6834.2
title: Letter from Mr Walter C Baynes to Walter 'Dem" Baynes (4)

description: Letter from father to son. Son is awaiting demobilisation. Letter discusses election and various local politics. Walter Baynes (junior) served on the Somme. Brother (Arthur Baynes) served in the Navy. Father and mother - Walter and Bertha Baynes - ran china shop in Wakefield.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6eti.2
title: Letter home written by 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes about the Christmas truce of 1914 (4)

description: Letter home written by my uncle, 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes, about the Christmas truce of 1914.

He was killed at Neuve Chapelle on 10th March 1915, and I think the location for the letter is probably similar.

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant Albert Brainerd Raynes, Royal Sussex Regiment, attached 2nd Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment, was killed in action on 10th March 1915, aged 20. The son of Albert Edward and Alice Mary Raynes, of 201, Denman St., Nottingham, he is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. Lieutenant Raynes fell on the opening day of the battle of Neuve Chapelle, his battalion taking part in the attack of the 8th Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6k53.2
title: 'God with his medicines' / Sketch of a Poem

description: Pencil and pen drafts in Ivor Gurney's hand. From a Black notebook inscribed 'Pvt Gurney 241282 / Gloucester', used by Ivor Gurney between November 1917 and January 1918, whilst Gurney was at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland on a signalling course. The diary includes some early drafts of poems, notes on the camp and military matters, sketches, lists, musical scores, addresses and sums. The rear cover of the book and following pages reveal a cigarette burn-like hole.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6mfb.2
title: Embroidered Postcard of Cathedral, Reims, in Flames (2)

description: Part of collection of L Cpl Bernard Kemp.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6qs8.2
title: England when thy sons

description: Draft (continuation) in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. From a Black notebook inscribed 'Pvt Gurney 241282 / Gloucester', used by Ivor Gurney between November 1917 and January 1918, whilst Gurney was at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland on a signalling course. The diary includes some early drafts of poems, notes on the camp and military matters, sketches, lists, musical scores, addresses and sums. The rear cover of the book and following pages reveal a cigarette burn-like hole.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6r4h.2
title: Street Party in York to mark end of war (2)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6sxn.2
title: Letter home written by 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes about life in the trenches (2)

description: Letter home written by my uncle, 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes, about life in the trenches. 

Location probably Neuve Chapelle.

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant Albert Brainerd Raynes, Royal Sussex Regiment, attached 2nd Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment, was killed in action on 10th March 1915, aged 20. The son of Albert Edward and Alice Mary Raynes, of 201, Denman St., Nottingham, he is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. Lieutenant Raynes fell on the opening day of the battle of Neuve Chapelle, his battalion taking part in the attack of the 8th Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6twh.2
title: Memoir: 'The Lost Years', by Frederick Boland, Royal Artillery (14)

description: A memoir of my grandfather's (Frederick William Boland c1872 - 1929) service in the Royal Artillary which was originally published in the 'Clonmel Chronicle' (Ireland).

Editor's Comment:
Corporal L/44761 Frederick William Boland, 189th Bde. Royal Field Artillery, later clerk, Artillery Depot, Rouen, and Artillery Headquaters, Second Army, transferred during the war into the Royal Garrison Artillery, with the service no. 185591.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8557.2
title: Diary as a P.O.W. of C.S.M Peter McNally of the 4th Batt. East Yorks (20)

description: Notebook containing a diary kept by Company Sergeant Major Peter McNally of the 4th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment during his time as a prisoner of war. The diary covers the period from 26th May 1918 to 5th October that year.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8afs.2
title: Embroidered Postcard of Cathedral, Reims, in Flames (1)

description: Part of collection of L Cpl Bernard Kemp.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8e3z.2
title: Letter from Mr Walter C Baynes to Walter 'Dem" Baynes (3)

description: Letter from father to son. Son is awaiting demobilisation. Letter discusses election and various local politics. Walter Baynes (junior) served on the Somme. Brother (Arthur Baynes) served in the Navy. Father and mother - Walter and Bertha Baynes - ran china shop in Wakefield.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8gxc.2
title: Letter home written by 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes about life in the trenches (1)

description: Letter home written by my uncle, 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes, about life in the trenches. 

Location probably Neuve Chapelle.

