cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2rwx.2
title: Letters home from a Prisoner of War (1)

description: Reports that he was taken prisoner on the 2nd April 1918, is well but wounded.  Francis Grant (Cameron Highlanders) sent many letters home to his mother during his captivity in Alten-Grabow POW Camp until released into the care of the Dutch on the border at Enschede January 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ti4.1
title: Letter from Private ET Jones, Egypt

description: No 1923 PTE Jones ET Born January 3rd 1882.. died 1963
1st/3rd County of London Yeomanry
Sharp Shooters
1st Troop C Squadron
EgyptianExpeditionary Force.
 
June 1916
Imperial Camel Corps
NO 1923 PTE ET Jones
9th Company
Imperial Camel Corps
Yeomanry Reserve Egyptian Expeditionary Force
 
Out of action after accident on camel called 'Old Sambo' June 1917. also believed to have suffered Malaria, declared unfit for active service.
 
He stayed in Egypt for the duration of the war carrying out admin duties on a prisioner of war camp  Ras-el-Tin at Alexandria . The camp changed its name to The Aliens Internment Camp on March 16th 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2wyv.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis'. This page includes a sketch of a soldier's face (wearing a helmet). (Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' is about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2xq8.2
title: Maisemore

description: Includes 'Maisemore', with an additional stanza of 'Maisemore',  'Robecq', 'Sawgint', 'Serenity' and 'The Colonel' in Marion Scott's hand in pen, with notes and corrections by Ivor Gurney in pencil. Some notes in pencil are possibly also in Scott's hand.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2zhs.2
title: Memorial card for Fred Lynn (3)

description: After surviving his wounds in May 1918, Fred returned to his Battalion in France. He was killed in action on September 29th 1918. 

His name is on the Memorial in Tyne Cot Cemetary, Belgium.

Fred's mother must have been profoundly affected by the war. Three of her 4 sons were involved. Fred was killed in action, John died in 1918 in the flu epidemic, and her husband had died in 1915. She was fortunate in some ways. Her youngest son Walter survived (and lived to be 83), and her 3 sons in law all survived.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian62j9.2
title: Robecq

description: Includes 'Maisemore', with an additional stanza of 'Maisemore',  'Robecq', 'Sawgint', 'Serenity' and 'The Colonel' in Marion Scott's hand in pen, with notes and corrections by Ivor Gurney in pencil. Some notes in pencil are possibly also in Scott's hand.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6335.2
title: Missing in Action. Francis Lewis Grant. (4)

description: Appointed Cameron Highlanders and then wounded; POW April 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian642o.2
title: Memorial card for Fred Lynn (1)

description: After surviving his wounds in May 1918, Fred returned to his Battalion in France. He was killed in action on September 29th 1918. 

His name is on the Memorial in Tyne Cot Cemetary, Belgium.

Fred's mother must have been profoundly affected by the war. Three of her 4 sons were involved. Fred was killed in action, John died in 1918 in the flu epidemic, and her husband had died in 1915. She was fortunate in some ways. Her youngest son Walter survived (and lived to be 83), and her 3 sons in law all survived.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6gu6.1
title: Jack Morten, Photographs of wounded soldiers and their nurses

description: The soldiers had been invited to the home of R.H. Nield a local businessman; he was a piano merchant in Stockport.  Five of the ladies/girls in the photo are his daughters. They are photographed in the garden. Phyllis Nield married, in 1925, Jack Morten who wrote letters from the War which were published as "I remain Your Son, Jack".  This book is now out of print.

Editor's Comment:
Note the Scout badge (a Fleur-de-Lys with bar below) on the lower right sleeve of the man seated on the left of the first photograph. 

Pte. 2393 John Clarke Morten, 1/7th Bn. Manchester Regiment, was commissioned Second Lieutenant and later attached to the Royal Air Force.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6hh6.2
title: Photograph of Percy Bufton with German spiked helmet

description: Photo of Percy Bufton, home on leave, wearing a spiked German helmet. There is another photo in the collection of Clifford Powell wearing the same helmet. 

Regimental Quarter Master Serjeant 2960 Reginald Percy Bufton, Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, was later comissioned and served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force.

