cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian85ci.1
title: Letter: To Colin Hughes (March 1971).

description: David Jones thanks Colin Hughes for his letter and photographs of Capel y Ffin [Capel-y-ffin] / mentions the effect of the weather on the flow of the River Honddu / comments on Hughes' deductions about the model for the 'In Parenthesis' character Piers Dorian Isambard Jenkins / expresses astonishment that only one of B Company's officers was killed or wounded in the assault on Mametz Wood in July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme / discusses the relative casualties among officers and other ranks / describes the fighting in the wood and the difficulty of giving, receiving, and following orders under fire which may have led to the disorderly falling-back [at Strip Trench] / mentions that a 'Mr Trevor' from 'In Parenthesis' was based on an actual B Company lieutenant and that the physical appearance though not the actions of the 'green-gilled corporal' of 'In Parenthesis' was based on a real corporal with pendulous red ears / describes his own memories of Mametz Wood in 1916, and the difficulty of remembering exact sequences / 'In Parenthesis' not an accurate account of the events but typical of them / discusses the influence of Sir Henry Newbolt's 'Vitae Lampada' on the account in 'In Parenthesis' of a very English looking and English-voiced young officer urging his troops to remember their nationality. Jones notes that the letter was begun on 24th March 1971, but was not posted until 7th April 1971. The letter is in black ink with notes and annotations in red and blue ink.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian87mo.2
title: Battle of Menin Road Ridge, 1917

description: South African Scottish troops wait in a support trench, east of Frezenberg Ridge.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian885u.2
title: England the Mother/Written after reading The Hour Glass

description: Draft in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. The latter part of England the Mother is on the left hand page.  The right hand page contains the draft of a poem 'Written after reading ""The Hour glass""' - a play by W.B. Yeats.  From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian89xl.2
title: Reunion

description: Drafted in June-July 1917 at Craiglockhart, revised there in October-November 1917 or at Scarborough in November 1917-January 1918. This is no. 132 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8c7m.2
title: Lovers

description: This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Lovers' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8fi1.2
title: Women munitions workers' football team from the AEC Munitions Factory at Beckton, London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8kqz.2
title: Bourlon Wood

description: Looking west towards Bourlon Wood, scene of much of the fighting in the Battle of Cambrai, 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8m6f.2
title: The Huxter

description: This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'The Huxter' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8njg.2
title: Spring. Rouen, 1917

description: Drafts in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian9vd.2
title: Spring. Rouen, 1917

description: Drafts in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Here titled 'Spring. 1917. Rouen.' From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianagz.2
title: The Battle of Guillemont 3 -5 September: The road to Guillemont viewed from Waterlot Farm

description: The Battle of Guillemont was part of the Battle of the Somme
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiancq7.2
title: She dotes

description: The manuscript does not have a title and is named here after it's first line. The poem is no. 64 in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandba2.2
title: In Memoriam (Easter 1915)

description: This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'In Memorium (Easter 1915)' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandedw.2
title: Elegy in April and September

description: Begun in April-May 1918 at Ripon, continued in France in September 1918. The image shows the verso of a draft for 'Elegy in April and September', with notes about Matthew Arnold's elegies. This is no. 173 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandf3v.2
title: A water-filled shell crater

description: On the edge are a number of war-grave crosses. (29th Division Sector.)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandox.2
title: Canadian stretcher bearers carry wounded through the mud

description: The Third Battle of Ypres, Passchendaele. A large puddle dominates the foreground.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandqr5.1
title: In Parenthesis - drafts of notes, maps, inserts and correspondence

description: Manuscript drafts concerning 'In Parenthesis' (one dated May 1951).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianduvl.2
title: Bourlon Wood

description: Looking west toward Bourlon Wood, scene of much of the fighting in the Battle of Cambrai, 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandx7e.2
title: Women working in a shell factory
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandyqk.2
title: Spring. Rouen, 1917.

