cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian29ju.2
title: Joseph Vaghi letters home (4)

description: Joseph Vaghi was my great uncle, he lied about his age to join up so although he is listed as 18 on his death he was probably only 17.

He came to Scotland in 1904 from Milan and his family were 'naturalised' in 1911.  Consequently they were not interned in the 2nd World War.  These letters were sent to his mother Henrichetta

A school group from Linlithgow academy travelled to Gallipoli and brought back a photo of Joseph's grave.

I also remember my Granny talking about the Gretna rail disaster, she knew many of the boys from Leith who died.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2aua.2
title: Photograph of British trench

description: Michael Offensive, Western Front, April 1918. Smashed British trench.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2l9w.2
title: Various postcards sent by Edward Henry Kelly (22)

description: Various postcards sent home to wife and children by Edward Henry Kelly, born 23rd Dec 1878 in Peel, Isle of Man. Died in Liverpool Dec 1963. No details are known about his service record.

Editor's Comment:
Possibly Captain Edward Henry Kelly, Royal Engineers (later Major on Staff).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2s79.2
title: Photograph of Ralph William Readhead and others

description: Photograph of Ralph William Readhead and twenty-one other men in uniform, one of whom is identified as Mr Westoby. Written in white towards the bottom of the photograph is "Sergeant's mess 3rd line 4th East York's Regt 1915". Part of a collection relating to Ralph William Readhead of the 4th East Yorks.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2swr.2
title: Letter from Gunner Alfred Beaumont R.F.A. (1)

description: This letter was written by my grandfather to his mother as he was waiting to be sent to France.At the time his wife was also away from home, working in a munitions factory and their three children were being cared for by their grandmother.It is clear from the way in which he thanked her for all she had done for them that he was very aware that he might never see his family again.He did survive the war but his health was wrecked after being gassed and he died prematurely from the effects of his war service.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2tc2.2
title: Various postcards sent by Edward Henry Kelly (17)

description: Various postcards sent home to wife and children by Edward Henry Kelly, born 23rd Dec 1878 in Peel, Isle of Man. Died in Liverpool Dec 1963. No details are known about his service record.

Editor's Comment:
Possibly Captain Edward Henry Kelly, Royal Engineers (later Major on Staff).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ydw.2
title: Autograph book from Didcot relating to Kenneth Tallett and Family (25)

description: The autograph book contains cartoons and poems relating to the Tallett family. Kenneth Tallett who survived the war and his brother Horace James Tallett of the King's Royal Rifles who died a trench during the Battle of Arras. The autograph book was submitted with a series of photgraphs by their son Jim Tallett.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2zl2.2
title: Autograph book from Didcot relating to Kenneth Tallett and Family (34)

description: The autograph book contains cartoons and poems relating to the Tallett family. Kenneth Tallett who survived the war and his brother Horace James Tallett of the King's Royal Rifles who died a trench during the Battle of Arras. The autograph book was submitted with a series of photgraphs by their son Jim Tallett.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian5x8.2
title: Various postcards sent by Edward Henry Kelly (19)

description: Various postcards sent home to wife and children by Edward Henry Kelly, born 23rd Dec 1878 in Peel, Isle of Man. Died in Liverpool Dec 1963. No details are known about his service record.

Editor's Comment:
Possibly Captain Edward Henry Kelly, Royal Engineers (later Major on Staff).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian64yz.2
title: Autograph book from Didcot relating to Kenneth Tallett and Family (32)

description: The autograph book contains cartoons and poems relating to the Tallett family. Kenneth Tallett who survived the war and his brother Horace James Tallett of the King's Royal Rifles who died a trench during the Battle of Arras. The autograph book was submitted with a series of photgraphs by their son Jim Tallett.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6bnp.2
title: Letter confirming Reggie Bryant Missing in Action. (2)