Part of a collection relating to Walter H. Powell, Llandrindod Wells, (private / driver M2-267205 Mechanised Transport Army Service Corps). Born 1898, Walter tried to join up under-age on a number of occasions, finally succeeding in 1916. He served many months - (more than 2 years?) - in different army units in Britain, before going over to France. He served as a despatch rider for an anti-aircraft battery in 1918-1919. Walter was gassed "suffering the effects all his life". He was a founder member of Toc-H in Llandrindod, and a keen footballer - he died in 1994 aged 96. However Walter's older brothers (Cliff and Percy Powell) and his uncle (Humphrey Powell) died of wounds sustained during the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6jl1.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final 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/bodleian6muq.2
title: Maisemore

description: Includes 'Maisemore', with an additional stanza of 'Maisemore',  'Robecq', 'Sawgint', 'Serenity' and 'The Colonel' in Marion Scott's hand in pen, with notes and corrections by Ivor Gurney in pencil. Some notes in pencil are possibly also in Scott's hand.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ni6.2
title: Panoramic photographs of Yser (2)

description: Destruction on the battlefield
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ojd.1
title: Letter from Private ET Jones, Egypt

description: No 1923 PTE Jones ET Born January 3rd 1882.. died 1963
1st/3rd County of London Yeomanry
Sharp Shooters
1st Troop C Squadron
Egyptian Expeditionary Force.
 
June 1916
Imperial Camel Corps
NO 1923 PTE ET Jones
9th Company
Imperial Camel Corps
Yeomanry Reserve Egyptian Expeditionary Force
 
Out of action after accident on camel called 'Old Sambo' June 1917. also believed to have suffered Malaria, declared unfit for active service.
 
He stayed in Egypt for the duration of the war carrying out admin duties on a prisioner of war camp  Ras-el-Tin at Alexandria . The camp changed its name to The Aliens Internment Camp on March 16th 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6rg1.2
title: Drawing. German soldier holding letter. (1)

description: A hand drawn picture showing a German soldier wearing a spiked helmet typical of the early war period. He holds out a letter (or is possibly striking at the mosquitos that surround him whilst trying to read the letter), as he sits amidst a swamp. This is a field postcard sent to a girlfriend (?) The title 'In angst und bange auf der stange' is mocking.
The soldier was of the 81st reserve regt. Possibly the swamp is in a training area in Germany.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6uto.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final 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/bodleian86h1.2
title: Photograph of "A" Battery, anti-aircraft artillery, including Walter Powell

description: Note on the back in Walter Powell's writing records: "A" battery 1st Army 1914/1918 then transferred to 5th Army 1918 under General Hubert Gough during the last push. Photograph taken when out on rest by a Belgian - I later had this enlarged. When we saw this building later it was completely demolished. It was just behind Mons.

Walter Powell, despatch rider for this anti-aircraft battery is seated far-right bottom row of seating.

In his notes Walter writes about this unit: "I was then posted to an Anti-Aircraft Battery as the D.R. [despatch rider] at Portsmouth, kitted out, sailed from Southampton to Le Havre on an old cattle boat. There were horses below so we slept on deck - several stops for U-boats. Then gas drill for a few days and a convoy up on to the Arras Sector. A good deal of hit and run strafing by Jerry planes of the trenches and gun emplacements. The battery was a cockney one, grand fellows, I of course was Taffy - my great pals were Sparks and Sgt. Spears. We had our celebrities: footballers Horace Barnes who played for Manchester City and England, Paddy Sloane for Southampton, and N.O. for Tottenham Hotspur - also Sgt. Johnnie Basham, the famous boxer. One of our officers, a major was Busty Martin, a Scottish rugby international. Another interesting character, was Lt. Coates (of Coates Cotton Family). One day, he asked: - 'Taffy, where do you come from?' 
- 'Llandrindod Wells.'
- 'Good heavens, we bought two cars from Tom Norton!' 
He asked would I know their fishing and shooting house on the Wye between Llowes and Clyro. I said I had passed it on my motorcycle."

Elsewhere Walter records the theatres of War they served in: "Mons - Meubeurg - Cambrai (1st Army). 
Transfer to 5th Army - Gen Sir Hubert Gough, Lens - Bethune - Arras - Courtrai - Carvin. Then we moved into Tournai and empty bombed houses until April 1919".

