cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8sne.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (2)

description: In rest after seeing action at the battle of St Quentin. Describes the casualties he witnessed and holding the line for four days. This is letter no. 503 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8u8f.1
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain

description: Regrets having to break off writing letters on the previous day to spend some time with some staff officers / being very tired / describes supervising the building of dugouts / state of the trenches after a shelling / a skeleton / the costliness of war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8w1e.2
title: Indian troops
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand4cu.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Writes to Marion Scott from Bangour War Hospital / describes pleasure at being between 'white sheets' / 'Blighty' wound (gassed at St Julien) / enjoying playing music / autumn / doesn't want to talk about his own state / praises the fine behaviour of men and women in Europe vs. the 'callousness of God' / asks whether Marion Scott has received 'Gloucester Friends' yet / returns to how he is feeling / the beauty of the Seine River / enjoying the amenities of being in England.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand4p2.2
title: Battle of Passchendaele: Investiture of George Imlach McIntosh VC, 1/6th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand8qu.2
title: Letter To Leslie Gunston (1)

description: Talks about forthcoming address to the 'Field Club'. Includes a partial draft of 'The Wrestlers'. This is letter no. 535 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandb3y.2
title: Photograph of Corporal John Henry Kelty with his sister and cousin (1)

description: Corporal 33404 John Henry Kelty, known as Harry, was my grandfather. He was born in Newton Heath Manchester in 1890.

He was in the territorial army before joining the Manchester Regiment for war service.

He became a sergeant (gas NCO) and was transferred between battalions due, I assume, to losses. He was wounded and returned to England spending time in No. 1 War Hospital Reading and another hospital which I do not know it's name.

He did not return to the front due to losing a large portion of his right calf muscle from the gunshot wound. He was eventually discharged in December 1918. He spent some time in Germany after the war and eventually became a manager of the Yates' Wine Lodge in Manchester.
He died in 1956, a year before my birth.

Harry is to the right, with his sister (the nurse) and I believe the man to be his cousin.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandfcw.1
title: Letter: To Merfyn Thomas
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandlgx.2
title: Ypres Cathedral 1915
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandn5g.2
title: Letter To Leslie Gunston (2)

description: Short letter describing night at Craiglockhart. Includes a draft of 'The Fates'. This is letter no. 531 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandpyn.2
title: The Lock-Keeper

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Exists in various drafts. A shorter poem with the same title, inscribed 'To the memory of Edward Thomas', was included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Written while Gurney was a patient at Middlesex War Hospital. Found in a burgundy notebook containing fair copies of poems made by Gurney. It appears to have been compiled primarily in 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandr1z.2
title: Near Midsummer/From Omiecourt

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Mentioned in a letter to Marion Scott of September 1918, and again in a letter to H.N. Howells of 21st June 1916. Written while Gurney was a patient at Lord Derby's War Hospital being treated for shell shock. Found in a burgundy notebook containing fair copies of poems made by Gurney. It appears to have been compiled primarily in 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandwyi.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Writes from the Bangour War Hospital. Has just finished writing some 'unsatisfactory' verse / reports on health, and being kept to bed and a 'light diet' / good to rest and here soldiers' stories / fills Marion Scott in on movements and events leading up to his leaving France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianht5.2
title: The Tower

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Written while Gurney was a patient at Middlesex War Hospital. The poem is dedicated to Margaret Hunt. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Found in a burgundy notebook containing fair copies of poems made by Gurney. It appears to have been compiled primarily in 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj114.2
title: Sundown / Hill and Vale

description: Manuscripts in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Written while Gurney was a patient at Lord Derby's War Hospital being treated for shell shock. Found in a burgundy notebook containing fair copies of poems made by Gurney. It appears to have been compiled primarily in 1918.  These two poems are unpublished.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj5cv.1
title: Letter: To Merfyn Thomas

description: Discusses military life, his travel to camp (making a note that the ticket collector was a 'lady') and the countryside.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjerw.2
title: No. 1 War Hospital, Reading

description: Corporal 33404 John Henry Kelty, known as Harry was my grandfather. He was born in Newton Heath Manchester in 1890. 

He was in the territorial army before joining the Manchester Regiment for war service.

He became a sergeant (gas NCO) and was transferred between battalions due, I assume, to losses. He was wounded and returned to England spending time in No. 1 War Hospital Reading (later known as the Reading Battle Hospital), photographed here,  and another hospital which I do not know it's name. 

