cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand6ig.2
title: I Saw French Once

description: Manuscript in ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. This poem was found in notebook GA 45457 labelled 'Best Poems'. Published in 'The London Mercury' in 1933. Included in the Edmund Blunden edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published in 1954 and Leonard Clark's edition published in 1973. Also included in the Appendix of P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand9uc.2
title: Postcard, Fire of Louvain

description: Sent within the UK acknowlegding an Easter card 12 April 1915.

Editor's Comment:
View of ruined city: 'The Great European War 1914: Fire of Louvain Belgium, Aug 22-34-24. Cathedral Church and Trippes Street'. 
The Germans set fire to Louvain as punishment for Guerrilla activity.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandco3.2
title: I Saw French Once

description: Manuscript in ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. This poem was found in notebook GA 45457 labelled 'Best Poems'. Published in 'The London Mercury' in 1933. Included in the Edmund Blunden edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published in 1954 and Leonard Clark's edition published in 1973. Also included in the Appendix of P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandpzr.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (56)

description: A notebook kept by Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, A Company, 42nd East Lancashire Division, believed to have been a sniper. The notebook contains a variety of material, including accounts of Snape's own movements and the operations he was involved in. He took part in the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, was in Malta later in 1915, then Egypt 1916-17, and finally France in 1917. The notebook also includes references to Gallipoli, Suvla Bay, and Anzac.

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianduwq.2
title: Photograph of John King, Queens Own Cameron Highlanders

description: John King, born 23/10/1878 and lived in 38 Broughton Street, Edinburgh. Shot in the foot and recovered in Military Hospital run by Quaker Pacifists in Stapleford Park, England.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandzba.2
title: Photograph of Geoffrey Spencer, Northants Regt (2)

description: Possibly taken after becoming an officer.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiani9n.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (62)

description: A notebook kept by Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, A Company, 42nd East Lancashire Division, believed to have been a sniper. The notebook contains a variety of material, including accounts of Snape's own movements and the operations he was involved in. He took part in the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, was in Malta later in 1915, then Egypt 1916-17, and finally France in 1917. The notebook also includes references to Gallipoli, Suvla Bay, and Anzac.

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj4un.2
title: German postcard to Musketier Dopper.

description: All in difficult German handwriting, recipients name is Willi.

Editor's Comment:
Photographic postcard: 'Engelskirchen - Kath. Kirche und Schule'.
Addressed to:
Musketier Dopper, 
Reserve Inftr. Regt. 
Minnenwerfer Abteilung
I Battalion.

Muskatier Dopper served with a Trench Mortar (Minnenwerfer) detachment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjdv7.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (59)

description: A notebook kept by Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, A Company, 42nd East Lancashire Division, believed to have been a sniper. The notebook contains a variety of material, including accounts of Snape's own movements and the operations he was involved in. He took part in the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, was in Malta later in 1915, then Egypt 1916-17, and finally France in 1917. The notebook also includes references to Gallipoli, Suvla Bay, and Anzac.

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjgbf.2
title: Letters from Pvt. E.T. Jones (2)

description: Letters from No1923 PvT Jones, E.T. born 03/01/1882 died 1963
1/3 County of London Yeomanry (Sharp Shooters)
1st Troop
C Squadron
Egyption Expeditionary Force

After an acident on a camel in June 1917 and a possible bout of Malaria he was declared unfit for active service.

However he stayed on in Egypt for the duration of the war carrying out admin duties Ras-el-Tin at Alexandria.  The camp changed its name to the Aliens internment camp on March 16th 1917
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjhiq.2
title: Of Grandcourt

description: Manuscript in ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. This poem was found in notebook GA 45457 labelled 'Best Poems'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjtz2.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (57)

description: A notebook kept by Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, A Company, 42nd East Lancashire Division, believed to have been a sniper. The notebook contains a variety of material, including accounts of Snape's own movements and the operations he was involved in. He took part in the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, was in Malta later in 1915, then Egypt 1916-17, and finally France in 1917. The notebook also includes references to Gallipoli, Suvla Bay, and Anzac.