description: Reggie's girlfriend Patience Huthwaite Jnr. was pregnant with our father (also Reginald) when he was posted with the Norfolk Regiment to Iraq to participate in the first battle of Kut, where he eventually went missing, presumed killed, on 22nd April 1916.
Reggie and Patience were not married and our father was eventually brought up in London for the first 14 years of his life by his maternal grandmother, Patience Huthwaite Snr. He was christened with his mother's surname of Huthwaite, although he was a Bryant.
Reggie Bryant came from a large family living in Diss, Norfolk.
He became a corporal in the Norfolk Regiment, but appears to have been trained at Colchester Barracks before being posted to Iraq.
His letters indicate a typical soldier's acceptance of his lot in life, and his enjoyment of a few 'jars of beer' with his mates. He even requests his girlfriend, Patience Huthwaite, in one letter, to meet him outside the barracks with a 'treacle tin of beer' as he was missing his pint.
The letters from Iraq to his mother are very poignant. They describe sitting by the Tigris looking across at the mountains in the distance. His last letter to his mother was written only two days before he went into action against the Turks at Kut, and was reported missing, presumed killed.
Patience Huthwaite eventually married Reggie's brother Clarence Bryant after the war, and therefore kept the name of Bryant going.

Editor's Comment:
Official letter sent as a reply to Patience Huthwaite's enquiry of 31st December 1916, concerning her sweetheart, Reggie Bryant, missing in action, 22nd April 1916. No further information had been received. 

Cpl. 14668 Reginald Bryant, 2nd Bn. Norfolk Regiment, missing in action 22nd April 1916, is commemorated on the Basra Memorial. Son of May Bryant, of 6, Waveney Rd., Diss, Norfolk, and the late John Bryant. One of six brothers who served. The 2nd Bn. served in Mesopotamia as part of the 6th (Poona) Division, Indian Army.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6di3.2
title: Photographs depicting United States Navy (2)

description: Photographs depicting

The King and various senior British Officers including Roger Keyes visiting a battleship of the US Navy

Observation baloon.  

Burning target/ship
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6fmq.2
title: Trench art plane made by James Fenn (1)

description: Trench art fighter plane made by James Fenn. He was village blacksmith at Bramfield, Suffolk, after the war.

Editor's Comment:
Base made from cut down 18 Pdr. shell case, manufactured in August 1916. Plane stand and rear fusilage made from two  Lebel rounds (French small arms ammunition), rest of plane made from scrap brass. 

Shoeing Smith 19360 James W. Fenn, Royal Field Artillery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6le8.2
title: Joseph Vaghi letters home (1)

description: Joseph Vaghi was my great uncle, he lied about his age to join up so although he is listed as 18 on his death he was probably only 17.

He came to Scotland in 1904 from Milan and his family were 'naturalised' in 1911.  Consequently they were not interned in the 2nd World War.  These letters were sent to his mother Henrichetta

A school group from Linlithgow academy travelled to Gallipoli and brought back a photo of Joseph's grave.

I also remember my Granny talking about the Gretna rail disaster, she knew many of the boys from Leith who died.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6oax.2
title: Various postcards sent by Edward Henry Kelly (20)

description: Various postcards sent home to wife and children by Edward Henry Kelly, born 23rd Dec 1878 in Peel, Isle of Man. Died in Liverpool Dec 1963. No details are known about his service record.

Editor's Comment:
Possibly Captain Edward Henry Kelly, Royal Engineers (later Major on Staff).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6pwg.2
title: Autograph book from Didcot relating to Kenneth Tallett and Family (24)

description: The autograph book contains cartoons and poems relating to the Tallett family. Kenneth Tallett who survived the war and his brother Horace James Tallett of the King's Royal Rifles who died a trench during the Battle of Arras. The autograph book was submitted with a series of photgraphs by their son Jim Tallett.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6t5r.2
title: Photographs depicting United States Navy (6)

description: Photographs depicting

The King and various senior British Officers including Roger Keyes visiting a battleship of the US Navy

Observation baloon.  

Burning target/ship
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian89yp.2
title: Autograph book from Didcot relating to Kenneth Tallett and Family (31)

description: The autograph book contains cartoons and poems relating to the Tallett family. Kenneth Tallett who survived the war and his brother Horace James Tallett of the King's Royal Rifles who died a trench during the Battle of Arras. The autograph book was submitted with a series of photgraphs by their son Jim Tallett.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8kmg.2
title: Photograph of James Fenn

description: Photograph of James Fenn. He was village blacksmith at Bramfield, Suffolk, after the war.

Editor's Comment:
Shoeing Smith 19360 James W. Fenn, Royal Field Artillery. Note  his badge of appointment, a horse shoe, on the right sleeve.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8p5k.2
title: Photographs depicting United States Navy (4)

description: Photographs depicting

The King and various senior British Officers including Roger Keyes visiting a battleship of the US Navy

Observation baloon.  

