cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8akd.2
title: New Testament of Sergeant E.E. Watson, Royal Fusiliers

description: Sergeant Edward Ernest Watson (2110 1/4th Battalion London Regiment Royal Fusiliers) fought in South Africa, and was a reservist when the First World War was declared and re-joined very early on. He died at the Battle of Ginchy, on the Somme, on 9 September 1916. His name is recorded on the Thiepval Memorial as there is no known grave for him. He would have been the brother of John Porter's grandfather.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8c6f.2
title: Diary of Dr W. Roy Blore (2)

description: This is a small pocket notebook, the diary of Dr W. Roy Blore  from embarkation from Britain in July 1915 en route for the Dardanelles campaign. Pages 15-19 record the landings at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and the rest deals with the everyday life and work of the RAMC there, including the evacuation, [the family believe that Blore was the last RAMC officer to leave that part of Gallipoli] and ongoing life in Egypt until February or March 1916.

Also part of this collection are all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and on the Western Front - as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8e7c.2
title: Medals of John Barnard (1)

description: Medals from the First World War of John Barnard, which according to his son "he never wore!" He apparently did not believe in all that. However, no matter where he was he would stand at attention in silence at 11am on the 11th November each year, even if he was working out in the fields. He would also stop (even if driving) for a funeral cortege to pass.

Part of a collection relating to Lance Corporal John Barnard (52258 Worcestershire regiment), market gardener of Badsey near Evesham; and his son Mike's drawings and newspaper articles relating to the First World War.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8er1.2
title: Letter from Private Charles Green (2)

description: First page of a letter written by Private Charles Green to his mother, while he was stationed at Ousethorpe Camp, Pocklington, York. The letter is written on YMCA headed notepaper. Accompanied by a printed transcription of the full letter. 

Part of a collection relating to Charles Green, who served as a machine gunner with the 7th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment, and was killed on 8th February 1917, in the Somme area of France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8gs1.2
title: Photograph of wounded soldiers, including George Clifford, Gloucestershire Regiment. (1)

description: The arrow drawn on the photograph points to Private George Thomas Frederick Clifford of Cheltenham.
The archives of the 'Glosters' were destroyed by fire in the Second World War, unable to give any other information.

Editor's Comment:
Wounded men pictured in Service Dress or 'Hospital Blues', with a variety of headwear (including Scottish 'Tam O'Shanters') and Regimental capbadges (Machine Gun Corps, Royal Artillery, Rifle Corps, Fusiliers, Notts and Derby Regiment, etc.). Note that the man standing to the right of Pte. Clifford is a soldier of the Australian Imperial Force, and that the man seated, third from left, has somehow acquired a French 'Adrian' helmet.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8mq1.2
title: Military binoculars and case (2)

description: Photographs of military binoculars and case, owned by an uncle who was possibly Lieutenant in the Seaforth Highlanders, named Robert Scott.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand5q7.2
title: Housewife (sewing box) (3)

description: Leather house wife (a sewing box) containing needles, thread, etc.

Part of a collection relating to the service of Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC, including his letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and on the Western Front - as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandbve.2
title: Letter of Joseph Whitham (1)

description: Example of letter from which the diary (scanned) was reconstructed.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiande4g.2
title: Memorial Scroll of Robert Harcus (3)

description: Editor's Comment:
Seaman 9159/A Robert Harcus, H.M. Trawler "Touraco.", Royal Naval Reserve, aged 33, died of illness 13th September 1917. The son of Mary Ann Harcus, of 22, Shore St., Kirkwall, he is buried in Kirkwall (St. Olaf's) Cemetery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandhks.2
title: War and Women' Pamphlet

description: My mother, Violet Nye was In Canada when the war broke out. She remained there for a year and a half. She was very interested in the sufrage movement and went to many of their meetings.

Editor's Comment:
Canadian Suffrage Association, 'War and Women', by Flora MacD. Denison (Printed at request of Biennial Meeting | held at King Edward Hotel, Toronto). Undated.

