cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8c2u.2
title: Various photographs and postcards of German 'Big Bertha' 15" Gun at Chuignes (6)

description: Various photographs of a 15" naval gun (erroneously captioned 16") in static mounting at Chuignes, known as 'Big Bertha'. The Chuignes Gun was used to bombard Amiens, and was captured by the 1st Australian Division, having been destroyed by the Germans on 8th August 1918, to prevent it falling into Allied hands. The man posing for the camera in the barrel of the gun is Revd. Pearson.

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/bodleian8gz4.2
title: Details of journey undertaken by Private Patrick O'Malley (1)

description: Details of a journey undertaken by Private Patrick O'Malley (Service Number 12871) of the 6th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers, as part of Expeditionary Force Egypt to France. Gives information about travel from Egypt via Italy to France, battle in the Aigne-Picardie area of the Somme on the 8th October 1918 (O'Malley received a gunshot wound to the chest; casualty numbers also given), details of daily life, the Armistice, and discharge. Part of a collection relating to Thomas Fallan, his brother Michael James Fallan, and Patrick O'Malley.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8hub.2
title: Note about the billets - from wallet

description: To Adjt
All Billets taken over by me are in a clean and sanitary condition.
W. R. Collinge

Editor's Comment:
From the effects of Lieutenant Wharton Rye Collinge, 2nd/6th (Rifle) Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment), who died of gas poisoning 7th August 1917 and is buried in Merville Communal Cemetery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8m52.2
title: Life of Col Cranston (1)

description: An appreciation by Capt W J Reeves of the life of Col Cranston from the Royal Scots Greys' Assoication Report 1947.

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/bodleian8p6d.2
title: Hand grenade lecture notes by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (40)

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/bodleian8rtm.2
title: Postcards from Thomas George Elliot of Penzance writing to Ivy Nancholas (3)

description: Born 1897 Attached to 1/5 Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry ( scan of 1 page of war diary attached - more if required)died 1968
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8w1c.2
title: Movement Orders (1)

description: Editor's Comment:
From the effects of Lieutenant Wharton Rye Collinge, 2nd/6th (Rifle) Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment), who died of gas poisoning 7th August 1917 and is buried in Merville Communal Cemetery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianbe1.2
title: Letter by Ella T Collinge about her husband's death (7)

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/bodleianc7q.2
title: Account of Cavalry Action, France, 1914 (2)

description: An account by W J Cranston of a cavalry action in France in August 1914 (from the Royal Scots Greys' Association Report, 1947).

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/bodleiand5id.2
title: Various photographs and postcards of German 'Big Bertha' 15" Gun at Chuignes (4)

description: Various photographs of a 15" naval gun (erroneously captioned 16") in static mounting at Chuignes, known as 'Big Bertha'. The Chuignes Gun was used to bombard Amiens, and was captured by the 1st Australian Division, having been destroyed by the Germans on 8th August 1918, to prevent it falling into Allied hands. The man posing for the camera in the barrel of the gun is Revd. Pearson.

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/bodleiandeu8.2
title: Photograph of Lance Corporal Herbert Oswald Simons and others

description: Photograph of Lance Corporal Herbert Oswald Simons (Service Number 11602) of A Company, 7th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, and eleven other men in uniform. Lance Corporal Simons is sitting in the middle of the front row. He died on 11th May 1917. Part of a collection relating to Lance Corporal Simons, deposited by his nephew.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandhq4.2
title: Hand grenade lecture notes by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (38)

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/bodleiandl81.2
title: Postcards from Thomas George Elliot of Penzance writing to Ivy Nancholas (5)

description: Born 1897 Attached to 1/5 Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry ( scan of 1 page of war diary attached - more if required)died 1968
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandw5t.2
title: Hand grenade lecture notes by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (36)

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/bodleianj8mw.2
title: Casualty details for Lance Corporal Herbert Oswald Simons (1)

description: Casualty details and modern in memoriam certificate from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for Lance Corporal Herbert Oswald Simons (Service Number 11602) of A Company, 7th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. He died on 11th May 1917. Part of a collection relating to Lance Corporal Simons, deposited by his nephew.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjj5k.2
title: Letter by Ella T Collinge about her husband's death (5)

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/bodleianjkqu.2
title: Hand grenade lecture notes by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (39)

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/bodleianjkrd.2
title: Details of journey undertaken by Private Patrick O'Malley (2)

description: Details of a journey undertaken by Private Patrick O'Malley (Service Number 12871) of the 6th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers, as part of Expeditionary Force Egypt to France. Gives information about travel from Egypt via Italy to France, battle in the Aigne-Picardie area of the Somme on the 8th October 1918 (O'Malley received a gunshot wound to the chest; casualty numbers also given), details of daily life, the Armistice, and discharge. Part of a collection relating to Thomas Fallan, his brother Michael James Fallan, and Patrick O'Malley.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjl43.2
title: Various photographs and postcards of German 'Big Bertha' 15" Gun at Chuignes (5)

description: Various photographs of a 15" naval gun (erroneously captioned 16") in static mounting at Chuignes, known as 'Big Bertha'. The Chuignes Gun was used to bombard Amiens, and was captured by the 1st Australian Division, having been destroyed by the Germans on 8th August 1918, to prevent it falling into Allied hands. The man posing for the camera in the barrel of the gun is Revd. Pearson.

