cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2gf5.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Hopes that Marion Scott's health is improving / Ivor Gurney is at present in camp at a hospital having his 'spectacles and teeth mended' / enjoys her letters / attending lectures / discusses best friend and fellow poet F.W. Harvey and his presumed death (it later became known that he was taken as a prisoner) / thoughts of Bach / desires Scott's opinion of his setting of John Masefield's 'For the Fallen' / relative quietness of the sector / proofs and corrections / the moods in England and France / predicting the end of the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2j2w.2
title: The Peril of Love

description: Drafted earlier, but revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 107 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2rdq.1
title: The Volunteer

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. After a manuscript from a letter of 29th August 1917 to Scott. Also found in the blue exercise book 52.5. The quotation in stanza 5 is from the American poet Walt Whitman's 'Passage to India'. Published in 'The Spectator' on 22nd February 1919. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2rys.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ukf.1
title: Movements of the 1st/5th Bn. Norfolk Regiment, relating to Frederick Sharpe

description: Extracts from the War Diaries of the 1st/5th Bn. 

Company Quartermaster Serjeant (later Colour Serjeant) 203612 Frederick Browne Peronne Abel Sharpe, 1st/5th Bn. Norfolk Regiment. Having joined the Territorial Force before the war, he served with the 1st/5th Bn., part of 163rd Bde. 54th (East Anglian) Division, in Gallipoli, Egypt, and Palestine.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian61tn.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Hopes that Marion Scott's health is improving / Ivor Gurney is at present in camp at a hospital having his 'spectacles and teeth mended' / enjoys her letters / attending lectures / discusses best friend and fellow poet F.W. Harvey and his presumed death (it later became known that he was taken as a prisoner) / thoughts of Bach / desires Scott's opinion of his setting of John Masefield's 'For the Fallen' / relative quietness of the sector / proofs and corrections / the moods in England and France / predicting the end of the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian63em.1
title: The Target

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. After a manuscript included in a letter of 27th October 1917 to Scott. Written while Ivor Gurney was a patient at Bangour War Hospital. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ajv.1
title: Postcard sent by Frederick Sharpe to his mother

description: Company Quartermaster Serjeant (later Colour Serjeant) 203612 Frederick Browne Peronne Abel Sharpe, 1st/5th Bn. Norfolk Regiment. Having joined the Territorial Force before the war, he served with the 1st/5th Bn., part of 163rd Bde. 54th (East Anglian) Division, in Gallipoli, Egypt, and Palestine.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6dpw.2
title: PHotograph of John Edward Burnham

description: I knew very little of my father's service in the First World War until july 2007 when contacted by Rupert Drake, Newark, Notts. who was researching 1st Heavy East Hull Battery.  He provided details of my father's time in South Africa and France etc.

He also identified my only photograph as being taken at Charlton Park, near London prior to embarkation to South Africa, finally landing in Killindine/Mombassa on 14/3/1916.  In Aug/Sept 1917 he embarked for Tanga and Zanzibar, then Kimbua,Lindie and on to Dar-es-Salam 12/12/1917.

Returned home to Plymouth 30/1/1918, then on to Hilsea for embarkation to France 15/7/1918 where he took part in the battles for the Hindenburg Line, Sept. 1918, crossing the Selle, October 1918 and finally Saulzour in early 1919 whwere he was demobilised.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6koj.2
title: Autumnal

description: Drafted earlier, but revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 103 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6l62.2
title: Newspaper article on the death of Dr Rudkin MC

description: Newspaper report concerning the death of Dr (ex Captain) Rudkin, MC.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6mxm.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6qr3.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Worried about Marion Scott's health / setting John Masefield's 'By the Bierside' to music / a cartoon in 'Punch' / receiving letters from friends / reading / requests for parcels / fear of death and sickness vs. fear of death in battle / thank friends for letters and 'ask them when the war will be over' / books / Shelley / changes in the war / describes battle / the weather / French poets and the war / having time to play and write music / a small fragment of verse beginning 'The careless writer...'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6t9h.2
title: Map, Service 1st Heavy East Hull Battery

description: Map.  Service 1st Heavy East Hull Battery
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian7s3.1
title: Camps

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Ivor Gurney makes reference to the poem in a letter of 8th August 1917, but sends another draft on 14th August 1918 to Scott. Also found in the black manuscript notebook 52.7. Gurney and Scott corrected the date on various copies. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian84hd.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope contain letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8axx.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8hoh.2
title: Stunned by their life's explosion into love

description: Drafted earlier, but revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 116 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8j8.2
title: Perversity

description: Drafted earlier, but revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 105 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ojw.1
title: Photograph Album from Military Hospital near Caernarfon

description: Photograph album from unidentified Military Hospital, believed to have been one of two local to Caernarfon. 