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant Albert Brainerd Raynes, Royal Sussex Regiment, attached 2nd Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment, was killed in action on 10th March 1915, aged 20. The son of Albert Edward and Alice Mary Raynes, of 201, Denman St., Nottingham, he is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. Lieutenant Raynes fell on the opening day of the battle of Neuve Chapelle, his battalion taking part in the attack of the 8th Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8had.2
title: April Anthem

description: Pencil draft (continuation) in Ivor Gurney's hand. The draft is dated 'April-November 1917.  Rouen-Seaton Delaval'.  From a Black notebook inscribed 'Pvt Gurney 241282 / Gloucester', used by Ivor Gurney between November 1917 and January 1918, whilst Gurney was at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland on a signalling course. The diary includes some early drafts of poems, notes on the camp and military matters, sketches, lists, musical scores, addresses and sums. The rear cover of the book and following pages reveal a cigarette burn-like hole.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8j4y.2
title: Street Party in York to mark end of war (1)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8pwy.2
title: Memoir: 'The Lost Years', by Frederick Boland, Royal Artillery (15)

description: A memoir of my grandfather's (Frederick William Boland c1872 - 1929) service in the Royal Artillary which was originally published in the 'Clonmel Chronicle' (Ireland).

Editor's Comment:
Corporal L/44761 Frederick William Boland, 189th Bde. Royal Field Artillery, later clerk, Artillery Depot, Rouen, and Artillery Headquaters, Second Army, transferred during the war into the Royal Garrison Artillery, with the service no. 185591.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8vf9.2
title: Postcard sent to Sapper Grantham by Sister (1)

description: Editor's Comment:
Sapper 146217 Ernest Grantham, 156th Field Company, Royal Engineers. The 156th Field Coy. were attached to the 16th (Irish) Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8w6k.2
title: Song ['I love you for your tenderness...'] / Song ['Your eyes are pools of dark...']

description: Pencil draft in Ivor Gurney's hand of two sets of verse. From a Black notebook inscribed 'Pvt Gurney 241282 / Gloucester', used by Ivor Gurney between November 1917 and January 1918, whilst Gurney was at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland on a signalling course. The diary includes some early drafts of poems, notes on the camp and military matters, sketches, lists, musical scores, addresses and sums. The rear cover of the book and following pages reveal a cigarette burn-like hole.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand1mn.2
title: Memoir: 'The Lost Years', by Frederick Boland, Royal Artillery (12)

description: A memoir of my grandfather's (Frederick William Boland c1872 - 1929) service in the Royal Artillary which was originally published in the 'Clonmel Chronicle' (Ireland).

Editor's Comment:
Corporal L/44761 Frederick William Boland, 189th Bde. Royal Field Artillery, later clerk, Artillery Depot, Rouen, and Artillery Headquaters, Second Army, transferred during the war into the Royal Garrison Artillery, with the service no. 185591.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand3tb.2
title: Letter home written by 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes about the Christmas truce of 1914 (3)

description: Letter home written by my uncle, 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes, about the Christmas truce of 1914.

He was killed at Neuve Chapelle on 10th March 1915, and I think the location for the letter is probably similar.

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant Albert Brainerd Raynes, Royal Sussex Regiment, attached 2nd Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment, was killed in action on 10th March 1915, aged 20. The son of Albert Edward and Alice Mary Raynes, of 201, Denman St., Nottingham, he is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. Lieutenant Raynes fell on the opening day of the battle of Neuve Chapelle, his battalion taking part in the attack of the 8th Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianddss.2
title: Memoir: 'The Lost Years', by Frederick Boland, Royal Artillery (20)

description: A memoir of my grandfather's (Frederick William Boland c1872 - 1929) service in the Royal Artillary which was originally published in the 'Clonmel Chronicle' (Ireland).

Editor's Comment:
Corporal L/44761 Frederick William Boland, 189th Bde. Royal Field Artillery, later clerk, Artillery Depot, Rouen, and Artillery Headquaters, Second Army, transferred during the war into the Royal Garrison Artillery, with the service no. 185591.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandh8m.2
title: Letter home written by 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes about the Christmas truce of 1914 (5)

description: Letter home written by my uncle, 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes, about the Christmas truce of 1914.

He was killed at Neuve Chapelle on 10th March 1915, and I think the location for the letter is probably similar.

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant Albert Brainerd Raynes, Royal Sussex Regiment, attached 2nd Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment, was killed in action on 10th March 1915, aged 20. The son of Albert Edward and Alice Mary Raynes, of 201, Denman St., Nottingham, he is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. Lieutenant Raynes fell on the opening day of the battle of Neuve Chapelle, his battalion taking part in the attack of the 8th Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandiqq.2
title: Diary as a P.O.W. of C.S.M Peter McNally of the 4th Batt. East Yorks (16)

description: Notebook containing a diary kept by Company Sergeant Major Peter McNally of the 4th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment during his time as a prisoner of war. The diary covers the period from 26th May 1918 to 5th October that year.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandkhl.2
title: Letter from Mrs Bertha Baynes to Walter 'Dem" Baynes (1)

description: Letter to son from mother awaiting his demobilisation. Mentions forms to get soldiers over 21 extr 5/- a week. States 'they will keep sending on form untill peace is declare - that is next June they say now [sic]'. Written after Armistice but before declaration of peace.

