cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian23gf.2
title: Photographs of Paris on the anniversary of the Armistice, from the effects of Arthur Barnes (1)

description: These interesting photographs were found in my grandfathers possessions after his death. He was Arthur Charles Barnes from Wokingham in Berkshire and served in the Army Service Corps. Although a volunteer he was not released until over a year after the end of the war, celebrating the anniversary of the armistice in France where these photographs were taken.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian26dl.2
title: Letter from Pte Edward Thorndycraft to Miss Lily Freeman (6)

description: The letter was written on 3rd November 1915 two days before Edward Thorndycraft died, to Lily Freeman. Interestingly the letter postmark is dated February 1916, showing the letter did not reach Lily until then. Lily married his brother, James, after the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2c42.2
title: Luncheon menu from H.M. Hospital Ship S.S. "Llandovery Castle" (First Class) (1)

description: Menu card from S.S. "Llandovery Castle" of the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Line. Requisitioned for the war effort and serving as a hospital ship, she was torpedoed off southern Ireland on 27th June 1918 by U-86. After the crew abandoned ship, the submarine surfaced and ran down the lifeboats, firing on people in the water. One lifeboat crew of 24 survived out of 258 men and women onboard. 

Editor's Comment:
The first Class dining room was presumably reserved for officers. To the reverse of the menu is a price list of wines, etc. 

After the war, the commander of the Submarine Ober-Leutnant zur See Helmut Patzig was arraigned for war crimes at Leipzig by the British, but by the time the case came to court (23rd May 1921) had disappeared.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2d9.2
title: Letter from Pte Edward Thorndycraft to Miss Lily Freeman (5)

description: The letter was written on 3rd November 1915 two days before Edward Thorndycraft died, to Lily Freeman. Interestingly the letter postmark is dated February 1916, showing the letter did not reach Lily until then. Lily married his brother, James, after the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2eev.2
title: Letter from Pte Edward Thorndycraft to Miss Lily Freeman (4)

description: The letter was written on 3rd November 1915 two days before Edward Thorndycraft died, to Lily Freeman. Interestingly the letter postmark is dated February 1916, showing the letter did not reach Lily until then. Lily married his brother, James, after the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2g48.2
title: Peninsula Press (2)

description: Official news - including the evacuation of Suvla Bay.

Part of a collection relating to the service of Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC, including his letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and on the Western Front - as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2rw2.2
title: Photograph of Charles Rayment

description: One of five brothers to serve in the war, the younger sons of Albert Barnard Rayment and Harriet Rayment. 

Private Charles Rayment (1891-1987) was stationed at Felixstowe in Suffolk. 

Editor's Comment:
Pte. Rayment here wears a 'General List' cap badge (i.e. he had not yet been assigned to a particular regiment).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2t64.2
title: Letters of William Given Affleck (7)

description: Originals and typed copies of the letters of William Given Affleck, Canadian Army.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2vsz.2
title: Trench Art (4)

description: Letter opener, (knife made from bullets and scrap metal). Made by my uncle, Sid Roberts, who was in the East Surrey's. Gassed twice and returned to another regiment, probably the Engineers. Think he was a sergeant at the end of the war. Being gassed saved his life as rest of his comrades were all killed! Possibly an Old Contemptible, as a lot of them were at his funeral.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2xrw.2
title: Poem printed on postcard written by Stephen Moran

description: Stephen Moran was billeted with Mr and Mrs A. Payne, Orchard Cottage, West Runton, one of many over the war years. Mr A. Payne was a blacksmith, wheelright and carpenter, and held a contract for shoeing mules and horses sent to war.

Editor's Comment:
Postcard with printed poem composed by Stephen Moran, Derbyshire Yeomanry. Union Jack and Egyptian flag to top. Opening lines of poem: 'Oh peace, where art thou hiding, hath thou lost thy agic spell'.

