cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj6cz.2
title: Ferns collected on Passchendale Ridge by  Albert Rawson, Army Service Corps

description: Ferns collected on Passchendale Ridge by my granduncle, Albert Rawson. He was one of 8 children, my grandfather, Frank, being his brother. He was born in 1874 at Hebdon Bridge, Todmorden, Yorkshire. The family eventually moved to Blackpool, Lancashire.
Albert Rawson was stationed at supply depot in France as a Private during 1914-18 war. Home address given as Sheaf Street, Poulton-le-Fylde. Occupation: worked at Alkali Works. In 1901, residence: 156 Warbrick Road, Blackpool, Lancs.; occupation: Yeast merchant, self employed.

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 22492 Albert Rawson, Army Service Corps, later served with the Labour Corps (Regt. No. 300641).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj9wt.2
title: Diary of Dr W. Roy Blore (4)

description: This is a small pocket notebook, the diary of Dr W. Roy Blore from embarkation from Britain in July 1917 en route for the Western Front. It deals with the everyday life and work of the RAMC there, and ends soon after the Armistice 11 November 1918.

In a torn out insert is a draft that Major Blore wrote which commends the bravery of 2nd Lt. T. Geraghty, 6th E. Yorks. regiment - when the advanced dressing station, Vermelles was struck by a shell and caught fire on 13 March 1918.

Also part of this collection are all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjczv.2
title: Autograph Book of QMAAC Wkr Margaret McElligott (24)

description: This a collection of selected pages from my grandmother Margaret McElligott's WW1 autograph book. Many of the entries were created while she was a member of the QMAAC.

Editor's Comment:
Worker 46075 Margaret McElligott, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps, served in England and at depots in France. 

Places mentioned by signatories:
St. Justin
Boussogne
Abbeville
Granville
(Le) Havre
Folkstone

Units, forces, ships of signatories:
13th Bn. Royal Fusiliers
13th Bn. London Regiment
The Black Watch
9th Bn. Royal Sussex
Canadian Expeditionary Force
American Expeditionary Force
British Expeditionary Force
H.M.S. "Landrail"
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjkm2.2
title: A brief record of  the advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (2)

description: Extracts from the "A brief record of the advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force".

This is part of a collection relating to Esther Dowdeswell.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjwrc.2
title: Diary of Sgt Graham Gardner (4)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianlb3.2
title: Letters to daughter (10)

description: Sgt Augustus Maud, Suffolk Regiment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr8uk.2
title: Diary of Dr W. Roy Blore (6)

description: This is a small pocket notebook, the diary of Dr W. Roy Blore from embarkation from Britain in July 1917 en route for the Western Front. It deals with the everyday life and work of the RAMC there, and ends soon after the Armistice 11 November 1918.

In a torn out insert is a draft that Major Blore wrote which commends the bravery of 2nd Lt. T. Geraghty, 6th E. Yorks. regiment - when the advanced dressing station, Vermelles was struck by a shell and caught fire on 13 March 1918.

Also part of this collection are all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian22f2.2
title: Silk Handkerchief Holder: 'Souvenir from France'

description: Grandfather (Private William Townend) was in the 21st Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment, in his unit looking after horses (his civilian occupation as a coal merchant involved using them for transport) and on marrying in August 1917 brought this memento for his fiance, my grandmother. Until I delve deeper into his history with the regiment, that is all I know. But his survival ensured the births of his own children and the next generation realising university educations. How fortunate are we to benefit from one whose life had encountered trauma and anguish.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2etf.2
title: Printed sketches of Western Front: Dugouts; Camp; a Tank. (2)

description: Pencil sketches of the Western Front from unkown printed publication: Officers resting in a tented camp; dugout entrances, one named 'ye rate hole'; interior of a dugout with men at rest on bunks; a Mark I 'Female' tank (armed with Vickers Machine Guns) with steering wheel assembly to rear. 

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/bodleian2fet.2
title: Discharge Certificate

description: Discharge certificate of Private E.J.G. Brewster. 

This is part of a collection relating to Esther Dowdswell. E.G.J. Brewster was her second husband.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2kea.2
title: Diary of Sgt Graham Gardner (10)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2lfz.2
title: Programme of War Memorial Dedication, relating to William Hugh Owen(s) (1)

description: Editor's Comment:
Programme of the War Memorial dedication of the Welsh Calvinist Methodist Church, Princes Road, Liverpool. 