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/bodleianju86.2
title: Hand Made Dagger (Trench Art), Lambert Fell, Yorkshire Regiment. (1)

description: These items were given to me by my late mother.
The postcard/ birthday card was from my grandfather LAMBERT FELL who was a 2nd Lieutenant to my mother for her birthday on 11th May.
The 2 daggers have been hand made.
1. Appears that the handle is made from old shell cartridges.
2. Has SOMME crudely engraved.


Editor's Comment:
Acting Serjeant 21164 Lambert Fell, Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards), later Temporary Seond Lieutenant, Labour Corps (Comissioned 2nd April, 1918).
The first knife is made from a British .303 cartridge, with two additional bullets used to form a cross-guard. Soldered to the top of the handle is a button (probably the British General Service pattern with royal coat of arms), forming a pommel. Ricasso of the blade is in the form of a Maltese Cross.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjup5.2
title: Ella T Collinge's Photograph - From Wallet

description: Editor's Comment:
From the effects of Lieutenant Wharton Rye Collinge, 2nd/6th (Rifle) Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment), who died of gas poisoning 7th August 1917 and is buried in Merville Communal Cemetery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianlvo.2
title: Hand grenade lecture notes by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (34)

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/bodleianrexi.2
title: Hand Made Dagger (Trench Art), Lambert Fell, Yorkshire Regiment. (3)

description: These items were given to me by my late mother.
The postcard/ birthday card was from my grandfather LAMBERT FELL who was a 2nd Lieutenant to my mother for her birthday on 11th May.
The 2 daggers have been hand made.
1. Appears that the handle is made from old shell cartridges.
2. Has SOMME crudely engraved.


Editor's Comment:
Acting Serjeant 21164 Lambert Fell, Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards), later Temporary Seond Lieutenant, Labour Corps (Comissioned 2nd April, 1918).
The first knife is made from a British .303 cartridge, with two additional bullets used to form a cross-guard. Soldered to the top of the handle is a button (probably the British General Service pattern with royal coat of arms), forming a pommel. Ricasso of the blade is in the form of a Maltese Cross.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianxu9.2
title: Despatches of William Cranston (1)

description: A collection of the 'Mentions in Despatches' of William Cranston 1914-18.

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/bodleianzfe.2
title: Postcards from Thomas George Elliot of Penzance writing to Ivy Nancholas (1)

description: Born 1897 Attached to 1/5 Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry ( scan of 1 page of war diary attached - more if required)died 1968
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian214s.2
title: Hand Made Dagger (Trench Art), Lambert Fell, Yorkshire Regiment. (4)

description: These items were given to me by my late mother.
The postcard/ birthday card was from my grandfather LAMBERT FELL who was a 2nd Lieutenant to my mother for her birthday on 11th May.
The 2 daggers have been hand made.
1. Appears that the handle is made from old shell cartridges.
2. Has SOMME crudely engraved.

Editor's Comment:
Acting Serjeant 21164 Lambert Fell, Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards), later Temporary Seond Lieutenant, Labour Corps (Comissioned 2nd April, 1918).
The second knife, in the form of a scimitar, is of copper presumably sourced from the driving band of a shell. Punched decoration, including the word 'SOMME'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian237t.2
title: Official German Cards showing British POWs (2)

description: Photographs of Prisoners Of War: group of British prisoners in Helmets outside a church (which could have been taken at any time from mid-1916); a mixed group of British and French prisoners being marched through a town by German guards (the French wear steel helmets, the Germans Pickelhauben, the British cloth headgear: given the relative dates of introduction of steel helmets, this photograph must have been taken in late 1915 - early 1916). 

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/bodleian24ub.2
title: Official German Cards showing wrecked British Tanks (2)

description: Photograph postcards of wrecked British tanks: a Mark IV 'Female' tank (armed with machine guns); German staff officers with five wrecked tanks in background; two wrecked Mark IVs, one 'Male' (armed with machine guns and two 6pdr guns); a wrecked Mark IV 'Female' with German soldiers to front; a ditched Mark IV 'Male' with German staff officers to front. Photographs taken at Cambrai and possibly the 'Tank Graveyard' along the Menin Road. 