Part of a collection relating to Walter H. Powell, Llandrindod Wells, (private / driver M2-267205 Mechanised Transport Army Service Corps). Born 1898, Walter tried to join up under-age on a number of occasions, finally succeeding in 1916. He served many months - (more than 2 years?) - in different army units in Britain, before going over to France. He served as a despatch rider for an anti-aircraft battery in 1918-1919. Walter was gassed "suffering the effects all his life". He was a founder member of Toc-H in Llandrindod, and a keen footballer - he died in 1994 aged 96. However Walter's older brothers (Cliff and Percy Powell) and his uncle (Humphrey Powell) died of wounds sustained during the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian88lf.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final 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/bodleian892l.2
title: Photo of Fred Lynn (2)

description: Taken in Gateshead. Compared with other photos he looks older, so possibly 1918?
Again, like all the others, it was for his mother.

Fred Lynn's story
Fred's story is told here through a number of photographs and post cards that he sent to his mother. She kept them in an album, together with those from his brothers and sisters.

Frederick Lynn was the sixth of 7 surviving children of Sarah Ann and Christmas Lynn. Fred was born in 1896 and brought up in Gedney Hill in south Lincolnshire. 

Fred and his brothers Robert and John went to Lincoln to enlist in April 1916. 
Robert was not accepted. I don't know if this was because he was not fit or because he was now the head of the household (his father had died in 1915) or because he was a farmer.
Fred enlisted in the Notts and Derby Regiment of the Sherwood Foresters. He became a Lance Corporal in the 15th Battalion and was wounded in 1918. 
He was in hospital in Southampton in May 1918 but was discharged and returned to his Battalion. Tragically he was killed on 29th September 1918 and is commemorated on the Memorial at the Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium and on the war memorials in his home village of Gedney Hill.

Fred's brother John Lynn also enlisted but I have no photographs of him and very few postcards to his mother. John survived the war but died in 1918, perhaps in the flu pandemic.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8aug.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8dji.2
title: Robecq

description: Includes 'Maisemore', with an additional stanza of 'Maisemore',  'Robecq', 'Sawgint', 'Serenity' and 'The Colonel' in Marion Scott's hand in pen, with notes and corrections by Ivor Gurney in pencil. Some notes in pencil are possibly also in Scott's hand.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8jgf.2
title: Memorial card for Fred Lynn (4)

description: After surviving his wounds in May 1918, Fred returned to his Battalion in France. He was killed in action on September 29th 1918. 

His name is on the Memorial in Tyne Cot Cemetary, Belgium.

Fred's mother must have been profoundly affected by the war. Three of her 4 sons were involved. Fred was killed in action, John died in 1918 in the flu epidemic, and her husband had died in 1915. She was fortunate in some ways. Her youngest son Walter survived (and lived to be 83), and her 3 sons in law all survived.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ltl.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final 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/bodleian8si1.2
title: Panoramic photographs of Yser (1)

description: Destruction on the battlefield
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8v3m.2
title: Missing in Action. Francis Lewis Grant. (2)

description: Appointed Cameron Highlanders and then wounded; POW April 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8yjj.1
title: Letter from Private ET Jones, Egypt

description: No 1923 PTE Jones ET Born January 3rd 1882.. died 1963
1st/3rd County of London Yeomanry
Sharp Shooters
1st Troop C Squadron
EgyptianExpeditionary Force.
 
June 1916
Imperial Camel Corps
NO 1923 PTE ET Jones
9th Company
Imperial Camel Corps
Yeomanry Reserve Egyptian Expeditionary Force
 
Out of action after accident on camel called 'Old Sambo' June 1917. also believed to have suffered Malaria, declared unfit for active service.
 
He stayed in Egypt for the duration of the war carrying out admin duties on a prisioner of war camp  Ras-el-Tin at Alexandria . The camp changed its name to The Aliens Internment Camp on March 16th 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8zu1.1
title: Jack Morten, Photographs of Moving supplies in Sinai

description: Several photographs showing the organisation of supply movements prior to engagements with the Turks.

