cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2hzf.2
title: The Menin Gate

description: The Menin Gate Memorial to the missing stands at the eastern exit of Ypres  in Flanders, Belgium, The gate marks the starting point for one of the main roads out of the town that led Allied soldiers to the front line during the First World War. The memorial is inscribed with 54,900 of the 'missing' British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the fierce battles around the Ypres Salient area who have no known grave. At 8pm each evening, the local police stop traffic from passing underneath the gate, and the Last Post is played by buglers from the Ypres fire station, often attended by large crowds.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2jjv.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Describes arrival and poor conditions in camp at Codford / day's activities / supplies / possibility of verses being published by H. W. Massingham at the 'Nation'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2mxr.2
title: Letter: To H.N. Howells.

description: Discusses current mood / praises H.N. Howells' self-discipline and talent at music / thanks Howells for 'generous' letter / discusses depression following the death of a friend ('F.W.H.') / describes his friend's gifts and predictions as to what he might have become had he lived / unable to work / talks about living in times where 'good' battles 'evil' / the responsibilities of artists / death / praises the courage of his battalion / reliance on comradeship in war / the pride, courage and courtesy of French civilians.  [F.W. Harvey, it was to be discovered shortly afterwards, had not been killed but had been captured on 17 August, seeing out the remainder of the war in prison camps.]
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ncy.2
title: Letter: To H.N. Howells.

description: Discusses current mood / praises H.N. Howells' self-discipline and talent at music / thanks Howells for 'generous' letter / discusses depression following the death of a friend ('F.W.H.') / describes his friend's gifts and predictions as to what he might have become had he lived / unable to work / talks about living in times where 'good' battles 'evil' / the responsibilities of artists / death / praises the courage of his battalion / reliance on comradeship in war / the pride, courage and courtesy of French civilians.  [F.W. Harvey, it was to be discovered shortly afterwards, had not been killed but had been captured on 17 August, seeing out the remainder of the war in prison camps.]
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2tbf.2
title: The Sentry

description: A working of lines 1-16 of the poem, drafted either at Craiglockhart in August-October 1917 or at Scarborough in May 1918. This is no. 175 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2u9e.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Describes unit preparing guns for shipment overseas / supplies / potential date of embarkation / fate of some unnamed verses.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian65ap.2
title: Letter: To H. N. Howells.

description: Discusses current mood / praises H.N. Howells' self-discipline and talent at music / thanks Howells for 'generous' letter / discusses depression following the death of a friend ('F.W. H.') / describes his friends gifts and predictions as to what he might have become had he lived / unable to work / talks about living in times where 'good' battles 'evil' / the responsibilities of artists / death / praises the courage of his battalion / reliance on comradeship in war / the pride, courage and courtesy of French civilians.  [F.W. Harvey, it was to be discovered shortly afterwards, had not been killed but had been captured on 17 August, seeing out the remainder of the war in prison camps.]
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6a54.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6edq.2
title: Letter: To H.N. Howells.

description: Describes arriving in France / assumptions about being put in the front lines immediately, but now in reserve trenches / glad that Howells has a weak heart, and is not in France / thoughts about death, wounding, neurasthenia (mental illness) / possible outcomes of surviving the war / mentions a Welsh colleague ('E. Kemp') who he may not see again, and who he spent time with / looking at the sky, thinking of poetry, and hearing machinegun fire in a communication trench / praises fellow soldiers / describes the look of the villages in France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6gxv.2
title: Disabled

description: Drafted in October 1917 at Craiglockhart and revised in July 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 167 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6h7c.2
title: Bottom Wood and Quadrangle Wood

description: This is a photograph taken from some high ground above Mametz Wood showing the location of Bottom Wood (left) and Quadrangle Wood (the small gathering of tress to the right)"
The attack by the 1st Royal Welch Fusiliers on the 4th July 1916 started at Bottom Wood and ended in the capture of Quadrangle Trench which ran from left to right in the photograph just behind Quadrangle Wood.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ti7.2
title: The Tryst (To W. M. C.)

