cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8z9i.2
title: Autograph Book (2)

description: It was common to have an 'Autograph Book', not used as they are today, but family / friends would add paintings etc. 

Editor's Comment:
Red cloth cover with flowers: 'Autographs'; embossed in gold: 'Willie'.
Contains:
Watercolour painting of field, initialled J.T. 1915
Cartoon of spinster surveying news stand: 'Latest War News- | Daily Pail Latest War News | Kitchener Gets Half a Million Men in a Month | Official', with caption underneath: 'Lar! And Here I've tried for Thirty Years and Can't Get One!'. Signed G. C. Evans, 18/5/15.
Song: 'Longue est la route de Tipperary' [It's a Long way to Tipperary]. Signed A. Seymour, Le 4. Octobre 1915.
Pen drawing, soldier with Pickelhauben hanging from bayonet. Captioned: 'A Busy Day'. Signed E. G. Hodder, 4/3/1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian9pc.2
title: Letters of Hew Hutchison Grieg to his mother (2)

description: hew was born in India on 21st Sept. 1892.  After fighting in the Great War he went on to become an Engineer.
Letter 1.  Personal items sent home for safe keeping and how good he now is at sowing and mending his clothes.

Letter 2. Details trench attacks and food his mother sent him.  he writes of the strain of serving on the front line and his duties.

Letter 3.  He details the atrocities of warand its casualties.  He also talks of his family and sends them his best wishes.  he also writes of sending a parcel of eggs home.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianb1.2
title: Photograph by Alfred Owen of Clutton and the postcard he sent home (1)

description: Alfred Owen was a coalminer on the North Somerset coalfield. He was badly gassed whilst tunnelling under the German Lines and was sent home on the hospital ship 'Glenart Castle'.

Editor's Comment:
Postcard of 'H.M. Hospital Ship "Glenart Castle" (Publication officially sanctioned by the Lords Commissionars of the Admiralty".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand6d6.2
title: Christmas Card from Philip Alick Lavers sent to his father, his eldest son.

description: My grandfather, Philip Alick Lavers was serving in France with a South African seige battery when he sent this Christmas Card to my father, his eldest son in a family of five children. I feel that it illustrates the great emotions of those days.  Lieutenant-General Smuts words were so very inspirational and of great motivational importance at that time, to an army which was spending it's fourth Christmas in the trenches. 

Editor's Comment:
Christmas Card: 'A Greeting | Xmas 1917-18'. Capbadge of the South African Heavy Artillery to top, with arms of the four provinces of Union of South Africa to corners, arms of the Union of South Africa to centre, flanked by Lillies.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianda83.2
title: Embroidered postcard of 10th Royal Hussars

description: Unwritten. From collection of Lawrence Crisp who served in the Royal Engineers.

Editor's Comment:
Insignia of the Prince of Wales above 'X R H': capbadge of the 10th Royal Hussars.

Sapper 216741 Lawrence Crisp, Royal Engineers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandebn.2
title: 2 unwritten sentimental postcards "For King and Country" "For  Hearth and Home"

description: From the collection of Lawrence Crisp who served in the Royal Engineers.

Editor's Comment:
Postcard of man leaving behind child and wife: 'For King and Country'; a wounded Highlander being tended by wife and child: 'For Hearth and Home'.

Sapper 216741 Lawrence Crisp, Royal Engineers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandm38.2
title: Photograph of England 'Blighty'

description: Final photograph noted as 'Coming home - Blighty once more'. Taken from the deck of a troop ship.

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/bodleiandvs5.2
title: Soldier`s Small Book - Edward Burkenshaw (9)

description: This was my grandfather`s army record and although not fully completed, shows some details of his service.
I also have photographs and postcards from India, Waziristan and Liverpool, where he was posted during the riots and looting which accompanied a Police strike in 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandxrb.2
title: Photograph by Alfred Owen of Clutton and the postcard he sent home (3)

description: Alfred Owen was a coalminer on the North Somerset coalfield. He was badly gassed whilst tunnelling under the German Lines and was sent home on the hospital ship 'Glenart Castle'.

Editor's Comment:
Postcard of 'H.M. Hospital Ship "Glenart Castle" (Publication officially sanctioned by the Lords Commissionars of the Admiralty".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandy96.2
title: Letters of Hew Hutchison Grieg to his mother (6)

description: hew was born in India on 21st Sept. 1892.  After fighting in the Great War he went on to become an Engineer.
Letter 1.  Personal items sent home for safe keeping and how good he now is at sowing and mending his clothes.

Letter 2. Details trench attacks and food his mother sent him.  he writes of the strain of serving on the front line and his duties.

