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DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandrvw.2
title: Photographs of 44 Casualty Clearing Station (4)

description: Photographs of 44 Casualty Clearing Station: the tented camp; groups of Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service; the Orderly Room staff; surgical / dressing teams of the Royal Army Medical Corps. One man wears Overseas Service Chevrons, dating this set of photographs to 1918 or later.  

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph:

"I spent most of my time giving anaesthetics.  I had no right to be doing this, of course, but we were simply so rushed.  We couldn't get the wounded into the hospital quickly enough, and the journey from the battlefields was terrible for these poor lads.  It was a question of operating as quickly as possible.  If they had had to wait their turn in the normal way....... it would have been too late for many of them.  As it was, many died............I did a lot of stretcher carrying and helped to strip the men of their filthy uniforms.  We had to cut them off with scissors, and there were some nights that we cut until our fingers were raw.  We had over a thousand beds and that simply wasn't enough.  We had to keep the worst cases and send anyone who could possibly travel down to the base." 

No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station was located at the following sites during the war: Puchevillers, August 1916 - March 1917; Brandhoek, March 1917 - September 1917 (possibly Colincamps, March - May 1917); Nine Elms, September 1917 - March 1918; Arneke, April 1918 - May 1918; Berque, May 1918 - October 1918; Brielen, October 1918 - November 1918; From November 1918 to December 1918 the Station was frequently moved from Belgium to Northern France and back again, before settling in Namur from December 1918, finally moving to Cologne in April 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiands3v.2
title: Prisoner of War Letter (1)

description: This is the letter my grandmother received in 1914 from the German Army, I believe it portrays the element of moral decency of that period.

Walter Markham joined the 1st Batt. East Yorkshire Regiment in 1903 aged 16 years (he lied about his age). When the Great-War broke out his Battalion left for France on the 8th September 1914 and proceeded towards Aisne where they engaged the Germans in the 1st Battle of Aisne between Sep. 12th to 15th, theirs was the first East Yorkshire Battalion to see action in this war. The records show that the Germans used a high concentration of shrapnel bombs in this engagement and Walter received injuries from shrapnel and was subequently captured by the Germans and taken to 'Stead' POW camp and hospital where he was treated for his lifethreatening injuries. Whilst receiving treatment my grand-mother, who was unaware of his fate, received the letter from the prison camp. In 1915 he was amongst the first group of Excange Prisoners made between the Germans and Allies. He was discharged in 1916, after serving almost 13 years, as 'no longer physically fit for war service'. He was a lance-coporal, Regiment No. 7555.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj1vv.2
title: Photographs of Mons and Arras Railway Station

description: Photographs of Mons and Arras Railway Stations. Mons was not recaptured until November 1918.

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj2h4.2
title: Photograph, Christmas tin and Ammunition of Private Richard Howells, Montgomeryshire Yeomanry (1)

description: Private Richard Howells, Montgomeryshire Yeamonary (uncle of Mrs Jones)
"When joined up was in partnership with three brothers and father in farming [South Moelygarth, Welshpool], however, a tribunal demanded that one of the boys was needed for war purposes, the oldest was a stockman, an essential worker on the farm, the second son failed the eye test, so Richard had to pack his bags and go into the Yeomanry. Other than the Somme battle we know little about his involvement in the war, but a postcard written somewhere in France was received by his sisters Sarah and Jessie stating that it was 'real winter' where he was with severe frosts and snow many feet deep making life very difficult for man and horse adding 'my old horse can hardly get along in it at all'."
Howells like so many war veterans didn't relate his war experiences but "among his personal possessions when he died was a little brass box which was a gift from Princess Mary which contained chocs and cigarettes for those that were fighting out there, alsop a magazine of bullets lay with it in his possessions". 
"Richard returned from the war to resume his farming career with his family."

Editor's Comment:
Photograph of Pte. Howells wearing respirator bag. Note also cloth unit patch on upper left arm.
 
The second photograph shows the Princess Mary Christmas Fund tin, with a charger of British Mk VI .303 rounds to the right. As this type of ammunition had been superseded in general service by the Mk VII round, which had a pointed (spitzer) rather than rounded bullet, it seems likely this ammunition was acquired during training. 

Corporal 647 Richard Howells, Montgomeryshire Yeomanry
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj9e8.2
title: Hand grenade lecture notes by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (23)

description: A handwritten notebook containing notes written by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (Service Number 2090) of the East Riding Yeomanry about a lecture on hand grenades. The book includes information about topics including explosives, trench catapults, the West Spring Gun, and the Stokes Gun, and is illustrated with diagrams. Part of a collection relating to Robert Rafton, deposited by his great-niece.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjbll.2
title: Postcards of William Robert Jones (6)

description: Postcards sent home by William,to his wife and daughter,whilst he was in France,he was a bandsman/stretcher bearer,and appears is some of the photographs.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjn3t.2
title: Photograph of new recruits

description: Photo of young men posing on the steps at Llandrindod Wells railway station after volunteering to join the army (1914) - recently published in the Mid Wales Journal newspaper. Standing second from right, rear row is John Price Jones, farmer Diarth Farm, Llanyre, Llandrdindod Wells (Mrs Jones' Dad). 

