cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjs7z.2
title: Photograph of Pte George R. Jones

description: Pte George R. Jones 203068 4th Batt. Royal Welch Fusiliers

Son of Catherine and late George Jones of Pentrebeirdd, Guilsfield. Joined in 1914. After much hard fighting was wounded in thigh, ear and hip and succumbed to these wounds on 8th April 1918 aged 23, and is buried at Estaples (Etaples?) Military, Plas-Calais.

Image from newspaper article Montgomeryshire County Times 20 April 1918. Report:
The death occurred on April 8th from wounds received in action the previous day of Pte George Robert Jones third son of Mr and Mrs George Jones of Pentrebeirdd, Guilsfield. Though he was only 20 at the time of his death, he pluckily volunteered at the outbreak and enlisted in the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry on the 9th August 1914. He went to France in November 1916. On April 7th he admitted to an American Military hospital with a wound in hip, thigh and ear. He was buried with full military honours in the British Military at Estaples. Before the war he was a wagoner with Mr Davies, Twll, Guilsfield. One of his brothers, John, is also serving in France.

Montgomerysire County Times report of 13 July 1918 about the brother of the above, reads: Pte John Jones son of late George and of Mrs Jones of Pentrebeirdd, Guilsfield who was wounded in France last month has had his leg amputated and has come over to hospital at Chichester where he is doing well as can be expected. He was a wagonner with Mr E Jones of Pentrebeirdd before the war. His brother recently died from wounds in France.

Mrs Jones: "John was, after the war, a bus driver for the family business, and was familiarly known as 'John the Bus'..."

This image is a sample from a folder of research undertaken by Mrs Jones into the men named on the war memorial (1914-1919) of Guilsfield parish (near Welshpool, Montgomeryshire - now Powys, in Wales). The names include: Frank Arthur, Ernest Charlton, Edward Evans, Robert Evans, Fred Evans, Charles Galliers, Robert Gainsford, Edward Griffiths,John Higgins, Edwin Jones, James Jones, Charles Jones, William Jones, Alan Langlands, Edward Lloyd, John Lloyd, Richard Morgan, Edward Morris, John Owen, Evan Phillips, Herbert Trevor, David E. Bailey, Herbert Bailey, Arthur Gough, Charles Jones, George R. Jones, Arthur T. Lewis, Mathew W.H. Morris, Richard D.H. Mytton, Gruffydd V. Trevor. Representing a number of regiments of the army, also the Royal Navy and the Royal Flying Corps. Also evident is the volunteers who joined up early in the war, as well as the tribunals which decided that even though farming was a reserved occupation that man-power being so scarce some men would be compelled to join the army, leaving their families, their aging fathers, mothers, sisters and younger siblings to continue to provide food for the war effort - an insight into the home-front in rural Wales.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianju4l.2
title: The search for 2nd Lt. John Hayes Fearnhead

description: Second Lieutenant John Hayes (Jack) Fearnhead of the 1/7 Btn. King's Liverpool Regiment.  Jack was my grandmother's sweetheart.  He was killed, aged just 21 on the 13 August, 1916 at Guillemont on the Somme.  His body was lost.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjwt7.2
title: Postcard of ruined Basilica, Albert

description: From a series of French postcards showing ruined towns. Captioned: '111. Albert (Somme) - Basilique, vue ouest - West view of the Basilic'. Taken after the recapute of the town in August 1918: the tower of the Basilica, with the famous 'hanging Virgin', was demolished in April 1918. 

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/bodleianjxhj.2
title: Collection of photographs and articles.  Cpl. Harry Smith, John D. Smith, Charles Smith, John (Jack) Rule and Willie Smith (5)

description: Jack Rule won the Croix de Geurre

Harry Smith was killed on 1st July 1916 at the Somme in McCrae's Battalion

John D. Smith was killed at Ypres
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianpt9.2
title: Trench Art Candle Holder made from Shell Case (1)

description: The term 'Trench Art' covers itmes made by the soldier's themselves, or by locals and sold as souvenirs.  

