cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2pfj.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Mentions J.E. Patterson / Hillaire Belloc's essays / enjoyed Marion Scott's descriptions of 'the West' / existing as a soldier 'on a diet of Shakespeare and Folk Songs' / comments on a sonnet by Rupert Brooke sent to Ivor Gurney by Marion Scott from Brooke's '1914' sonnet sequence that Gurney does not like / mentions Thomas Hardy's 'The Dynasts' / happy to be leaving camp and going to billets / wonders what will happen next to the regiment / includes 'To the Poet Before Battle', which Gurney labels a 'sonnet' / asks Scott to criticise it, and not to think of Wordsworth / reports that the battalion will be reviewed by Lord Kitchener soon / playing in the band / a piece in the trench journal '5th Gloucester Magazine' by F.W. Harvey.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2sin.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII Notes) final manuscript draft

description: A final manuscript draft of the Notes to Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2tcx.2
title: Letter from Pt Matthew Coulson to relative (3)

description: Letter to relatives from Matthew in training camp before going to France to fight with 7th Northants Regt. Piognant as he was killed the next year in November 1915 leaving a wife and 3 children. He came from Polbrook in Northamptonshire where he was one of 12 children. 

Editor's Comment
Pte. 17229 Matthew Couslon, 7th Bn. Northamptonshire Regiment, is commemorated on the Loos Memorial. Interestingly, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records him as having been killed in action on 27th September 1915. The 24th Division, of which the 7th Northamptonshires were part, was heavily engaged on the 26th September, the second day of the Battle of Loos, suffering more than 3,900 casulaties. The unit had only concentrated in France on 4th September. The tradition of his date of death being sometime in November 1915 may be traced to a commemorative 'Service Record' label on the back of a photograph frame. This was perhaps the month in which the family were notified of his death.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2v88.2
title: Christmas Card 1914 (1)

description: Printed details of sender James Lockyer
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2x7p.2
title: Phyllis Haviland Sketchbook (4)

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/bodleian5x9.2
title: Photograph of Sgt. H. Godfrey, Royal Fusiliers

description: Sgt. H. Godfrey was killed in action, 17th February 1917, and is buried in plot IX, row A, grave 2, Regina Trench Cemetery near Albert on the Somme. 

Editors Comment:
From Commonwealth War Graves Commission records:
Sgt. H D Godfrey, 51841, 11th Bn. Royal Fusiliers, age 21, was the son of Mrs. Martha W. Godfrey, of 59, Lime Walk, Highfield, Oxford.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian625h.2
title: Phyllis Haviland Sketchbook (6)

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/bodleian67io.2
title: Letters home from a Prisoner of War (15)

description: Reports that he was taken prisoner on the 2nd April 1918, is well but wounded.  Francis Grant (Cameron Highlanders) sent many letters home to his mother during his captivity in Alten-Grabow POW Camp until released into the care of the Dutch on the border at Enschede January 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ax9.2
title: Christmas Card 1914 (2)

description: Printed details of sender James Lockyer
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6bua.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII Notes) final manuscript draft

description: A final manuscript draft of the Notes to Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6fjy.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII Notes) final manuscript draft

description: A final manuscript draft of the Notes to Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6kt4.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Mentions J.E. Patterson / Hillaire Belloc's essays / enjoyed Marion Scott's descriptions of 'the West' / existing as a soldier 'on a diet of Shakespeare and Folk Songs' / comments on a sonnet by Rupert Brooke sent to Ivor Gurney by Marion Scott from Brooke's '1914' sonnet sequence that Gurney does not like / mentions Thomas Hardy's 'The Dynasts' / happy to be leaving camp and going to billets / wonders what will happen next to the regiment / includes 'To the Poet Before Battle', which Gurney labels a 'sonnet' / asks Scott to criticise it, and not to think of Wordsworth / reports that the battalion will be reviewed by Lord Kitchener soon / playing in the band / a piece in the trench journal '5th Gloucester Magazine' by F.W. Harvey.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6mpf.2
title: Phyllis Haviland Sketchbook (2)

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/bodleian6ole.2
title: Postcard with drawing of Rouen (2)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6zrb.2
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/bodleian8apa.2
title: Phyllis Haviland Sketchbook (1)

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/bodleian8d5y.2
title: Phyllis Haviland Sketchbook (5)

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/bodleian8htz.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Mentions J.E. Patterson / Hillaire Belloc's essays / enjoyed Marion Scott's descriptions of 'the West' / existing as a soldier 'on a diet of Shakespeare and Folk Songs' / comments on a sonnet by Rupert Brooke sent to Ivor Gurney by Marion Scott from Brooke's '1914' sonnet sequence that Gurney does not like / mentions Thomas Hardy's 'The Dynasts' / happy to be leaving camp and going to billets / wonders what will happen next to the regiment / includes 'To the Poet Before Battle', which Gurney labels a 'sonnet' / asks Scott to criticise it, and not to think of Wordsworth / reports that the battalion will be reviewed by Lord Kitchener soon / playing in the band / a piece in the trench journal '5th Gloucester Magazine' by F.W. Harvey.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8irs.2
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/bodleian8kj5.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII Notes) final manuscript draft