Jones enlisted to join the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, Private 2526. He was billeted at No 1 Llyndu Terrace, Welshpool, and was married from there on 15 July 1915 to Emily Howells of Tybrith Farm, Cloddia. "He fought on the trenches on the Somme from which he contracted Trench Feet Fever and had to be treated in hospital for it for some months before returning to the front. He was also in the battle of Ypres, a battle also fought in appalling conditions where the water level was just under the crust of the earth, so everywhere became a sea of mud from tanks, war machinery and horses churning it up. Mustard Gas was a weapon used by the Germans in this battle as well, and caused much distress to the forces fighting there and Pte J.P. Jones was one that got caught in one of those blasts and was hospitalised at Richmond in London for 6 weeks recuperation before returning to the front again."

Part of collection that includes a scan of a photo of Pte John Price Jones, on horse.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjzph.2
title: Photograph of captured German soldiers (1)

description: Photograph (reverse) comment: ' Newly captured Bosche prisoners'. 

They don't seem too unhappy about it either!
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianl6p.2
title: Photographs of Hythe Barracks

description: Photograph of Hyhe (?) Barracks. One of exterior of building, one showing interior of barrack room. Note Home Service Helmets on the shelves above the beds, and Boer War campaign medals on Jacket. The man sat closest to the camera is a Company Sergeant-Major or Quater-Master Sergeant; the two stars on his sleeve are Territorial Force efficiency entitlements, discontinued on the outbreak of war: a man had to have successfully completed the Territorial Force training regime 4 times in order to qualify for each (normally indicating 4 years service, though not necessarily consecutive).

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianmi3.2
title: Demobilisation certificate

description: This was given to my great-grandfather, George Sparkes, on his discharge from the army. He survived being gassed in the war, but suffered breathing difficulties for the rest of his life.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianufr.2
title: Postcards of William Robert Jones (10)

description: Postcards sent home by William,to his wife and daughter,whilst he was in France,he was a bandsman/stretcher bearer,and appears is some of the photographs.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian21jf.2
title: Photographs of Robert Glyndon Coode, including one of the Liberation Parade of Lille (7)

description: My maternal grandfather who served in France from 1914-1918. It shows his wedding on leave in 1915 to Gwladys Phoebe Kirkham in Swansea. Postcards he sent from France and a photograph of his daughter Gwladys Betty (born in June 1918), sent by her godmother Liz Kirkham to her brother-in-law at the Front. Includes a picture from Glyn of his regiment marching through Lille in 1918 after the liberation of the city. 

Editor's Comment:
Two portraits of Robert Coode wearing the cap badge of the 8th (Post Office Rifles) Bn. London Regiment; on the wedding photograph, note also the crossed-rifles over serjeant's stripes, indicating that he served for a time as a musketry instructor. 
A group photograph of men in gymn kit with numbers pinned to shirts. 
A group photograph of men of the Post Office Rifles wearing Pattern 1914 infantry equipment and armed with SMLE rifles. A photograph of the liberation of Lille: regimental band playing in helmets, watched by a Military Policeman, with a battalion marching behind.

Private 371990 Robert Glyndon Coode, 8th (Post Office Rifles) Bn. London Regiment, later served in the 24th (The Queen's) Bn. London Regiment (service no. 738054).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2fct.2
title: WSA Gammon - Three Days in His Life (2)

description: Items found in the attic of my 90 + aunt upon her death.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2j96.2
title: Hand grenade lecture notes by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (27)

description: A handwritten notebook containing notes written by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (Service Number 2090) of the East Riding Yeomanry about a lecture on hand grenades. The book includes information about topics including explosives, trench catapults, the West Spring Gun, and the Stokes Gun, and is illustrated with diagrams. Part of a collection relating to Robert Rafton, deposited by his great-niece.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2oqd.2
title: Letter by Ella T Collinge about her husband's death (1)

description: Ella visited and interviewed everyone she could who knew how Wharton (Mac) Collinge died.  This is her record.