Deputy Administrator Violet Nye, Queen Mary's Auxiliary Army Corps
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianditj.2
title: Scroll commemorating Private Charles Green

description: Commemorative scroll. Printed in gold is: "For King and Country to the glory of God and everlasting memory of", and beneath this, at the centre of the page, is what appears to be a small clipping from a newspaper, reading: "GREEN, Pte. Charles A., 11/613. "D" Coy. 7th Bn. East Yorkshire Regt. 8th Feb., 1917. Age 19. Son of George Alfred and Alice Mary Green, of 88, Summergangs Rd., Holderness Rd., Hull." Beneath this is printed "Who gave his life in the Great War that we might live and whose name is carved in stone at Thiepval - British Memorial - France, to be unveiled by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales". The scroll features photographs of this and several other memorials. 

Part of a collection relating to Charles Green, who served as a machine gunner with the 7th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandwde.2
title: Memorial card of Bertie Woodrow (4)

description: Lancelot Woodrow was not officially recorded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission as he enlisted under his brother's name Bertie Woodrow. I have managed to establish that he now has been listed under his right name which took some time via e-mails to the Commission. I have been informed that his name will be added to the memorial when they next engrave there.

Editor's Comment:
Card from memorial service giving details of the fallen. Front inscription: 'He hath fought the good fight'. Poem to inside cover, begining 'Some day we hope to meet him'.

Pte. 11107 Lancelot Sydney Woodrow (served as Bertie Reginald Woodrow), 1st Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers, killed in action 16th August 1917, is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial. The 1st Bn., as part of the 29th Division, took part in the Battle of Langemarck, 16th-18th April 1917, the second phase of the Third Battle of Ypres (Battle of Passchendaele).

Pte. 202136 Bertie Reginald Woodrow, 1st Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers, killed in action 11th April 1918, is commemorated on the Loos Memorial. The 1st Bn, as part of the 3rd Division, took part in the Battle of Estaires, repulsing the German 'Spring Offensive', 9th-11th April 1918 (opening of the Battle of the Lys).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianivq.2
title: Army razor case and razor (3)

description: Papier mache box marked with the government issue arrow, containing a razor - not army issue!

Part of a collection relating to the service of Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC, including his letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and on the Western Front - as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjbug.2
title: Photo of John Barnard and four others, "The Terrible Five"

description: Photo of John Barnard (rear row, second from left, with pipe), taken by H. Heathfield photographer 274th Infantry Battalion, Widford Camp, Chelmsford.

Part of a collection relating to Lance Corporal John Barnard (52258 Worcestershire regiment), market gardener of Badsey near Evesham; and his son Mike's drawings and newspaper articles relating to the First World War.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjejb.2
title: Military binoculars and case (1)

description: Photographs of military binoculars and case, owned by an uncle who was possibly Lieutenant in the Seaforth Highlanders, named Robert Scott.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjkkb.2
title: QMAAC newsletter cutting: 'An Englishwoman's Experiences on a Journey to the Eastern Front', with discharge and promotion details.

description: This is the promotion of Violet Nye who became an Auxillary Controller in Queen Mary Army Auxillary Corps.

Editor's Comment:
Cutting from newsletter of Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps, including: a poem by J. M. Erskine, beginning: 'That we've not joined to "swank" it for | pay, or for fun,'; an article, titled: 'An Englishwoman's Experiences on a Journey to the Eastern Front', by Constance Smith, officer in charge Drafing Depot, Gateshead; lists of discharged persons and promotions. 

The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps became Queen Mary's Auxiliary Army Corps in April 1918. 

