cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ijq.2
title: Photographs of Private J.V.Davies service in Mesopotamia and North West Frontier of India, 1914 - 1920 (2)

description: John Vaughan Davies - a soldier of the Great War


John Vaughan Davies was born at 17, Glynllifon Street, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Meirionethshire, North Wales, on 20.5.1896. He was the third son, one of nine children of Morris Vaughan Davies, a slate quarry worker, and Eliza Davies.

John  started work in the slate mines in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Meirionethshire, North Wales, at the age of 14 years, and became interested in First Aid. He joined the  local  branch of the St. John Ambulance Brigade and became the quarry's first aid representative. 

consequently, at the outbreak of the first World War he volunteered early into the British Army and served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the U.K., Ireland,  and from 1916 to 1919 at a base hospital in Basra, Mesopotamia (Present day Iraq). 

He was unfortunate enough to be in Mesopotamia when the British Government decided to send armed forces to India to deal with an armed rebellion in the North West Frontier and Afghanistan in 1919. He was then posted  to that area where he continued to serve in various military medical posts in the Peshawar and Khyber Pass areas. He was not demobilized until 1920.

On demobilization he resumed work  at the Graig Ddu Slate Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, until its closure in 1940. He was then employed as a railway shunter by the Great Western Railway company at their station at Blaenau Ffestiniog and remained there, retiring upon its closure.

He died on 11.7.1973
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ksn.2
title: Jack Morten, Photograph of a Bedouin marquee (1)

description: The men had found this marquee and thought it was the height of luxury after living in blanket bivouacs.

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 2393 John Clarke Morten, 1/7th Bn. Manchester Regiment, was commissioned Second Lieutenant and later attached to the Royal Air Force.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2mmv.2
title: Jack Morten with a Snake

description: They caught and killed a snake in the barracks. This is Jack Morten with the dead snake.

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 2393 John Clarke Morten, 1/7th Bn. Manchester Regiment, was commissioned Second Lieutenant and later attached to the Royal Air Force.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2t7k.2
title: Photograph Postcard of Major J. L Marr (2)

description: Postcard showing Major John Lynn Marr and Captain H. V. Taylor. 142nd, Durham Heavy battery, R. G. A.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2wup.2
title: Letter from Reggie Crooke to Len Ornellas (2)

description: In this letter, Reggie tells Len of his happiness at having been treated so kindly by his (Len's) family. He talks of his hopes for victory, and says he is looking forward to his leave 'like a little boy looks forward to Xmas'. The letter ends 'you have made one life happy'. Reggie was killed in action two days later (5 October 1918).

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 40314 Leonard Ornellas, North Staffordshire Regiment

Acting Bombardier 121476 George (Reggie) Crooke, 113th Bty. 25th Bde., Royal Field Artillery, died 5th October 1918, aged 26, buried Berthaucourt Communal Cemetery, Pontru.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian611g.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (12)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian67qg.2
title: The Autograph Book of Beryl Ellis (28)

description: Beryl Ellis was a nurse at Moor Green Lane Hospital, Birmingham, during the Great War. This autograph book contains pictures and poems drawn and written by Veterans of the First World War she cared for at the hospital.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian69eh.2
title: Letter to Francis Ornellas from Major HR Dickinson. Re. death of Reggie Crooke (2)

description: A letter from Reggie's commanding officer notifying Francis of the circumstances of his death in action

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 40314 Leonard Ornellas, North Staffordshire Regiment

Acting Bombardier 121476 George (Reggie) Crooke, 113th Bty. 25th Bde., Royal Field Artillery, died 5th October 1918, aged 26, buried Berthaucourt Communal Cemetery, Pontru.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6jq2.2
title: Photographs of Private J.V.Davies service in Mesopotamia and North West Frontier of India, 1914 - 1920 (5)

description: John Vaughan Davies - a soldier of the Great War


John Vaughan Davies was born at 17, Glynllifon Street, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Meirionethshire, North Wales, on 20.5.1896. He was the third son, one of nine children of Morris Vaughan Davies, a slate quarry worker, and Eliza Davies.

John  started work in the slate mines in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Meirionethshire, North Wales, at the age of 14 years, and became interested in First Aid. He joined the  local  branch of the St. John Ambulance Brigade and became the quarry's first aid representative. 

consequently, at the outbreak of the first World War he volunteered early into the British Army and served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the U.K., Ireland,  and from 1916 to 1919 at a base hospital in Basra, Mesopotamia (Present day Iraq). 