Burning target/ship
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8qnn.2
title: Letter confirming Reggie Bryant Missing in Action. (1)

description: Reggie's girlfriend Patience Huthwaite Jnr. was pregnant with our father (also Reginald) when he was posted with the Norfolk Regiment to Iraq to participate in the first battle of Kut, where he eventually went missing, presumed killed, on 22nd April 1916.
Reggie and Patience were not married and our father was eventually brought up in London for the first 14 years of his life by his maternal grandmother, Patience Huthwaite Snr. He was christened with his mother's surname of Huthwaite, although he was a Bryant.
Reggie Bryant came from a large family living in Diss, Norfolk.
He became a corporal in the Norfolk Regiment, but appears to have been trained at Colchester Barracks before being posted to Iraq.
His letters indicate a typical soldier's acceptance of his lot in life, and his enjoyment of a few 'jars of beer' with his mates. He even requests his girlfriend, Patience Huthwaite, in one letter, to meet him outside the barracks with a 'treacle tin of beer' as he was missing his pint.
The letters from Iraq to his mother are very poignant. They describe sitting by the Tigris looking across at the mountains in the distance. His last letter to his mother was written only two days before he went into action against the Turks at Kut, and was reported missing, presumed killed.
Patience Huthwaite eventually married Reggie's brother Clarence Bryant after the war, and therefore kept the name of Bryant going.

Editor's Comment:
Official letter sent as a reply to Patience Huthwaite's enquiry of 31st December 1916, concerning her sweetheart, Reggie Bryant, missing in action, 22nd April 1916. No further information had been received. 

Cpl. 14668 Reginald Bryant, 2nd Bn. Norfolk Regiment, missing in action 22nd April 1916, is commemorated on the Basra Memorial. Son of May Bryant, of 6, Waveney Rd., Diss, Norfolk, and the late John Bryant. One of six brothers who served. The 2nd Bn. served in Mesopotamia as part of the 6th (Poona) Division, Indian Army.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8qpr.2
title: Photograph of Charlie Foster on horse

description: Photograph of Charlie Foster of the 4th East Yorks, sent from France to his friend Ralph William Readhead during World War I. Foster is sitting on a horse. A post-it note attached to the photograph gives a transcription of what was presumably the accompanying message: "Dear Ralph, The horse is known as Sacco but she belies the name. It is an amateur photo so look over the defects. The subject is also bad. Chas." Part of a collection relating to Ralph William Readhead of the 4th East Yorks.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8yaq.2
title: Various postcards sent by Edward Henry Kelly (18)

description: Various postcards sent home to wife and children by Edward Henry Kelly, born 23rd Dec 1878 in Peel, Isle of Man. Died in Liverpool Dec 1963. No details are known about his service record.

Editor's Comment:
Possibly Captain Edward Henry Kelly, Royal Engineers (later Major on Staff).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand6yy.2
title: Various postcards sent by Edward Henry Kelly (24)

description: Various postcards sent home to wife and children by Edward Henry Kelly, born 23rd Dec 1878 in Peel, Isle of Man. Died in Liverpool Dec 1963. No details are known about his service record.

Editor's Comment:
Possibly Captain Edward Henry Kelly, Royal Engineers (later Major on Staff).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand7w3.2
title: Photograph of British dead in trench

description: Michael Offensive, Western Front, April 1918. Smashed British trench.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandcd9.2
title: Various postcards sent by Edward Henry Kelly (21)

description: Various postcards sent home to wife and children by Edward Henry Kelly, born 23rd Dec 1878 in Peel, Isle of Man. Died in Liverpool Dec 1963. No details are known about his service record.

Editor's Comment:
Possibly Captain Edward Henry Kelly, Royal Engineers (later Major on Staff).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandh7t.2
title: Photographs depicting United States Navy (1)

description: Photographs depicting

The King and various senior British Officers including Roger Keyes visiting a battleship of the US Navy

Observation baloon.  