Private 102159 William Hugh Owens, 237th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), killed in action 6th October 1917, is buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery, grave reference LIX. D. 5.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2m51.2
title: Diary of Dr W. Roy Blore (16)

description: This is a small pocket notebook, the diary of Dr W. Roy Blore from embarkation from Britain in July 1917 en route for the Western Front. It deals with the everyday life and work of the RAMC there, and ends soon after the Armistice 11 November 1918.

In a torn out insert is a draft that Major Blore wrote which commends the bravery of 2nd Lt. T. Geraghty, 6th E. Yorks. regiment - when the advanced dressing station, Vermelles was struck by a shell and caught fire on 13 March 1918.

Also part of this collection are all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2npo.2
title: Diary of Dr W. Roy Blore (12)

description: This is a small pocket notebook, the diary of Dr W. Roy Blore from embarkation from Britain in July 1917 en route for the Western Front. It deals with the everyday life and work of the RAMC there, and ends soon after the Armistice 11 November 1918.

In a torn out insert is a draft that Major Blore wrote which commends the bravery of 2nd Lt. T. Geraghty, 6th E. Yorks. regiment - when the advanced dressing station, Vermelles was struck by a shell and caught fire on 13 March 1918.

Also part of this collection are all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2tbs.2
title: Telegram concerning coffin of the Unknown Warrior (2)

description: In November 1920 Mr David John Williams of the Brunswick Ironworks received a telegram from the Minister of Works requesting his presence in London and was given the Commission for the Ironwork for the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior. 

The ceremony was going to take place on the 11th November in Westminster Abbey. Mr Williams had to design and attach the handles to the coffin, which was made from English Oak from the forest at Hampton Court Palace. He also designed the iron bands that bound the coffin and antique hammered the plaque that was to be attached to the top of the coffin. He worked for two days and nights to make these.

The coffin left England in November for the journey across the Channel to France where the remains of an unknown serviceman had been selected for burial. The body, in a teal casket, was placed in the coffin and brought to London, first on the destroyer HMS Verdun and then by train from Dover to Victoria Station. The procession made its way via the Mall to Whitehall where it paused for the unveiling of the Cenotaph.

At the Abbey the coffin passed through a guard of honour of holders of the Victoria Cross and was buried in the Abbey in the presence of a vast congregation, headed by the King and Queen. 

Mr Williams received this letter from the Minister of Works thanking him for his excellent workmanship.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian3pg.2
title: Diary of Sgt Graham Gardner (13)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian5fp.2
title: Memorial Plaque of William Hugh Owen(s) (1)

description: Memorial Plaque sent to the mother of William Hugh Owen(s), and polished by her every day. 

Editor's Comment:
Memorial plaque in wooden frame. 

Private 102159 William Hugh Owens, 237th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), killed in action 6th October 1917, is buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery, grave reference LIX. D. 5.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian651t.2
title: Diary of Dr W. Roy Blore (15)

description: This is a small pocket notebook, the diary of Dr W. Roy Blore from embarkation from Britain in July 1917 en route for the Western Front. It deals with the everyday life and work of the RAMC there, and ends soon after the Armistice 11 November 1918.

In a torn out insert is a draft that Major Blore wrote which commends the bravery of 2nd Lt. T. Geraghty, 6th E. Yorks. regiment - when the advanced dressing station, Vermelles was struck by a shell and caught fire on 13 March 1918.

Also part of this collection are all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6f8e.2
title: Photograph of Private Harry Hewson

description: This is a photograph of Harry Hewson aged 17 of the 5th Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry taken in 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6g36.2
title: Diary of Sgt Graham Gardner (8)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6g4o.2
title: Medals of Pte. Pritchard (3)

description: War and Victory Medals of Private Pritchard, Manchester Regiment, who survived the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6iku.2
title: Albert Boswell. Victory Medal
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6xk2.2
title: Diary of Sgt Graham Gardner (17)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8f1v.2
title: Diary of Dr W. Roy Blore (13)

description: This is a small pocket notebook, the diary of Dr W. Roy Blore from embarkation from Britain in July 1917 en route for the Western Front. It deals with the everyday life and work of the RAMC there, and ends soon after the Armistice 11 November 1918.

In a torn out insert is a draft that Major Blore wrote which commends the bravery of 2nd Lt. T. Geraghty, 6th E. Yorks. regiment - when the advanced dressing station, Vermelles was struck by a shell and caught fire on 13 March 1918.

Also part of this collection are all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8k82.2
title: Memoir of Private Harry Hewson

description: Private Harry Hewson's memories of life in the trenches during WW1 (with the 5th Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry) were transcribed by a young Army Cadet.