He was unfortunate enough to be in Mesopotamia when the British Government decided to send armed forces to India to deal with an armed rebellion in the North West Frontier and Afghanistan in 1919. He was then posted  to that area where he continued to serve in various military medical posts in the Peshawar and Khyber Pass areas. He was not demobilized until 1920.

On demobilization he resumed work  at the Graig Ddu Slate Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, until its closure in 1940. He was then employed as a railway shunter by the Great Western Railway company at their station at Blaenau Ffestiniog and remained there, retiring upon its closure.

He died on 11.7.1973
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6pg4.2
title: Photograph of John Clarke Morten

description: A photograph of my father-in-law.  It is one he likes - there were many that did not come up to his expectations!  He looks very proud in this one.

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 2393 John Clarke Morten, 1/7th Bn. Manchester Regiment, was commissioned Second Lieutenant and later attached to the Royal Air Force.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ww3.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (16)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian83ed.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (15)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian88qr.2
title: Photographs of Private J.V.Davies service in Mesopotamia and North West Frontier of India, 1914 - 1920 (3)

description: John Vaughan Davies - a soldier of the Great War


John Vaughan Davies was born at 17, Glynllifon Street, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Meirionethshire, North Wales, on 20.5.1896. He was the third son, one of nine children of Morris Vaughan Davies, a slate quarry worker, and Eliza Davies.

John  started work in the slate mines in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Meirionethshire, North Wales, at the age of 14 years, and became interested in First Aid. He joined the  local  branch of the St. John Ambulance Brigade and became the quarry's first aid representative. 

consequently, at the outbreak of the first World War he volunteered early into the British Army and served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the U.K., Ireland,  and from 1916 to 1919 at a base hospital in Basra, Mesopotamia (Present day Iraq). 

He was unfortunate enough to be in Mesopotamia when the British Government decided to send armed forces to India to deal with an armed rebellion in the North West Frontier and Afghanistan in 1919. He was then posted  to that area where he continued to serve in various military medical posts in the Peshawar and Khyber Pass areas. He was not demobilized until 1920.

On demobilization he resumed work  at the Graig Ddu Slate Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, until its closure in 1940. He was then employed as a railway shunter by the Great Western Railway company at their station at Blaenau Ffestiniog and remained there, retiring upon its closure.

He died on 11.7.1973
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8bgz.2
title: Jack Morten, Photograph of Manchesters Memorial

description: The unveiling date of the memorial.  The photograph is from that time. It is still there, close to the main road, though when I went it had been daubed with graffitti.

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 2393 John Clarke Morten, 1/7th Bn. Manchester Regiment, was commissioned Second Lieutenant and later attached to the Royal Air Force.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8mey.2
title: Letter to Francis Ornellas from Major HR Dickinson. Re. death of Reggie Crooke (1)

description: A letter from Reggie's commanding officer notifying Francis of the circumstances of his death in action

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 40314 Leonard Ornellas, North Staffordshire Regiment

Acting Bombardier 121476 George (Reggie) Crooke, 113th Bty. 25th Bde., Royal Field Artillery, died 5th October 1918, aged 26, buried Berthaucourt Communal Cemetery, Pontru.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8n5a.2
title: Photographs of Private J.V.Davies service in Mesopotamia and North West Frontier of India, 1914 - 1920 (6)

description: John Vaughan Davies - a soldier of the Great War


John Vaughan Davies was born at 17, Glynllifon Street, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Meirionethshire, North Wales, on 20.5.1896. He was the third son, one of nine children of Morris Vaughan Davies, a slate quarry worker, and Eliza Davies.

John  started work in the slate mines in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Meirionethshire, North Wales, at the age of 14 years, and became interested in First Aid. He joined the  local  branch of the St. John Ambulance Brigade and became the quarry's first aid representative. 

consequently, at the outbreak of the first World War he volunteered early into the British Army and served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the U.K., Ireland,  and from 1916 to 1919 at a base hospital in Basra, Mesopotamia (Present day Iraq). 