Burning target/ship
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandj1g.2
title: Photograph of Charlie Foster

description: Photograph of Charlie Foster of the 4th East Yorks, sent from France to his friend Ralph William Readhead during World War I. Part of a collection relating to Ralph William Readhead of the 4th East Yorks.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandjo5.2
title: Letter from Reggie Bryant to Patience Huthwaite (2)

description: Reggie's girlfriend Patience Huthwaite Jnr. was pregnant with our father (also Reginald) when he was posted with the Norfolk Regiment to Iraq to participate in the first battle of Kut, where he eventually went missing, presumed killed, on 22nd April 1916.
Reggie and Patience were not married and our father was eventually brought up in London for the first 14 years of his life by his maternal grandmother, Patience Huthwaite Snr. He was christened with his mother's surname of Huthwaite, although he was a Bryant.
Reggie Bryant came from a large family living in Diss, Norfolk.
He became a corporal in the Norfolk Regiment, but appears to have been trained at Colchester Barracks before being posted to Iraq.
His letters indicate a typical soldier's acceptance of his lot in life, and his enjoyment of a few 'jars of beer' with his mates. He even requests his girlfriend, Patience Huthwaite, in one letter, to meet him outside the barracks with a 'treacle tin of beer' as he was missing his pint.
The letters from Iraq to his mother are very poignant. They describe sitting by the Tigris looking across at the mountains in the distance. His last letter to his mother was written only two days before he went into action against the Turks at Kut, and was reported missing, presumed killed.
Patience Huthwaite eventually married Reggie's brother Clarence Bryant after the war, and therefore kept the name of Bryant going.

Editor's Comment:
Letter from Reggie Bryant to Pateince Huthwaite, sent while training with F Coy., 10th Bn. Norfolk Regiment at Reedhall Camp, Colchester, c. 1915.

Cpl. 14668 Reginald Bryant, 2nd Bn. Norfolk Regiment, missing in action 22nd April 1916, is commemorated on the Basra Memorial. Son of May Bryant, of 6, Waveney Rd., Diss, Norfolk, and the late John Bryant. One of six brothers who served. The 2nd Bn. served in Mesopotamia as part of the 6th (Poona) Division, Indian Army.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandpx9.2
title: Autograph book from Didcot relating to Kenneth Tallett and Family (27)

description: The autograph book contains cartoons and poems relating to the Tallett family. Kenneth Tallett who survived the war and his brother Horace James Tallett of the King's Royal Rifles who died a trench during the Battle of Arras. The autograph book was submitted with a series of photgraphs by their son Jim Tallett.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandugu.2
title: Trench art plane made by James Fenn (2)

description: Trench art fighter plane made by James Fenn. He was village blacksmith at Bramfield, Suffolk, after the war.

Editor's Comment:
Base made from cut down 18 Pdr. shell case, manufactured in August 1916. Plane stand and rear fusilage made from two  Lebel rounds (French small arms ammunition), rest of plane made from scrap brass. 

Shoeing Smith 19360 James W. Fenn, Royal Field Artillery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandwqd.2
title: Joseph Vaghi letters home (3)

description: Joseph Vaghi was my great uncle, he lied about his age to join up so although he is listed as 18 on his death he was probably only 17.

He came to Scotland in 1904 from Milan and his family were 'naturalised' in 1911.  Consequently they were not interned in the 2nd World War.  These letters were sent to his mother Henrichetta

A school group from Linlithgow academy travelled to Gallipoli and brought back a photo of Joseph's grave.

I also remember my Granny talking about the Gretna rail disaster, she knew many of the boys from Leith who died.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiangwk.2
title: Letter from Gunner Alfred Beaumont R.F.A. (2)

description: This letter was written by my grandfather to his mother as he was waiting to be sent to France.At the time his wife was also away from home, working in a munitions factory and their three children were being cared for by their grandmother.It is clear from the way in which he thanked her for all she had done for them that he was very aware that he might never see his family again.He did survive the war but his health was wrecked after being gassed and he died prematurely from the effects of his war service.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjcw7.2
title: Photograph of Scottish POWs

description: Michael Offensive, Western Front, April 1918. Scottish prisoners of war, being guarded by German Troops.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjdth.2
title: Autograph book from Didcot relating to Kenneth Tallett and Family (30)

description: The autograph book contains cartoons and poems relating to the Tallett family. Kenneth Tallett who survived the war and his brother Horace James Tallett of the King's Royal Rifles who died a trench during the Battle of Arras. The autograph book was submitted with a series of photgraphs by their son Jim Tallett.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjhyh.2
title: Notebook of John Dawson (1)

description: A notebook with diary entries and drafts of letters.

