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DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6bkq.2
title: Postcard from Fred Lynn to his Mother (2)

description: Fred wrote
"Dear Mother we got at Lincon [sic] on Sat at 2 oclock and I am getting on all right hope you are the same. From your loving son Fred.

Fred Lynn's story
Fred's story is told here through a number of photographs and post cards that he sent to his mother. She kept them in an album, together with those from his brothers and sisters.

Frederick Lynn was the sixth of 7 surviving children of Sarah Ann and Christmas Lynn. Fred was born in 1896 and brought up in Gedney Hill in south Lincolnshire. 

Fred and his brothers Robert and John went to Lincoln to enlist in April 1916. 
Robert was not accepted. I don't know if this was because he was not fit or because he was now the head of the household (his father had died in 1915) or because he was a farmer.
Fred enlisted in the Notts and Derby Regiment of the Sherwood Foresters. He became a Lance Corporal in the 15th Battalion and was wounded in 1918. 
He was in hospital in Southampton in May 1918 but was discharged and returned to his Battalion. Tragically he was killed on 29th September 1918 and is commemorated on the Memorial at the Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium and on the war memorials in his home village of Gedney Hill.

Fred's brother John Lynn also enlisted but I have no photographs of him and very few postcards to his mother. John survived the war but died in 1918, perhaps in the flu pandemic.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6bpx.2
title: Photograph of peasants filling cans in a farmyard, belonging to Joseph Thompson

description: This photograph is 2 of 2 showing the same scene and was either taken, or collected, by 494 Sergeant Joseph Cecil Thompson of the 9th Battalion AIF during his service at Galliopli and in Egypt. 

Editor's Comment:
The 9th Bn., as part of 3rd Brg. Australian Imperial Force, were the first to land at the ANZAC beachead on Gallipoli, 25th April 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6f5l.2
title: Photograph of Australian soldier and peasant, belonging to Joseph Thompson

description: Australian soldier and peasant. Probably 1915 or early 1916, possibly Lemnos or Mudros island or Egypt. This photograph was most probably taken, or perhaps collected, by 494 Sergeant Joseph Cecil Thompson of the 9th Battalion 1st AIF during his service at Galliopli and in Egypt.

Editor's Comment:
The 9th Bn., as part of 3rd Brg. Australian Imperial Force, were the first to land at the ANZAC beachead on Gallipoli, 25th April 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6pkj.2
title: Frank Smith's log book (1)

description: Records flying hours during training.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6tnr.1
title: Great Western Railway locomotive 5322

description: Served in France 1917 - 1919, now preserved at Didcot Railway Centre.  Possibly the largest surviving Great War artefact is right here in Oxfordshire. She is Great Western Railway locomotive 5322 which was built in October 1917 and sent when new to France, along with other members of the class, to haul supply trains between Calais and railheads for the front line.

The locomotive is nearing the end of restoration to running order, and because of her Great War service is being painted in the khaki livery of the ROD (Railway Operating Division) with white lettering ROD and her number 5322 on the tender.

Photograph 17 May 2008 5322 turntable shows the locomotive on the turntable at Didcot Railway Centre on 17 May, partially painted.

Photograph 25 June 2008 tender shows the ROD 5322 lettering newly applied to the tender on 25 June.

Photograph 5322France1918 is a picture of the locomotive in France in 1918. The letters 5322 are just about visible on the tender. Note the RCL (Ravitaillement Calais - Ligne) board on the bufferbeam.

Photograph 5319 is another member of the same class in France.

I have also submitted a Word file  with the text of an article written by C E R Sherrington in 1973. He served in the Railway Operating Division in France during the Great War and described an encounter with 5322 in France. He died soon after writing this article, which was published in the Great Western Society's magazine, Great Western Echo. I was editing the magazine at the time, and met Mr Sherrington in 1971.

