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DOI: 10.5287/bodleian85iq.2
title: Greater Love

description: Drafted in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. Revised at Scarborough in July 1918. This is a revised draft of lines 1-12. This is no. 161 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian86dp.2
title: The Life of a WAAC

description: A recruiting film for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in Britain, 1918.  The film uses actuality material backed by some acting. It begins with a WAAC recruiting march and inspection, before going on to show a girl noticing the advertisement placard for Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps (the official 1918 title of the WAAC) in Trafalgar Square. She picks up a leaflet from (Mrs Jackson at) the Ministry of Labour recruiting office. After joining she is given a uniform and along with other WAACs learns drill and physical training (in Hyde Park). At their camp (at Aldershot) the WAACs form up for roll-call each morning before setting off for work. The administrator (Miss Clay?) hands out tasks for each of them. Some, as cooks, peel potatoes, set tables and serve food to the soldiers. Others work as clerks. The forewoman, with her dog, poses for the camera. There is a pay parade. The girls, at their hut, wash and brush their hair. Parcels arrive. The girls, with much camera-consciousness , tend the vegetable garden. In the sick bay a nurse attends to those WAACs who are ill. The tennis courts are shown. The girls demonstrate folk dancing. They tend gardens outside their huts. One of the girls, in a comic routine, imitates Charlie Chaplin. Other girls sit in their huts, sewing or writing letters. A march by a recruiting band of soldiers leads WAACs through a town centre (Folkestone). The film ends with posters showing the need for more recruits, and irises out with a WAAC holding a Union Jack.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian89a7.2
title: Mining Activity on the British Front, Official Pictures of the British Army in France

description: Largely dramatised account of a tunneling Company of Royal Engineers planting and exploding a mine under a German position on the Western Front, early 1916.  The tunneling Company loads itself and its equipment into lorries, unloads at the end of the journey, and enters the trench system. At the minehead shaft one man wearing breathing apparatus checks for gas. The men dig at the tunnel face until the captain in charge hears, through a tube, German countermining going on. Explosive charges are brought down the shaft, set in position, the men retire to the surface and a young second-lieutenant checks the electric firing circuit. Highlanders close by take cover in the crater of "the Hohenzollern redoubt". The mine is exploded, followed by two more scenes of mine or shell explosions. The Highlanders run forward to take the crater. Other British troops run forward through a trench system and a machine gun opens fire. Two more mines explode by a treeline. II. At this point the film breaks up into random scenes. A party of British soldiers walks down a shallow trench as if on patrol when suddenly it is pelted with mud from off-camera, exposing the fake. Canadian sappers with a detonator fire another charge and then go forward to inspect the recently-blown craters by the treeline.  The extra length of this film and the inclusion of scenes from IWM 191 BATTLE OF THE SOMME, released August 1916, suggest that this is not the original release version.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8e19.2
title: On My Songs

description: Revision of 1913 draft. Made in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is no.  110 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Letters'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8hva.2
title: Tank

description: Tank in battlefield.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ik9.2
title: American Troops

description: American bombers going into action.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8kdq.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Wishes her father were home / describes a concert at the Bedales School / a walk by a pond with her mother.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8nz.2
title: Interval / De Profundis

description: Ivor Gurney's copy of 'War's Embers', published by Sidgwick and Jackson in May 1919. The inside cover is inscribed 'April 1925 / Ivor Gurney's markings'. The copy has pen annotations in Gurney's hand indicating where each poem was written. Gurney has made alterations to 'Interval' and to the opening of 'De Profundis', which also contains extensive amendments and an additional stanza. He notes that both poems were written at Arras.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8wnd.2
title: Photographs / That County

description: Ivor Gurney's copy of 'War's Embers', published by Sidgwick and Jackson in May 1919. The inside cover is inscribed 'April 1925 / Ivor Gurney's markings'. The copy has pen annotations in Gurney's hand indicating where each poem was written. Gurney notes that 'Photographs' was written at Arras, and 'That County' was written at Gloucester.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8y9p.2
title: Michaelmas