Made from a cut-down 18 pdr shell case, with added handle. The case was manufactured in 1916 and last refilled in November 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr8b4.2
title: Collection of photographs and articles.  Cpl. Harry Smith, John D. Smith, Charles Smith, John (Jack) Rule and Willie Smith (7)

description: Jack Rule won the Croix de Geurre

Harry Smith was killed on 1st July 1916 at the Somme in McCrae's Battalion

John D. Smith was killed at Ypres
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrd8v.2
title: The search for 2nd Lt. John Hayes Fearnhead (3)

description: Second Lieutenant John Hayes (Jack) Fearnhead of the 1/7 Btn. King's Liverpool Regiment.  Jack was my grandmother's sweetheart.  He was killed, aged just 21 on the 13 August, 1916 at Guillemont on the Somme.  His body was lost.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian21pk.2
title: Postcards from France sent to son (2)

description: Reverse of silk postcards sent from father to son (Percy Rothwell 06/09/09 - 02/01/92) living in Blackburn, Lancs.

Final card from Husband (also Percy) to wife Edith.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian27np.2
title: Photograph of Somerset Light Infantry (2)

description: Charles Sydney Warwick, my great-grandfather, is in the front row, third in from the right.

Editor's Comment:
Corporal 265460 Charles Sydney Warwick, Somerset Light Infantry.
Pictured are Lewis guns, an Infantry range finder, and two machine gun carts (used for transporting guns, ammunition, spare parts etc.).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ayx.2
title: Typed copy of a diary (2)

description: Typed copy of a diary
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2kqo.2
title: Photographs of YMCA tent, Conway

description: The diamond on the arm of the man seated, middle, was a Volunteer (pre-1908 organisation of the Territorial Force) award for one year efficient service. 

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/bodleian2m4x.2
title: Collection of photographs and articles.  Cpl. Harry Smith, John D. Smith, Charles Smith, John (Jack) Rule and Willie Smith (17)

description: Jack Rule won the Croix de Geurre

Harry Smith was killed on 1st July 1916 at the Somme in McCrae's Battalion

John D. Smith was killed at Ypres
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2n3z.2
title: Collection of photographs and articles.  Cpl. Harry Smith, John D. Smith, Charles Smith, John (Jack) Rule and Willie Smith (13)

description: Jack Rule won the Croix de Geurre

Harry Smith was killed on 1st July 1916 at the Somme in McCrae's Battalion

John D. Smith was killed at Ypres
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2qpf.2
title: Photograph and medals of Pte Evan Phillips (5)

description: A photograph of Pte Evan Phillips, wife Elizabeth and their two children Eva and David of the Viggin Farm, Maesmawr, Montgomeryshire (now Powys), Wales. 

A photograph of two brothers in uniform on horseback, Evan and Richard Phillips, sons of Mr and Mrs David Phillips of Moelygarth.

A photocopy of a silk memento from the memorial service - held in Groes Chapel on behalf of Pte 60161 Evan Phillips.
Scan of 2 photographs of statutory medals sent to the bereaved family of Pte Evan Phillips.
 
Pte Evan Phillips (60161, 9th Batt. Welsh Regiment. No known grave. Name on Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke).

Mrs Jones: Private Phillips was killed in the trenches in France in May 1918. Because of the desperate need for more men to replace the fallen Pte Phillips joined up in June 1917 and went out to France in the following November. His mate Lloyd Jones of Cefn-Ddu, Maesmawr told only his own mother of how Evan had died but both refused to relate it to his widow or parents. None of Evan's personal possessions were returned which included a much treasured silver watch.  Just before he was killed he had a leave and spent it complying with the Agriculture rules to plough and sow certain crops for the war effort on his holding at the Viggin. Evan's daughter Eva related of hearing of her mother being so distraught at Evan's loss, that she stayed in her bedroom for weeks. Elizabeth had to leave the Viggin. Four brothers and sisters living at Stone House, Trelydan, bought Little Stone House, Maesmawr, where Mrs Phillips went to live which she successfully ran and provided a happy home for the two fatherless children (Eva aged two, David aged 5). They eventually bought Little Stone House which David continued to farm till he died in his 60s, and Eva became a brilliant seamstress.