Editor's Comment:
Lieutenant Wharton Rye Collinge, 2nd/6th (Rifle) Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment), died of gas poisoning 7th August 1917 and is buried in Merville Communal Cemetery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2vk5.2
title: Hand grenade lecture notes by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (31)

description: A handwritten notebook containing notes written by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (Service Number 2090) of the East Riding Yeomanry about a lecture on hand grenades. The book includes information about topics including explosives, trench catapults, the West Spring Gun, and the Stokes Gun, and is illustrated with diagrams. Part of a collection relating to Robert Rafton, deposited by his great-niece.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ymi.2
title: Christmas Card, 1918 (1)

description: Christmas card, 1918. Reads '351 Siege Battery R. G. A., Xmas 1918, "Die Wacht am Rhein"'. Silhouette of gunners serving an Artillery piece. 

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.

No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station was located in Namur over Christmas, 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian61fc.2
title: Photograph of William James Cranston

description: William Cranston is photographed here wearing the Cross of St George, which was awarded while he was serving in the Royal Scots Greys before he was commissioned. He was one of seven members of the regiment to receive this particular award.

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant (acting Lieutenant Colonel) William James Cranston DSO, Royal Scots Fusiliers and Staff, served additionally in the North Staffordshire Regiment and commanded the 13th Bn. King's Liverpool Regiment and 3rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian64gy.2
title: Postcards of German graves at Citadel of Dinant (3)

description: Photographs of Dinant: 'Monument erected over the Citadel at Dinant by the Germans to commemorate its capute in 1914. The graves of the German soldiers lie in three circles round the monument.' 

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6apn.2
title: Hand grenade lecture notes by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (33)

description: A handwritten notebook containing notes written by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (Service Number 2090) of the East Riding Yeomanry about a lecture on hand grenades. The book includes information about topics including explosives, trench catapults, the West Spring Gun, and the Stokes Gun, and is illustrated with diagrams. Part of a collection relating to Robert Rafton, deposited by his great-niece.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6nxs.2
title: Photograph of Lt Wharton Rye Collinge

description: This is my Great Grandfather, Wharton Rye Collinge who died from gas in the Great War.  I am very fortunate to have all his battlefield and other documents.

Editor's Comment:
Lieutenant Wharton Rye Collinge, 2nd/6th (Rifle) Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment), died of gas poisoning 7th August 1917 and is buried in Merville Communal Cemetery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6qru.2
title: WSA Gammon - Three Days in His Life (8)

description: Items found in the attic of my 90 + aunt upon her death.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6sao.2
title: Photograph and postcard of Bailleul (1)

description: Photographs of Bailleul showing damage casued by bombardment. The first heaving shelling of the town took place in July 1917. 

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6t7x.2
title: WSA Gammon - Three Days in His Life (1)

description: Items found in the attic of my 90 + aunt upon her death.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8321.2
title: Photographs of Robert Glyndon Coode, including one of the Liberation Parade of Lille (5)

description: My maternal grandfather who served in France from 1914-1918. It shows his wedding on leave in 1915 to Gwladys Phoebe Kirkham in Swansea. Postcards he sent from France and a photograph of his daughter Gwladys Betty (born in June 1918), sent by her godmother Liz Kirkham to her brother-in-law at the Front. Includes a picture from Glyn of his regiment marching through Lille in 1918 after the liberation of the city. 

Editor's Comment:
Two portraits of Robert Coode wearing the cap badge of the 8th (Post Office Rifles) Bn. London Regiment; on the wedding photograph, note also the crossed-rifles over serjeant's stripes, indicating that he served for a time as a musketry instructor. 
A group photograph of men in gymn kit with numbers pinned to shirts. 
A group photograph of men of the Post Office Rifles wearing Pattern 1914 infantry equipment and armed with SMLE rifles. A photograph of the liberation of Lille: regimental band playing in helmets, watched by a Military Policeman, with a battalion marching behind.

Private 371990 Robert Glyndon Coode, 8th (Post Office Rifles) Bn. London Regiment, later served in the 24th (The Queen's) Bn. London Regiment (service no. 738054).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian891.2
title: Hand grenade lecture notes by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (26)

description: A handwritten notebook containing notes written by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (Service Number 2090) of the East Riding Yeomanry about a lecture on hand grenades. The book includes information about topics including explosives, trench catapults, the West Spring Gun, and the Stokes Gun, and is illustrated with diagrams. Part of a collection relating to Robert Rafton, deposited by his great-niece.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian89g5.2
title: Postcards of German graves at Citadel of Dinant (1)

description: Photographs of Dinant: 'Monument erected over the Citadel at Dinant by the Germans to commemorate its capute in 1914. The graves of the German soldiers lie in three circles round the monument.' 