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Title refers to St Michaels Day : 29th September.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianb53.2
title: Royal Welsh Fusiliers

description: At rest after being relieved from the trenches.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand1uy.2
title: The Chances

description: Drafted in August-September 1917 at Craiglockhart and revised in July 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 164 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand6aa.2
title: Crucifix Corner

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand.  Many versions of the poem exist, including a draft in the green covered manuscript notebook 64.4. That draft was included in included in the Edmund Blunden and Leonard Clark editions of Ivor Gurney's works in 1954 and 1973 respectively, and in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney, Collected Poems' (2004). From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand8s8.2
title: American Troops

description: American Regiments in the trenches.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand9s9.2
title: Crickley Hill

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Mentioned in a letter of August 1918 discussing the need for 'polishing'. Possibly omitted from 'War's Embers' (1919) by mistake. Written while Ivor Gurney was a patient at Lord Derby's War Hospital.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandc6q.2
title: First Time In ['The Captain addressed us...']

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand, with numerous corrections. Various versions of the poem exist.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandioj.2
title: The Tower

description: Ivor Gurney's copy of 'War's Embers', published by Sidgwick and Jackson in May 1919. The inside cover is inscribed 'April 1925 / Ivor Gurney's markings'. The copy has pen annotations in Gurney's hand indicating where each poem was written. Gurney notes that 'The Tower', which he has made extensive changes to, including writing in a new stanza, was written at Gloucester. On the opposite page he has written a chronology of dates and the places where he wrote the poems of 'War's Embers'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandmf4.2
title: The Revellers / Annie Laurie

description: Ivor Gurney's copy of 'War's Embers', published by Sidgwick and Jackson in May 1919. The inside cover is inscribed 'April 1925 / Ivor Gurney's markings'. The copy has pen annotations in Gurney's hand indicating where each poem was written. Gurney notes that 'The Revellers', which he has made extensive alterations to, was written at Gloucester, and 'Annie Laurie' was written at Edinburgh.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandn9y.2
title: Lord Mayor's Show

description: Crowds watching procession around the base of Nelson's Monument, Trafalgar Square.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandpzq.2
title: The Eyes of the Army: with the RFC at the Front, Third Series: Aircraft

description: Royal Flying Corps workshops and aeroplanes, Western Front, spring 1916.  An RFC mobile repair shop. A wrecked BE2, serial number 2059, has its wings removed by mechanics and is taken to the repair sheds where its fabric is stripped off. A French officer, being escorted round the shop, passes the fuselage of a Bristol Scout C type, serial number 4679. The mechanics march off to eat. RFC personnel inspect the wreckage of a crashed "Albatross"; A rotary engine is fitted to a BE2; An RE7 reconnaissance aircraft goes out on a flight, sending signals to two wireless operators on the ground, and comes back to land.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianduya.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes growth of 'Kitty' / finding a feather and wishing to know the bird that it came from.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiangxr.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Describes life at school / anticipation of her mother's return.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianixy.2
title: With the indian Troops at the Front, Part 1, Official Pictures of the British Army in France

description: Units of the former Indian Corps, just after its disbandment, in rear areas before their departure from France, November and December 1915. The officers' mess, a building away from the battle zone, of 58th (Vaughan's) Rifles, with officers entering and leaving. Pan over a group of soldiers from 57th (Wilde's) Rifles. An outdoor "durbar" (orderly room) for 47th Sikhs - some officers sit while three new soldiers are paraded before them and perform the ritual of offering the blades of their bayonets for each officer in turn to touch as a symbol of loyalty. An open air workshop for the Sappers and Miners at which they shape wood, making wooden trench periscopes. Gurkhas sharpen their kukris on a grindstone. A demonstration of a "Khattak" or ritual sword dance. Sikhs in formal wrestling bouts which others watch. 34th Sikh Pioneers dig shallow trenches from start to completion with a sandbag parapet and coiled wire in front. 57th (Wilde's) Rifles machine gun section demonstrates setting up its two Maxims in a wood and then retiring with them. At a "refilling point" on a muddy road British and Indian soldiers collect food and fodder for their horses. 4th Cavalry entrains its horses and waits for the order to load its men.  This film was the very first of the Official Pictures of the British Army in France and so represents the first British official film record of any of the war zones released for public viewing.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj4sl.2
title: Strafe