description: Drafts in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianiz7.2
title: Perseus

description: Begun in France, probably in 1915. Later drafts were made in July 1917 at Craiglockhart, and work probably continued in May 1918 at Ripon. This is no. 82 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj53t.2
title: The Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) 31 July-10 November 1917

description: A corpse in the mud. The mud stretches away to the sky-line on which two small figures of men 'on fatigue' are seen.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj8dv.2
title: Reunion

description: Drafted in June-July 1917 at Craiglockhart, revised there in October-November 1917 or at Scarborough in November 1917-January 1918. This is no. 132 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjbry.1
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) broadcast script, 1942

description: David Jones' poem 'In Parenthesis' was adapted for the wireless (radio) by Douglas Cleverdon and was to be broadcast on the BBC Home Service on Armistice Day 1939, but all schedules were cancelled after the outbreak of the Second World War. This shortened version was rehearsed in 1942 for broadcast on 10th November, but this too was cancelled to make way for the broadcast of Winston Churchill's 'The End of the Beginning' speech (delivered at The Lord Mayor's Luncheon, Mansion House, London November 10th 1942). The first performance had to wait until November 1946.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjinc.2
title: Men of the Australian 2nd Division outside the Mairie in Bapaume

description: The town was occupied by the Australians on 17 March 1917, following the German withdrawal to the Siegfried Stellung (Hindenburg Line).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjoqr.2
title: Spring.  Rouen, 1917

description: Draft in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjpae.2
title: Health

description: This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Health' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjttj.2
title: Elegy in April and September

description: Begun in April-May 1918 at Ripon, continued in France in September 1918. This is no. 173 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjxvo.2
title: The St Quentin Tunnel

description: The tunnel runs five kilometres long under the village of Bellicourt. During the First World War barges in the tunnel were used to shelter German reserves.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianp6h.2
title: The Hydra: July 1918 Advertising Supplement

description: Advertisements for Edinburgh purveyors of insurance and cigarettes.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr25t.2
title: The St Quentin Canal from the Riqueval Bridge

description: On 29 September - 2 October 1918, the Battle of the St. Quentin Canal was fought. Wilfred Owen and the 2nd Manchesters crossed the canal a little way south of the Riqueval Bridge on the 29th and by the late evening were in position at Magny la Fosse ready for the forthcoming attack on the Beaurevoir-Fonsomme, Joncourt.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiant2s.2
title: A group of Canadian soldiers strung out in the streets of Cambrai against its still burning buildings
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianu8d.1
title: Letter: To Colin Hughes (February 1972).

description: David Jones expresses his concern that his failure to respond to a recent letter might imply a lack of appreciation for Colin Hughes' interest in 'In Parenthesis' / notes that he (Jones) has recently been overwhelmed with correspondence and has not been feeling up to answering much / wants to know how Hughes is and to alert him to and discuss an upcoming exhibition of Jones' work organised by Douglas Cleverdon for the National Book League in London / expresses annoyance about the lack of time given to prepare for the exhibition and his inability to do much from Harrow / provides details of private viewing of the exhibition / responds to Hughes' questions stemming from his reading of David Blamires' book ['David Jones: artist and writer', Manchester University Press, 1971] / Jones offers general praise and some comment on possible errors / explains his involvement with the project / notes that he has not re-read this letter before sending it to Hughes.
DOI: 10.6073/pasta/06a1c7319cb6e9d502cca49365f3faf2
title: Zooplankton density for lake samples collected near Toolik Lake Arctic LTER in the summer of 1977
DOI: 10.6073/pasta/0d8b9c69411034e7988288c7fb053bd2
title: Water flow velocity data, Shark River Slough (SRS) near Satinleaf Island, Everglades National Park (FCE) from July 2003 to Present
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian1di.2
title: The two 'Women of Pervyse', Mairi Chisholm and the Baroness de T'Serclaes driving their motor ambulance through the ruins of Pervyse
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian26ul.2
title: The Battle of the Somme 31 July-18 November 1916

description: Wounded awaiting transportation to Base Hospitals.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian28qs.2
title: The Riqueval Bridge

description: The Riqueval Bridge was captured intact on the 29th September 1918 by the Allied Forces. It was the main artery of supply for the German troops on the western side of the canal. Wilfred Owen and the 2nd Manchesters crossed the canal a little way south of the Riqueval Bridge and by the late evening were in position at Magny la Fosse ready for the forthcoming attack on the Beaurevoir-Fonsomme, Joncourt.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian297x.2
title: The Battle of the Somme 1 July-18 November 1916

description: Mr Massey, Sir Joseph Ward, and party on the lip of the mine crater.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2c1z.2
title: The Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) 31 July-10 November 1917

description: Assault on Passchendaele 12 October - 6 November: A soldier running along a corduroy track with gaunt tree trunks on either side in Chateau Wood. Originally captioned 'The Way to the Front', probably posed.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ikz.2
title: Melancholy