He did not return to the front due to losing a large portion of his right calf muscle from the gunshot wound. He was eventually discharged in December 1918. He spent some time in Germany after the war and eventually became a manager of the Yates' Wine Lodge in Manchester.
He died in 1956, a year before my birth.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjexs.1
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain

description: Thanks Vera Brittain for a letter / informs her that he has been called up and will be gazetted at Norwich / thinking of her starting at Oxford / wishes her to write.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjffm.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (1)

description: In rest after seeing action at the battle of St Quentin. Describes the casualties he witnessed and holding the line for four days. This is letter no. 503 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjjqa.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (1)

description: Describes the action at Savy Wood in the battle of St Quentin. Describes a shell exploding nearby which knocks him unconscious. It is this experience that results in his shell-shock. This is letter no. 505 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjp3h.2
title: Photograph of Corporal John Henry Kelty with patients and nurses (3)

description: Corporal 33404 John Henry Kelty, known as Harry was my grandfather. He was born in Newton Heath Manchester in 1890. 

He was in the territorial army before joining the Manchester Regiment for war service.

He became a sergeant (gas NCO) and was transferred between battalions due, I assume, to losses. He was wounded and returned to England spending time in No. 1 War Hospital Reading and another hospital which I do not know it's name.  My grandfather is on the right hand end of the third row.

He did not return to the front due to losing a large portion of his right calf muscle from the gunshot wound. He was eventually discharged in December 1918. He spent some time in Germany after the war and eventually became a manager of the Yates' Wine Lodge in Manchester.
He died in 1956, a year before my birth.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjqca.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Discussing books and the pleasure of reading / living in the past / Marion Scott in a new home? / life returning to normal / war and self-control / receiving a Distinguished Service Medal / intends to cheer Scott up / will look forward to a letter / will write to friends / appreciates her friendship.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjtyp.2
title: Le Coq Francais

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Dedicated to Gurney's brother. Inscribed 'St Albans August 1918'. Written while Gurney was a patient at Middlesex War Hospital. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Found in a burgundy notebook containing fair copies of poems made by Gurney. It appears to have been compiled primarily in 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjugm.2
title: Gallipoli 1915  French native troops from Senegal unloading ammunition
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjv5q.2
title: Letter To Leslie Gunston (2) / The Wrestlers

description: Talks about forthcoming address to the 'Field Club'. Includes a partial draft of 'The Wrestlers'. This is letter no. 535 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianlt6.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Discussing books and the pleasure of reading / living in the past / Marion Scott in a new home? / life returning to normal / war and self-control / receiving a Distinguished Service Medal / intends to cheer Scott up / will look forward to a letter / will write to friends / appreciates her friendship.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiannrk.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Writes to Marion Scott from Bangour War Hospital / describes pleasure at being between 'white sheets' / 'Blighty' wound (gassed at St Julien) / enjoying playing music / autumn / doesn't want to talk about his own state / praises the fine behaviour of men and women in Europe vs. the 'callousness of God' / asks whether Marion Scott has received 'Gloucester Friends' yet / returns to how he is feeling / the beauty of the Seine River / enjoying the amenities of being in England.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrdhc.2
title: During a march past of Indian troops a woman pins flowers on to the tunic of one of the soldiers
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianwxi.2
title: Turmut-Hoeing / Toussaints

description: Manuscripts in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. 'Turmut-Hoeing' exists in numerous places without changes. 'Toussaints' exists in another fair copy dated 'St Albans September 1918'. Gurney asked Marion Scott's opinion of the poem in a letter of September 1918. Both poems were included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Found in a burgundy notebook containing fair copies of poems made by Gurney. It appears to have been compiled primarily in 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianxt3.2
title: POW Concert (2)

description: POW Camp Alten-Grabow Concert Programme. Held in December 1918 after the end of the war in aid of a memorial to comrades who died in the camp.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianyvk.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (4)

description: In rest after seeing action at the battle of St Quentin. Describes the casualties he witnessed and holding the line for four days. This is letter no. 503 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian26m9.1
title: Letter: To Merfyn Thomas

description: Discusses military matters, the attitudes of those around him to the shellfire, a German barrage, as well as domestic matters.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian27ws.2
title: Guerrilla Operations 1918: An Arab patrol on horseback
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2chp.2
title: Violets
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2fje.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Writes from the Bangour War Hospital. Has just finished writing some 'unsatisfactory' verse / reports on health, and being kept to bed and a 'light diet' / good to rest and here soldiers' stories / fills Marion Scott in on movements and events leading up to his leaving France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ljt.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (7)

description: Miss Adams was a VAD on the Western front.  These are some of her photographs of staff and vehicles at various locations.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2mi.1
title: Vilanelle
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2pky.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (1)

description: Owen is back in the Casualty Clearing Station 'labelled Neurasthenia'. Describes the last days he saw action and the journey to the Clearing Station. This is letter no. 506 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2uiz.2
title: Conductess London General Omnibus Company
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2zra.2
title: Ypres - Minsterworth