Editor's Comment:
Harry cannot have sailed to France in 1914 with the 5th Battalion, as they remained in England until May 1916. Only the 1st and 2nd battalions of the regiment arrived in France before May 1915, and neither landed at Calais. Nor can he still have been serving with the Guards Division (which he joined in 1916) when he found himself in Lille at the Armistice: the Guards were concentrated around Maubeuge, about 40 miles away.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8xk4.2
title: Photograph and medal ribbons of Albert Boswell

description: Photograph in uniform with his medal ribbons
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8z31.2
title: Diary of Sgt Graham Gardner (7)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8z4l.2
title: Medals of Pte. Pritchard (2)

description: War and Victory Medals of Private Pritchard, Manchester Regiment, who survived the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiana5f.2
title: Diary of Dr W. Roy Blore (14)

description: This is a small pocket notebook, the diary of Dr W. Roy Blore from embarkation from Britain in July 1917 en route for the Western Front. It deals with the everyday life and work of the RAMC there, and ends soon after the Armistice 11 November 1918.

In a torn out insert is a draft that Major Blore wrote which commends the bravery of 2nd Lt. T. Geraghty, 6th E. Yorks. regiment - when the advanced dressing station, Vermelles was struck by a shell and caught fire on 13 March 1918.

Also part of this collection are all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand68w.2
title: Memorial Service of William Owen(s)

description: Editor's Comment:
Private 102159 William Hugh Owens, 237th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), killed in action 6th October 1917, is buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery, grave reference LIX. D. 5.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandc7s.2
title: Diary of Dr W. Roy Blore (17)

description: This is a small pocket notebook, the diary of Dr W. Roy Blore from embarkation from Britain in July 1917 en route for the Western Front. It deals with the everyday life and work of the RAMC there, and ends soon after the Armistice 11 November 1918.

In a torn out insert is a draft that Major Blore wrote which commends the bravery of 2nd Lt. T. Geraghty, 6th E. Yorks. regiment - when the advanced dressing station, Vermelles was struck by a shell and caught fire on 13 March 1918.

Also part of this collection are all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandesj.2
title: Photograph.  Barrack Room with Albert Boswell

description: Albert is standing on the extreme right
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandfr.2
title: Printed sketches of Western Front: Dugouts; Camp; a Tank. (4)

description: Pencil sketches of the Western Front from unkown printed publication: Officers resting in a tented camp; dugout entrances, one named 'ye rate hole'; interior of a dugout with men at rest on bunks; a Mark I 'Female' tank (armed with Vickers Machine Guns) with steering wheel assembly to rear. 

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/bodleiandgu3.2
title: Diary of Sgt Graham Gardner (11)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiands9o.2
title: Albert Boswell. Soldier and Gentleman (4)

description: Life story of Albert Boswell
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianduy7.2
title: Letter from Sgt W. G. Bastin, Dublin Fusiliers

description: This is a letter from Sergeant William Bastin to his sister Mabel - written from a French farmhouse in May 1918. He was in the 9th Royal Dublin Fusiliers and was commended for gallant conduct and devotion to duty for action between 1st - 16th August 1917. He is also mentioned in a later dispatch from Field Marshall Haig on 16th March 1919 as then being in the 7th Batallion of the Royal Irish Regiment.

Editor's Comment:
Letter followed by photograph of Colour Sergeant Bastin wearing the Cap badge of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. 

Colour Sergeant 15344 William G. Bastin, 9th Bn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, later Colour Sergeant (service no. 26622) of the 7th Bn. Royal Irish Regiment. His first commendation for bravery was awarded while the 9th Bn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, as part of the 16th (Irish) Division, were preparing for the Battle of Langemarck (commenced 16th August 1917). This letter was apparently written while the battalion was resting: the 16th Division had suffered so many casualties from the Spring Offensives that it had to be returned to England on 18th June 1918 for a thorough rest and refit.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandvnh.2
title: Photographs of William Hugh Owen(s)

description: Editor's Comment:
Wearing the cap badge of a Fusiliers Regiment, prior to joining the Machine Gun Corps. 

Private 102159 William Hugh Owens, 237th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), killed in action 6th October 1917, is buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery, grave reference LIX. D. 5.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandxtq.2
title: Photograph of Ted Perry

description: One of five brothers, the sons of Arthur and Mary Perry from Tean in Staffordshire. They were my great-uncles.  All served in the Great War. Edmund (Ted) was the only one who survived. 

Editor's Comment:
Pte. Edmund Perry, North Staffordshire Regiment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianheu.2
title: Diary of Sgt Graham Gardner (9)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj3nj.2
title: Programme of War Memorial Dedication, relating to William Hugh Owen(s) (2)

description: Editor's Comment:
Programme of the War Memorial dedication of the Welsh Calvinist Methodist Church, Princes Road, Liverpool. 