Letter 3.  He details the atrocities of warand its casualties.  He also talks of his family and sends them his best wishes.  he also writes of sending a parcel of eggs home.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiangrn.2
title: Two British officers with camera, possibly Revd. Leonard Pearson

description: Two Captains of the Royal Army Medical Corps: the officer to the right wears a medal ribbon, probably of the 1914 or 1914/1915 Star. 

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/bodleianj3sy.2
title: Soldier`s Small Book - Edward Burkenshaw (8)

description: This was my grandfather`s army record and although not fully completed, shows some details of his service.
I also have photographs and postcards from India, Waziristan and Liverpool, where he was posted during the riots and looting which accompanied a Police strike in 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj6x7.2
title: Postcard showing German Army being welcomed back to Cologne after Armistice (1)

description: German army marching through Cologne after the Armistice: 'The German Retreat. Notice the Crowds - about when we came through!'

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/bodleianj8bp.2
title: Embroidered card, William Bennett to his mother in Edenbridge, Kent

description: Editor's Comment:
Embroidered Postcard, butterfly with flags of Allies decorating wings: 'Longing to See You'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjcf2.2
title: Official German Card showing flamethrower

description: Photograph of a German portable Flamethrower ('Flammenwerfer'), first used at Verdun in February, 1915. 

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/bodleianjhd8.2
title: Autograph Book (1)

description: It was common to have an 'Autograph Book', not used as they are today, but family / friends would add paintings etc. 

Editor's Comment:
Red cloth cover with flowers: 'Autographs'; embossed in gold: 'Willie'.
Contains:
Watercolour painting of field, initialled J.T. 1915
Cartoon of spinster surveying news stand: 'Latest War News- | Daily Pail Latest War News | Kitchener Gets Half a Million Men in a Month | Official', with caption underneath: 'Lar! And Here I've tried for Thirty Years and Can't Get One!'. Signed G. C. Evans, 18/5/15.
Song: 'Longue est la route de Tipperary' [It's a Long way to Tipperary]. Signed A. Seymour, Le 4. Octobre 1915.
Pen drawing, soldier with Pickelhauben hanging from bayonet. Captioned: 'A Busy Day'. Signed E. G. Hodder, 4/3/1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjiri.2
title: Photograph of Thomas Shortman of Keynsham

description: Somerset Light Infantry, killed first day of the Somme 1916.

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 17482 Thomas James Shortman, 1st Bn. Somerset Light Infantry, killed in action 1st July 1916, aged 44. The husband of Clara Ann Shortman, of 14, Dapps Hill, Keynsham, Bristol, he is buried in Thistle Dump Cemetery, High Wood, Longueval. The 1st Bn., as part of the 4th Division, attacked between the villages of Serre and Beaumont Hamel on the first day of the Batlle of the Somme.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjnlw.2
title: 2 Unwritten Postcards of Bridge Building

description: Owned by Lawrence Crisp, Royal Engineers.

Editor's Comment:
Two photographs of wooden bridges built on exercise. One with board: 'E.T.C. 81A. Party . Decanwy'.

Sapper 216741 Lawrence Crisp, Royal Engineers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjo98.2
title: Letters of Hew Hutchison Grieg to his mother (7)

description: hew was born in India on 21st Sept. 1892.  After fighting in the Great War he went on to become an Engineer.
Letter 1.  Personal items sent home for safe keeping and how good he now is at sowing and mending his clothes.

Letter 2. Details trench attacks and food his mother sent him.  he writes of the strain of serving on the front line and his duties.

Letter 3.  He details the atrocities of warand its casualties.  He also talks of his family and sends them his best wishes.  he also writes of sending a parcel of eggs home.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjpoq.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (16)

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/bodleianjyv5.2
title: Photographs of shell fuze door stop (1)

description: British First World War No. 82 Fuze, made in the Royal Laboratories (Royal Arsenal at Woolwich) in 1911.  This type of time and percussion fuze, of which there were four marks, was used in conjunction with the 4.5 in Howitzer Shrapnel shell (this information kindly provided by Mr Martin Garnett of the Imperial War Museum, based on sight of the attached images).  

This artefact was prepared as a door stop by a great uncle (of the Gloucestershire Regiment) as a memento for my great grandmother.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiano87.2
title: Letters of Hew Hutchison Grieg to his mother (10)

description: hew was born in India on 21st Sept. 1892.  After fighting in the Great War he went on to become an Engineer.
Letter 1.  Personal items sent home for safe keeping and how good he now is at sowing and mending his clothes.

Letter 2. Details trench attacks and food his mother sent him.  he writes of the strain of serving on the front line and his duties.

Letter 3.  He details the atrocities of warand its casualties.  He also talks of his family and sends them his best wishes.  he also writes of sending a parcel of eggs home.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianpzd.2
title: Autograph Book (4)

description: It was common to have an 'Autograph Book', not used as they are today, but family / friends would add paintings etc. 