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjwo7.2
title: War Books

description: Manuscript in ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. This poem was found in notebook GA 45457 labelled 'Best Poems'. Included in the Edmund Blunden edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published in 1954, and  P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjxwx.2
title: Photograph of James King

description: James King born 19/03/1881. Served in WW1 with Royal Scots. Born around Broughton Street, Edinburgh. Later worked for Scottish Oils. Married Robina Martin. Also kept a shop in Canon Street, Edinburgh. One of three brothers who went to war and all survived.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianm.2
title: Photograph of the Officers of the 5th Bn Royal Lancashire Regiment, including Frank Miller Bingham

description: Frank Miller Bingham, MRCS, LRCP
Born 17th September 1874, at Alfreton, the second son of Dr. Joseph Bingham, of Alfreton, Derbyshire. Educated at St. Peter's School, York, and St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School. Having qualified, he took charge for about four years of a large practice in Blackwell, Alfreton, Derbyshire, associated with the Blackwell Collieries, which had been, since the collieries were sunk, under the control of his father. Subsequently he lived at Brook House, Caton, near Lancaster, and was for five years in partnership with Dr. Scott at Hornby.  From 1911 he was in partnership in Queen's Square, Lancaster, with Dr G. R. Parker and Dr C. W. Dean, as Parker, Dean and Bingham, living at Lindon Cottage (he was in practice at Caton and Lancaster for ten years). 
A good all-round sportsman, he played cricket for Derbyshire and rugby for Blackheath and Middlesex. 
An enthusiastic territorial, he preferred to serve as a combatant than as a military doctor: Lieutenant, 5th King's Own (Royal Lancashire Regiment) Territorial Battalion, November 1910; Captain, 1914; Company Commander, May 1914; acting second in command of his battalion, 1915. After the severe fighting around Ypres in Flanders in the first two weeks of May (Second Battle of Ypres), he received three days home leave and, on the day after his return to the front, was killed in action 22nd May 1915. He had been reconnoitring some new trenches that his battalion was to occupy the following day, and as he and other officers were leaving, before daybreak, they came across a man half buried by the side of a trench which had been blown in. He insisted on stopping to dig the man out himself, which took some time, and it was daylight before all had begun to leave the trenches. The party was seen by the Germans, and he received a bullet through the heart which killed him instantaneously. 
He was buried on the edge of a wood at the front, but his grave was subsequently lost in the fighting, and he is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. 
A bronze tablet was erected in his memory by the medical profession of Lancaster and district on the outer wall of the Royal Lancaster Infirmary, unveiled 2nd December 1915 by Dr G. R. Parker, senior member of the medical profession in Lancaster. 

Editor's Comment:
Photograph of off duty officers in billets. Capt. Bingham sharing seat at centre. Names are inked in margin of photograph, but most are unclear.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianp1a.2
title: Postcard sent from Hubert Freeman to Lily Freeman, 'London Scottish' (2)

description: Embroidered postcard given by Hubert Freeman, (killed on the 1st day of the battle of the Somme) to his sister Lily Freeman.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianppb.2
title: Emboidered postcard with Royal Engineers insignia

description: Blank on back.

Editor's Comment:
Thistle with Union Flag over capbadge of the Royal Engineers above 'R E'.

Sapper 216741 Lawrence Crisp, Royal Engineers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr23c.2
title: Memorial Scroll and Letter of Frank Miller Bingham (2)