5322 has already been completed mechanically, and steam tested, so the painting is the final part of her restoration. Within a few weeks she will be a working representative of all those British locomotives that were sent to France, and other theatres of the Great War.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8bkh.2
title: Photographs of Frank Smith (2)

description: Individual photograph of 2nd Lt. F. Smith

Group of KOYLI NCO's, Corporal Frank Smith seated second from right.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8f6b.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Thinking of 'what's in store' / reserve better than front lines / describes how the army has forced Ivor Gurney to get along better with people / thinks about possible death, and expresses some contentment / takes comfort in his 'English Preludes' and verses / working on the sonnet 'England' for the 'Sonnets 1914' sequence / John Masefield's 'Good Friday'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8hg.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8k59.2
title: Photograph of Sergeant Joseph Cecil Thompson

description: 494 Sergeant Joseph Cecil Thompson, French postcard portrait, 1916 or later. Served Gallipoli, Egypt, France and Belgium and returned to Australia in 1919.

Editor's Comment:
The colour and shape of patches on the upper sleeve indicate Thompson's Battalion. The crown above chevrons show that Joseph Thompson held the appointment of Company Quater-Master Serjeant. Note that the Australian Imperial Force only wore appointment badges on the right sleeve.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8oma.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8pnk.1
title: Account of entertaining wounded Tommies in hospital, Llandrindod Wells

description: Walter Powell's notes record the hotels and large houses in Llandrindod Wells which were commandeered by the War Ministry and turned "into a military hospital for Tommies coming back from France with rheumatism etc." in 1914. "This carried on to 1923". Also that "when I came home [from France] in 1919, I belonged to a Pierotte troupe and we used to go around the boys in Blue and give concerts and have a jolly time... before radio and TV we had to make our own entertainment. We were often a hundred or more. Happy days."

Part of a collection relating to Walter H. Powell, Llandrindod Wells, (private / driver M2-267205 Mechanised Transport Army Service Corps). Born 1898, Walter tried to join up under-age on a number of occasions, finally succeeding in 1916. He served many months - (more than 2 years?) - in different army units in Britain, before going over to France. He served as a despatch rider for an anti-aircraft battery in 1918-1919. Walter was gassed "suffering the effects all his life". He was a founder member of Toc-H in Llandrindod, and a keen footballer - he died in 1994 aged 96. However Walter's older brothers (Cliff and Percy Powell) and his uncle (Humphrey Powell) died of wounds sustained during the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8qkg.2
title: Notification of wounding and hospitalisation of Pte John Peace, Seaforth Highlanders (2)

description: Orkney Archive ref. D1/979  Notification from the Infantry Record Office, Perth to the family of Pte John Peace, Clay Loan, Kirkwall, that he had suffered a gunshot wound and was in No 18 (Chicago) USA hospital, France.  3rd September 1918
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8qpq.2
title: Photograph of peasants filling water cans, making bread, belonging to Joseph Thompson

description: This photograph is one of two which depict the same scene, and was either taken, or collected, by 494 Sergeant Joseph Cecil Thompson of the 9th Battalion AIF during his service at Galliopli and in Egypt. He was evacuated from Gallipoli due to illness in about October 1915, and after the retreat from Gallipoli, served in Egypt - the dates and subject matter of the photos seem to correspond with these dates. Many of the photos have inscriptions in pencil on the back in his handwriting, some are inscribed in the margins of the negative prior to printing, and one negative exists along with its positive print, so it seems likely that he was the photographer.

Editor's Comment:
The 9th Bn., as part of 3rd Brg. Australian Imperial Force, were the first to land at the ANZAC beachead on Gallipoli, 25th April 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8t3s.2
title: Orkney Constabulary Local Pass for Mary Robertson Sinclair (2)

description: Orkney Archives Reference number D30/2/5. Blue folded card with photograph and personal information certifying that Miss Sinclair has been resident in the County of Orkney since August 4th 1914.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianae9.2
title: Letters to daughter (4)

description: Sgt Augustus Maud, Suffolk Regiment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiance.2
title: After-Glow