Pte. 1538 (later 75092) Stephen Moran, Derbyshire Yeomanry. The regiment moved to Egypt in April 1915, serving at Gallipoli (the Dardanelles) from August to December 1915. After the evacuation, they returned, becoming part of the Western Frontier Force until February 1916.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian63cc.2
title: Photograph of Passchendaele Village

description: A German view of Passchendaele taken from the air before the devestation caused by the Third Battle of Ypres, 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian68bl.2
title: Photograph of Captain Frederick G P Gedge

description: Frederick George Peter Gedge served in the Royal Engineers. He was appointed Temporary Captain 3/11/1915. He is wearing the ribbons from his service with the City of London Imperial Volunteers in the Boer War. He was awarded the DSO in 1918. In the Second World War he was a Major in the Home Guard in Wimborne.

Editor's Comment:
Note the 'T' below collar badges, signifying 'Territorial Force', also the private purchase 'Gor'blimey' cap, with flaps (here buckled up) to protect the ears and neck from cold. The meddal ribbons are those of the Queens and Kings South Africa Medal. 

Lieutenant (acting Major) Frederick George Peter Gedge, Distinguished Service Order, served with the 1st London Divisional Engineers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6fzd.2
title: Letters of William Given Affleck (9)

description: Originals and typed copies of the letters of William Given Affleck, Canadian Army.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6gd6.2
title: Letters of William Given Affleck (4)

description: Originals and typed copies of the letters of William Given Affleck, Canadian Army.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6m8x.2
title: Photographs of and relating to Stephen Moran

description: Stephen Moran was billeted with Mr and Mrs A. Payne, Orchard Cottage, West Runton, one of many over the war years. Mr A. Payne was a blacksmith, wheelright and carpenter, and held a contract for shoeing mules and horses sent to war. 

Editor's Comment:
The photograph at top left shows Pte. Moran in the Khaki Denim uniform and sun helmet worn in tropical theaters, with 1903 pattern ammunition bandolier, commonly worn by mounted troops. Top right shows Moran with the same bandolier, but wearing the Service Dress uniform of temperate climates. Note the Jack Knife lanyard worn on the left shoulder, and 'swagger stick' under right arm. The photograph at middle left shows an unidentified corporal of the Derby Yeomanry, bottom left a group of Derby yeomanry troopers. Middle right top shows a horse harnessed to a limber, middle right bottom shows a mounted cavalryman in full field equipment, with rifle, drawn sword (the obsolete 1899 pattern, relegated to yeomanry use by WW1), mounted pattern circular messtin over lap, water bottle, and picketing pegs strapped to sword scabbard. Bottom right shows six men on the back of a horse, witht he caption '1st Royal Devons', '"Rough Riders" - Anything rather than bikes'.

Pte. 1538 (later 75092) Stephen Moran, Derby Yeomanry.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6qlq.2
title: Letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC (5)

description: A long letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC sent on 10th May 1917, from France to his 'Dad'. It describes the destruction by the Germans of property etc. as they retired from the sector he is in, and the return of civilians searching for property they buried before they fled from the original German advance. This includes one man who came to see what had become of 400 bottles of brandy he had buried in his garden!

Also part of this collection are all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and on the Western Front - as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian74r.2
title: Dinner menu from H.M. Hospital Ship S.S. "Galeka" (First Class) (1)

description: Menu card from S.S. "Galeka" of the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Line. Requisitioned for the war effort and serving as a hospital ship, she was mined in the English Channel in late 1916.

Editor's Comment: 
The first Class dining room was presumably reserved for officers. To the reverse of the menu is a price list of wines, etc. 

First employed as a troopship for the Gallipoli campaign, landing the 6th and 7th Bns., Australian Imperial Force, at Anzac Cove on the morning of 25th April 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian84lg.2
title: Letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC (4)

description: A long letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC sent on 10th May 1917, from France to his 'Dad'. It describes the destruction by the Germans of property etc. as they retired from the sector he is in, and the return of civilians searching for property they buried before they fled from the original German advance. This includes one man who came to see what had become of 400 bottles of brandy he had buried in his garden!