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. A pencil draft of the poem can be found in the green manuscript notebook 64.6, as well as in a letter of September 1918 to Marion Scott. Entitled here as 'Girl's Song' the poem was later published 'The Tryst (To W. M. C.)'. Written while Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6wq6.2
title: Dragon Memorial, Mametz Wood

description: The Welsh Dragon Memorial commemorates the attacks on Mametz wood by the Welsh battalions in the period 7th to 12th July 1916.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6yg4.2
title: Casualty of the Somme

description: An R.E. collecting the identity disc from the wrist of a Highlander killed by a shell on the edge of a water-filled crater.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6za.2
title: Dragon Memorial, Mametz Wood

description: The Welsh Dragon Memorial commemorates the attacks on Mametz wood by the Welsh battalions in the period 7th to 12th July 1916.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8cq1.2
title: Dragon Memorial, Mametz Wood

description: The Welsh Dragon Memorial commemorates the attacks on Mametz wood by the Welsh battalions in the period 7th to 12th July 1916.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8fan.2
title: Letter: To H.N. Howells.

description: Discusses current mood / praises H.N. Howells' self-discipline and talent at music / thanks Howells for 'generous' letter / discusses depression following the death of a friend ('F.W.H.') / describes his friend's gifts and predictions as to what he might have become had he lived / unable to work / talks about living in times where 'good' battles 'evil' / the responsibilities of artists / death / praises the courage of his battalion / reliance on comradeship in war / the pride, courage and courtesy of French civilians.  [F.W. Harvey, it was to be discovered shortly afterwards, had not been killed but had been captured on 17 August, seeing out the remainder of the war in prison camps.]
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8o5z.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Request to send supplies as the battery is likely to be sent to France shortly / possible walking visits / probability of not seeing one another at present / best wishes to Helen Thomas and the children.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8pi3.2
title: The Immortal Hour

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand with Ivor Gurney's corrections in pencil. Manuscript included in a letter of 31st July 1917 to Scott. Another draft exists in the 'Canon' manuscript exercise book 52.5. The poem was published in 'The Westminster Gazette' in June 1918. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8xcv.2
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/bodleian8yr7.2
title: The Next War

description: Written at Craiglockhart in late September 1917, and revised at Scarborough in July 1918. This is no. 160 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8zxw.2
title: Disabled

description: Drafted in October 1917 at Craiglockhart and revised in July 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 167 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianaxk.2
title: Letter: To H N. Howells.

description: Discusses current mood / praises H.N. Howells' self-discipline and talent at music / thanks Howells for 'generous' letter / discusses depression following the death of a friend ('F.W.H.') / describes his friend's gifts and predictions as to what he might have become had he lived / unable to work / talks about living in times where 'good' battles 'evil' / the responsibilities of artists / death / praises the courage of his battalion / reliance on comradeship in war / the pride, courage and courtesy of French civilians.  [F.W. Harvey, it was to be discovered shortly afterwards, had not been killed but had been captured on 17 August, seeing out the remainder of the war in prison camps.]
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiancaq.2
title: Tyne Cot Cemetery

description: Tyne Cot Cemetery is the resting place of nearly 12,000 soldiers of the Commonwealth Forces, the largest number of burials of any Commonwealth cemetery of either world war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand3dg.2
title: Letter: To H.N. Howells.

description: Describes arriving in France / assumptions about being put in the front lines immediately, but now in reserve trenches / glad that Howells has a weak heart, and is not in France / thoughts about death, wounding, neurasthenia (mental illness) / possible outcomes of surviving the war / mentions a Welsh colleague ('E. Kemp') who he may not see again, and who he spent time with / looking at the sky, thinking of poetry, and hearing machinegun fire in a communication trench / praises fellow soldiers / describes the look of the villages in France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand4ql.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Describes arrival and poor conditions in camp at Codford / day's activities / supplies / possibility of verses being published by H. W. Massingham at the 'Nation'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand689.2
title: A Terre (being the philosophy of many soldiers)

description: Begun as 'Wild with all regrets' at Scarborough in December 1917 and revised there in July 1918. In July 1918, at Ripon, expanded into 'A Terre'. This manuscript is dedicated to S.S (Sassoon) and is dated 'Dec. 5 1917'. This is no. 168 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandajs.2
title: Mametz Wood and Happy Valley

description: Taken from some high ground above Mametz Wood showing the location of Mametz Wood and Happy Valley.  Robert Graves was here with the 2nd Bn. Royal Welch Fusiliers in July 1916.  Graves went into Mametz Wood to bury friends and later to obtain a German Army greatcoat.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandb67.2
title: Bazentin-le-Petit Communal Cemetery

description: It was around this area that Robert Graves was wounded and reported as dead as his battalion advanced up to High Wood on the 20th July. The 2nd Royal Welsh Fusiliers were positioned on a ridge to the east of Bazentin-le-Petit cemetery. Coming under shell-fire, they fell back and Graves was badly wounded in eight places. Very near these cemeteries was a quarry where a Dressing Station was located in July 1916.  Robert Graves was brought after being wounded on the 20th of July on his way up to High Wood.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianddll.2
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/bodleiandmwl.2
title: The Battle of the Somme 1 July-18 November 1916

description: Albert 1 - 13 July: The crater, 100 yards across and 90 feet deep, formed by the explosion of a mine just before the assault on 1 July.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandryu.2
title: Letter: To H.N. Howells.