description: A final manuscript draft of the Notes to Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8oxi.2
title: Photograph of J D Lockyer (1)

description: Sunk four times by torpedo during WW1
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8quu.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII Notes) final manuscript draft

description: A final manuscript draft of the Notes to Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8til.2
title: Letters home from a Prisoner of War (14)

description: Reports that he was taken prisoner on the 2nd April 1918, is well but wounded.  Francis Grant (Cameron Highlanders) sent many letters home to his mother during his captivity in Alten-Grabow POW Camp until released into the care of the Dutch on the border at Enschede January 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8yc.2
title: Letter concerning JD Lockyer (3)

description: Attestment of character.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8yl2.2
title: Postcard with drawing of Rouen (1)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianbfh.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Mentions J.E. Patterson / Hillaire Belloc's essays / enjoyed Marion Scott's descriptions of 'the West' / existing as a soldier 'on a diet of Shakespeare and Folk Songs' / comments on a sonnet by Rupert Brooke sent to Ivor Gurney by Marion Scott from Brooke's '1914' sonnet sequence that Gurney does not like / mentions Thomas Hardy's 'The Dynasts' / happy to be leaving camp and going to billets / wonders what will happen next to the regiment / includes 'To the Poet Before Battle', which Gurney labels a 'sonnet' / asks Scott to criticise it, and not to think of Wordsworth / reports that the battalion will be reviewed by Lord Kitchener soon / playing in the band / a piece in the trench journal '5th Gloucester Magazine' by F.W. Harvey.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand4t5.2
title: Letter concerning JD Lockyer (5)

description: Attestment of character.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand6yp.2
title: Photograph of A. H. J. King, A.S.C. (1)

description: Arthur Henry James King, Motor Transport Division, Army Service Corps, M2-119352, Joined army 25th August 1915, Demobilised 9th April 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand7r6.2
title: Letters home from a Prisoner of War (18)

description: Reports that he was taken prisoner on the 2nd April 1918, is well but wounded.  Francis Grant (Cameron Highlanders) sent many letters home to his mother during his captivity in Alten-Grabow POW Camp until released into the care of the Dutch on the border at Enschede January 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandcdw.2
title: Last letter home of Sgt. H. Godfrey (2)

description: Last letter home of Sgt. H. Godfrey, who was killed in action, 17th February 1917, and is buried in plot IX, row A, grave 2, Regina Trench Cemetery near Albert on the Somme.
With a short descriptive piece written by his nephew, Mr. A. Godfrey.


Editors Comment:
From Commonwealth War Graves Commission records:
Sgt. H D Godfrey, 51841, 11th Bn. Royal Fusiliers, age 21, was the son of Mrs. Martha W. Godfrey, of 59, Lime Walk, Highfield, Oxford.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandkq8.2
title: Phyllis Haviland Sketchbook (7)

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/bodleiandm8l.2
title: To the Poet Before Battle

description: Mentions J.E. Patterson / Hillaire Belloc's essays / enjoyed Marion Scott's descriptions of 'the West' / existing as a soldier 'on a diet of Shakespeare and Folk Songs' / comments on a sonnet by Rupert Brooke sent to Ivor Gurney by Marion Scott from Brooke's '1914' sonnet sequence that Gurney does not like / mentions Thomas Hardy's 'The Dynasts' / happy to be leaving camp and going to billets / wonders what will happen next to the regiment / includes 'To the Poet Before Battle', which Gurney labels a 'sonnet' / asks Scott to criticise it, and not to think of Wordsworth / reports that the battalion will be reviewed by Lord Kitchener soon / playing in the band / a piece in the trench journal '5th Gloucester Magazine' by F.W. Harvey.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandu56.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII Notes) final manuscript draft

description: A final manuscript draft of the Notes to Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandy2w.2
title: Letters home from a Prisoner of War (13)

description: Reports that he was taken prisoner on the 2nd April 1918, is well but wounded.  Francis Grant (Cameron Highlanders) sent many letters home to his mother during his captivity in Alten-Grabow POW Camp until released into the care of the Dutch on the border at Enschede January 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianfzb.2
title: Letters home from a Prisoner of War (16)

description: Reports that he was taken prisoner on the 2nd April 1918, is well but wounded.  Francis Grant (Cameron Highlanders) sent many letters home to his mother during his captivity in Alten-Grabow POW Camp until released into the care of the Dutch on the border at Enschede January 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiangic.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII Notes) final manuscript draft

description: A final manuscript draft of the Notes to Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj6w3.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII Notes) final manuscript draft

description: A final manuscript draft of the Notes to Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj98o.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Mentions J.E. Patterson / Hillaire Belloc's essays / enjoyed Marion Scott's descriptions of 'the West' / existing as a soldier 'on a diet of Shakespeare and Folk Songs' / comments on a sonnet by Rupert Brooke sent to Ivor Gurney by Marion Scott from Brooke's '1914' sonnet sequence that Gurney does not like / mentions Thomas Hardy's 'The Dynasts' / happy to be leaving camp and going to billets / wonders what will happen next to the regiment / includes 'To the Poet Before Battle', which Gurney labels a 'sonnet' / asks Scott to criticise it, and not to think of Wordsworth / reports that the battalion will be reviewed by Lord Kitchener soon / playing in the band / a piece in the trench journal '5th Gloucester Magazine' by F.W. Harvey.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjcr8.2
title: Letters home from a Prisoner of War (19)