Also part of this collection are all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and on the Western Front - as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8a8q.2
title: Luncheon menu from H.M. Hospital Ship S.S. "Llandovery Castle" (First Class) (2)

description: Menu card from S.S. "Llandovery Castle" of the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Line. Requisitioned for the war effort and serving as a hospital ship, she was torpedoed off southern Ireland on 27th June 1918 by U-86. After the crew abandoned ship, the submarine surfaced and ran down the lifeboats, firing on people in the water. One lifeboat crew of 24 survived out of 258 men and women onboard. 

Editor's Comment:
The first Class dining room was presumably reserved for officers. To the reverse of the menu is a price list of wines, etc. 

After the war, the commander of the Submarine Ober-Leutnant zur See Helmut Patzig was arraigned for war crimes at Leipzig by the British, but by the time the case came to court (23rd May 1921) had disappeared.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8eb9.2
title: Photograph of Rev Basil Johnson Gedge CF

description: In 1914 Basil was a missionary in Madagascar. He returned to England after his brother Joseph was killed on HMS Amphion. Rejected as medically unfit, Basil became a Curate in High Wycombe. After his brother Peter was killed at Loos, Basil reapplied to the Army and was appointed Acting Chaplain 4th Class 26/5/1916. Basil married Mary Kathleen Atkinson on 11/7/1916, went to Greece with 78th Field Ambulance RAMC, was mentioned in despatches, and died of wounds on 25/4/1917. Mary died in 1980 after spending over 62 years as a childless widow.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8h8i.2
title: The Times Weekly Edition (1)

description: Includes articles about the Gallipoli landings, in particular the writings of E. Ashmead Bartlett - correspondent with the forces on the Dardenelles. 

Part of a collection relating to the service of Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC, including his letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and on the Western Front - as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay. In his letters it is clear that Blore's experiences did not match Bartlett's account.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8kzj.2
title: Letters of William Given Affleck (6)

description: Originals and typed copies of the letters of William Given Affleck, Canadian Army.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8lh7.2
title: Photographs of Paris on the anniversary of the Armistice, from the effects of Arthur Barnes (2)

description: These interesting photographs were found in my grandfathers possessions after his death. He was Arthur Charles Barnes from Wokingham in Berkshire and served in the Army Service Corps. Although a volunteer he was not released until over a year after the end of the war, celebrating the anniversary of the armistice in France where these photographs were taken.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8v3e.2
title: Photograph of Passchendaele Ridge

description: Passchendaele Ridge, November 1917
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8zd1.2
title: Letters of William Given Affleck (3)

description: Originals and typed copies of the letters of William Given Affleck, Canadian Army.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand13y.2
title: Matchbox and contained letter from Sgt Major George Cavan to his family (1)

description: George Cavan was a sergeant major in the Highland Light Infantry. He lived with his family, wife Jean and 3 daughters, in The Drill Hall in Carluke Scotland. While away at training camp the orders came through to dispatch to France. The train he was on with his troops went through his home station but did not stop there. He threw out onto the station a matchbox containing a note to his family. On one side was the name of his wife and on the other the message to the family. Someone picked up the matchbox and delivered it to the family. George was killed just a few days after arriving at the Front in France. He lies in an unmarked grave near Ypres. His name is on the memorial there.

Editor's Comment:
Company Serjeant Major 7988 George Cavan, 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Bn. Highland Light Infantry, Killed in Action 13th April 1918, is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial. The 9th Bn. formed part of the 33rd Division, heavily engaged on the 12th-15th April resisting the German 'Spring Offensive' of 1918, in what would become known as the battle of Hazebrouck (second phase of the Battle of the Lys).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandd3k.2
title: Letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC (2)

description: A long letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC sent on 10th May 1917, from France to his 'Dad'. It describes the destruction by the Germans of property etc. as they retired from the sector he is in, and the return of civilians searching for property they buried before they fled from the original German advance. This includes one man who came to see what had become of 400 bottles of brandy he had buried in his garden!