description: Manuscript in pen in an Marion Scott's hand. Also found in the red notebook 52.7 and sent in a letter of 11th June 1917 to Scott. Included in 'Severn and Somme' (1917).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj9fu.2
title: The Battalion is Now On Rest / Photographs

description: Ivor Gurney's copy of 'War's Embers', published by Sidgwick and Jackson in May 1919. The inside cover is inscribed 'April 1925 / Ivor Gurney's markings'. The copy has pen annotations in Gurney's hand indicating where each poem was written. Gurney notes that 'The Battalion is Now On Rest' was written at Hertford, and 'Photographs' was written at Arras.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjdcf.2
title: Ypres - The Shell Shattered City of Flanders, 1916, Official Pictures of the British Army in France

description: Damage to the town of Ypres, Western Front, February 1916.  A panorama of the city. Views of the main square taken from the area of Hellfire Corner. The Cloth Hall, most of it still intact. Exterior and interior scenes of the cathedral, showing the west door and the fact that the organ has been destroyed. British soldiers pet two black and white puppies abandoned in the ruins.  A longer version with the same title, now held as IWM 344, was released in 1918, showing scenes up to the end of the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjjpw.2
title: Attack on German trenches

description: Members of the 326th Regiment attacking German trenches.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjtzx.2
title: Haig and his Army Commanders on 11th November 1918

description: The film opens with a very brief portrait shot of Haig, taken by a French official cameraman in August 1917. II. The Army Commanders arrive by car at Haig's temporary headquarters at Cambrai for their final conference, shortly before 11am. General Birdwood (Fifth Army) arrives first, then Byng (Third Army), Plumer (Second Army) then Byng with Horne (First Army), Rawlinson (Fourth Army) and Haig. At 11am General Plumer is pictured in close-up left profile with General Byng next to him, trying to make him laugh. A posed group on a flight of steps: Plumer, Haig and Rawlinson in front, Byng, Birdwood and Horne behind, with staff officers to the rear, including Lieutenant-Generals Sir John 'Tavish' Davidson, Montgomery, and Sir Louis Vaughan. The next scene shows Haig back at his command train near Iwuy at 12.50pm, greeting Prince Fushimi of Japan, Prince Arthur of Connaught, and Count Inouye. The Prince of Wales arrives at 2.15pm and Haig also greets him. Finally, Haig's departure from Cambrai at about 11.30am following his Army Commanders' conference. The Army Commanders, except Plumer, are visible saying goodbye, and the troops cheer him. The other generals then leave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjv9h.2
title: Australian Soldiers

description: Australian soldiers asleep in a first line trench.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjxyf.2
title: Drawing: To Helen Thomas.

description: Drawing of 'A flapper' by Bronwen Thomas.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjyuh.2
title: Asleep

description: Written on 14 November 1917, probably at Shewsbury, and revised at Ripon in May 1918. A fair copy is included in a 16 November 1917 letter to Leslie Guston. This copy is an early draft. This is no. 150 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianmp8.2
title: Dulce et Decorum Est

description: Written at Craiglockhart in the first half of October 1917, and revised at Scarborough or possibly Ripon in January-March 1918. This draft includes markings and revisions by Sassoon. This is no. 144 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr8ss.2
title: Letter: Unknown Recipient.

description: Describes a birthday visit to the Empire Theatre.  Includes part of a drawing.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrdt3.2
title: De Profundis / The Tower

description: Ivor Gurney's copy of 'War's Embers', published by Sidgwick and Jackson in May 1919. The inside cover is inscribed 'April 1925 / Ivor Gurney's markings'. The copy has pen annotations in Gurney's hand indicating where each poem was written. Gurney notes that 'De Profundis' was written at Arras, and 'The Tower', which he has made extensive changes to, including writing in a new stanza, was written at Gloucester.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiansdy.2
title: First Time In ['The Captain addressed us...']