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8opc.2
title: Hand grenade lecture notes by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (32)

description: A handwritten notebook containing notes written by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (Service Number 2090) of the East Riding Yeomanry about a lecture on hand grenades. The book includes information about topics including explosives, trench catapults, the West Spring Gun, and the Stokes Gun, and is illustrated with diagrams. Part of a collection relating to Robert Rafton, deposited by his great-niece.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8p7q.2
title: Photograph of General officers on maneuvers

description: Photograph shows a number of senior German army officers. The figure with his back to us may be the Kaiser(?)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8sx7.2
title: Letters sent to William Robert Jones' wife (5)

description: A series of letters sent to Williams wife,Infantry Records Office,British Red Cross and The 10 Royal West Surreys.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand85o.2
title: Letter by Ella T Collinge about her husband's death (4)

description: Ella visited and interviewed everyone she could who knew how Wharton (Mac) Collinge died.  This is her record.

Editor's Comment:
Lieutenant Wharton Rye Collinge, 2nd/6th (Rifle) Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment), died of gas poisoning 7th August 1917 and is buried in Merville Communal Cemetery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianda4s.2
title: Photographs of Robert Glyndon Coode, including one of the Liberation Parade of Lille (3)

description: My maternal grandfather who served in France from 1914-1918. It shows his wedding on leave in 1915 to Gwladys Phoebe Kirkham in Swansea. Postcards he sent from France and a photograph of his daughter Gwladys Betty (born in June 1918), sent by her godmother Liz Kirkham to her brother-in-law at the Front. Includes a picture from Glyn of his regiment marching through Lille in 1918 after the liberation of the city. 

Editor's Comment:
Two portraits of Robert Coode wearing the cap badge of the 8th (Post Office Rifles) Bn. London Regiment; on the wedding photograph, note also the crossed-rifles over serjeant's stripes, indicating that he served for a time as a musketry instructor. 
A group photograph of men in gymn kit with numbers pinned to shirts. 
A group photograph of men of the Post Office Rifles wearing Pattern 1914 infantry equipment and armed with SMLE rifles. A photograph of the liberation of Lille: regimental band playing in helmets, watched by a Military Policeman, with a battalion marching behind.

Private 371990 Robert Glyndon Coode, 8th (Post Office Rifles) Bn. London Regiment, later served in the 24th (The Queen's) Bn. London Regiment (service no. 738054).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandbi7.2
title: Photographs of Robert Glyndon Coode, including one of the Liberation Parade of Lille (8)

description: My maternal grandfather who served in France from 1914-1918. It shows his wedding on leave in 1915 to Gwladys Phoebe Kirkham in Swansea. Postcards he sent from France and a photograph of his daughter Gwladys Betty (born in June 1918), sent by her godmother Liz Kirkham to her brother-in-law at the Front. Includes a picture from Glyn of his regiment marching through Lille in 1918 after the liberation of the city. 

Editor's Comment:
Two portraits of Robert Coode wearing the cap badge of the 8th (Post Office Rifles) Bn. London Regiment; on the wedding photograph, note also the crossed-rifles over serjeant's stripes, indicating that he served for a time as a musketry instructor. 
A group photograph of men in gymn kit with numbers pinned to shirts. 
A group photograph of men of the Post Office Rifles wearing Pattern 1914 infantry equipment and armed with SMLE rifles. A photograph of the liberation of Lille: regimental band playing in helmets, watched by a Military Policeman, with a battalion marching behind.

Private 371990 Robert Glyndon Coode, 8th (Post Office Rifles) Bn. London Regiment, later served in the 24th (The Queen's) Bn. London Regiment (service no. 738054).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianddbj.2
title: WSA Gammon - Three Days in His Life (5)

description: Items found in the attic of my 90 + aunt upon her death.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandehc.2
title: German artillery panorama, Vermelles (3)

description: German artillery panorama centred on Vermelles. Pencil inscription reads 'Taken by L. T. P. from the body of a dead German. The war front from the German position'. 

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandieb.2
title: Hand grenade lecture notes by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (28)

description: A handwritten notebook containing notes written by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (Service Number 2090) of the East Riding Yeomanry about a lecture on hand grenades. The book includes information about topics including explosives, trench catapults, the West Spring Gun, and the Stokes Gun, and is illustrated with diagrams. Part of a collection relating to Robert Rafton, deposited by his great-niece.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandk8a.2
title: Letters sent to William Robert Jones' wife (3)

description: A series of letters sent to Williams wife,Infantry Records Office,British Red Cross and The 10 Royal West Surreys.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandnj4.2
title: Letter by Ella T Collinge about her husband's death (2)

description: Ella visited and interviewed everyone she could who knew how Wharton (Mac) Collinge died.  This is her record.

Editor's Comment:
Lieutenant Wharton Rye Collinge, 2nd/6th (Rifle) Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment), died of gas poisoning 7th August 1917 and is buried in Merville Communal Cemetery.