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DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjlkw.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (68)

description: A notebook kept by Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, A Company, 42nd East Lancashire Division, believed to have been a sniper. The notebook contains a variety of material, including accounts of Snape's own movements and the operations he was involved in. He took part in the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, was in Malta later in 1915, then Egypt 1916-17, and finally France in 1917. The notebook also includes references to Gallipoli, Suvla Bay, and Anzac.

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjofh.2
title: Databases of Bristol Roll of Honour 1914-1919 and List of Decorations (2)

description: Two databases prepared by John Flook combining the Bristol Roll of Honor and List of Decorations with information on the CWGC web-site and 'Soldiers that Died' CD. The Roll of Honor details Bristol men killed or died on service during 1914-1919 compiled under directions of the British Inquiry Bureau.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjszt.2
title: Letter: To Mrs. Voynich.

description: Writes to tell Mrs Voynich that it is his 27th birthday / thanks her for some chocolates she has sent and for her help with French vocabulary / says that he intends to take a walking trip of the country after the war, if possible / praises French courtesy and the beauty of their buildings / reports that the men sometimes speak badly of the towns, but only because there are no cinemas / inquires after Mrs Voynich's health and London / the possible pleasures of living away from one's friends / reports that he has managed not to be hurt, and that mentally he is feeling calmer / the disappearance of one of his friends in battle / discusses a book of poetry entitled 'Spirit of Man' / includes a draft of the poem 'Serenity' / discusses the serious and grand nature of living through this particular part of history.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjtb.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (70)

description: A notebook kept by Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, A Company, 42nd East Lancashire Division, believed to have been a sniper. The notebook contains a variety of material, including accounts of Snape's own movements and the operations he was involved in. He took part in the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, was in Malta later in 1915, then Egypt 1916-17, and finally France in 1917. The notebook also includes references to Gallipoli, Suvla Bay, and Anzac.

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianp8.2
title: Book of postcards from Koln (Cologne) (1)

description: Folded picture postcard book sent from Koln in 1919 with note from Sergeant Shearer.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrb9.2
title: Harry Green's letter to Mother (1)

description: Letter sent prior to embarkation for France by Rifleman Harry Green, 8th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps, to his mother Mary Green living in Silvertown, East London.

Editor's Comment:
Rifleman R/31363 Harry William Green, 8th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps (part of the 14th (Light) Division), the son of Walter H. and Mary E. Green, originally of King's Lynn, Norfolk, died of wounds 27th December 1916, age 19. He is buried in Avesnes-Le-Comte Communal Cemetery Extension.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiansuy.2
title: Book of postcards from Koln (Cologne) (5)

description: Folded picture postcard book sent from Koln in 1919 with note from Sergeant Shearer.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian21bl.2
title: Harry Green's letter to Mother (2)

description: Letter sent prior to embarkation for France by Rifleman Harry Green, 8th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps, to his mother Mary Green living in Silvertown, East London.

Editor's Comment:
Rifleman R/31363 Harry William Green, 8th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps (part of the 14th (Light) Division), the son of Walter H. and Mary E. Green, originally of King's Lynn, Norfolk, died of wounds 27th December 1916, age 19. He is buried in Avesnes-Le-Comte Communal Cemetery Extension.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian23xn.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (75)

description: A notebook kept by Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, A Company, 42nd East Lancashire Division, believed to have been a sniper. The notebook contains a variety of material, including accounts of Snape's own movements and the operations he was involved in. He took part in the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, was in Malta later in 1915, then Egypt 1916-17, and finally France in 1917. The notebook also includes references to Gallipoli, Suvla Bay, and Anzac.

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian24rg.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (78)

description: A notebook kept by Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, A Company, 42nd East Lancashire Division, believed to have been a sniper. The notebook contains a variety of material, including accounts of Snape's own movements and the operations he was involved in. He took part in the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, was in Malta later in 1915, then Egypt 1916-17, and finally France in 1917. The notebook also includes references to Gallipoli, Suvla Bay, and Anzac.

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian257c.2
title: Letter from Private ET Jones, Egypt (4)

description: Pvt. Jones ET Born January 3rd 1882.. died 1963
1st/3rd County of London Yeomanry
Sharp Shooters
1st Troop C Squadron
Egyptian Expeditionary Force.
 
June 1916
Imperial Camel Corps
NO 1923 PTE ET Jones
9th Company
Imperial Camel Corps
Yeomanry Reserve Egyptian Expeditionary Force
 
Out of action after accident on camel called 'Old Sambo' June 1917. also believed to have suffered Malaria, declared unfit for active service.
 