He was unfortunate enough to be in Mesopotamia when the British Government decided to send armed forces to India to deal with an armed rebellion in the North West Frontier and Afghanistan in 1919. He was then posted  to that area where he continued to serve in various military medical posts in the Peshawar and Khyber Pass areas. He was not demobilized until 1920.

On demobilization he resumed work  at the Graig Ddu Slate Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, until its closure in 1940. He was then employed as a railway shunter by the Great Western Railway company at their station at Blaenau Ffestiniog and remained there, retiring upon its closure.

He died on 11.7.1973
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8r1t.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (11)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8tqt.2
title: The Autograph Book of Beryl Ellis (27)

description: Beryl Ellis was a nurse at Moor Green Lane Hospital, Birmingham, during the Great War. This autograph book contains pictures and poems drawn and written by Veterans of the First World War she cared for at the hospital.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8yot.2
title: Complete War memoir by Major J. L. Marr, Durham Heavy battery

description: (Zipped) archive of the unpublished memoirs of Major J. L. Marr, 142nd, Durham Heavy Battery, R. G. A. - a territorial regiment. Major Marr was C.O. in 1914. Includes photographs, line drawings, and day to day account of Battery on the Somme.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand2my.2
title: The Autograph Book of Beryl Ellis (33)

description: Beryl Ellis was a nurse at Moor Green Lane Hospital, Birmingham, during the Great War. This autograph book contains pictures and poems drawn and written by Veterans of the First World War she cared for at the hospital.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand7h9.2
title: The Autograph Book of Beryl Ellis (31)

description: Beryl Ellis was a nurse at Moor Green Lane Hospital, Birmingham, during the Great War. This autograph book contains pictures and poems drawn and written by Veterans of the First World War she cared for at the hospital.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand9i4.2
title: The 'Mudhook' Journal of the 63rd Royal Naval Division (23)

description: The 'Mudhook' was the first edition of this journal, produced for the 63rd Royal Naval Division.  A light-hearted journal to entertain the men.
Prnted at Boulogne Sur Mer, France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandau4.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (13)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandb9z.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (19)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandcwl.2
title: Diary of Alexander Davidson, Royal Engineers (1)

description: In addition to long and detailed entries by Sapper Davidson, the diary contains entries in 3 other hands giving French names and addresses.  Also scanned were drawings, a letter in French and German currency which were tucked into the pages.    

Editor's Comment:
Multiple page entries from 15th November 1915 to 21st June 1916, with some pen sketches. Places mentioned in the headings of sections: 
Querrieux, 4th January 1916
Domart, 16th January - 22nd February 1916
Doullens, 22nd -25th February 1916
Marieux, 25th February - 4th March 1916
Aubigny (en Artois), 4th - 10th March 1916
Mont St. Eloi Station, 10th - 21st March; 22nd April - 15th June; 17th - 21st June 1916
Maroeuil, 20th March - 22nd April; 15th - 17th June 1916

Sapper 64771 Alexander Davidson, 'A.L.' Cable Section, Royal Engineers, attached 17th Corps. Sapper Davidson later transferred to the Royal Air Force (service no. 134934).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandr1h.2
title: Diary of Alexander Davidson, Royal Engineers (3)

description: In addition to long and detailed entries by Sapper Davidson, the diary contains entries in 3 other hands giving French names and addresses.  Also scanned were drawings, a letter in French and German currency which were tucked into the pages.    

Editor's Comment:
Multiple page entries from 15th November 1915 to 21st June 1916, with some pen sketches. Places mentioned in the headings of sections: 
Querrieux, 4th January 1916
Domart, 16th January - 22nd February 1916
Doullens, 22nd -25th February 1916
Marieux, 25th February - 4th March 1916
Aubigny (en Artois), 4th - 10th March 1916
Mont St. Eloi Station, 10th - 21st March; 22nd April - 15th June; 17th - 21st June 1916
Maroeuil, 20th March - 22nd April; 15th - 17th June 1916

Sapper 64771 Alexander Davidson, 'A.L.' Cable Section, Royal Engineers, attached 17th Corps. Sapper Davidson later transferred to the Royal Air Force (service no. 134934).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandy6o.2
title: The Autograph Book of Beryl Ellis (24)

description: Beryl Ellis was a nurse at Moor Green Lane Hospital, Birmingham, during the Great War. This autograph book contains pictures and poems drawn and written by Veterans of the First World War she cared for at the hospital.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandy73.2
title: Photographs of Private J.V.Davies service in Mesopotamia and North West Frontier of India, 1914 - 1920 (4)

description: John Vaughan Davies - a soldier of the Great War


John Vaughan Davies was born at 17, Glynllifon Street, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Meirionethshire, North Wales, on 20.5.1896. He was the third son, one of nine children of Morris Vaughan Davies, a slate quarry worker, and Eliza Davies.

