cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian73l.2
title: Letter To Colin Owen (2)

description: Talks about his plans for after the War, which involves keeping pigs and living in Kent. Includes a version of 'Sonnet - With an Identity Disc', an early version of 'To My Friend (with an Identity Disc)'. This is letter no. 498 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian83az.2
title: Photographs of the diary of Corporal John Henry Kelty (4)

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.

These are photographs of a diary he kept, which strangely ends on the day his brother 1714 Private Frank Kelty died. 

A transcript of the diary, photographs, and information on his brother Frank have been submitted separately.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian84nv.2
title: Damage created by  bombs dropped on Norfolk by three German naval airships

description: Photograph at Kings Street, Kings Lynn.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8alv.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (1)

description: Having rejoined his Regiment Owen discusses preparations prior to the battle at St Quentin. In a postscript he notes a lack of letters from his mother. This is letter no. 502 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8d8s.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (4)

description: Having rejoined his Regiment Owen discusses preparations prior to the battle at St Quentin. In a postscript he notes a lack of letters from his mother. This is letter no. 502 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8f5e.2
title: Small Green Notebook

description: Front cover of small green notebook used by Gurney during July-August 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8hzr.2
title: Eternal Treasure

description: Includes some things that Ivor Gurney forgot in an earlier letter of the same day / 'Eternal Treasure'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ld.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/bodleian8rzl.2
title: Photographs of the diary of Corporal John Henry Kelty (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.

These are photographs of a diary he kept, which strangely ends on the day his brother 1714 Private Frank Kelty died. 

A transcript of the diary, photographs, and information on his brother Frank have been submitted separately.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8waa.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/bodleian8zp5.1
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain

description: Describes two cruisers anchored in the sea outside of the house in Lowestoft / distractions from college work / plans to meet in Oxford /growing a moustache.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianaul.2
title: The Silent One

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. The version shown here is shorter than the one included in the manuscript notebook inscribed 'Best Poems' 45457, and included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004), and in Edmund Blunden's and Leonard Clark's editions of Gurneys poems in 1954 and 1973 respectively. Written while Gurney was either at Barnwood House asylum, Gloucester (September-December 1922) or Stone House, Dartford, Kent (the City of London Mental Hospital where Gurney stayed from December 1922 until his death).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianb6g.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Thanks Marion Scott for sending books / feels that overall 'Severn and Somme' is better than his friend F.W. Harvey's work, but that he is more 'assured' / tired of war, apart from comradeship / not sure what will happen / instructions as to what to do with book / 'weakness' / autumn in England / hopes that Scott is feeling better.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand61c.1
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain

description: Discusses Edward Brittain's problems with receiving a posting to the front / depression at being separated from Vera Brittain / relief at not having her and Mrs. Leighton present at Victoria train station / the site of other families saying goodbye to the soldiers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand8ol.2
title: Gurkhas arrive at a station somewhere on the Western Front by troop train
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandach.2
title: Photographs of the diary of Corporal John Henry Kelty (2)

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.

These are photographs of a diary he kept, which strangely ends on the day his brother 1714 Private Frank Kelty died. 

A transcript of the diary, photographs, and information on his brother Frank have been submitted separately.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandcwv.2
title: While I Write

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. An alternative version exists in manuscript notebook 67.8. The version shown here was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). Written while Gurney was either at Barnwood House asylum, Gloucester (September-December 1922) or Stone House, Dartford, Kent (the City of London Mental Hospital where Gurney stayed from December 1922 until his death).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandgf2.1
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain

description: Describes difficulties in finding time to write / thanks Vera Brittain for her letters / waiting for final orders / aniticipating the crossing / censorship / a code to let Vera know Roland Leighton's whereabouts / asks if Vera has written to his mother yet / thinking of Vera and the future.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandkfx.2
title: Letter To Leslie Gunston (2) / Roundel

description: Incomplete (and wrongly dated in ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'). Includes versions of 'Roundel'. Possibly written from the  13th Casualty Clearing Station, Gaily, France. This is letter no. 255 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandlv3.2
title: Eternal Treasure

description: Includes some things that Ivor Gurney forgot in an earlier letter of the same day / 'Eternal Treasure'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandn2z.2
title: Nurse and other medical staff load a motor ambulance with a wounded Indian soldier
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandxis.2
title: The Farm / The Fisherman of Newnham

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand of a draft of part of The Farm (left hand page) and of the last two stanzas of The Fisherman of Newnham (right hand page). The Fisherman of Newnham was sent to Herbert Howells in a letter of July 1918.  From a small green notebook used by Gurney during July-August 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjbb4.2
title: Letter To Colin Owen (1)

description: Talks about his plans for after the War, which involves keeping pigs and living in Kent. Includes a version of 'Sonnet - With an Identity Disc', an early version of 'To My Friend (with an Identity Disc)'. This is letter no. 498 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjh1n.1
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain

description: Thanks Vera Brittain for sending Rupert Brooke's '1914 and Other Poems' / reaction to it / returning to the trenches tomorrow / death of an officer and attending the funeral / urges Vera not to work too hard in the hospital / requests socks to be knit by Vera's mother / attempts to obtain leave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjiib.2
title: The Farm

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand of a draft of part of The Farm and an unidentified musical sketch.  From a small green notebook used by Gurney during July-August 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjjoo.2
title: A group of wounded Indian soldiers walk across the cobbles of a French village
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjmcj.2
title: Photographs of the diary of Corporal John Henry Kelty (6)

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.