Walter Baynes (junior) served on the Somme. Brother (Arthur Baynes) served in the Navy. Father and mother - Walter and Bertha Baynes - ran china shop in Wakefield.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandlqt.2
title: Song ['If grey days, discouraged light...']

description: Pencil draft in Ivor Gurney's hand of two versions of the same, unpublished song. From a Black notebook inscribed 'Pvt Gurney 241282 / Gloucester', used by Ivor Gurney between November 1917 and January 1918, whilst Gurney was at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland on a signalling course. The diary includes some early drafts of poems, notes on the camp and military matters, sketches, lists, musical scores, addresses and sums. The rear cover of the book and following pages reveal a cigarette burn-like hole.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandon8.2
title: Autograph Book of Mrs B. Grantham. (1)

description: Autographs of refugees from Antwerp, who may have stayed with the family in York.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandq76.2
title: Set of four postcards kept throughout war by Sapper E. Grantham (1)

description: Editor's Comment:
Set of four postcards captioned 'Fight the Good Fight': no. 1 depicts a Church Parade with shell in aircraft in background; no. 2 a Second Lieutenant in a trench with open bible; no. 3 a Second Lieutenant praying by a field gun carriage; no. 4 a wounded Second Lieutenant being visited by Christ. 

Sapper 146217 Ernest Grantham, 156th Field Company, Royal Engineers. The 156th Field Coy. were attached to the 16th (Irish) Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandsjq.2
title: Letter home written by 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes about life in the trenches (5)

description: Letter home written by my uncle, 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes, about life in the trenches. 

Location probably Neuve Chapelle.

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant Albert Brainerd Raynes, Royal Sussex Regiment, attached 2nd Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment, was killed in action on 10th March 1915, aged 20. The son of Albert Edward and Alice Mary Raynes, of 201, Denman St., Nottingham, he is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. Lieutenant Raynes fell on the opening day of the battle of Neuve Chapelle, his battalion taking part in the attack of the 8th Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandtxe.2
title: Memoir: 'The Lost Years', by Frederick Boland, Royal Artillery (18)

description: A memoir of my grandfather's (Frederick William Boland c1872 - 1929) service in the Royal Artillary which was originally published in the 'Clonmel Chronicle' (Ireland).

Editor's Comment:
Corporal L/44761 Frederick William Boland, 189th Bde. Royal Field Artillery, later clerk, Artillery Depot, Rouen, and Artillery Headquaters, Second Army, transferred during the war into the Royal Garrison Artillery, with the service no. 185591.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj79c.2
title: Memoir: 'The Lost Years', by Frederick Boland, Royal Artillery (19)

description: A memoir of my grandfather's (Frederick William Boland c1872 - 1929) service in the Royal Artillary which was originally published in the 'Clonmel Chronicle' (Ireland).

Editor's Comment:
Corporal L/44761 Frederick William Boland, 189th Bde. Royal Field Artillery, later clerk, Artillery Depot, Rouen, and Artillery Headquaters, Second Army, transferred during the war into the Royal Garrison Artillery, with the service no. 185591.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj9qe.2
title: Diary as a P.O.W. of C.S.M Peter McNally of the 4th Batt. East Yorks (11)

description: Notebook containing a diary kept by Company Sergeant Major Peter McNally of the 4th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment during his time as a prisoner of war. The diary covers the period from 26th May 1918 to 5th October that year.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjatw.2
title: Autograph Book of Mrs B. Grantham. (2)

description: Autographs of refugees from Antwerp, who may have stayed with the family in York.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjfho.2
title: Letter from Mrs Bertha Baynes to Walter 'Dem" Baynes (2)

description: Letter to son from mother awaiting his demobilisation. Mentions forms to get soldiers over 21 extr 5/- a week. States 'they will keep sending on form untill peace is declare - that is next June they say now [sic]'. Written after Armistice but before declaration of peace.

Walter Baynes (junior) served on the Somme. Brother (Arthur Baynes) served in the Navy. Father and mother - Walter and Bertha Baynes - ran china shop in Wakefield.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjk85.2
title: Letter home written by 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes about the Christmas truce of 1914 (6)

description: Letter home written by my uncle, 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes, about the Christmas truce of 1914.

He was killed at Neuve Chapelle on 10th March 1915, and I think the location for the letter is probably similar.

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant Albert Brainerd Raynes, Royal Sussex Regiment, attached 2nd Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment, was killed in action on 10th March 1915, aged 20. The son of Albert Edward and Alice Mary Raynes, of 201, Denman St., Nottingham, he is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. Lieutenant Raynes fell on the opening day of the battle of Neuve Chapelle, his battalion taking part in the attack of the 8th Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjob.2
title: Postcard kept throughout war by Sapper E. Grantham (1)

description: Editor's Comment:
Sapper 146217 Ernest Grantham, 156th Field Company, Royal Engineers. The 156th Field Coy. were attached to the 16th (Irish) Division.