John  started work in the slate mines in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Meirionethshire, North Wales, at the age of 14 years, and became interested in First Aid. He joined the  local  branch of the St. John Ambulance Brigade and became the quarry's first aid representative. 

consequently, at the outbreak of the first World War he volunteered early into the British Army and served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the U.K., Ireland,  and from 1916 to 1919 at a base hospital in Basra, Mesopotamia (Present day Iraq). 

He was unfortunate enough to be in Mesopotamia when the British Government decided to send armed forces to India to deal with an armed rebellion in the North West Frontier and Afghanistan in 1919. He was then posted  to that area where he continued to serve in various military medical posts in the Peshawar and Khyber Pass areas. He was not demobilized until 1920.

On demobilization he resumed work  at the Graig Ddu Slate Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, until its closure in 1940. He was then employed as a railway shunter by the Great Western Railway company at their station at Blaenau Ffestiniog and remained there, retiring upon its closure.

He died on 11.7.1973
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianfg8.2
title: The Autograph Book of Beryl Ellis (29)

description: Beryl Ellis was a nurse at Moor Green Lane Hospital, Birmingham, during the Great War. This autograph book contains pictures and poems drawn and written by Veterans of the First World War she cared for at the hospital.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianhsc.2
title: Jack Morten, Photograph of primitive cooking

description: It is amazing what was cooked with simple apparatus like this.  A seven-course dinner was made on one occasion to celebrate the captain's birthday.

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 2393 John Clarke Morten, 1/7th Bn. Manchester Regiment, was commissioned Second Lieutenant and later attached to the Royal Air Force.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj11j.2
title: Jack Morten, Ten Shilling Note

description: The note has a piece of paper with it saying that it was issued In the desert in the First World War, but no further information. It could be the Sudan 1914/15 or Sinai 1916.

Editor's Comment:
Ten Shilling Note, over-stamped with Arabic script.

Pte. 2393 John Clarke Morten, 1/7th Bn. Manchester Regiment, was commissioned Second Lieutenant and later attached to the Royal Air Force.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj4iu.2
title: The 'Mudhook' Journal of the 63rd Royal Naval Division (24)

description: The 'Mudhook' was the first edition of this journal, produced for the 63rd Royal Naval Division.  A light-hearted journal to entertain the men.
Prnted at Boulogne Sur Mer, France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj4y9.2
title: The 'Mudhook' Journal of the 63rd Royal Naval Division (18)

description: The 'Mudhook' was the first edition of this journal, produced for the 63rd Royal Naval Division.  A light-hearted journal to entertain the men.
Prnted at Boulogne Sur Mer, France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjchl.2
title: The Autograph Book of Beryl Ellis (32)

description: Beryl Ellis was a nurse at Moor Green Lane Hospital, Birmingham, during the Great War. This autograph book contains pictures and poems drawn and written by Veterans of the First World War she cared for at the hospital.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjj.2
title: The 'Mudhook' Journal of the 63rd Royal Naval Division (21)

description: The 'Mudhook' was the first edition of this journal, produced for the 63rd Royal Naval Division.  A light-hearted journal to entertain the men.
Prnted at Boulogne Sur Mer, France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjmuu.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (14)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjo6k.2
title: The Autograph Book of Beryl Ellis (26)

description: Beryl Ellis was a nurse at Moor Green Lane Hospital, Birmingham, during the Great War. This autograph book contains pictures and poems drawn and written by Veterans of the First World War she cared for at the hospital.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjwwo.2
title: Diary of Alexander Davidson, Royal Engineers (2)

description: In addition to long and detailed entries by Sapper Davidson, the diary contains entries in 3 other hands giving French names and addresses.  Also scanned were drawings, a letter in French and German currency which were tucked into the pages.    