Notification of Viloet Nye's promotion to the rank of Deputy Administrator.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjlqs.2
title: Diary of Dr W. Roy Blore (1)

description: This is a small pocket notebook, the diary of Dr W. Roy Blore  from embarkation from Britain in July 1915 en route for the Dardanelles campaign. Pages 15-19 record the landings at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and the rest deals with the everyday life and work of the RAMC there, including the evacuation, [the family believe that Blore was the last RAMC officer to leave that part of Gallipoli] and ongoing life in Egypt until February or March 1916.

Also part of this collection are all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and on the Western Front - as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjnf7.2
title: Memorial Plaque of Robert Harcus

description: Editor's Comment:
Seaman 9159/A Robert Harcus, H.M. Trawler "Touraco.", Royal Naval Reserve, aged 33, died of illness 13th September 1917. The son of Mary Ann Harcus, of 22, Shore St., Kirkwall, he is buried in Kirkwall (St. Olaf's) Cemetery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjp7c.2
title: Letter of Joseph Whitham (3)

description: Example of letter from which the diary (scanned) was reconstructed.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjztd.2
title: Letter sent on the death of Private Charles Green (1)

description: Letter sent by Captain Humphrey Buckley to Charles Green's mother breaking the news of his death. The first page is photographed with its envelope, and this is accompanied by a printed transcript of the whole letter. Part of a collection relating to Charles Green, who served as a machine gunner with the 7th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment, and was killed on 8th February 1917, in the Somme area of France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianmzs.2
title: Commemorative information for Private Charles Green from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

description: Commemorative information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission relating to Private Charles Green.

Part of a collection relating to Charles Green, who served as a machine gunner with the 7th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment, and was killed on 8th February 1917, in the Somme area of France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianu5m.2
title: Funeral Procession (2)

description: Miss Hilda Adams was a VAD during the First World War.

Photographs of a funeral procession.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianxpz.2
title: Military binoculars and case (3)

description: Photographs of military binoculars and case, owned by an uncle who was possibly Lieutenant in the Seaforth Highlanders, named Robert Scott.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian23cq.2
title: Diary of Dr W. Roy Blore (9)

description: This is a small pocket notebook, the diary of Dr W. Roy Blore  from embarkation from Britain in July 1915 en route for the Dardanelles campaign. Pages 15-19 record the landings at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and the rest deals with the everyday life and work of the RAMC there, including the evacuation, [the family believe that Blore was the last RAMC officer to leave that part of Gallipoli] and ongoing life in Egypt until February or March 1916.

Also part of this collection are all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and on the Western Front - as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2bh9.2
title: Embroidered Postcard from John Harcus to Miss Mary Harcus

description: Editor's Comment:
Embroidered postcard with flags of the Allies: '1914', '1915'.


John Harcus, later of H.M.S. "Lanark".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2fwq.2
title: Autograph Book of Muriel Smith (3)

description: Purchased at auction, provenance unknown. 

Editor's Comment:
Including pencil cartoons and sketches, ink drawings of cap badges etc. Most entries include regimental and battalion details with date, and some include date of wounding. Place name 'Coonoor' is mentioned occasionally: perhaps a house converted into a Convalescent or Auxiliary Hospital.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2hra.2
title: Diary of Dr W. Roy Blore (5)

description: This is a small pocket notebook, the diary of Dr W. Roy Blore  from embarkation from Britain in July 1915 en route for the Dardanelles campaign. Pages 15-19 record the landings at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and the rest deals with the everyday life and work of the RAMC there, including the evacuation, [the family believe that Blore was the last RAMC officer to leave that part of Gallipoli] and ongoing life in Egypt until February or March 1916.