These images are a sample from a folder of research undertaken by Mrs Jones into the men named on the war memorial (1914-1919) of Guilsfield parish (near Welshpool, Montgomeryshire - now Powys, in Wales). The names include: Frank Arthur, Ernest Charlton, Edward Evans, Robert Evans, Fred Evans, Charles Galliers, Robert Gainsford, Edward Griffiths,John Higgins, Edwin Jones, James Jones, Charles Jones, William Jones, Alan Langlands, Edward Lloyd, John Lloyd, Richard Morgan, Edward Morris, John Owen, Evan Phillips, Herbert Trevor, David E. Bailey, Herbert Bailey, Arthur Gough, Charles Jones, George R. Jones, Arthur T. Lewis, Mathew W.H. Morris, Richard D.H. Mytton, Gruffydd V. Trevor. Representing a number of regiments of the army, also the Royal Navy and the Royal Flying Corps. Also evident is the volunteers who joined up early in the war, as well as the tribunals which decided that even though farming was a reserved occupation that man-power being so scarce some men would be compelled to join the army, leaving their families, their aging fathers, mothers, sisters and younger siblings to continue to provide food for the war effort - an insight into the home-front in rural Wales.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2umq.2
title: A Cameron Captured (17)

description: 1,2,3 Attestation papers
4,5,6 Two group photographs: new recruits
7 Card: To father
8 Letter: Wounded
9 First page of New Testiment
10 Letter: Reported missing
11 Card:  Captured and wounded
12 Card:  Captured
13 Letter:  Parcel
14 Letter;  Quedlinburg POW camp
15 Letter:  Food parcel
16 Card:  Recovered from wound
17 Card:  Parcel
18 Letter; To mother
19 POW money
20 Card:  Started work as POW
21,22,23 Card:  Parcels
24 Card: To mother
25 Letter: To mother
26 Letter: To mother
27,28 Cards:  Parcels
29 POW concert programme
30,31 POW Group photo.
32 Letter:  To mother
33 Card:  From Holland (on his way home)
34 Letter:  King George letter to POWs'
35 Certificate:  Ensuring funds while seeking employment
36 Certificate:  Transfer to Z reserve
37 Summary of POW mail
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian3u4.2
title: Postcards from France sent to son (5)

description: Reverse of silk postcards sent from father to son (Percy Rothwell 06/09/09 - 02/01/92) living in Blackburn, Lancs.

Final card from Husband (also Percy) to wife Edith.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian63ee.2
title: Photograph of awarding of DCM to Albert Walters (1)

description: My Great Uncle Albert Walters receiving his DCM.

Editor's Comment:
Photographs of Sgt. Walters in Hospital 'Blues' uniform, receiving Distinguished Conduct Medal from a Colonel. 

Serjeant 12/257 Albert Walters, East Yorkshire Regiment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian65mj.2
title: Collection of photographs and articles.  Cpl. Harry Smith, John D. Smith, Charles Smith, John (Jack) Rule and Willie Smith (15)

description: Jack Rule won the Croix de Geurre

Harry Smith was killed on 1st July 1916 at the Somme in McCrae's Battalion

John D. Smith was killed at Ypres
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6aoh.2
title: A Cameron Captured (14)