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/bodleian2at5.2
title: William Cranston, Aerial photos, France 1917

description: Aerial photos of trench dispositions 1917.

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/bodleian2b27.2
title: Photograph and newpaper cutting relating to Richard Eliot Petch

description: A sheet of paper to which are attached a photograph taken by Richard (Dick) Eliot Petch (born 30th June 1891) of the East Riding Yeomanry and the RFC, labelled 'Giza Hospital, Cairo', plus a newspaper cutting (labelled '"Daily Mirror" August 23 1917') about the confirmation of troops in Palestine by the Bishop of Jerusalem. A note in a different hand says 'Grandpa Petch was confirmed on this occasion'. Part of a collection relating to Richard Eliot Petch.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2b4f.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (6)

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/bodleian2i3v.2
title: A card from the front

description: Collected by Ethel Sams, Castle Hedingham. Her Husband Walter Edward Corder served in France in the Kings Royal Rifles.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2jkm.2
title: Hand-drawn map of trench defense scheme

description: Editor's Comment:
Hand drawn map of a trench system from a leaf of a Field Message Book, detailing a company defense scheme. 

From the effects of Lieutenant Wharton Rye Collinge, 2nd/6th (Rifle) Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment), who died of gas poisoning 7th August 1917 and is buried in Merville Communal Cemetery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2veb.2
title: Precautions when Using Rifle Grenades

description: Editor's Comment:
[S.S. 406] 'Precautions to be adopted when firing all Rifle Grenades'.

From the effects of Lieutenant Wharton Rye Collinge, 2nd/6th (Rifle) Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment), who died of gas poisoning 7th August 1917 and is buried in Merville Communal Cemetery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian3o2.2
title: Postcard sent by Lambert Fell, Yorkshire Regiment (2)

description: These items were given to me by my late mother.
The postcard/ birthday card was from my grandfather LAMBERT FELL who was a 2nd Lieutenant to my mother for her birthday on 11th May.
The 2 daggers have been hand made.
1. Appears that the handle is made from old shell cartridges.
2. Has SOMME crudely engraved.

Editor's Comment:
Acting Serjeant 21164 Lambert Fell, Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards), later Temporary Seond Lieutenant, Labour Corps (Comissioned 2nd April, 1918).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian69nm.2
title: Photographs of James Albert Cochrane (1)

description: These are pictures of my grandfather, always known as Albert. Born 1898 and lived in Manchester

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 39261 Albert J. Cochrane, Manchester Regiment, transferred to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers (regt. number 59572), ending the war as a Sapper in the Royal Engineers (regt. number 242522).

The photograph to the right shows Pte. Cochrane with the capbadge of the Manchester Regiment (his first unit). That to the left with the capbadge of the Royal Engineers and shoulder title of a Territorial Force Royal Engineer unit (though the name is indistinct). The middle photograph shows Sapper Cochrane still in the Royal Engineers, but with the  patch of the 9th (Scottish) Division on his shoulders, implying that by this time he had transferred to the 62nd, 63rd, or 90th Field companies (or possibly the 9th Divisional Signal Company).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6a96.2
title: Artifacts relating to William Robert Jones (2)

description: Artifacts relating to Private Wiliam Robert Jones (no.22645) including letters, identification, music union card and a postcard from Italy.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6hif.2
title: Character Certificate.  Private Henry Wood (1)

description: Private Wood joined the Royal Scots in September 1914 and is believed to have served in Salonica, Greece.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ilv.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (3)

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/bodleian6u5k.2
title: Official German Cards showing wrecked British Tanks (1)

description: Photograph postcards of wrecked British tanks: a Mark IV 'Female' tank (armed with machine guns); German staff officers with five wrecked tanks in background; two wrecked Mark IVs, one 'Male' (armed with machine guns and two 6pdr guns); a wrecked Mark IV 'Female' with German soldiers to front; a ditched Mark IV 'Male' with German staff officers to front. Photographs taken at Cambrai and possibly the 'Tank Graveyard' along the Menin Road. 

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/bodleian6vpj.2
title: William Cranston, aerial photos (1)

description: Aerial photos of trenches and lines - France 1916.

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/bodleian6wox.2
title: Letters of Lieutenant A. Fraser MacLean, 16th Royal Scots.  The 'Merchant Maiden' Magazine (3)

description: Gives a good administartive history, as well as detailing aspects of his toime during the war, and what he thought of life during this time.  Also provides an image of him.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian86ia.2
title: Bank note, possibly Bulgarian (2)

description: Private Wood joined the Royal Scots in September 1914 and is believed to have served in Salonica, Greece.