Also part of this collection are all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and on the Western Front - as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2l89.2
title: Photograph of Ken Tallett with two comrades

description: On the right, Kenneth Viner Tallett (1898-1987) was born Buckingham Street, Grandpont, Oxford was an apprentice printer (Bryans) until enlisting in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in January 1915. After training in Northampton and Essex he wet to France in the Arras region. He returned to England in 1918 and until demobilisation was an orderly at the Ashurst Military Hospital at Littlemore, Oxford, where he met and later married Mabel Taylor (my mother) ex R.A.O.C. Didcot/Milton Depot. Ken Tallett had three brothers - Horace, James, Kings Royal Rifles (killed at Arras 1917), Edward (Harry) civilian war work, and Ron (too young, but fought in WW2).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2obf.2
title: Postcards of medical services (4)

description: Postcards showing medical services personel/equipment and destruction on the Western Front belonging to Hilda Adams, V.A.D.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian58i.2
title: Photograph of Horace James Tallett

description: Brother of Kenneth Viner Tallett (1898-1987) born Buckingham Street, Grandpont, Oxford. Horace was in the Kings Royal Rifles  and was killed at Arras in 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian66kd.2
title: Cup 'From War to Peace' (1)

description: Cup 'Commemorating From War to Peace 1919', owned by an uncle who was possibly Lieutenant in the Seaforth Highlanders, named Robert Scott.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian68r6.2
title: Letter from Private Charles Green (1)

description: Final letter home from Private Charles Green to his mother: he was killed a few days after this was written. The letter thanks his mother for a parcel received, requests some additional items, and talks about the practical consequences of the extreme cold the soldiers have to deal with. It is accompanied by a printed transcript.

Part of a collection relating to Charles Green, who served as a machine gunner with the 7th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment, and was killed on 8th February 1917, in the Somme area of France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6cek.2
title: Wilfred, George, Sam, and Jor Oliver (Brothers)

description: My father Wilfred Oliver survived the war after serving as a Lewis gunner with the 2nd Royal Berkshire Reg in France and Belgium. Note the black button on his uniform signifying the loss of his elder brother. 
My uncle George William Oliver York and Lanks Reg was killed in action on the 1st July 1916 (Somme), he is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.
The picture of his death penny is attached, I have this memorial in my possession.
My uncle Samuel was the one brother to be kept in England as per rule, he served in the army. 
Great uncle Joe survived the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6hbw.2
title: Photograph of Eday War Memorial unveiling

description: Editor's Comment:
From the caption of another photograph (Orkney Image Library No. 8807): 'Eday War Memorial, unveiled 4th August 1920'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6i22.2
title: Photograph of John Harcus, also crew of HMS Lanark

description: Editor's Comment:
H.M.S. "Lanark" was a paddlewheel Improved Racecourse Class Minesweeper. She was launched in December 1917. The photographs cannot date to the first day of the war; perhaps they date to the day of her commissioning.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6nq8.2
title: Photographs relating to Sergeant William George Freeborn, RAMC, served in Macedonia

description: My father served as a hospital dispenser (his civilian occupation) in  a field hospital in Macedonia - seconded to the Royal Serbian Army - an area of service little known about. This selection of photos and cards is all that survives, but are nevertheless interesting and informative (I think!) WGF was born in 1893, died aged 80 in 1973.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ru.2
title: Diary of Dr W. Roy Blore (4)

description: This is a small pocket notebook, the diary of Dr W. Roy Blore  from embarkation from Britain in July 1915 en route for the Dardanelles campaign. Pages 15-19 record the landings at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and the rest deals with the everyday life and work of the RAMC there, including the evacuation, [the family believe that Blore was the last RAMC officer to leave that part of Gallipoli] and ongoing life in Egypt until February or March 1916.

Also part of this collection are all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and on the Western Front - as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6tc5.2
title: Autograph Book of Muriel Smith (1)

description: Purchased at auction, provenance unknown. 

Editor's Comment:
Including pencil cartoons and sketches, ink drawings of cap badges etc. Most entries include regimental and battalion details with date, and some include date of wounding. Place name 'Coonoor' is mentioned occasionally: perhaps a house converted into a Convalescent or Auxiliary Hospital.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6w61.2
title: Diary of Dr W. Roy Blore (3)

description: This is a small pocket notebook, the diary of Dr W. Roy Blore  from embarkation from Britain in July 1915 en route for the Dardanelles campaign. Pages 15-19 record the landings at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and the rest deals with the everyday life and work of the RAMC there, including the evacuation, [the family believe that Blore was the last RAMC officer to leave that part of Gallipoli] and ongoing life in Egypt until February or March 1916.