description: 1,2,3 Attestation papers
4,5,6 Two group photographs: new recruits
7 Card: To father
8 Letter: Wounded
9 First page of New Testiment
10 Letter: Reported missing
11 Card:  Captured and wounded
12 Card:  Captured
13 Letter:  Parcel
14 Letter;  Quedlinburg POW camp
15 Letter:  Food parcel
16 Card:  Recovered from wound
17 Card:  Parcel
18 Letter; To mother
19 POW money
20 Card:  Started work as POW
21,22,23 Card:  Parcels
24 Card: To mother
25 Letter: To mother
26 Letter: To mother
27,28 Cards:  Parcels
29 POW concert programme
30,31 POW Group photo.
32 Letter:  To mother
33 Card:  From Holland (on his way home)
34 Letter:  King George letter to POWs'
35 Certificate:  Ensuring funds while seeking employment
36 Certificate:  Transfer to Z reserve
37 Summary of POW mail
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6e2e.2
title: Photographs and forms.  William Menzies.  1883 to 1958 (1)

description: Discharge certificate.  Medically unfit 28th November 1915

L.Cpl. Menzies

Mayfield Hospital, Woolston:
Large Group:  7th from left back row.
Interior: 2nd from left
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ew2.2
title: A Cameron Captured (19)

description: 1,2,3 Attestation papers
4,5,6 Two group photographs: new recruits
7 Card: To father
8 Letter: Wounded
9 First page of New Testiment
10 Letter: Reported missing
11 Card:  Captured and wounded
12 Card:  Captured
13 Letter:  Parcel
14 Letter;  Quedlinburg POW camp
15 Letter:  Food parcel
16 Card:  Recovered from wound
17 Card:  Parcel
18 Letter; To mother
19 POW money
20 Card:  Started work as POW
21,22,23 Card:  Parcels
24 Card: To mother
25 Letter: To mother
26 Letter: To mother
27,28 Cards:  Parcels
29 POW concert programme
30,31 POW Group photo.
32 Letter:  To mother
33 Card:  From Holland (on his way home)
34 Letter:  King George letter to POWs'
35 Certificate:  Ensuring funds while seeking employment
36 Certificate:  Transfer to Z reserve
37 Summary of POW mail
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6gbe.2
title: Extracts from Evelyn Diver's diaries

description: This attachment includes explanatory notes relating to my transcript of the diaries.

Editor's Comment:
Evelyn Diver (b.1894) lost her sweetheart, Pte. 292603 Henry Banks, 1st/7th Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers, on the 14th November 1916 (taking part in the attacks of the 50th Division in the closing phase of the battle of the Somme). Her diaries notice troop movements, costal defences, air-raids etc.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6r1s.2
title: PHotographs of Edward Lloyd and John Lloyd

description: A colour photocopy of a photograph of Pte Edward Lloyd.

Colour photocopies of the grave and the cemetery where Pte Edward Lloyd is buried, Beford House Cemetery between Ieper and Armentieres, Belgium (plot I row F Grave 17), taken by a descendent of Pts Lloyd's family, Mrs Davies of Bowerhill, Wilts. when they went to pay their respects to Pte Lloyd's grave. 

A photocopy of the usual notice sent with most notifications to the bereaved families of the death of their loved one.

A photocopy of the card of Edward Lloyd's eldest brother Pte John Lloyd who also lost his life in the war. John Lloyd of the 5th Manchester Regiment was killed in action aged 35 years in France - he was buried on 12 December 1918. 

Pte 12226 Edward Lloyd, 1/4th Bttn Royal Welch Fusiliers. Youngest son of Mr and Mrs Edward Lloyd, Bronniarth, Guilsfield who was killed 13 January 1917, France.

Montgomeryshire County Times report 3 February 1917: We regret to hear that Pte D.E. Lloyd lost his life in France. The parents received last Monday the following communnication from his Second Lieut. 'I regret that circumstances prevented me previously expressing my deepest sympathy with you in the loss of your son. Pte D.E. Lloyd who was killed in action during the afternooon of 13 January 1917. His comrades paid their last tributes on January 14th and a cross has been erected to mark the resting place of one who so very nobly laid down his life for his King and Country'. 