Editor's Comment:
Multiple page entries from 15th November 1915 to 21st June 1916, with some pen sketches. Places mentioned in the headings of sections: 
Querrieux, 4th January 1916
Domart, 16th January - 22nd February 1916
Doullens, 22nd -25th February 1916
Marieux, 25th February - 4th March 1916
Aubigny (en Artois), 4th - 10th March 1916
Mont St. Eloi Station, 10th - 21st March; 22nd April - 15th June; 17th - 21st June 1916
Maroeuil, 20th March - 22nd April; 15th - 17th June 1916

Sapper 64771 Alexander Davidson, 'A.L.' Cable Section, Royal Engineers, attached 17th Corps. Sapper Davidson later transferred to the Royal Air Force (service no. 134934).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianp7o.2
title: Photograph Postcard of Major J. L Marr (1)

description: Postcard showing Major John Lynn Marr and Captain H. V. Taylor. 142nd, Durham Heavy battery, R. G. A.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr2sw.2
title: The 'Mudhook' Journal of the 63rd Royal Naval Division (20)

description: The 'Mudhook' was the first edition of this journal, produced for the 63rd Royal Naval Division.  A light-hearted journal to entertain the men.
Prnted at Boulogne Sur Mer, France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrdh.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (17)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianxjg.2
title: Photographs of Private J.V.Davies service in Mesopotamia and North West Frontier of India, 1914 - 1920 (1)

description: John Vaughan Davies - a soldier of the Great War


John Vaughan Davies was born at 17, Glynllifon Street, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Meirionethshire, North Wales, on 20.5.1896. He was the third son, one of nine children of Morris Vaughan Davies, a slate quarry worker, and Eliza Davies.

John  started work in the slate mines in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Meirionethshire, North Wales, at the age of 14 years, and became interested in First Aid. He joined the  local  branch of the St. John Ambulance Brigade and became the quarry's first aid representative. 

consequently, at the outbreak of the first World War he volunteered early into the British Army and served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the U.K., Ireland,  and from 1916 to 1919 at a base hospital in Basra, Mesopotamia (Present day Iraq). 

He was unfortunate enough to be in Mesopotamia when the British Government decided to send armed forces to India to deal with an armed rebellion in the North West Frontier and Afghanistan in 1919. He was then posted  to that area where he continued to serve in various military medical posts in the Peshawar and Khyber Pass areas. He was not demobilized until 1920.

On demobilization he resumed work  at the Graig Ddu Slate Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, until its closure in 1940. He was then employed as a railway shunter by the Great Western Railway company at their station at Blaenau Ffestiniog and remained there, retiring upon its closure.

He died on 11.7.1973
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2al4.2
title: Photographs of Private J.V.Davies service in Mesopotamia and North West Frontier of India, 1914 - 1920 (10)

description: John Vaughan Davies - a soldier of the Great War


John Vaughan Davies was born at 17, Glynllifon Street, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Meirionethshire, North Wales, on 20.5.1896. He was the third son, one of nine children of Morris Vaughan Davies, a slate quarry worker, and Eliza Davies.

John  started work in the slate mines in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Meirionethshire, North Wales, at the age of 14 years, and became interested in First Aid. He joined the  local  branch of the St. John Ambulance Brigade and became the quarry's first aid representative. 

consequently, at the outbreak of the first World War he volunteered early into the British Army and served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the U.K., Ireland,  and from 1916 to 1919 at a base hospital in Basra, Mesopotamia (Present day Iraq). 

He was unfortunate enough to be in Mesopotamia when the British Government decided to send armed forces to India to deal with an armed rebellion in the North West Frontier and Afghanistan in 1919. He was then posted  to that area where he continued to serve in various military medical posts in the Peshawar and Khyber Pass areas. He was not demobilized until 1920.

On demobilization he resumed work  at the Graig Ddu Slate Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, until its closure in 1940. He was then employed as a railway shunter by the Great Western Railway company at their station at Blaenau Ffestiniog and remained there, retiring upon its closure.

He died on 11.7.1973
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ia1.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (25)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2lu6.2
title: Infantry Training (4-Company Organizations) Mannual, 1914 (3)

description: Infantry Training (4-Company Organizations) Mannual, 1914. Images include title page, table of contents (including opening note from War Office, 10th August 1914). Also scans include full scan of Chapter XV 'Machine Guns in Battle' pp. 198-213. Originally owned by L. Cpl. P. Howlett, Southern Army Sig. Co.