description: This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Melancholy' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2mev.2
title: Essex Farm Cemetery: Thomas Barratt VC

description: The cemetery frequently came under enemy shellfire. Bodies were exhumed by the blasts. The canal is behind the bank running parallel to the graves.""
Here is one Victoria Cross burial, Private Thomas Barratt VC of the South Staffordshire regiment, who lies with three other men of his regiment killed on or about the same day (27th July 1917)" His passing was commemorated with plaques in his home town, and at the canteen at his place of work, and dedications provided by the officers and men of his regiment, as well as a memorial service. An extract from The London Gazette, dated 4th September 1917, records the following:, includes ""On 27 July 1917 north of Ypres, Belgium, Private Barratt, as a scout to a patrol, worked his way towards the enemy under continuous fire from hostile snipers, which he stalked and killed. Later his patrol was similarly held up and again he disposed of the snipers. When a party of the enemy were endeavoring to outflank the patrol on their withdrawal, Private Barratt volunteered to cover the withdrawal which he did, his accurate shooting causing many casualties and preventing the enemy advance. After safely regaining our lines this gallant soldier was killed by a shell." (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Barratt).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2nae.2
title: The Menin Gate

description: The Menin Gate Memorial to the missing stands at the eastern exit of Ypres  in Flanders, Belgium, The gate marks the starting point for one of the main roads out of the town that led Allied soldiers to the front line during the First World War. The memorial is inscribed with 54,900 of the 'missing' British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the fierce battles around the Ypres Salient area who have no known grave. At 8pm each evening, the local police stop traffic from passing underneath the gate, and the Last Post is played by buglers from the Ypres fire station, often attended by large crowds.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2oov.2
title: Photograph of David Jones in uniform
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2r3q.2
title: Sunrise

description: Drafted in France in early May 1917, revised January-February 1918. This is no. 140 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2s4e.2
title: Dicky

description: Draft in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand of a poem later included in War's Embers (1919). From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2yd9.2
title: Battle of Bazentin Ridge 14-17th July

description: A piper of the 7th Seaforth Highlanders leads four men of the 26th Brigade back from the trenches after the attack on Longueval on 14th July.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2zzs.2
title: Perseus

description: Begun in France, probably in 1915. Later drafts were made in July 1917 at Craiglockhart, and work probably continued in May 1918 at Ripon. This is no. 82 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian63cm.2
title: Perseus

description: Begun in France, probably in 1915. Later drafts were made in July 1917 at Craiglockhart, and work probably continued in May 1918 at Ripon. This is no. 82 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian68xa.1
title: Letter: To David Jones, includes a chit from 1915 on the use of respirators and smoke helmets, (November 1968).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6961.2
title: Song [1]

description: This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Song [1]' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6bl4.2
title: Depression/A Private's Description of War

description: Drafts in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6e1d.2
title: The West Indies Regiment in camp on the Albert -Amien Road, September 1916

description: The Somme Offensive on the Western Front.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6hr1.2
title: Perseus

description: Begun in France, probably in 1915. Later drafts were made in July 1917 at Craiglockhart, and work probably continued in May 1918 at Ripon. This is no. 82 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6jsj.2
title: July
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6lpj.2
title: The First World War 1914-1918: The Western Front: The Somme Offensive 1916

description: View of the blasted tree stumps in Delville Wood. On 15 July the South African Infantry launched a disastrous attempt to take 'Devil's Wood' during the Battle of the Somme. This is typical of the scenes of devastation after a major offensive. It took a long time for the forests of France and Belgium to recover from the effects of shells and poison gas.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6nyq.1
title: Army Number Card

description: Reverse of card showing David Jones's army number, '1086', in the London Welsh Regiment / marked with number '22579'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ovm.2
title: The Menin Gate

description: The Menin Gate Memorial to the missing stands at the eastern exit of Ypres  in Flanders, Belgium, The gate marks the starting point for one of the main roads out of the town that led Allied soldiers to the front line during the First World War. The memorial is inscribed with 54,900 of the 'missing' British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the fierce battles around the Ypres Salient area who have no known grave. At 8pm each evening, the local police stop traffic from passing underneath the gate, and the Last Post is played by buglers from the Ypres fire station, often attended by large crowds.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6pwk.2
title: The Duchess of Sutherland sitting with a mug on one of her patients' beds in the open air at her hospital at Calais.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6v9o.2
title: The Chalk Pit
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian71p.2
title: The Battle of the Somme 1 July-18 November 1916

description: German dead in the trenches.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian85ph.2
title: The Battle of the Somme 1 July-18 November 1916

description: The Battle of Ginchy 9 September: Supporting infantry walk forward up the slope into the bombardment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian86rf.2
title: O piteous mistake: o wrong wrong word

description: This is no. 81 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian88sh.2
title: Two Pewits

description: This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Two Pewits' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8bwo.2
title: A Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) worker starting up the engine of a motor ambulance presented by the Canadian Red Cross at Etaples
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8exu.1
title: Postcard: To David Jones.