Photographs of nurses, men in Hospital 'Blues' Uniform, wards etc. Note the photograph of a black soldier of the The Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire) Regiment towards the end of the album.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8p9y.2
title: Record of service 11th Hull Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (1)

description: Record of service 11th Hull Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

J.E. Burnham enlisted between 3rd and 10th December 1914
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8rtc.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Hopes that Marion Scott's health is improving / Ivor Gurney is at present in camp at a hospital having his 'spectacles and teeth mended' / enjoys her letters / attending lectures / discusses best friend and fellow poet F.W. Harvey and his presumed death (it later became known that he was taken as a prisoner) / thoughts of Bach / desires Scott's opinion of his setting of John Masefield's 'For the Fallen' / relative quietness of the sector / proofs and corrections / the moods in England and France / predicting the end of the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8vex.1
title: Contrasts

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Ivor Gurney and Scott collaborated over the poem in numerous letters. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8w2l.2
title: The Unreturning

description: Drafted in late 1912 or early 1913. Revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 104 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand1en.2
title: Map, 1st Heavy East Hull Battery service in Southern Africa.

description: Map. 1st Heavy East Hull Battery service in Southern Africa.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand3p7.1
title: Medals of Frederick Sharpe

description: War, Victory, and Territorial Force War Medals, with ribbons and mounted for wear. 

Company Quartermaster Serjeant (later Colour Serjeant) 203612 Frederick Browne Peronne Abel Sharpe, 1st/5th Bn. Norfolk Regiment. Having joined the Territorial Force before the war, he served with the 1st/5th Bn., part of 163rd Bde. 54th (East Anglian) Division, in Gallipoli, Egypt, and Palestine.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand4i9.2
title: The Peril of Love

description: Drafted earlier, but revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 107 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianddb4.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Worried about Marion Scott's health / setting John Masefield's 'By the Bierside' to music / a cartoon in 'Punch' / receiving letters from friends / reading / requests for parcels / fear of death and sickness vs. fear of death in battle / thank friends for letters and 'ask them when the war will be over' / books / Shelley / changes in the war / describes battle / the weather / French poets and the war / having time to play and write music / a small fragment of verse beginning 'The careless writer...'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandl4w.2
title: Draft letter to Vicar of Dunsden

description: On the verso of early rough working of 'The Unreturning'. Draft of letter to Vicar of Dunsden, setting out his objections to 'The Christian Life'. Includes quotation from 'The Eve of St. Agnes' and fragment of Owen's verse.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandqtf.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandqxr.1
title: Rumours of Wars

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand, with corrections in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Included in a letter of 3rd August 1917 to Scott. Gurney and Scott corrected the date on various copies. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandws8.2
title: Postcard to William Schofield (2)

description: Sent to William in September 1917 who unfortunately died in October 1917
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj2bu.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Worried about Marion Scott's health / setting John Masefield's 'By the Bierside' to music / a cartoon in 'Punch' / receiving letters from friends / reading / requests for parcels / fear of death and sickness vs. fear of death in battle / thank friends for letters and 'ask them when the war will be over' / books / Shelley / changes in the war / describes battle / the weather / French poets and the war / having time to play and write music / a small fragment of verse beginning 'The careless writer...'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj7lg.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Worried about Marion Scott's health / setting John Masefield's 'By the Bierside' to music / a cartoon in 'Punch' / receiving letters from friends / reading / requests for parcels / fear of death and sickness vs. fear of death in battle / thank friends for letters and 'ask them when the war will be over' / books / Shelley / changes in the war / describes battle / the weather / French poets and the war / having time to play and write music / a small fragment of verse beginning 'The careless writer...'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianja9e.1
title: Contrasts

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Ivor Gurney and Scott collaborated over the poem in numerous letters. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjbt1.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjbx2.1
title: Rumours of Wars

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Included in a letter of 3rd August 1917 to Scott. Gurney and Scott corrected the date on various copies. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjdg.1
title: Dust

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. From the 'Hospital Pictures' series. After a draft in the black manuscript notebook 52.1 and a letter of 12th December 1917 to Scott. Written while Ivor Gurney was on a signalling course at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjq5z.1
title: Letter sent home by Morris Hughes

description: Gunner 310573 Morris Hughes, 1st/1st Welsh Heavy Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery. Having lost his leg during the war he remained in the army and became a butcher.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianju4v.2
title: The Unreturning

description: Drafted in late 1912 or early 1913. Revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 104 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjy7.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjyep.2
title: 1st Heavy East Hull Battery record for John Edward Burnham

description: 1st Heavy East Hull Battery record.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianlka.1
title: Photograph of Frederick Sharpe
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianmki.2
title: Postcard to William Schofield (1)

description: Sent to William in September 1917 who unfortunately died in October 1917
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrd2o.2
title: Perversity

description: Drafted earlier, but revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 105 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiantq9.1
title: Postcard sent by Morris Hughes

description: Homemade postcard with flags of Allies, photograph of Morris Hughes while still in Hospital (note tie and shirt of hospital uniform worn beneath Greatcoat).