Mrs Jones: I suspect John Lloyd's death must be from wounds as it took place a month after Armistice was announced.

Pte. 48391 John Lloyd, 16th Bn. (according to Commonwealth War Graves Commission records, though the family memorial service card states 5th Bn.) Manchester Regiment, died of wounds 12th December 1918, and is buried in Tournai Communal Cemetery Allied Extension.

These images are a sample from a folder of research undertaken by Mrs Jones into the men named on the war memorial (1914-1919) of Guilsfield parish (near Welshpool, Montgomeryshire - now Powys, in Wales). The names include: Frank Arthur, Ernest Charlton, Edward Evans, Robert Evans, Fred Evans, Charles Galliers, Robert Gainsford, Edward Griffiths,John Higgins, Edwin Jones, James Jones, Charles Jones, William Jones, Alan Langlands, Edward Lloyd, John Lloyd, Richard Morgan, Edward Morris, John Owen, Evan Phillips, Herbert Trevor, David E. Bailey, Herbert Bailey, Arthur Gough, Charles Jones, George R. Jones, Arthur T. Lewis, Mathew W.H. Morris, Richard D.H. Mytton, Gruffydd V. Trevor. Representing a number of regiments of the army, also the Royal Navy and the Royal Flying Corps. Also evident is the volunteers who joined up early in the war, as well as the tribunals which decided that even though farming was a reserved occupation that man-power being so scarce some men would be compelled to join the army, leaving their families, their aging fathers, mothers, sisters and younger siblings to continue to provide food for the war effort - an insight into the home-front in rural Wales.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6v1y.2
title: Pay book for John Witham (6)

description: Pay Book
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6xvd.2
title: 3 soldiers relaxing under a tree (2)

description: Postcard sent by Robert James Beadon to his mother, (my great aunt I think, I found this in a box of photos when my aunt died.) I don't know which of the three soldiers he is.

It reads "This is how we are compelled to walk about owing to the heat, I don't know what it will be like when we get the other side of the Mountains 'Caucasus' as we soon shall be now"

I think he must have been going to Mesopotamia because I found this on the the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website -
In Memory of Serjeant ROBERT JAMES BEADON
79686, 6th Light Armoured Motor Bty, Machine Gun Corps (Motors)
who died age 29 on 15 October 1918.
Son of Robert James and Ellen Beadon, of 1, Brook Rd., Wood Green,             London. 
Remembered with honour
BASRA MEMORIAL
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8b4r.2
title: Photographs of British tanks (2)

description: Photographs of two wrecked MK I 'Male' Tanks, one identified by the serial number 749. 

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/bodleian8fmh.2
title: Collection of photographs and articles.  Cpl. Harry Smith, John D. Smith, Charles Smith, John (Jack) Rule and Willie Smith (14)

description: Jack Rule won the Croix de Geurre

Harry Smith was killed on 1st July 1916 at the Somme in McCrae's Battalion

John D. Smith was killed at Ypres
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8j17.2
title: PHotographs of Edward Lloyd and John Lloyd

description: A colour photocopy of a photograph of Pte Edward Lloyd.

Colour photocopies of the grave and the cemetery where Pte Edward Lloyd is buried, Beford House Cemetery between Ieper and Armentieres, Belgium (plot I row F Grave 17), taken by a descendent of Pts Lloyd's family, Mrs Davies of Bowerhill, Wilts. when they went to pay their respects to Pte Lloyd's grave. 

A photocopy of the usual notice sent with most notifications to the bereaved families of the death of their loved one.

A photocopy of the card of Edward Lloyd's eldest brother Pte John Lloyd who also lost his life in the war. John Lloyd of the 5th Manchester Regiment was killed in action aged 35 years in France - he was buried on 12 December 1918. 

Pte 12226 Edward Lloyd, 1/4th Bttn Royal Welch Fusiliers. Youngest son of Mr and Mrs Edward Lloyd, Bronniarth, Guilsfield who was killed 13 January 1917, France.