description: Describes arriving in France / assumptions about being put in the front lines immediately, but now in reserve trenches / glad that Howells has a weak heart, and is not in France / thoughts about death, wounding, neurasthenia (mental illness) / possible outcomes of surviving the war / mentions a Welsh colleague ('E. Kemp') who he may not see again, and who he spent time with / looking at the sky, thinking of poetry, and hearing machinegun fire in a communication trench / praises fellow soldiers / describes the look of the villages in France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandtrz.2
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/bodleiandwex.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Confirms embarkation for Monday 29 January / advises not to send more letters to this address / describes who will go where and waiting to leave / plans for the Thomas' garden.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandxuh.2
title: The Battle of the Somme 1 July-18 November 1916

description: The German Army: The body of a British soldier, wounded in the head and probably dead of exposure and thirst.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj1ya.2
title: Letter: To H.N. Howells.

description: Describes arriving in France / assumptions about being put in the front lines immediately, but now in reserve trenches / glad that Howells has a weak heart, and is not in France / thoughts about death, wounding, neurasthenia (mental illness) / possible outcomes of surviving the war / mentions a Welsh colleague ('E. Kemp') who he may not see again, and who he spent time with / looking at the sky, thinking of poetry, and hearing machinegun fire in a communication trench / praises fellow soldiers / describes the look of the villages in France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj3tz.2
title: A Terre (being the philosophy of many soldiers)

description: Begun as 'Wild with all Regrets' at Scarborough in December 1917 and revised there in July 1918. In July 1918, at Ripon, expanded into 'A Terre'. This manuscript is dedicated to S.S (Sassoon) and is dated 5th December 1917. This is no. 168 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj7r4.2
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/bodleianj9wo.2
title: The Battle of the Somme 1 July-18 November 1916

description: Trench Warfare, General Conditions: Two soldiers cooking in a trench at Ovillers with a scrounged stove.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjh8l.2
title: Disabled

description: Drafted in October 1917 at Craiglockhart and revised in July 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 167 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjiuj.2
title: The Battle of the Somme 1 July-18 November 1916

description: Irish Guards at a respirator drill. This is done before going to and after leaving trenches.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjp6s.2
title: Ypres Cathedral and Cloth Hall

description: Reconstructed after the First World War after witnessing intense and sustained battles. Bullet and shell marks can stillb e seen on the remaining original stonework.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjqqo.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Describes arrival and poor conditions in camp at Codford / day's activities / supplies /  possibility of verses being published by H. W. Massingham at the 'Nation'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjyja.2
title: The Immortal Hour

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand with Ivor Gurney's corrections in pencil. Manuscript included in a letter of 31st July 1917 to Scott. Another draft exists in the 'Canon' manuscript exercise book 52.5. The poem was published in 'The Westminster Gazette' in June 1918. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiankbh.2
title: Contrasts

description: Page two of a typescript prepared by Marion Scott.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianl92.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Describes unit preparing guns for shipment overseas / supplies / potential date of embarkation / fate of some unnamed verses.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianpba.2
title: Sonnet/On Seeing a Piece of Our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action

description: This is no. 149 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr8mt.2
title: Medicine During the First World War: Medical Transport

description: Soldiers pushing a motor ambulance through deep mud at Mametz Wood in July 1916.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiansgw.2
title: The Somme Offensive on the Western Front, 1916

description: A Maori butcher cutting carcasses with an axe, near Fricourt, September 1916.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiantvh.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Request to send supplies as the battery is likely to be sent to France shortly / possible walking visits / probability of not seeing one another at present / best wishes to Helen Thomas and the children.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianwp.2
title: The Battle of the Somme 1 July-18 November 1916

description: View of captured German trenches near Ovillers, looking from the Albert - Bapaume road.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian1nd.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Describes receiving letters from Helen and Bronwen Thomas / waiting to embark / meeting with a new C/O / receiving a compass in the mail from friends / verses sent on / request to preserve letters in a drawer.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian28en.2
title: Asleep

description: Written on 14 November 1917, probably at Shewsbury, and revised at Ripon in May 1918. A fair copy is included in a 16 November 1917 letter to Leslie Guston. This copy is an early draft. This is no. 150 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2d32.2
title: Strange Meeting

description: This is no. 148 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2g81.2
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/bodleian2idl.2
title: Tyne Cot Cemetery

description: Tyne Cot Cemetery is the resting place of nearly 12,000 soldiers of the Commonwealth Forces, the largest number of burials of any Commonwealth cemetery of either world war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2k7j.2
title: Letter: To H.N. Howells.