description: Reports that he was taken prisoner on the 2nd April 1918, is well but wounded.  Francis Grant (Cameron Highlanders) sent many letters home to his mother during his captivity in Alten-Grabow POW Camp until released into the care of the Dutch on the border at Enschede January 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjfiw.2
title: Phyllis Haviland Sketchbook (8)

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/bodleianjhyz.2
title: Photograph of A. H. J. King, A.S.C. (2)

description: Arthur Henry James King, Motor Transport Division, Army Service Corps, M2-119352, Joined army 25th August 1915, Demobilised 9th April 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjjb1.2
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/bodleianjo2v.2
title: Letters home from a Prisoner of War (12)

description: Reports that he was taken prisoner on the 2nd April 1918, is well but wounded.  Francis Grant (Cameron Highlanders) sent many letters home to his mother during his captivity in Alten-Grabow POW Camp until released into the care of the Dutch on the border at Enschede January 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjqty.2
title: Medals of James David Lockyer (1)

description: British War Medal
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjwdv.2
title: Last letter home of Sgt. H. Godfrey (3)

description: Last letter home of Sgt. H. Godfrey, who was killed in action, 17th February 1917, and is buried in plot IX, row A, grave 2, Regina Trench Cemetery near Albert on the Somme.
With a short descriptive piece written by his nephew, Mr. A. Godfrey.


Editors Comment:
From Commonwealth War Graves Commission records:
Sgt. H D Godfrey, 51841, 11th Bn. Royal Fusiliers, age 21, was the son of Mrs. Martha W. Godfrey, of 59, Lime Walk, Highfield, Oxford.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiann86.2
title: Medals of James David Lockyer (2)

description: British War Medal
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrdyh.2
title: Letter concerning JD Lockyer (2)

description: Attestment of character.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianu7n.2
title: Phyllis Haviland Sketchbook (3)

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/bodleian1ww.2
title: Photograph which includes Charles Hourston

description: Charles Hourston who came from Orkney is located 2nd row from front and 4th from left.

Editor's Comment:
Group photograph of Artillerymen and officers. Note that all wear the white metal 'Imperial Service' badge on the right breast, suggesting that the photo is of a Territorial Force unit whose members have volunteered for overseas service. 

Sergeant 368247 Charles Hourston, Royal Garrison Artillery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2175.2
title: Letter of F. G. Didcock, 5th Bn. A.I.F. (3)

description: From 'rubbish' being discarded when person died. Rubbish was 'sorted' by brother-in-law when his sister-in-law died.

Editors Comment:
Part of a collection of material apparently beloning to Francis Didcock and Harry Fowler, who met while serving together in Italy.
No. 203801 Pte. Harry Fowler, 1/4th Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment, 48th Division.
From Australian War Memorial Records: No. 52502 Pte. Francis George Didcock, D Coy., 5th Bn. Australian Imperial Force. Joined 18th July 1918, demobilised 25 September 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian25rb.2
title: Phyllis Haviland Sketchbook (12)

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/bodleian2eyu.2
title: Photograph of Walter Goodwill

description: Photograph of a man in civilian dress, wearing a boater, presumed to be Walter Goodwill. Goodwill spent time in Fiji, and was killed in action in the Somme area of France in 1916. He served as a private with the 49th Battalion of the Australian Infantry. Part of a collection relating to Walter Goodwill.

Unfortunately, due to a technical error we are unable to say who this contribution was made by. If you contributed this item, please contact us, and we will amend the details attached to this submission.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2j4l.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Life under fire / describes the grave of a Corporal Richard Rhodes, created by German soldiers, that Ivor Gurney visits and is much impressed by / a postponement to 'going over the top' and the reaction to it / thoughts of 'Blighty' / Maisemore Wood / thanks Marion Scott for writing to Gurney's friends / has written no more poems as yet / thinking of Scott's daughter Audrey / asks Scott to inquire as to whether the 5th Gloucesters were mentioned in dispatches / expresses joy over the coming of spring.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2sdg.2
title: Demobilisation documents (2)

description: Appointed Cameron Highlanders and then wounded; POW April 1918.

Protection and ID Certificate which had to be produced if claiming for any Government Benifits.

Transfer to the Reserves card showing you were liable to be recalled if needed.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2uz3.2
title: Comforts tin belonging to Albert William Bartlett

description: Albert William Bartlett 1818-1951

One of four brothers who all served in the armed services during WW1.  His brother Anthony was killed at Passchendaele on 26th September 1917 (aged 21 years and 7 days)

They were originally all fishermen from Devon who upon returning after four years found that their boats were no longer seaworthy as thay had lain neglected during the whole period.