Editor's Comment:
Red cloth cover with flowers: 'Autographs'; embossed in gold: 'Willie'.
Contains:
Watercolour painting of field, initialled J.T. 1915
Cartoon of spinster surveying news stand: 'Latest War News- | Daily Pail Latest War News | Kitchener Gets Half a Million Men in a Month | Official', with caption underneath: 'Lar! And Here I've tried for Thirty Years and Can't Get One!'. Signed G. C. Evans, 18/5/15.
Song: 'Longue est la route de Tipperary' [It's a Long way to Tipperary]. Signed A. Seymour, Le 4. Octobre 1915.
Pen drawing, soldier with Pickelhauben hanging from bayonet. Captioned: 'A Busy Day'. Signed E. G. Hodder, 4/3/1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianqfg.2
title: Embroidered postcard from Albert Bennett to mother

description: Albert's mother lived at Sunnyside, Edenbridge, Kent.

Editor's Comment:
Townscape surrounded by flowers: 'Souvenir d'Arras'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr2lr.2
title: Group photograph of Charles Gerrish's Section

description: Editor's Comment:
Group photograph of 'C Sub'-Section, Royal Artillery, standing in fron of two 6 inch 26 cwt howitzers.

Driver 269516 Charles Henry Gerrish, Royal Field Artillery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianslm.2
title: Thmas Shortman medals and forwarding letter (1)

description: 1914/15 Star, War and Victory medals with ribbons. Includes the letter sent to his widow accompanying the 1914-15 star.

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 17482 Thomas James Shortman, 1st Bn. Somerset Light Infantry, killed in action 1st July 1916, aged 44. The husband of Clara Ann Shortman, of 14, Dapps Hill, Keynsham, Bristol, he is buried in Thistle Dump Cemetery, High Wood, Longueval. The 1st Bn., as part of the 4th Division, attacked between the villages of Serre and Beaumont Hamel on the first day of the Batlle of the Somme.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianu61.2
title: Two aerial views of German positions (2)

description: These aerial photographs were taken from an aeroplane. One shows a German hospital and the other the entrenched main square of a town.
the hospital photograph is marked ''L.Flt. A548. 45 NW. G 26 central'.28.10.18. 12.20".
The main square entrenchment photograph is marked ' L.Flt. A531. 44 SE. R19b. 28.10.18. 12.20".

Presumably these are number of photograph and the position and time taken.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian283y.2
title: Photograph of 'Spitfire' gun

description: A 9.2" Howitzer, named 'Spitfire' in paint on the recoil mechanism. Note the box to right: filled with 9 tons of earth, it prevented the gun from jumping when fired.

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/bodleian288h.2
title: Princess Mary Christmas Fund Gift Tin with Contents (1)

description: The then Princess Mary (and others!) thought the war would be over by Christmas 1914, so wished to send a gift to all the currently serving forces. The money for the gift was raised by charity collection. 

The tins contained either (for a smoker) cigarettes and pipe tobacco, or (for non-smokers) sweets. Other gifts included spices for Indian troops etc. With the main contents other items were also included, such as, e.g. a bullet pencil or pipe. Most tins included a Christmas card and photograph. 

This example contains the bullet pencil, Christmas Card, photograph, and packet of opened cigarettes. The Gospel of St. John was not given as a gift by the Christmas fund, but was found in the tin.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2dvg.2
title: Lustania Medal (1)

description: The RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine on the 7th May 1915. 1,198 people died. The Germans struck a medal in commemoration of the event, but with the wrong date (the 5th May). This prompted an outcry and allegations that the sinking was premeditated murder.

The medal was also struck by the English (the example here, mounted on an unofficial plinth) as a propagandar tool.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2el9.2
title: R.H.S. War Horticultural Relief Fund Postcard (1)

description: Charity postcard showing road with trees felled on either side. Caption begins: 'A very faint idea of the Devastation wrought by the enemy in the lands of our Allies'. To the rear, a quotation from a letter of Sir Edward Carson, published in 'The Times', Sept. 15, 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/bodleian2hiu.2
title: Postcard Ernest Straughan, to son Norman age 4

description: Norman was orphaned 2 years later and went to live with his aunt Annie who with her husband Lawrence Crisp compiled the postcard collection from which this card comes.

Editor's Comment:
Sailing ship filled with flowers, flowers surrounding: 'To My Dear Son'.

Private 9089 Ernest Straughan, East Yorkshire Regiment, later served with the West Yorkshire Regiment (Service No. 67452).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2m8k.2
title: Photographs of Thomas Nordass (1)

description: Thomas Nordass was in the territorials before the war and they were sent with the Expeditionary force in 1914 as support to the regular army. He survived the war. The Somme photo is particularly interesting because of the inscription "Somme of the buoys from Hull".