He stayed in Egypot for the duration of the war carrying out admin duties on a prisioner of war camp  Ras-el-Tin at Alexandria . The camp changed its name to The Aliens internment camp on March 16th 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian26nf.2
title: Upstairs Piano

description: Manuscript, possibly copied out in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Published in 'War's Embers'  (1917). Various manuscript versions of the poem exist. In Ivor Gurney's edition of 'War's Embers' he notes after this poem, 'Best poem on Music'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2kld.2
title: Model tank and old suitcase (1)

description: The photographs of tank are from a model made by a German POW and presented to my Grandfather as a present. Captain Thomas J. Costello MC of the Royal Artillery Medical Corps was stationed at Trouville No.4, Convalescent Department in the South of France in 1919 where he was given the model tank.

Also enclosed are pictures of his suitcase made for him with his monograph in Manchester around 1918.

Thomas Joseph Costello. Born June 10th 1890 died at 55 years of age, March 1945. Born in Dublin to John Costello and Rose Callaghan. Probably educated like his brother John Aloysius (Taoiseach) in O'Connell Schools, Richmond street by the Christian brothers.

From co. Clare Barefield. Married June 8th 1917. Captain in Royal Army Medical core Artillery E.Lancs regiment.

Awarded the Military Cross for riding out into No Mans Land to administer to wounded. He was gassed which was probably the reason for early death.

Worked in French POW camp where he received the tank (photos attached).

After the war he returned to Darwen, Lancashire and was given an honorary Ms Science.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2mj2.2
title: Jlluftrite Zeitung No.48 [German newspaper] (4)

description: German newspaper. Mr Shearer's grandfather is sitting down in the photo on page 3 with the annotated arrows pointing to him saying, "do you remember having been in such a position?"
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2na.2
title: The Fire Kindled

description: Manuscript, possibly copied out in pen in Marion Scott's hand.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2q8x.2
title: Rifleman Harry Green. Letter from Chaplain (1)

description: Letter regarding Rifleman Harry Green, from the Chaplain at 37th Casualty Clearing Station. In reply to a letter from Harry's mother Mary Green, requesting information regarding her son's death.

Editor's Comment:
Rifleman R/31363 Harry William Green, 8th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps (part of the 14th (Light) Division), the son of Walter H. and Mary E. Green, originally of King's Lynn, Norfolk, died of wounds 27th December 1916, age 19. He is buried in Avesnes-Le-Comte Communal Cemetery Extension.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2skd.2
title: Letter from Jack Morten (4)

description: Letter sent from my father-in-law to his parents.  There are nearly 200 letters from the war which were published in 1993 under the title "I remain Your son, Jack".  I own the copyright.  This is the most graphic of the letters.  The latter part of the transcription is a letter about the same incident to Jack's sister, Pat.

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 2393 John Clarke Morten, 1/7th Bn. Manchester Regiment, was commissioned Second Lieutenant and later attached to the Royal Air Force.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian3lp.2
title: Bible belonging to Rifleman Harry Green (2)

description: Bible sent to Rifleman Harry Green's mother either as a souvenir before leaving for France, or sent home after his death. Note the page marked with a sprig of flowers.

Editor's Comment:
'Active Service Testament 1916'. With pencilled owner's details. 

Rifleman R/31363 Harry William Green, 8th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps (part of the 14th (Light) Division), the son of Walter H. and Mary E. Green, originally of King's Lynn, Norfolk, died of wounds 27th December 1916, age 19. He is buried in Avesnes-Le-Comte Communal Cemetery Extension.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian48q.2
title: Rifleman Harry Green. 2nd CCS letter

description: Second letter regarding Rifleman Harry Green. Written by the Sister In Charge at 37th Casualty Clearing Station, informing his mother Mary Green that he had died peacefully.

Editor's Comment:
Rifleman R/31363 Harry William Green, 8th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps (part of the 14th (Light) Division), the son of Walter H. and Mary E. Green, originally of King's Lynn, Norfolk, died of wounds 27th December 1916, age 19. He is buried in Avesnes-Le-Comte Communal Cemetery Extension.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian62br.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (81)

description: A notebook kept by Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, A Company, 42nd East Lancashire Division, believed to have been a sniper. The notebook contains a variety of material, including accounts of Snape's own movements and the operations he was involved in. He took part in the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, was in Malta later in 1915, then Egypt 1916-17, and finally France in 1917. The notebook also includes references to Gallipoli, Suvla Bay, and Anzac.

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian693j.2
title: Rifleman Harry Green. CCS letter to mother.

description: Letter to Rifleman Harry Green's mother. From the Sister In Charge at 37th Casualty Clearing Station, Avesnes Le Comte. Informing Mary Green that her son had been mortally wounded and was not expected to live.