description: Envelope included with letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2mos.2
title: The Battle of the Somme 1 July-18 November 1916

description: Mules in the mud on the way to the watering-point.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ngv.2
title: General Scenes on the Western Front During the First World War

description: Two British soldiers stand in a wrecked German trench at Ginchy. The trench appears to run between two rows of trees, which have been devastated by shellfire. Both soldiers are wearing steel helmets.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2wax.2
title: Tyne Cot Cemetery

description: Tyne Cot Cemetery is the resting place of nearly 12,000 soldiers of the Commonwealth Forces, the largest number of burials of any Commonwealth cemetery of either world war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2yt3.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Describes naming of guns / conditions / abilities of the men / possibility of moving out but unsure of what the destination will be.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian61xb.2
title: Upstairs Piano

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand with corrections in red ink by Ivor Gurney. From the 'Hospital Pictures' series. After a draft included in a letter of 3rd January 1918 to Scott. Gurney noted that this poem was 'Best poem on Music'.  Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian651o.2
title: The Battle of the Somme 1 July-18 November 1916

description: The Battle of Guillemont 3 -5 September: German dead scattered in the wreck of a machine gun post near Guillemont. The photograph shows the destruction which occurred when the defence had no deep shelter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6dem.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Describes receiving letters from Helen and Bronwen Thomas / waiting to embark / meeting with a new C/O / receiving a compass in the mail from friends / verses sent on / request to preserve letters in a drawer.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ict.2
title: Turmut-Hoeing

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Exists in numerous drafts without change. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6j9v.2
title: The Lettenberg bunkers

description: One of four British bunkers, now know as the Lettenberg bunkers, located nr. Kemmel, Belgium. The bunkers were constructed in the Spring of 1917 and include a first aid post and a command post.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ors.2
title: The End (After the blast of lightning from the east)

description: Work on this probably began in late 1916 in England, and continued in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 154 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ps7.2
title: Letter: To H.N. Howells.

description: Describes how cold the weather is / discusses the current surrounding landscape / Howells' music / asks Howells for his opinion of how Germany is holding up / discusses a poem he has just written and sent to Marion Scott entitled 'Beauty' or 'Winter Beauty' [published under the latter title in 'Severn and Somme' (1917)] that Gurney thinks that Howells might like.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6spb.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Relates a walking visit to Sir Henry Newbolt's / reception of a letter from Helen Thomas / distribution of press cuttings and an unnamed book by Edward Thomas / posting of certain possessions.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6uce.2
title: Poppy and cross
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian83fe.2
title: To M.M.S.

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. After a manuscript included in a letter of 29th August 1917 to Scott, dated 'August 27, near P--', which may be Passchendaele. This is where Ivor Gurney was gassed in early September 1917. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian889w.2
title: The Lettenberg bunkers

description: One of four British bunkers, now know as the Lettenberg bunkers, located nr. Kemmel, Belgium. The bunkers were constructed in the Spring of 1917, this one pictured is a first aid post.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian892v.2
title: Omens / Eternal Treasure

description: Ivor Gurney's copy of 'War's Embers', published by Sidgwick and Jackson in May 1919. The inside cover is inscribed 'April 1925 / Ivor Gurney's markings'. The copy has pen annotations in Gurney's hand indicating where each poem was written. Gurney notes that  'Omens' was written in Hertford, and 'Eternal Treasure' was written at the 'Front'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8bs3.2
title: Letter: To H.N. Howells.

description: Describes arriving in France / assumptions about being put in the front lines immediately, but now in reserve trenches / glad that Howells has a weak heart, and is not in France / thoughts about death, wounding, neurasthenia (mental illness) / possible outcomes of surviving the war / mentions a Welsh colleague ('E. Kemp') who he may not see again, and who he spent time with / looking at the sky, thinking of poetry, and hearing machinegun fire in a communication trench / praises fellow soldiers / describes the look of the villages in France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8f1l.2
title: Trench Warfare on the Western Front During the First World War

description: Weapons: A British tank set on fire by German flame throwers on the Western Front.