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. This is a fair copy after a pencil draft found in the black manuscript notebook 64.5.7. A typed version entitled 'Robecq - Minsterworth' also exists with a changed to line 19. Minsterworth was there the Harvey, friends of Gurney's, lived. The poem is dedicated to Harvey, who was reported missing in August 1916 but was later known to have been taken prisoner. The poem was included, as 'Robecq - Minsterworth', in 'War's Embers' (1919). Found in a burgundy notebook containing fair copies of poems made by Gurney. It appears to have been compiled primarily in 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian5jv.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (6)

description: Miss Adams was a VAD on the Western front.  These are some of her photographs of staff and vehicles at various locations.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian64dw.2
title: The Farm / O Tree of Pride

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. In 'The Farm' many lines of the poem have been crossed out, as Gurney works out the ending of the poem. It is mentioned in a letter of September 1918 to Marion Scott. Makes reference to Gurney's friends the Harvey family. 'The Farm' was included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Written while Gurney was a patient at Lord Derby's War Hospital being treated for shell shock. Found in a burgundy notebook containing fair copies of poems made by Gurney. It appears to have been compiled primarily in 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian66ff.2
title: Attestation of Alexander Grant (2)

description: Alexander Grant joins up for the duration of the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6au1.2
title: Guerrilla Campaigns 1917: Three northern Arab warriors with rifles
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6c8x.2
title: Photographs of Private Frank Kelty's Diary (4)

description: My Great Uncle Private Frank Kelty (1714 ) joined the 2nd / 10th Manchester Regiment in 1916. He died on the 5th of September 1916, at which time he was attached to the King's Liverpool Regiment, and is buried in Euston Road Cemetery in France. 

I was told he had joined under age and his elder brother informed the authorities and he left the army and went to work in munitions.

He then rejoined the army when he was old enough, but it is apparent from his diary entries that he had done so very reluctantly.

We believe that the damage to the diary was caused by shrapnel that we also believe resulted in his death. He had made daily entries in the diary up until the 29th August 1916. This leads me to believe that this date was the day he was wounded.

A transcription of some of the diary has been submitted separately.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6clo.1
title: Letter: To Merfyn Thomas
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6djj.2
title: A woman oiler at Bolton station in May 1917
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6dy9.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Writes from the Bangour War Hospital. Has just finished writing some 'unsatisfactory' verse / reports on health, and being kept to bed and a 'light diet' / good to rest and here soldiers' stories / fills Marion Scott in on movements and events leading up to his leaving France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6kpp.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (3)

description: Owen is back in the Casualty Clearing Station 'labelled Neurasthenia'. Describes the last days he saw action and the journey to the Clearing Station. This is letter no. 506 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6lgh.2
title: Violets
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6rz7.2
title: Crickley Hill / In a Ward

description: Manuscripts in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. 'Crickley Hill' was mentioned in a letter of August 1918 to Marion Scott. Possibly omitted from 'War's Embers' (1919) by mistake. 'In a Ward' is after a pencil draft in the black manuscript notebook 64.5.7. The poem was published in 'The Spectator' on 11th January 1919, and was included in a J. W. Haines typed copy of poems by Gurney published in periodicals. Included in 'War's Embers'. Written while Gurney was a patient at Lord Derby's War Hospital being treated for shell shock. Found in a burgundy notebook containing fair copies of poems made by Gurney. It appears to have been compiled primarily in 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6tdp.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6zj7.2
title: Letter To Leslie Gunston (1)

description: Describes in detail his first meeting with Siegfried Sassoon. Includes a draft of 'The Dead Beat'. The letter covers two days. In the second day Owen again describes his meeting with Sassoon including a conversation about 'The Old Huntsman' and Sassoon's advice on writing poetry. This is letter no. 541 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian7hn.1
title: Dulce et Decorum Est

description: Written at Craiglockhart in the first half of October 1917, and revised at Scarborough or possibly Ripon in January-March 1918. This is no. 144 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian85gy.2
title: Violets

description: Transcribed in an unknown hand.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian878q.2
title: Photographs featuring Francis Lewis Grant

description: Francis Lewis Grant (Appointed Cameron Highlanders and then wounded; POW April 1918) as a new soldier with his comrades. Description accompanies  photographs.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8988.2
title: The Stone-Breaker