Montgomeryshire County Times report 3 February 1917: We regret to hear that Pte D.E. Lloyd lost his life in France. The parents received last Monday the following communnication from his Second Lieut. 'I regret that circumstances prevented me previously expressing my deepest sympathy with you in the loss of your son. Pte D.E. Lloyd who was killed in action during the afternooon of 13 January 1917. His comrades paid their last tributes on January 14th and a cross has been erected to mark the resting place of one who so very nobly laid down his life for his King and Country'. 

Mrs Jones: I suspect John Lloyd's death must be from wounds as it took place a month after Armistice was announced.

Pte. 48391 John Lloyd, 16th Bn. (according to Commonwealth War Graves Commission records, though the family memorial service card states 5th Bn.) Manchester Regiment, died of wounds 12th December 1918, and is buried in Tournai Communal Cemetery Allied Extension.

These images are a sample from a folder of research undertaken by Mrs Jones into the men named on the war memorial (1914-1919) of Guilsfield parish (near Welshpool, Montgomeryshire - now Powys, in Wales). The names include: Frank Arthur, Ernest Charlton, Edward Evans, Robert Evans, Fred Evans, Charles Galliers, Robert Gainsford, Edward Griffiths,John Higgins, Edwin Jones, James Jones, Charles Jones, William Jones, Alan Langlands, Edward Lloyd, John Lloyd, Richard Morgan, Edward Morris, John Owen, Evan Phillips, Herbert Trevor, David E. Bailey, Herbert Bailey, Arthur Gough, Charles Jones, George R. Jones, Arthur T. Lewis, Mathew W.H. Morris, Richard D.H. Mytton, Gruffydd V. Trevor. Representing a number of regiments of the army, also the Royal Navy and the Royal Flying Corps. Also evident is the volunteers who joined up early in the war, as well as the tribunals which decided that even though farming was a reserved occupation that man-power being so scarce some men would be compelled to join the army, leaving their families, their aging fathers, mothers, sisters and younger siblings to continue to provide food for the war effort - an insight into the home-front in rural Wales.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8n15.2
title: Pay book for John Witham (5)

description: Pay Book
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ooy.2
title: A Cameron Captured (15)

description: 1,2,3 Attestation papers
4,5,6 Two group photographs: new recruits
7 Card: To father
8 Letter: Wounded
9 First page of New Testiment
10 Letter: Reported missing
11 Card:  Captured and wounded
12 Card:  Captured
13 Letter:  Parcel
14 Letter;  Quedlinburg POW camp
15 Letter:  Food parcel
16 Card:  Recovered from wound
17 Card:  Parcel
18 Letter; To mother
19 POW money
20 Card:  Started work as POW
21,22,23 Card:  Parcels
24 Card: To mother
25 Letter: To mother
26 Letter: To mother
27,28 Cards:  Parcels
29 POW concert programme
30,31 POW Group photo.
32 Letter:  To mother
33 Card:  From Holland (on his way home)
34 Letter:  King George letter to POWs'
35 Certificate:  Ensuring funds while seeking employment
36 Certificate:  Transfer to Z reserve
37 Summary of POW mail
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8uvj.2
title: 3 soldiers relaxing under a tree (1)

description: Postcard sent by Robert James Beadon to his mother, (my great aunt I think, I found this in a box of photos when my aunt died.) I don't know which of the three soldiers he is.

It reads "This is how we are compelled to walk about owing to the heat, I don't know what it will be like when we get the other side of the Mountains 'Caucasus' as we soon shall be now"

I think he must have been going to Mesopotamia because I found this on the the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website -
In Memory of Serjeant ROBERT JAMES BEADON
79686, 6th Light Armoured Motor Bty, Machine Gun Corps (Motors)
who died age 29 on 15 October 1918.
Son of Robert James and Ellen Beadon, of 1, Brook Rd., Wood Green,             London. 
Remembered with honour
BASRA MEMORIAL