description: Informs that the battalion will be back 'at work' in the trenches again soon / discusses 'Firelight' / does not require a copy of 'The Fire Kindled' / describes how he sees his collected volume / suggests changes for 'Hail and Farewell' / possible inclusions and omissions for the volume / expresses sorrow of the death of one of Marion Scott's friends / wonders after F W Harvey in a prisoner of war camp / suggests corrections for 'To the Poet Before Battle' / will try to rediscover the origins of 'Firelight' / wonders what Scott finds interesting in his letters / the 'pluck' of Ivor Gurney's fellow soldiers / includes 'Afterglow', dedicated to F W Harvey / 'Praise'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand1ft.1
title: War memorial and roll of honour, Presbyterian Church, Llandrindod Wells

description: Photographs and extracts from the programme for the unveiling and dedication in remembrance of the fallen in the Great War, 1914-1918, June 11th 1922. Officiating minister: Revd S. George. 

William J. Powell (father of Walter Powell) was an elder and secretary/treasurer of the Presbyterian Church in Ithon Road, Llandrindod. He and his wife Clara lost two sons, Percy and Clifford, both died of wounds, and their youngest son returned from France in 1919, safe, but suffering the effects of being gassed. W.J. Powell's younger brother Humphrey also died of his wounds. The war memorial was unveiled in 1922 and was a gift from William and Clara Powell. Walter's notes record that "Father presented it in memory of fallen Tommies". The diaries of W.J. Powell (also part of this collection) show that a roll of honour was being kept in the church throughout the war, and this particular memorial was erected in 1918, completed in 1922. It shows the names of all the men from the congregation who served (about 95-100) - not only those killed (22 men).

Part of a collection relating to Walter H. Powell, Llandrindod Wells, (private / driver M2-267205 Mechanised Transport Army Service Corps). Born 1898, Walter tried to join up under-age on a number of occasions, finally succeeding in 1916. He served many months - (more than 2 years?) - in different army units in Britain, before going over to France. He served as a despatch rider for an anti-aircraft battery in 1918-1919. Walter was gassed "suffering the effects all his life". He was a founder member of Toc-H in Llandrindod, and a keen footballer - he died in 1994 aged 96. However Walter's older brothers (Cliff and Percy Powell) and his uncle (Humphrey Powell) died of wounds sustained during the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand2sk.2
title: Notification of wounding and hospitalisation of Pte John Peace, Seaforth Highlanders (1)

description: Orkney Archive ref. D1/979  Notification from the Infantry Record Office, Perth to the family of Pte John Peace, Clay Loan, Kirkwall, that he had suffered a gunshot wound and was in No 18 (Chicago) USA hospital, France.  3rd September 1918
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand4gr.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand6pp.2
title: Letters to daughter (8)

description: Sgt Augustus Maud, Suffolk Regiment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand79u.2
title: Photographs, etc. related to Robert Irvine Hulley (3)

description: R I Hulley 13/12/1889 - 03/07/1995.  My father (on the right by the FK8 in "Lloyd Hulley FK8") lied about his age - like many others - to join the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), probably in 1916.  Within six weeks of joining his first squadron, he was it's longest surviving member. The attached photographs were taken late in the war when he was with No. 82 (Army Co-operation) Squadron.  He was the observer, in the rear cockpit, and operated the Lewis gun for rear defence.  The pilot was Kenneth Lloyd, on the left.  My father told me that the observers all used to cut the finger tips off their gloves, regardless of the cold, "because you could not change the magazine on your gun with full gloves on".  See photo "Gloves 01" - these are his own silk under gloves which he wore during the war.  More information on No. 82 Squadron may be found in "Cross and Cockade" Vol 32 Issues 1 and 2, 2001.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandcuw.2
title: Letters to daughter (6)

description: Sgt Augustus Maud, Suffolk Regiment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianddqp.1
title: Photograph and Pass of Jack Barker

description: Photograph and Pass for Corporal 74567 Jack Barker, 2nd Signals Coy. Royal Engineers, 4th Bde. 2nd Division.  He was a motorcycle despatch rider with the Signals and talked of Ypres, Arras and Doullongs Sur Mare. He subsequently had a family of his own, helped build Spitfires during WW2 and maintained a love of motorcycles and cars until his death in June 1975.

Editor's Comment:
Cpl. Barker is pictured with a 550 cc Triumph Model 'H'. 