Also part of this collection are all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and on the Western Front - as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandi9w.2
title: Trench Art (2)

description: Letter opener, (knife made from bullets and scrap metal). Made by my uncle, Sid Roberts, who was in the East Surrey's. Gassed twice and returned to another regiment, probably the Engineers. Think he was a sergeant at the end of the war. Being gassed saved his life as rest of his comrades were all killed! Possibly an Old Contemptible, as a lot of them were at his funeral.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandj9s.2
title: Letter sent to the mother of Corporal John Rhodes

description: Letter sent by the British Red Cross and Order of St John Enquiry Department for the Wounded and Missing to the mother of Corporal John Rhodes. The letter follows up a report sent to her in September with information from a Private J. Appleyard, who saw a shell fall in the spot where he knew Rhodes to be have standing a few minutes previously. As Rhodes was not accounted for afterwards, the letter concludes that it seems likely he was killed. The letter is typewritten, and is signed with the initials RL, on behalf of the Earl of Lucan.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandm9l.2
title: Letter from Pte Edward Thorndycraft to Miss Lily Freeman (2)

description: The letter was written on 3rd November 1915 two days before Edward Thorndycraft died, to Lily Freeman. Interestingly the letter postmark is dated February 1916, showing the letter did not reach Lily until then. Lily married his brother, James, after the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandtbu.2
title: Letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC (2)

description: This is a short letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC sent on 22nd April 1916, from Egypt to his Mother. It describes how he has finally washed his sleeping bag.

That sleeping bag is visible in a photo of Dr Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli in 1915, and mentioned in letters.

Also part of this collection are all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and on the Western Front - as well as this sleeping bag and many other artefacts.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianduvv.2
title: Letters of William Given Affleck (8)

description: Originals and typed copies of the letters of William Given Affleck, Canadian Army.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandzmq.2
title: Photograph of Francis Rayment

description: One of five brothers to serve in the war, the younger sons of Albert Barnard Rayment and Harriet Rayment. 

Frank Rayment (1893-1915) joined the Royal Field Artillery but soon after he joined up he received a head injury whilst playing football in Woolwich and died on the 11th January 1915. He is buried at the Greenwich cemetery.  

Editor's Comment:
Gunner 82954 Francis Rayment, 23rd Reserve Bty. Royal Field Artillery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj23r.2
title: Letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC (3)

description: A long letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC sent on 10th May 1917, from France to his 'Dad'. It describes the destruction by the Germans of property etc. as they retired from the sector he is in, and the return of civilians searching for property they buried before they fled from the original German advance. This includes one man who came to see what had become of 400 bottles of brandy he had buried in his garden!

Also part of this collection are all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and on the Western Front - as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj7ba.2
title: Letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC (1)

description: A long letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC sent on 10th May 1917, from France to his 'Dad'. It describes the destruction by the Germans of property etc. as they retired from the sector he is in, and the return of civilians searching for property they buried before they fled from the original German advance. This includes one man who came to see what had become of 400 bottles of brandy he had buried in his garden!

Also part of this collection are all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and on the Western Front - as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj99o.2
title: Letter from Pte Edward Thorndycraft to Miss Lily Freeman (1)

description: The letter was written on 3rd November 1915 two days before Edward Thorndycraft died, to Lily Freeman. Interestingly the letter postmark is dated February 1916, showing the letter did not reach Lily until then. Lily married his brother, James, after the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjgmx.2
title: Photograph of John Rayment

description: One of five brothers to serve in the war, the younger sons of Albert Barnard Rayment and Harriet Rayment. 

Private John (Jack) Rayment (1887-1957), Army Service Corps, served in Gallipoli and Salonika.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjllm.2
title: Photograph of Passchendaele Ridge

description: Passchendaele Ridge, November 1917
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjr9b.2
title: Letters of William Given Affleck (2)

description: Originals and typed copies of the letters of William Given Affleck, Canadian Army.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjwr.2
title: Photograph of Albert Rayment

description: One of five brothers to serve in the war, the younger sons of Albert Barnard Rayment and Harriet Rayment. 