Photo:
1. Group
2. Young soldiers with horses
3. Thomas Nordass
4. Young soldiers.  Training camp
5. Group photo with senior officers
6. Group with officers and dog
7. Young soldiers, 'martial valour'
8. Marching led by a wagon
9. With horses.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2nb9.2
title: Postcard of Army Scripture Reader Rice (2)

description: Noted as 'A great man'. The Army Scripture Readers undertook pastoral and missionary work among the troops, and all were or had been serving soldiers.  

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/bodleian2om2.2
title: Photograph of a North Ronaldsay man in uniform

description: Editor's Comment:
This soldier appears to be wearing MacKenzie tartan, which narrows down his regiment to the Highland Light Infantry or Seaforth Highlanders. The blur of the badge on his Glengarry seems closer in outline to that of the HLI, while the leather belt (1914 pattern), a wartime emergency issue, suggests he is a member of one of the new (war-raised) battalions. However, the Highland Light Infantry was a trewed, not a kilted, regiment - the only men to be issued with the kilt were pipers, or the of the 9th (Glasgow Higlanders) Battalion, an affiliated Territorial army unit that served in France in the Great War.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2slv.2
title: Collection of photographs and articles.  Cpl. Harry Smith, John D. Smith, Charles Smith, John (Jack) Rule and Willie Smith (1)

description: Jack Rule won the Croix de Geurre

Harry Smith was killed on 1st July 1916 at the Somme in McCrae's Battalion

John D. Smith was killed at Ypres
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2wog.2
title: Postcard, painting of Scots soldier leading wounded soldier with bandaged eyes

description: From the painting by R Caton Woodville, and the caption "When night sets in, the sun is down".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian35.2
title: Postcard of Poperinghe (1)

description: Postcard of French troops in town Square. Reverse reads: 'Dearest Mother. Just a line to say that your son has been mentioned in despatches - the last issue. I think I would like a hair brush with the money so very kindly given. Ever your loving son. leo' 

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/bodleian6bfm.2
title: Letters of Hew Hutchison Grieg to his mother (16)

description: hew was born in India on 21st Sept. 1892.  After fighting in the Great War he went on to become an Engineer.
Letter 1.  Personal items sent home for safe keeping and how good he now is at sowing and mending his clothes.

Letter 2. Details trench attacks and food his mother sent him.  he writes of the strain of serving on the front line and his duties.

Letter 3.  He details the atrocities of warand its casualties.  He also talks of his family and sends them his best wishes.  he also writes of sending a parcel of eggs home.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6i4.2
title: Postcard: London's Great Victory March

description: Editor's Comment:
'London's Great Victory March: Tanks passing over Westminster Bridge'. Four Medium Mark 'B' tanks are pictured.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ocn.2
title: Memorial Plaque sent to Clara Shortman

description: Editor's Comment:
Pte. 17482 Thomas James Shortman, 1st Bn. Somerset Light Infantry, killed in action 1st July 1916, aged 44. The husband of Clara Ann Shortman, of 14, Dapps Hill, Keynsham, Bristol, he is buried in Thistle Dump Cemetery, High Wood, Longueval. The 1st Bn., as part of the 4th Division, attacked between the villages of Serre and Beaumont Hamel on the first day of the Batlle of the Somme.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6py3.2
title: Photographs of Thomas Nordass (7)

description: Thomas Nordass was in the territorials before the war and they were sent with the Expeditionary force in 1914 as support to the regular army. He survived the war. The Somme photo is particularly interesting because of the inscription "Somme of the buoys from Hull".

Photo:
1. Group
2. Young soldiers with horses
3. Thomas Nordass
4. Young soldiers.  Training camp
5. Group photo with senior officers
6. Group with officers and dog
7. Young soldiers, 'martial valour'
8. Marching led by a wagon
9. With horses.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6qbs.2
title: Photograph of Sandy Craigie of Bu, Wyre

description: Editor's Comment:
Pte. Alexander Craigie, Cameron Highlanders. Probably did not serve overseas as no medal card can be found.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6w4f.2
title: Cartoon postcard:  "Can I be one of Kitchener's boys?"

description: From the postcard collection of Annie and Lawrence Crisp, Lawrence served in the Royal Engineers during WW1.

Editor's Comment:
Cartoon of Staff Officer wearing sword, with boy and dog:  '"Please Sir can I be one of Kitchener's boys?"'.

Sapper 216741 Lawrence Crisp, Royal Engineers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian813l.2
title: Collection of photographs and articles.  Cpl. Harry Smith, John D. Smith, Charles Smith, John (Jack) Rule and Willie Smith (2)

description: Jack Rule won the Croix de Geurre

Harry Smith was killed on 1st July 1916 at the Somme in McCrae's Battalion

John D. Smith was killed at Ypres
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian84b7.2
title: North Ronaldsay War Memorial ready for unveiling ceremony