Private 102159 William Hugh Owens, 237th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), killed in action 6th October 1917, is buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery, grave reference LIX. D. 5.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj8sd.2
title: Honourable Discharge
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjepq.2
title: Diary of Sgt Graham Gardner (15)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjh8v.2
title: Medals of Pte. Pritchard (1)

description: War and Victory Medals of Private Pritchard, Manchester Regiment, who survived the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjhlb.2
title: Diary of Sgt Graham Gardner (6)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjitx.2
title: Photograph of Arthur Perry and Wife

description: One of five brothers, the sons of Arthur and Mary Perry from Tean in Staffordshire. They were my great-uncles.  All served in the Great War. Edmund (Ted) was the only one who survived. 

Cpl. Arthur Perry 89314, in 'B' Battery, 48th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Died 23/10/1915 aged 32yrs. Buried in Wimbreus Communal Cemetery. Plot 1 Row K, Grave 19.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjiu4.2
title: Diary of Dr W. Roy Blore (10)

description: This is a small pocket notebook, the diary of Dr W. Roy Blore from embarkation from Britain in July 1917 en route for the Western Front. It deals with the everyday life and work of the RAMC there, and ends soon after the Armistice 11 November 1918.

In a torn out insert is a draft that Major Blore wrote which commends the bravery of 2nd Lt. T. Geraghty, 6th E. Yorks. regiment - when the advanced dressing station, Vermelles was struck by a shell and caught fire on 13 March 1918.

Also part of this collection are all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjn9k.2
title: Walking Cane

description: The walking cane of  Private R. Brewster inscribed "Newcourt Hospital, Cheltenham, Pte R. Brewster 10th Gloucesters".

This is part of a collection relating to Esther Dowdeswell.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjsu7.2
title: Diary of Sgt Graham Gardner (12)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjxys.2
title: Printed sketches of Western Front: Dugouts; Camp; a Tank. (1)

description: Pencil sketches of the Western Front from unkown printed publication: Officers resting in a tented camp; dugout entrances, one named 'ye rate hole'; interior of a dugout with men at rest on bunks; a Mark I 'Female' tank (armed with Vickers Machine Guns) with steering wheel assembly to rear. 

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/bodleiankev.2
title: Albert Boswell. Soldier and Gentleman (3)

description: Life story of Albert Boswell
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianqae.2
title: Memoirs of Jack Houghton.  Teacher, Soldier and Gentleman (1)

description: Memories of Jack Houghton
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr8t1.2
title: Printed sketches of Western Front: Dugouts; Camp; a Tank. (3)

description: Pencil sketches of the Western Front from unkown printed publication: Officers resting in a tented camp; dugout entrances, one named 'ye rate hole'; interior of a dugout with men at rest on bunks; a Mark I 'Female' tank (armed with Vickers Machine Guns) with steering wheel assembly to rear. 

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/bodleianspl.2
title: Diary of Dr W. Roy Blore (11)

description: This is a small pocket notebook, the diary of Dr W. Roy Blore from embarkation from Britain in July 1917 en route for the Western Front. It deals with the everyday life and work of the RAMC there, and ends soon after the Armistice 11 November 1918.

In a torn out insert is a draft that Major Blore wrote which commends the bravery of 2nd Lt. T. Geraghty, 6th E. Yorks. regiment - when the advanced dressing station, Vermelles was struck by a shell and caught fire on 13 March 1918.

Also part of this collection are all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian278f.2
title: Photograph of Joseph Perry

description: One of five brothers, the sons of Arthur and Mary Perry from Tean in Staffordshire. They were my great-uncles. All served in the Great War. Edmund (Ted) was the only one who survived.

Lance Corporal Joseph Perry 12300, served in the 2nd Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, died 13/11/1916 aged 20yrs and is commerated on the Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 15C.

Editor's Comment:
The 2nd Bn. Highland Light Infantry, part of the 2nd Division,  launched an attack on the 13th November 1916 on the first day of the Battle of the Ancre, the final phase of the Battle of the Somme.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian28dy.2
title: Letter regarding award of Serbian Gold Medal to Rowland Williams

description: Private 265283 Rowland Williams, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, was the recipient of a Gold Medal presented by the King of Serbia for distinguished service in Egypt, 7th September 1916.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2b5c.2
title: Memoirs of Jack Houghton.  Teacher, Soldier and Gentleman (2)

description: Memories of Jack Houghton