These are photographs of a diary he kept, which strangely ends on the day his brother 1714 Private Frank Kelty died. 

A transcript of the diary, photographs, and information on his brother Frank have been submitted separately.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjsfe.1
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain

description: Describes finding the first of Roland Leighton's men to be killed / fears that it is cruel to tell this to Vera Brittain.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjuv7.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjv24.2
title: Gurkha holding a kukri, somewhere on the Western Front
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjwwt.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/bodleianrdaf.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/bodleianrea4.2
title: Photographs of the diary of Corporal John Henry Kelty (5)

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.

These are photographs of a diary he kept, which strangely ends on the day his brother 1714 Private Frank Kelty died. 

A transcript of the diary, photographs, and information on his brother Frank have been submitted separately.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrln.2
title: Transcript of the diary of Corporal  John Henry Kelty (7)

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.

These are photographs of a diary he kept, which strangely ends on the day his brother 1714 Private Frank Kelty died.

Photographs of his diary, other photographs, and information on his brother Frank have been submitted separately.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrtq.1
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain

description: Pleasure at reading Vera Brittain's letters / discusses Speech Day at school and meeting Vera / love-letters / requests Rupert Brooke's poems / discusses photographs / current location and the trenches / lack of changes from one day to the next in army life / talking to the men / riding the train in France / arriving at billets / a picturesque French village / the sunset / being sent to Headquarters and new position there.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleians7x.2
title: Unknown

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Unidentified lines of verse. Found in a small green notebook used by Gurney durnig July-August 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianu4f.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (2)

description: Having rejoined his Regiment Owen discusses preparations prior to the battle at St Quentin. In a postscript he notes a lack of letters from his mother. This is letter no. 502 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianzwf.2
title: The Arab forces, here co-ordinated by Colonel Lawrence, relied on camels and Arab ponies
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2it7.2
title: POW Concert (3)

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/bodleian2j1x.2
title: Popaganda poster entitled ""Red Cross or Iron Cross""
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ja3.2
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/bodleian2kty.2
title: Drifting Leaves

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. This appears to be the only full draft of the poem. Inscribed 'Warrington July 1918'. 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/bodleian2ovr.2
title: Letter To Leslie Gunston (1)

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/bodleian2qrz.1
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain

description: Describes an enjoyable evening spent with fellow officers and a gramophone / the state of Roland Leighton's billet at present / possible upcoming battle / writing in a wood / a recent ride and the surrounding countryside / Vera Brittain writing more than he can to her / wishes to read some of her work from Oxford / thought vs. action / writing a poem.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ut8.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2vrr.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/bodleian3h8.2
title: Photograph of Corporal John Henry Kelty with his battalion (4)

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. I assume this picture was taken before he was sent to France, on this photograph he is on the right standing next to the man with the brush. 

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/bodleian4rp.1
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain

description: Poem by Kathleen M. Coates included with a letter of 17 December 1914 to Vera Brittain.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian66bj.1
title: The Crescent and the Cross
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian69bl.2
title: POW Concert (1)

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/bodleian6azq.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/bodleian6kmb.2
title: Sherif Sharraf and camel mounted Arab troops on the march in the desert near Jebel Serd
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ntc.2
title: Letter To Susan Owen (3)

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/bodleian6ppd.2
title: Down Commercial Road [Gloucester]

description: Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. After a pencil draft in the black manuscript notebook 64.5.7. Inscribed 'Warrington July 1918'. Found in a burgundy notebook containing fair copies of poems made by Gurney. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Written while Gurney was a patient at Lord Derby's War Hospital being treated for shell shock. It appears to have been compiled primarily in 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6x81.1
title: Letter: To Vera Brittain

description: Describes being affected by surroundings and a beautiful day / the artistic vs. the military side of life / having missed the post / sending his men off to do unnecessary tasks.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian81q.2
title: 4th Batallion Soldiers of the Kings African Rifles with a wounded Askari. German East African Campaign
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian82bh.1
title: Letter: To Merfyn Thomas

description: Envelope. Two postmarks: Passed Field Censor and Field Post Office.  Postmarked '5 MR 17'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian82fa.2
title: Attestation of Alexander Grant (1)

description: Alexander Grant joins up for the duration of the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian87ll.1
title: Letter: To Merfyn Thomas

description: Written at Handel Street, London, where Thomas was posted at the Royal Artillery School.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8bpj.2
title: The Farm

description: Manuscript in pencil and pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. 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. 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/bodleian8hms.2
title: T E Lawrence standing with his Arab bodyguard mounted on camels at Akaba
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8mb9.2
title: War Hospital

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 (pictured here).

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/bodleian8ozg.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.