description: Frank Miller Bingham, MRCS, LRCP
Born 17th September 1874, at Alfreton, the second son of Dr. Joseph Bingham, of Alfreton, Derbyshire. Educated at St. Peter's School, York, and St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School. Having qualified, he took charge for about four years of a large practice in Blackwell, Alfreton, Derbyshire, associated with the Blackwell Collieries, which had been, since the collieries were sunk, under the control of his father. Subsequently he lived at Brook House, Caton, near Lancaster, and was for five years in partnership with Dr. Scott at Hornby.  From 1911 he was in partnership in Queen's Square, Lancaster, with Dr G. R. Parker and Dr C. W. Dean, as Parker, Dean and Bingham, living at Lindon Cottage (he was in practice at Caton and Lancaster for ten years). 
A good all-round sportsman, he played cricket for Derbyshire and rugby for Blackheath and Middlesex. 
An enthusiastic territorial, he preferred to serve as a combatant than as a military doctor: Lieutenant, 5th King's Own (Royal Lancashire Regiment) Territorial Battalion, November 1910; Captain, 1914; Company Commander, May 1914; acting second in command of his battalion, 1915. After the severe fighting around Ypres in Flanders in the first two weeks of May (Second Battle of Ypres), he received three days home leave and, on the day after his return to the front, was killed in action 22nd May 1915. He had been reconnoitring some new trenches that his battalion was to occupy the following day, and as he and other officers were leaving, before daybreak, they came across a man half buried by the side of a trench which had been blown in. He insisted on stopping to dig the man out himself, which took some time, and it was daylight before all had begun to leave the trenches. The party was seen by the Germans, and he received a bullet through the heart which killed him instantaneously. 
He was buried on the edge of a wood at the front, but his grave was subsequently lost in the fighting, and he is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. 
A bronze tablet was erected in his memory by the medical profession of Lancaster and district on the outer wall of the Royal Lancaster Infirmary, unveiled 2nd December 1915 by Dr G. R. Parker, senior member of the medical profession in Lancaster.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr2ue.2
title: Postcard of interior of Haxby Road Military Hospital

description: This is where my grandfather John King, born in Edinburgh, recovered after being injured in the foot. He stayed for a period of about 2 years. It was run by Quaker Pacifists and he thought very highly of them.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianv3r.2
title: Letters from Pvt. E.T. Jones (3)

description: Letters from No1923 PvT Jones, E.T. born 03/01/1882 died 1963
1/3 County of London Yeomanry (Sharp Shooters)
1st Troop
C Squadron
Egyption Expeditionary Force

After an acident on a camel in June 1917 and a possible bout of Malaria he was declared unfit for active service.

However he stayed on in Egypt for the duration of the war carrying out admin duties Ras-el-Tin at Alexandria.  The camp changed its name to the Aliens internment camp on March 16th 1917
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianwv3.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (58)

description: A notebook kept by Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, A Company, 42nd East Lancashire Division, believed to have been a sniper. The notebook contains a variety of material, including accounts of Snape's own movements and the operations he was involved in. He took part in the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, was in Malta later in 1915, then Egypt 1916-17, and finally France in 1917. The notebook also includes references to Gallipoli, Suvla Bay, and Anzac.

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian24xw.2
title: Photograph of Herbert Ernest Wilson, Royal Flying Corps (4)

description: 51702 Herbert Wilson served in 19 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. He weighed 9st 11 lbs and was 5 foot 9 1/2 inches tall.

Editor's Comment:
Herbert Wilson here wears the Plastron fronted ('Maternity') Jacket of the Royal Flying Corps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian28gw.2
title: Book of postcards from Koln (Cologne) (2)

description: Folded picture postcard book sent from Koln in 1919 with note from Sergeant Shearer.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2l5u.2
title: Joss Family Gathering (1)

description: In the group, at the back is William Joss (in, I think, Gordon Highlanders) visiting Oxford to congratulate his eldest son, also William, on the right, who had just qualified as a doctor, who then went on to join the RAMC and was awarded the MC in North Africa.  On retirement, he became a GP in Nottingham for the rest of his life.  The son on the left is Bert, my father, - note second photograph - who was born in 1901 and joined the Scottish Horse in 1916.  He was too young and his father got him a discharge, but soon after, Bert joined the Royal Engineers as shown in this uniform in the first photograph. He served in Ypres, where he was buried alive in a trench shelter for four days before being dug out and recovered.  Back in the UK he was convalescent, then sent to Middle East where he proudly claimed that he marched into Jerusalem under General Allenby.  Back home he went into the postal service.  He never claimed his medals.  I do so wish he had so that I might treasure them. If of any consequence, I served in the RAF as a Rear Gunner on Lancasters and my son served in both the Army and the Air Force in various parts of the world.  I hope all this is clear, and best wishes for the project.