Editor's Comment:
Rifleman R/31363 Harry William Green, 8th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps (part of the 14th (Light) Division), the son of Walter H. and Mary E. Green, originally of King's Lynn, Norfolk, died of wounds 27th December 1916, age 19. He is buried in Avesnes-Le-Comte Communal Cemetery Extension.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6bji.2
title: Letter from Jack Morten (2)

description: Letter sent from my father-in-law to his parents.  There are nearly 200 letters from the war which were published in 1993 under the title "I remain Your son, Jack".  I own the copyright.  This is the most graphic of the letters.  The latter part of the transcription is a letter about the same incident to Jack's sister, Pat.

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 2393 John Clarke Morten, 1/7th Bn. Manchester Regiment, was commissioned Second Lieutenant and later attached to the Royal Air Force.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ct6.2
title: Day Boys and Choristers

description: Manuscript, possibly copied out in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Published in 'War's Embers' (1917). Makes reference to the Boy's of Kings School, Gloucester, which Ivor Gurney attended from 1900-1905.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6pos.2
title: Letter of private George Kipps May 1915 and Final letter Oct 1915 (2)

description: The letter dated April 1915 from Private George Kipps to his mother, suggests that Easter seems to have been fairly quite in their part of the trenches. he says' I think they all went home yesterday to keep up Good Friday'.
The final communication ( October 1915),to his mother is from his Commanding Officer, informing her that her son had been shot in the face.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6rdc.2
title: Photograph of Ivor Gurney in Uniform

description: Photograph of Ivor Gurney taken whilst in hospital at Rouen, where he spent a month recovering from a gunshot wound to the upper arm received on Good Friday 1917 near Vermand.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6u8y.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (77)

description: A notebook kept by Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, A Company, 42nd East Lancashire Division, believed to have been a sniper. The notebook contains a variety of material, including accounts of Snape's own movements and the operations he was involved in. He took part in the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, was in Malta later in 1915, then Egypt 1916-17, and finally France in 1917. The notebook also includes references to Gallipoli, Suvla Bay, and Anzac.

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian87t1.2
title: Day Boys and Choristers

description: Manuscript, possibly copied out in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Published in 'War's Embers' (1917). Makes reference to the Boy's of Kings School, Gloucester, which Ivor Gurney attended from 1900-1905.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8bo7.2
title: Flowers sent by soldiers to family (3)

description: The lavender and the violet were sent home by the same person (Bert). The lavender from Crannock Chase England (training ground 1917). The violets from France.

The daffodil is attached to a letter sent by Private George Kipps of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards British Expeditionary Force. The letter is dated 3rd April 1915. this is one of several surviving letters from this soldier.

I thought it would be interesting to include surviving examples of flora sent home by soldiers to their loved ones. I wonder if any poppies survive?
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8dbk.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (80)

description: A notebook kept by Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, A Company, 42nd East Lancashire Division, believed to have been a sniper. The notebook contains a variety of material, including accounts of Snape's own movements and the operations he was involved in. He took part in the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, was in Malta later in 1915, then Egypt 1916-17, and finally France in 1917. The notebook also includes references to Gallipoli, Suvla Bay, and Anzac.

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8l85.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (76)

description: A notebook kept by Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, A Company, 42nd East Lancashire Division, believed to have been a sniper. The notebook contains a variety of material, including accounts of Snape's own movements and the operations he was involved in. He took part in the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, was in Malta later in 1915, then Egypt 1916-17, and finally France in 1917. The notebook also includes references to Gallipoli, Suvla Bay, and Anzac.

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8m3h.2
title: Rifleman Harry Green's letter from France

description: Rifleman Harry Green's only letter from France, to his mother Mary Green, living in Silvertown, East London. Written a few days before he was wounded.

Editor's Comment:
Written on Y.M.C.A. headed notepaper: 'On Active Service with the British Expeditionary Force'.

Rifleman R/31363 Harry William Green, 8th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps (part of the 14th (Light) Division), the son of Walter H. and Mary E. Green, originally of King's Lynn, Norfolk, died of wounds 27th December 1916, age 19. He is buried in Avesnes-Le-Comte Communal Cemetery Extension.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8qjb.2
title: Letter from Jack Morten (1)

description: Letter sent from my father-in-law to his parents.  There are nearly 200 letters from the war which were published in 1993 under the title "I remain Your son, Jack".  I own the copyright.  This is the most graphic of the letters.  The latter part of the transcription is a letter about the same incident to Jack's sister, Pat.

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 2393 John Clarke Morten, 1/7th Bn. Manchester Regiment, was commissioned Second Lieutenant and later attached to the Royal Air Force.