Also part of this collection are all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and on the Western Front - as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian82kj.2
title: Military binoculars and case (5)

description: Photographs of military binoculars and case, owned by an uncle who was possibly Lieutenant in the Seaforth Highlanders, named Robert Scott.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian86g8.2
title: Photograph of Robert Harcus

description: Editor's Comment:
Seaman 9159/A Robert Harcus, H.M. Trawler "Touraco.", Royal Naval Reserve, aged 33, died of illness 13th September 1917. The son of Mary Ann Harcus, of 22, Shore St., Kirkwall, he is buried in Kirkwall (St. Olaf's) Cemetery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian87eo.2
title: Death Penny for George William Oliver

description: My father Wilfred Oliver survived the war after serving as a Lewis gunner with the 2nd Royal Berkshire Reg in France and Belgium. Note the black button on his uniform signifying the loss of his elder brother. 
My uncle George William Oliver York and Lanks Reg was killed in action on the 1st July 1916 (Somme), he is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.
The picture of his death penny is attached, I have this memorial in my possession.
My uncle Samuel was the one brother to be kept in England as per rule, he served in the army. 
Great uncle Joe survived the war. 

Alec Oliver
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8cmy.2
title: Autograph Book of QMAAC Wkr Margaret McElligott (3)

description: This a collection of selected pages from my grandmother Margaret McElligott's WW1 autograph book. Many of the entries were created while she was a member of the QMAAC.

Editor's Comment:
Worker 46075 Margaret McElligott, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps, served in England and at depots in France. 

Places mentioned by signatories:
St. Justin
Boussogne
Abbeville
Granville
(Le) Havre
Folkstone

Units, forces, ships of signatories:
13th Bn. Royal Fusiliers
13th Bn. London Regiment
The Black Watch
9th Bn. Royal Sussex
Canadian Expeditionary Force
American Expeditionary Force
British Expeditionary Force
H.M.S. "Landrail"
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8llr.2
title: Diary of Dr W. Roy Blore (10)

description: This is a small pocket notebook, the diary of Dr W. Roy Blore  from embarkation from Britain in July 1915 en route for the Dardanelles campaign. Pages 15-19 record the landings at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and the rest deals with the everyday life and work of the RAMC there, including the evacuation, [the family believe that Blore was the last RAMC officer to leave that part of Gallipoli] and ongoing life in Egypt until February or March 1916.

Also part of this collection are all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and on the Western Front - as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8pcm.2
title: Letter from Private Charles Green (4)

description: Final letter home from Private Charles Green to his mother: he was killed a few days after this was written. The letter thanks his mother for a parcel received, requests some additional items, and talks about the practical consequences of the extreme cold the soldiers have to deal with. It is accompanied by a printed transcript.

Part of a collection relating to Charles Green, who served as a machine gunner with the 7th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment, and was killed on 8th February 1917, in the Somme area of France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8sq6.2
title: Postcards of medical services (2)

description: Postcards showing medical services personel/equipment and destruction on the Western Front belonging to Hilda Adams, V.A.D.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8x2r.2
title: Handmade card from Robert Harcus to his mother and sister.

description: Editor's Comment:
Postcard made by sender: card, red cloth, string, pressed flowers, and a cutting of flags of the Allies. 

Seaman 9159/A Robert Harcus, H.M. Trawler "Touraco.", Royal Naval Reserve, aged 33, died of illness 13th September 1917. The son of Mary Ann Harcus, of 22, Shore St., Kirkwall, he is buried in Kirkwall (St. Olaf's) Cemetery.