Pass no. 9120 as stamped by Assistant Provost Marshal, for the period 1st December 1917 to 28th February 1918. 

Cpl. Barker appears to have transferred sometime after this pass was issued into the Tank Corps, receiving a Second Lieutenant's commission.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandt5w.1
title: Photographs and Documents relating to William Simper, erroneously listed dead

description: Lance Corporal 41829 William Alfred George Simper, 10th Bn. Essex Regiment:

Initially his parents were informed that he had died, but then were told of his whereabouts: in Hospital Auxiliare 101 in Rennes, France. He was wounded in the thigh and buttock by shrapnel, believed caused by French artillery, and was nursed in a French convent by nuns.  
About 40 years later the quality of the 1918 french surgery was highly praised in a British hospital. Bill Simper went on to have a family of his own, serve as a surveyor with the Civil Defence in WW2 and ultimately died in September 1975, some 57 years after the first announcement of his death. 

Also some Christmas cards from his two brothers, Bert and Harold, both serving with the 6th Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianduqy.2
title: Photograph of Australian soldiers seated, Egypt, belonging to Joseph Thompson

description: Australian soldiers seated en masse, probably Egypt 1915. This photograph was most probably taken, or perhaps collected, by 494 Sergeant Joseph Cecil Thompson of the 9th Battalion 1st AIF during his service at Galliopli and in Egypt.

Editor's Comment:
The 9th Bn., as part of 3rd Brg. Australian Imperial Force, were the first to land at the ANZAC beachead on Gallipoli, 25th April 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandxam.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiangv8.2
title: Photograph of Turkish POWs, belonging to Joseph Thompson

description: Turkish POWs possibly, likely 1915, either Gallipoli, Mudros Island or Lemnos.This photograph was most probably taken, or perhaps collected, by 494 Sergeant Joseph Cecil Thompson of the 9th Battalion 1st AIF during his service at Galliopli and in Egypt. 

Editor's Comment:
The 9th Bn., as part of 3rd Brg. Australian Imperial Force, were the first to land at the ANZAC beachead on Gallipoli, 25th April 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianhfm.2
title: Frank Smith's log book (2)

description: Records flying hours during training.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj6sr.2
title: Postcard from Fred Lynn to his Mother (1)

description: Fred wrote
"Dear Mother we got at Lincon [sic] on Sat at 2 oclock and I am getting on all right hope you are the same. From your loving son Fred.

Fred Lynn's story
Fred's story is told here through a number of photographs and post cards that he sent to his mother. She kept them in an album, together with those from his brothers and sisters.

Frederick Lynn was the sixth of 7 surviving children of Sarah Ann and Christmas Lynn. Fred was born in 1896 and brought up in Gedney Hill in south Lincolnshire. 

Fred and his brothers Robert and John went to Lincoln to enlist in April 1916. 
Robert was not accepted. I don't know if this was because he was not fit or because he was now the head of the household (his father had died in 1915) or because he was a farmer.
Fred enlisted in the Notts and Derby Regiment of the Sherwood Foresters. He became a Lance Corporal in the 15th Battalion and was wounded in 1918. 
He was in hospital in Southampton in May 1918 but was discharged and returned to his Battalion. Tragically he was killed on 29th September 1918 and is commemorated on the Memorial at the Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium and on the war memorials in his home village of Gedney Hill.

Fred's brother John Lynn also enlisted but I have no photographs of him and very few postcards to his mother. John survived the war but died in 1918, perhaps in the flu pandemic.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj75v.1
title: Cartoons from the diary of John George Shellard who served with the London Regiment in the First World War.

description: My great grandfather's brother John Shellard was a talented artist and he kept a diary in which he drew cartoons of what he experienced in the First World War.  

Editor's Comment:
1. 'We were only at ANZAC to be shot at'.
2. '1. Mesopotamian Soldier before leave in India; 2. Same soldier after leave'.
3. 'A ringside gathering waiting for the Boxing Contest held on board the Transport "Menominee" at sea. 
4. 'Palestine, the "Un"Holyhand'.