Editor's Comment:
Group photograph: Herbert Joss to left iin the uniform of the ROyal Engineers; William Joss to centre in Uniform of the Gordon Highlanders (including Kilt and Sporran); William Joss to left in greatcoat. Also photograph of Herbert Joss in uniform of the Scottish horse, mounted. 

William Joss, Gordon Highlanders.

Sapper 148347 Herbert Joss, Royal Engineers (previsously Scottish Horse, service no. 2391)

Second Lieutenant William Taylor Barron Joss, M.C., Northumberland Fusiliers, Special Reserve (Previously Sergeant, Royal Army Medical Corps, service no. 1426, and Sergeant, Army Service Corps, service no. T4/213207: Transport). His MC citation reads as follows:
'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when sole remaining officer in the front line company. With a small detachment he fought until surrounded, then cut his way out to the reserve line, where he continued to inspire all ranks by his fighting spirit.
(M.C. gazetted 18th October, 1917.).
From 'Supplement to the London Gazette, 26 July, 1918', 8760.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2nuh.2
title: Book of postcards from Koln (Cologne) (6)

description: Folded picture postcard book sent from Koln in 1919 with note from Sergeant Shearer.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2qxm.2
title: Ivor Gurney in Uniform

description: Photograph of Ivor Gurney in the uniform of the 2nd/5th Gloucester Regiment. The photograph mount is annotated in ink by Herbert Howells, 'Ivor Gurney ("Bartholomew")' - the latter being Gurney's nickname amongst his friends at the Royal College of Music.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2rti.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (71)

description: A notebook kept by Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, A Company, 42nd East Lancashire Division, believed to have been a sniper. The notebook contains a variety of material, including accounts of Snape's own movements and the operations he was involved in. He took part in the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, was in Malta later in 1915, then Egypt 1916-17, and finally France in 1917. The notebook also includes references to Gallipoli, Suvla Bay, and Anzac.

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian3cz.2
title: Letter: To Mrs. Voynich.

description: Writes to tell Mrs Voynich that it is his 27th birthday / thanks her for some chocolates she has sent and for her help with French vocabulary / says that he intends to take a walking trip of the country after the war, if possible / praises French courtesy and the beauty of their buildings / reports that the men sometimes speak badly of the towns, but only because there are no cinemas / inquires after Mrs Voynich's health and London / the possible pleasures of living away from one's friends / reports that he has managed not to be hurt, and that mentally he is feeling calmer / the disappearance of one of his friends in battle / discusses a book of poetry entitled 'Spirit of Man' / includes a draft of the poem 'Serenity' / discusses the serious and grand nature of living through this particular part of history.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian4xx.2
title: Letter: To Mrs Voynich.

description: Writes to tell Mrs Voynich that it is his 27th birthday / thanks her for some chocolates she has sent and for her help with French vocabulary / says that he intends to take a walking trip of the country after the war, if possible / praises French courtesy and the beauty of their buildings / reports that the men sometimes speak badly of the towns, but only because there are no cinemas / inquires after Mrs Voynich's health and London / the possible pleasures of living away from one's friends / reports that he has managed not to be hurt, and that mentally he is feeling calmer / the disappearance of one of his friends in battle / discusses a book of poetry entitled 'Spirit of Man' / includes a draft of the poem 'Serenity' / discusses the serious and grand nature of living through this particular part of history.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian554.2
title: Mock Execution staged by members of Northumberland Fusiliers

description: Photograph from collection of my grandfather Joseph Green - who served as Pte 6/3180 then Lance Corporal 265608 in 4th Northumberland Fusiliers. He is the one in the photograph holding the axe.