Pte. 267220 John Dawson, 1/7th Bn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment, was killed in action 14th August 1917 aged 22. The son of Mr. and Mrs. William Dawson, of Cockhill Place, Bellshill, Lanarkshire, he is buried in New Irish Farm Cemetery. The 1/7th Bn., part of the 48th (South Midland) Division, were waiting to for heavy rain to clear for the attack on Langemarck to commence, the second phase of the Third Battle of Ypres.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjk7g.2
title: Photographs depicting United States Navy (3)

description: Photographs depicting

The King and various senior British Officers including Roger Keyes visiting a battleship of the US Navy

Observation baloon.  

Burning target/ship
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjr1q.2
title: Photograph of Argonner Forest

description: Argonne Forest, Western Front, 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjroy.2
title: Letter from Reggie Bryant to Patience Huthwaite (4)

description: Reggie's girlfriend Patience Huthwaite Jnr. was pregnant with our father (also Reginald) when he was posted with the Norfolk Regiment to Iraq to participate in the first battle of Kut, where he eventually went missing, presumed killed, on 22nd April 1916.
Reggie and Patience were not married and our father was eventually brought up in London for the first 14 years of his life by his maternal grandmother, Patience Huthwaite Snr. He was christened with his mother's surname of Huthwaite, although he was a Bryant.
Reggie Bryant came from a large family living in Diss, Norfolk.
He became a corporal in the Norfolk Regiment, but appears to have been trained at Colchester Barracks before being posted to Iraq.
His letters indicate a typical soldier's acceptance of his lot in life, and his enjoyment of a few 'jars of beer' with his mates. He even requests his girlfriend, Patience Huthwaite, in one letter, to meet him outside the barracks with a 'treacle tin of beer' as he was missing his pint.
The letters from Iraq to his mother are very poignant. They describe sitting by the Tigris looking across at the mountains in the distance. His last letter to his mother was written only two days before he went into action against the Turks at Kut, and was reported missing, presumed killed.
Patience Huthwaite eventually married Reggie's brother Clarence Bryant after the war, and therefore kept the name of Bryant going.

Editor's Comment:
Letter from Reggie Bryant to Pateince Huthwaite, sent while training with F Coy., 10th Bn. Norfolk Regiment at Reedhall Camp, Colchester, c. 1915.

Cpl. 14668 Reginald Bryant, 2nd Bn. Norfolk Regiment, missing in action 22nd April 1916, is commemorated on the Basra Memorial. Son of May Bryant, of 6, Waveney Rd., Diss, Norfolk, and the late John Bryant. One of six brothers who served. The 2nd Bn. served in Mesopotamia as part of the 6th (Poona) Division, Indian Army.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjtxl.2
title: Autograph book from Didcot relating to Kenneth Tallett and Family (28)

description: The autograph book contains cartoons and poems relating to the Tallett family. Kenneth Tallett who survived the war and his brother Horace James Tallett of the King's Royal Rifles who died a trench during the Battle of Arras. The autograph book was submitted with a series of photgraphs by their son Jim Tallett.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjwdl.2
title: Various postcards sent by Edward Henry Kelly (23)

description: Various postcards sent home to wife and children by Edward Henry Kelly, born 23rd Dec 1878 in Peel, Isle of Man. Died in Liverpool Dec 1963. No details are known about his service record.

Editor's Comment:
Possibly Captain Edward Henry Kelly, Royal Engineers (later Major on Staff).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianmj4.2
title: Joseph Vaghi letters home (2)

description: Joseph Vaghi was my great uncle, he lied about his age to join up so although he is listed as 18 on his death he was probably only 17.

He came to Scotland in 1904 from Milan and his family were 'naturalised' in 1911.  Consequently they were not interned in the 2nd World War.  These letters were sent to his mother Henrichetta

A school group from Linlithgow academy travelled to Gallipoli and brought back a photo of Joseph's grave.

I also remember my Granny talking about the Gretna rail disaster, she knew many of the boys from Leith who died.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianouu.2
title: Photograph of Germans burying British dead

description: Michael Offensive, Western Front, April 1918. Germans burying dead Highlanders.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianwty.2
title: Autograph book from Didcot relating to Kenneth Tallett and Family (29)

description: The autograph book contains cartoons and poems relating to the Tallett family. Kenneth Tallett who survived the war and his brother Horace James Tallett of the King's Royal Rifles who died a trench during the Battle of Arras. The autograph book was submitted with a series of photgraphs by their son Jim Tallett.