Gunner 90562 John G. Shellard, Royal Field Artillery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjc9a.2
title: Photographs, etc. related to Robert Irvine Hulley (4)

description: R I Hulley 13/12/1889 - 03/07/1995.  My father (on the right by the FK8 in "Lloyd Hulley FK8") lied about his age - like many others - to join the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), probably in 1916.  Within six weeks of joining his first squadron, he was it's longest surviving member. The attached photographs were taken late in the war when he was with No. 82 (Army Co-operation) Squadron.  He was the observer, in the rear cockpit, and operated the Lewis gun for rear defence.  The pilot was Kenneth Lloyd, on the left.  My father told me that the observers all used to cut the finger tips off their gloves, regardless of the cold, "because you could not change the magazine on your gun with full gloves on".  See photo "Gloves 01" - these are his own silk under gloves which he wore during the war.  More information on No. 82 Squadron may be found in "Cross and Cockade" Vol 32 Issues 1 and 2, 2001.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjhpz.2
title: Photographs of Frank Smith (1)

description: Individual photograph of 2nd Lt. F. Smith

Group of KOYLI NCO's, Corporal Frank Smith seated second from right.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjia5.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Thinking of 'what's in store' / reserve better than front lines / describes how the army has forced Ivor Gurney to get along better with people / thinks about possible death, and expresses some contentment / takes comfort in his 'English Preludes' and verses / working on the sonnet 'England' for the 'Sonnets 1914' sequence / John Masefield's 'Good Friday'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjqg2.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjwuv.2
title: Letters to daughter (7)

description: Sgt Augustus Maud, Suffolk Regiment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjxqh.2
title: Photograph of Australian soldiers watching Turkish prisoners, belonging to Joseph Thompson

description: Australian soldiers watching Turkish prisoners, probably 11.10.1915, probably Gallipoli. This photograph was most probably taken, or perhaps collected, by 494 Sergeant Joseph Cecil Thompson of the 9th Battalion 1st AIF during his service at Galliopli and in Egypt.

Editor's Comment:
The 9th Bn., as part of 3rd Brg. Australian Imperial Force, were the first to land at the ANZAC beachead on Gallipoli, 25th April 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjyfg.1
title: Programme for Welcome Home Banquet, Llandrindod Wells

description: Programme for Welcome Home Banquet held on 7th May 1919 at the Grand Pavilion, Llandrindod Wells.

Part of a collection relating to Walter H. Powell, Llandrindod Wells, (private / driver M2-267205 Mechanised Transport Army Service Corps). Born 1898, Walter tried to join up under-age on a number of occasions, finally succeeding in 1916. He served many months - (more than 2 years?) - in different army units in Britain, before going over to France. He served as a despatch rider for an anti-aircraft battery in 1918-1919. Walter was gassed "suffering the effects all his life". He was a founder member of Toc-H in Llandrindod, and a keen footballer - he died in 1994 aged 96. However Walter's older brothers (Cliff and Percy Powell) and his uncle (Humphrey Powell) died of wounds sustained during the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiankv9.1
title: Driving Licence of Walter Powell

description: This is the civilian driving licence of Walter Powell, dated 26th May 1915. Although eligible for only 12 months this is the only licence Walter carried until he gave up driving because of ill health in the early 1990s (aged over 92). He was a driver (cars and lorries) and a motorcycle despatch rider during the First World War - he passed tests and examinations to qualify him for this, as recorded in his father's diaries (also part of this collection).

Part of a collection relating to Walter H. Powell, Llandrindod Wells, (private / driver M2-267205 Mechanised Transport Army Service Corps). Born 1898, Walter tried to join up under-age on a number of occasions, finally succeeding in 1916. He served many months - (more than 2 years?) - in different army units in Britain, before going over to France. He served as a despatch rider for an anti-aircraft battery in 1918-1919. Walter was gassed "suffering the effects all his life". He was a founder member of Toc-H in Llandrindod, and a keen footballer - he died in 1994 aged 96. However Walter's older brothers (Cliff and Percy Powell) and his uncle (Humphrey Powell) died of wounds sustained during the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianl4n.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' (about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).