description: Reverse of postcard from PO Savings Bank, London to David Jones regarding retrieval of his army account book.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8n9l.2
title: Fifty Faggots

description: This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Fifty Faggots' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems. Possibly written at The British Museum?.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8qlz.2
title: After reading 'The Hour Glass' / 'How strange to hear'

description: Drafts in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand of the end of 'After reading "The Hour Glass"' and an unpublished poem also found in the typescript collection 'Songs from the Second Fifth', 'How strange it was to hear under the guns'. This poem may be related to another unpublished poem, 'April Anthem'. From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8syg.1
title: Certificate of Attestation

description: Certified and stamped copy of David Jones' attestation, indicating his attempt to enlist and willingless to serve in the army, recorded at Holborn Hall, Gray's Inn Road, London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8vcx.2
title: To me fair friend, you never can be old

description: Shakespeare's Sonnet 104, copied by Owen into his notebook in March 1917. See notes for no. 91, 'With an Identity Disc', in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8yvx.2
title: The Menin Gate

description: The Menin Gate Memorial to the missing stands at the eastern exit of Ypres  in Flanders, Belgium, The gate marks the starting point for one of the main roads out of the town that led Allied soldiers to the front line during the First World War. The memorial is inscribed with 54,900 of the 'missing' British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the fierce battles around the Ypres Salient area who have no known grave. At 8pm each evening, the local police stop traffic from passing underneath the gate, and the Last Post is played by buglers from the Ypres fire station, often attended by large crowds.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianaew.2
title: Boezinge town centre
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand1tk.1
title: Voting Card

description: Voting card for discharged men addressed to David Jones, inquiring about intentions to vote in the Parliamentary elections in Lewisham.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand23h.2
title: Song at Morning

description: Draft of the continuation of Song at Morning, in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand31j.2
title: The Battle of Thiepval: A heap of rubble which was once the chateau in Thiepval.

description: The Battle of Thiepval was one part of the Battle of the Somme.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand5l2.2
title: Perseus

description: Begun in France, probably in 1915. Later drafts were made in July 1917 at Craiglockhart, and work probably continued in May 1918 at Ripon. This is no. 82 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand7bl.2
title: Song at Morning

description: Drafts in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. The draft on the left hand page is a continuation of 'Song at Morning'.  On the right hand side is visible the top of the following page, containing a draft of a poem later titled 'Peace'. From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandfew.2
title: April
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandiww.2
title: British Casualties

description: Wounded British troops outside a C.C.S.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandpx8.2
title: Two British soldiers stand in a wrecked German trench at Ginchy, France

description: The trench appears to run between two rows of trees, which have been devastated by shellfire. Both soldiers are wearing steel helmets.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandrmv.2
title: The village of Beaumont Hamel after its capture during the Battle of the Somme
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandt7l.2
title: Portrait photograph of David Jones in uniform
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandx6f.2
title: The Riqueval Bridge

description: The Riqueval Bridge was captured intact on the 29th September 1918 by the Allied Forces. It was the main artery of supply for the German troops on the western side of the canal. Wilfred Owen and the 2nd Manchesters crossed the canal a little way south of the Riqueval Bridge and by the late evening were in position at Magny la Fosse ready for the forthcoming attack on the Beaurevoir-Fonsomme, Joncourt.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandzmr.2
title: With an Identity Disc

description: Revision of lines 9-11. Drafted on 23 March 1917 in France; a fair copy was included in a letter to Colin Owen on 24 March 1917. Revised at Craiglockhart in August-September 1917. This is no. 91 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiang42.2
title: Contrasts/Depression

description: Drafts in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj1mt.2
title: General view of the battlefield of Beaumont Hamel showing the blasted land
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj3g.2
title: Sunrise

description: Drafted in France in early May 1917, revised January-February 1918. This is no. 140 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj5ev.2
title: The Chalk Pit
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj63j.2
title: Contrasts

description: Draft in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.