Lieutenant Albert Harrington Rayment (1886-1977) was in the Royal Engineers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjy3h.2
title: Matchbox and contained letter from Sgt Major George Cavan to his family (2)

description: George Cavan was a sergeant major in the Highland Light Infantry. He lived with his family, wife Jean and 3 daughters, in The Drill Hall in Carluke Scotland. While away at training camp the orders came through to dispatch to France. The train he was on with his troops went through his home station but did not stop there. He threw out onto the station a matchbox containing a note to his family. On one side was the name of his wife and on the other the message to the family. Someone picked up the matchbox and delivered it to the family. George was killed just a few days after arriving at the Front in France. He lies in an unmarked grave near Ypres. His name is on the memorial there.

Editor's Comment:
Company Serjeant Major 7988 George Cavan, 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Bn. Highland Light Infantry, Killed in Action 13th April 1918, is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial. The 9th Bn. formed part of the 33rd Division, heavily engaged on the 12th-15th April resisting the German 'Spring Offensive' of 1918, in what would become known as the battle of Hazebrouck (second phase of the Battle of the Lys).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjz9v.2
title: Trench Art (1)

description: Letter opener, (knife made from bullets and scrap metal). Made by my uncle, Sid Roberts, who was in the East Surrey's. Gassed twice and returned to another regiment, probably the Engineers. Think he was a sergeant at the end of the war. Being gassed saved his life as rest of his comrades were all killed! Possibly an Old Contemptible, as a lot of them were at his funeral.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiannsp.2
title: Trench Art (3)

description: Letter opener, (knife made from bullets and scrap metal). Made by my uncle, Sid Roberts, who was in the East Surrey's. Gassed twice and returned to another regiment, probably the Engineers. Think he was a sergeant at the end of the war. Being gassed saved his life as rest of his comrades were all killed! Possibly an Old Contemptible, as a lot of them were at his funeral.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianp6z.2
title: Letters of William Given Affleck (5)

description: Originals and typed copies of the letters of William Given Affleck, Canadian Army.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr8et.2
title: Letter from Pte Edward Thorndycraft to Miss Lily Freeman (3)

description: The letter was written on 3rd November 1915 two days before Edward Thorndycraft died, to Lily Freeman. Interestingly the letter postmark is dated February 1916, showing the letter did not reach Lily until then. Lily married his brother, James, after the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianuh8.2
title: Poem printed on postcard written by Stephen Moran

description: Stephen Moran was billeted with Mr and Mrs A. Payne, Orchard Cottage, West Runton, one of many over the war years. Mr A. Payne was a blacksmith, wheelright and carpenter, and held a contract for shoeing mules and horses sent to war.

Editor's Comment:
Postcard with printed poem composed by Stephen Moran, Derbyshire Yeomanry, 'in his Dug-out in the Dardanelles': Poem begins 'As the night-shades fall o'er the Battlefield, and the fighting seems to cease'. Printed for charity: 'The proceeds of this Fund are to be used for Christmas Comforts for the Soldiers.' 

Pte. 1538 (later 75092) Stephen Moran, Derbyshire  Yeomanry. The regiment moved to Egypt in April 1915, serving at Gallipoli (the Dardanelles) from August to December 1915. After the evacuation, they returned, becoming part of the Western Frontier Force until February 1916.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianvga.2
title: Photograph of Samuel Rayment

description: One of five brothers to serve in the war, the younger sons of Albert Barnard Rayment and Harriet Rayment. 

Samuel Thomas Rayment (1896 -1982) was my grandfather. He enlisted in September 1914 with the London Regiment, but was dicharged in February 1915 and later that year joined the Royal Naval Reserve Anti-Aircraft Division. He was stationed on Hampstead Heath and Bacton in Norfolk.

Editor's Comment:
Samuel Rayment here wears Naval uniform. Note the embroidered collar badge: 'R.N.V.R. | A.A.C.'