Gunner 310573 Morris Hughes, 1st/1st Welsh Heavy Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery. Having lost his leg during the war he remained in the army and became a butcher.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianv82.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianzfm.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Hopes that Marion Scott's health is improving / Ivor Gurney is at present in camp at a hospital having his 'spectacles and teeth mended' / enjoys her letters / attending lectures / discusses best friend and fellow poet F.W. Harvey and his presumed death (it later became known that he was taken as a prisoner) / thoughts of Bach / desires Scott's opinion of his setting of John Masefield's 'For the Fallen' / relative quietness of the sector / proofs and corrections / the moods in England and France / predicting the end of the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian14o.1
title: John 'Jack' Bovey returns to the trenches: Audio Interview

description: This recording was made in 1969 with my father, John 'Jack' Bovey recalling his experience in the trenches. My father was a private in the 25th Field Ambulance Division, Wessex Division (no. 487496).

The audio extracts cover Jack's visit to Tyne Cot years later,spending the night behind German Lines in a 'comfy' dugout (by mistake), his memories of Passhendale and being taken as a Prisoner of War (POW) and his subsequent release.

A transcript of the interview has been submitted separately.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian21i1.2
title: Letter: To Mrs Voynich

description: Discusses 'Steel and Flame' / hopes that Mrs Voynich is feeling better / the East End of London / sorry about a 'crack on the head' taken by Mr Voynich / discussing Mrs Voynich writing a book / wishes her to meet with Marion Scott so that she can see Ivor Gurney's setting of John Masefield's 'For the Fallen' and comment on it / recent reviews / Greek dramatists / describes stars and includes a musical stanza to describe them / hopes the war will be over soon.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian277h.2
title: Whither is passed the softly-vanished day

description: Probably drafted in 1911-12, at Shrewsbury. Revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 109 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2f4m.2
title: Record of service 11th Hull Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (2)

description: Record of service 11th Hull Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

J.E. Burnham enlisted between 3rd and 10th December 1914
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2own.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2uu2.2
title: Greater Love

description: Drafted in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. Revised at Scarborough in July 1918. This is a cancelled draft of lines 19-24. This is no. 161 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2xap.1
title: Day-Boys and Choristers

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Gurney attended the school from 1900 to 1905. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2xzv.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2y4k.1
title: Card in memory of Henry James Pritchard who lost his life in the Battle of Jutland

description: Henry James Pritchard was the brother of Pam Hyett's maternal grandfather.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian3ox.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian62ro.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian68ch.1
title: Riez Bailleul ['...in blue tea-time']

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Note on top of page reads 'while 'asking' for death. / electrical'. This draft of the poem was included in in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). An alternative typescript and draft of the poem survives and was included in Leonard Clark's edition of Gurney's poems in 1973. From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6aoz.2
title: Whither is passed the softly-vanished day

description: Probably drafted in 1911-12, at Shrewsbury. Revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 109 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6eps.1
title: Postcard sent to Edith Edwards

description: Postcard sent home from the front to Edith Edwards by her first cousin, 'Fred'. 

Embroidered Union flag and flowers, with caption: 'Best Love'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ewx.2
title: 1914

description: Drafted in late 1914 in France, and revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is a rough draft. This is no. 113 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6in6.2
title: Postcard Portrait of RAF Cadet Christopher Grey (2)

description: Christopher Grey was my Great Uncle. I found this post card among my parents' possessions when clearing their house. I have no knowledge of Uncle Chris's war service, but believe he was in France at the end of the war. He was a Warwickshire farmer, and died in about 1965.

Editor's Comment:
179834 Christopher Grey, 'b' Flight, 6 Squad., 5 Royal Air Force Cadet Wing, has no Medal Card, suggesting he did not serve overseas before the Armistice.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6myf.1
title: Toasts and Memories

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. After a draft included in a letter of 3rd January 1918. Written when Ivor Gurney was on a signalling course at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6nc4.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6s9e.1
title: Memoir of Frank Stokes recording his time in training camp

description: A memoir written by Frank Stokes recording his time at training camp (beginning on 7th August 1914).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8346.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Hopes that Marion Scott's health is improving / Ivor Gurney is at present in camp at a hospital having his 'spectacles and teeth mended' / enjoys her letters / attending lectures / discusses best friend and fellow poet F.W. Harvey and his presumed death (it later became known that he was taken as a prisoner) / thoughts of Bach / desires Scott's opinion of his setting of John Masefield's 'For the Fallen' / relative quietness of the sector / proofs and corrections / the moods in England and France / predicting the end of the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8aya.1
title: Toasts and Memories

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. After a draft included in a letter of 3rd January 1918. Written when Ivor Gurney was on a signalling course at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8drl.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ecy.1
title: Crucifix Corner

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand.  Many versions of the poem exist, including a draft in the green covered manuscript notebook 64.4. That draft was included in included in the Edmund Blunden and Leonard Clark editions of Ivor Gurney's works in 1954 and 1973 respectively, and in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney, Collected Poems' (2004). From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8g92.1
title: Letter from Frank Stokes to Sibyl Stokes

description: This letter, sent by my Great Uncle to his wife, describes the sighting of a zeppelin.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8oop.2
title: Whither is passed the softly-vanished day

description: Probably drafted in 1911-12, at Shrewsbury. Revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 109 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8scz.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8sz9.1
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).