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 2393 John Clarke Morten, 1/7th Bn. Manchester Regiment, was commissioned Second Lieutenant and later attached to the Royal Air Force.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian9c7.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final 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/bodleiancyw.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final 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/bodleiand5me.2
title: Photograph of Percy Bufton with Sgt Emlyn Jones M.M.

description: Photo of (from left to right) Sgt Emlyn Jones M.M., unknown, and Percy Bufton in Royal Flying Corps uniform- on leave.

Regimental Quarter Master Serjeant 2960 Reginald Percy Bufton, Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, was later comissioned and served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force.

Part of a collection relating to Walter H. Powell, Llandrindod Wells, (private / driver M2-267205 Mechanised Transport Army Service Corps). Born 1898, Walter tried to join up under-age on a number of occasions, finally succeeding in 1916. He served many months - (more than 2 years?) - in different army units in Britain, before going over to France. He served as a despatch rider for an anti-aircraft battery in 1918-1919. Walter was gassed "suffering the effects all his life". He was a founder member of Toc-H in Llandrindod, and a keen footballer - he died in 1994 aged 96. However Walter's older brothers (Cliff and Percy Powell) and his uncle (Humphrey Powell) died of wounds sustained during the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand8ag.2
title: German propoganda postcards (1)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandjws.1
title: Diary of Alexander Davidson, Royal Engineers

description: In addition to long and detailed entries by Sapper Davidson, the diary contains entries in 3 other hands giving French names and addresses.  Also scanned were drawings, a letter in French and German currency which were tucked into the pages.    

Editor's Comment:
Multiple page entries from 15th November 1915 to 21st June 1916, with some pen sketches. Places mentioned in the headings of sections: 
Querrieux, 4th January 1916
Domart, 16th January - 22nd February 1916
Doullens, 22nd -25th February 1916
Marieux, 25th February - 4th March 1916
Aubigny (en Artois), 4th - 10th March 1916
Mont St. Eloi Station, 10th - 21st March; 22nd April - 15th June; 17th - 21st June 1916
Maroeuil, 20th March - 22nd April; 15th - 17th June 1916

Sapper 64771 Alexander Davidson, 'A.L.' Cable Section, Royal Engineers, attached 17th Corps. Sapper Davidson later transferred to the Royal Air Force (service no. 134934).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandn63.2
title: Panoramic photographs of Yser (5)

description: Destruction on the battlefield
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandyb2.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final 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/bodleianih7.2
title: Memorial card for Fred Lynn (2)

description: After surviving his wounds in May 1918, Fred returned to his Battalion in France. He was killed in action on September 29th 1918. 

His name is on the Memorial in Tyne Cot Cemetary, Belgium.

Fred's mother must have been profoundly affected by the war. Three of her 4 sons were involved. Fred was killed in action, John died in 1918 in the flu epidemic, and her husband had died in 1915. She was fortunate in some ways. Her youngest son Walter survived (and lived to be 83), and her 3 sons in law all survived.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj3gc.1
title: Photograph of Herbert Ernest Wilson, Royal Flying Corps

description: 51702 Herbert Wilson served in 19 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. He weighed 9st 11 lbs and was 5 foot 9 1/2 inches tall.

Editor's Comment:
Herbert Wilson here wears the ordinary Service Dress uniform with the cap badge of the Yorkshire regiment, suggesting that he served in this unit before transferring into the Royal Flying Corps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjbpa.2
title: Song of Pain and Beauty

description: Describes current experience of life in the mud and trenches / alterations to verses / includes 'Song of Pain and Beauty' / expresses pleasure that two songs by Ivor Gurney will be performed / mentions a note from Vaughan Williams / not taking much notice of shelling and snipers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjd4v.2
title: Photo of Fred Lynn (1)

description: Taken in Gateshead. Compared with other photos he looks older, so possibly 1918?
Again, like all the others, it was for his mother.

Fred Lynn's story
Fred's story is told here through a number of photographs and post cards that he sent to his mother. She kept them in an album, together with those from his brothers and sisters.

Frederick Lynn was the sixth of 7 surviving children of Sarah Ann and Christmas Lynn. Fred was born in 1896 and brought up in Gedney Hill in south Lincolnshire. 