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. This is a 5 stanza version of the poem, dated 'Warrington July'. An earlier draft of the poem showing only the first 5 lines exists in the black manuscript notebook 64.5.7. Gurney revised the poem and sent it to Marion Scott in 'The Canon Notebook' 52.5 with two new opening and two new closing stanzas, asking her opinion of the work in September 1918. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Found in a burgundy notebook containing fair copies of poems made by Gurney. It appears to have been compiled primarily in 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8hpn.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (2)

description: Owen is back in the Casualty Clearing Station 'labelled Neurasthenia'. Describes the last days he saw action and the journey to the Clearing Station. This is letter no. 506 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ij3.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (2)

description: Describes the action at Savy Wood in the battle of St Quentin. Describes a shell exploding nearby which knocks him unconscious. It is this experience that results in his shell-shock. This is letter no. 505 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8jz3.2
title: Crickley Hill

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Mentioned in a letter of August 1918 to Marion Scott. Possibly omitted from 'War's Embers' (1919) by mistake. Published in Collected Poems (1982/2004).  Written while Gurney was a patient at Lord Derby's War Hospital being treated for shell shock. Found in a burgundy notebook containing fair copies of poems made by Gurney. It appears to have been compiled primarily in 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ouf.2
title: Emir Feisal, the major Arab leader of the revolt at the Paris Peace conference after the war
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8pdn.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Writes from the Bangour War Hospital. Has just finished writing some 'unsatisfactory' verse / reports on health, and being kept to bed and a 'light diet' / good to rest and here soldiers' stories / fills Marion Scott in on movements and events leading up to his leaving France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8vlr.2
title: On Rest

description: Manuscript in pencil and pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Mentioned in a letter to Marion Scott of September 1918, and again in a letter to H.N. Howells of 21st June 1916. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Written while Gurney was a patient at Lord Derby's War Hospital being treated for shell shock. Found in a burgundy notebook containing fair copies of poems made by Gurney. It appears to have been compiled primarily in 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8w98.2
title: Letter To Leslie Gunston (4)

description: Describes in detail his first meeting with Siegfried Sassoon. Includes a draft of 'The Dead Beat'. The letter covers two days. In the second day Owen again describes his meeting with Sassoon including a conversation about 'The Old Huntsman' and Sassoon's advice on writing poetry. This is letter no. 541 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianbk5.2
title: The Dead-Beat

description: Describes in detail his first meeting with Siegfried Sassoon. Includes a draft of 'The Dead Beat'. The letter covers two days. In the second day Owen again describes his meeting with Sassoon including a conversation about 'The Old Huntsman' and Sassoon's advice on writing poetry. This is letter no. 541 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandf4r.2
title: Attestation of Alexander Grant (3)

description: Alexander Grant joins up for the duration of the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandhx5.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Writes from the Bangour War Hospital. Has just finished writing some 'unsatisfactory' verse / reports on health, and being kept to bed and a 'light diet' / good to rest and here soldiers' stories / fills Marion Scott in on movements and events leading up to his leaving France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandiw8.1
title: Strange Meeting

description: This is no. 148 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandjvj.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (9)

description: Miss Adams was a VAD on the Western front.  These are some of her photographs of staff and vehicles at various locations.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandmei.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (4)

description: Owen is back in the Casualty Clearing Station 'labelled Neurasthenia'. Describes the last days he saw action and the journey to the Clearing Station. This is letter no. 506 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandocg.2
title: In a Ward / The Fisherman of Newnham

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. 'In a Ward' is after a pencil draft in the black manuscript notebook 64.5.7. The poem was published in 'The Spectator' on 11th January 1919, and was included in a J. W. Haines typed copy of poems by Gurney published in periodicals. Gurney mentions 'The Fisherman of Newnham' in a letter to H.N. Howells of 12 July 1918, dedicating the poem to his father. 'On Rest' was mentioned in a letter to Marion Scott of September 1918, and again in a letter to H.N. Howells of 21st June 1916. Both were included in 'War's Embers'. Written while Gurney was a patient at Lord Derby's War Hospital being treated for shell shock. Found in a burgundy notebook containing fair copies of poems made by Gurney. It appears to have been compiled primarily in 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandsix.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Written from the Bangour War Hospital. Discusses virtues of writing and writing verse in particular in pen vs. pencil, as a soldier / includes 'After Music' / notes that the mail arrived while writing the poem / concerned about a package sent to France and possibly lost / reports that Annie Drummond, a VAD nurse at the hospital, has borrowed his copy of F.W. Harvey's 'Gloucester Friends' / discusses the volume.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandvqo.2
title: Miss Hilda Adams. VAD (8)

description: Miss Adams was a VAD on the Western front.  These are some of her photographs of staff and vehicles at various locations.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandwjh.2
title: A female worker assists with the alignment of a ship's propeller on Tyneside
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianiru.2
title: 'O Tree of Pride'

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Found in a burgundy notebook containing fair copies of poems made by Gurney. It appears to have been compiled primarily in 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj542.2
title: Missing in Action. Francis Lewis Grant. (1)

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