Fred and his brothers Robert and John went to Lincoln to enlist in April 1916. 
Robert was not accepted. I don't know if this was because he was not fit or because he was now the head of the household (his father had died in 1915) or because he was a farmer.
Fred enlisted in the Notts and Derby Regiment of the Sherwood Foresters. He became a Lance Corporal in the 15th Battalion and was wounded in 1918. 
He was in hospital in Southampton in May 1918 but was discharged and returned to his Battalion. Tragically he was killed on 29th September 1918 and is commemorated on the Memorial at the Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium and on the war memorials in his home village of Gedney Hill.

Fred's brother John Lynn also enlisted but I have no photographs of him and very few postcards to his mother. John survived the war but died in 1918, perhaps in the flu pandemic.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjf2b.2
title: Picture
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjjaq.2
title: German propoganda postcards (2)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjllc.2
title: Photograph of Lt. Percy Bufton

description: Photo of Flight Lt. Percy Bufton (Royal Flying Corps) with a young woman.

Regimental Quarter Master Serjeant 2960 Reginald Percy Bufton, Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, was later comissioned and served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force.

Part of a collection relating to Walter H. Powell, Llandrindod Wells, (private / driver M2-267205 Mechanised Transport Army Service Corps). Born 1898, Walter tried to join up under-age on a number of occasions, finally succeeding in 1916. He served many months - (more than 2 years?) - in different army units in Britain, before going over to France. He served as a despatch rider for an anti-aircraft battery in 1918-1919. Walter was gassed "suffering the effects all his life". He was a founder member of Toc-H in Llandrindod, and a keen footballer - he died in 1994 aged 96. However Walter's older brothers (Cliff and Percy Powell) and his uncle (Humphrey Powell) died of wounds sustained during the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjp8j.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final 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/bodleianjrwb.1
title: Jack Morten, Photograph of a Bedouin marquee

description: The men had found this marquee and thought it was the height of luxury after living in blanket bivouacs.

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 2393 John Clarke Morten, 1/7th Bn. Manchester Regiment, was commissioned Second Lieutenant and later attached to the Royal Air Force.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjtoj.2
title: Post card from Fred Lynn to his mother (5)

description: Embroidered card showing the Regimental Badge etc. of the Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby).

Fred Lynn's story
Fred's story is told here through a number of photographs and post cards that he sent to his mother. She kept them in an album, together with those from his brothers and sisters.

Frederick Lynn was the sixth of 7 surviving children of Sarah Ann and Christmas Lynn. Fred was born in 1896 and brought up in Gedney Hill in south Lincolnshire. 

Fred and his brothers Robert and John went to Lincoln to enlist in April 1916. 
Robert was not accepted. I don't know if this was because he was not fit or because he was now the head of the household (his father had died in 1915) or because he was a farmer.
Fred enlisted in the Notts and Derby Regiment of the Sherwood Foresters. He became a Lance Corporal in the 15th Battalion and was wounded in 1918. 
He was in hospital in Southampton in May 1918 but was discharged and returned to his Battalion. Tragically he was killed on 29th September 1918 and is commemorated on the Memorial at the Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium and on the war memorials in his home village of Gedney Hill.

Fred's brother John Lynn also enlisted but I have no photographs of him and very few postcards to his mother. John survived the war but died in 1918, perhaps in the flu pandemic.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjv67.2
title: Panoramic photographs of Yser (6)

description: Destruction on the battlefield
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjwq.2
title: Missing in Action. Francis Lewis Grant. (3)

description: Appointed Cameron Highlanders and then wounded; POW April 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianpiz.1
title: Letter from Private E.T. Jones

description: No 1923 PTE Jones ET Born January 3rd 1882.. died 1963
1st/3rd County of London Yeomanry
Sharp Shooters
1st Troop C Squadron
EgyptianExpeditionary Force.
 
June 1916
Imperial Camel Corps
NO 1923 PTE ET Jones
9th Company
Imperial Camel Corps
Yeomanry Reserve Egyptian Expeditionary Force
 
Out of action after accident on camel called 'Old Sambo' June 1917. also believed to have suffered Malaria, declared unfit for active service.
 
He stayed in Egypt for the duration of the war carrying out admin duties on a prisioner of war camp  Ras-el-Tin at Alexandria . The camp changed its name to The Aliens Internment Camp on March 16th 1917.