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand, with numerous corrections. Various versions of the poem exist.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianwca.2
title: The Making of an Officer: with the Artists Rifles at the Front, Official Pictures of the British Army

description: British basic officer training in the Artists Rifles, St-Omer, Western Front, December 1915.  Drill and musketry instruction. On sentry training British and French sentries together stop a staff car to check the occupants. Out in the country, the trainees cut brushwood for hurdles. They learn how to make bridges from tree trunks and rafts from gas capes filled with straw. They repair trench systems, and construct wire entanglements. An officer teaches them the elements of map reading. After a final address by the commanding officer they leave the training battalion in a bus of 16th AUX MT Company. On arrival at an officer cadet school they are instructed in using and stripping the Vickers machine gun and throwing hand grenades.  The BTCFWF symbol appears on this film as a single negative flashframe. Summary: by this date the Artists Rifles, or 1/28th (County of London) Battalion of the London Regiment, enjoyed a unique status not as a fighting unit but as a holding battalion entirely for men undergoing officer training in France. This film was subject to censorship at GHQ France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian21wd.2
title: Canadians

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Other versions of the poem exist, including one published in the Leonard Clark edition of Gurney's poems in 1973, with 'Quebec, Stuart White' substituted for 'Jack London'. This version was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian22yq.2
title: Letter: Unknown Recipient.

description: Describes a birthday visit to the Empire Theatre.  Includes part of a drawing.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian27d7.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Describes a picnic / playing with his sisters and friends / wishes his father's knee a swift recovery.  Includes a sketch of the 'scouting game' played at the picnic.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian29hb.2
title: To Certain Comrades / The Fire Kindled

description: A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written. Gurney notes that 'To Certain Comrades' was written at Fauquissart. For 'The Fire Kindled', with numerous changes in pen in the poet's hand, the creation place is Merville.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2jzr.2
title: Sap out of the Hindenburg Line

description: A sap running out of the Hindenburg Line through the German wire, captured in the Battle of the Cambrai.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2odc.2
title: Conscious

description: Probably written at Scarborough, or possibly at Ripon. This is no. 142 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2rn8.2
title: Gas Works

description: Women workers at a gas manufacturing plant, probably in Britain, during the second half of the First World War.  The women work outside shovelling coke into sacks and loading these onto a cart. At another heap they shovel the coke onto sieves balanced on wheelbarrows to sort out the slag. The slag is taken in the barrows to another tip where it is dumped. The staff inside the gas works includes a few men. Lighting conditions are poor but the furnace doors are open and women are working shovelling coke inside.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2v4t.2
title: Title page

description: A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian3go.2
title: After War

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. The 'wedges and streaks' refer to shapes made by candlelight as described in other poems. An alternative typescript exists with added lines. The draft show here was included in Leonard Clark's edition of Gurney's poems of 1973, and in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian63sv.2
title: Stand by the Men Who Have Stood By You

description: Cartoon, newsreel and acted appeal for the British people to buy National War Savings Certificates, 1917.  An actress ""Britannia"" draws aside a curtain over a screen, flanked by silhouettes of two British soldiers. On the screen appears a genuine scene of refugees fleeing out of Belgium in 1914, followed by an acted scene of the Kaiser killing a Belgian woman. An acted scene of nurse Edith Cavell being shot. The film appeals for contributions to the War Loan. Animated cartoon of a man feeding a 15/6d certificate into a machine which produces a shell. He fires the shell from a gun. The shell lands at the feet of the Kaiser and transforms back into a certificate, then into a British soldier who locks the Kaiser up in a box. A certificate with a line of six pennies blotting out the words ""THE HUN"" as an encouragement for children to save. In a hand 15/6d in silver transforms into a pound note. After a final appeal to buy certificates Britannia closes the curtain.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian65xf.2
title: Letter: To Edward Thomas.

description: Asks when her father is coming home / anticipates a visit from a friend / sends love from all of the children.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6gvs.2
title: Strange Hells

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. At least 4 versions of the poem survive, including separate drafts published in Edmund Blunden's and Leonard Clark's editions of Gurney's poems in 1954 and 1973 respectively, and one from the green mottled manuscript exercise book 64.4, published in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6hdz.2
title: British Efficiency

description: Training displays given by British troops to visiting Allied military officials, probably in Britain, about 1916.  Soldiers simulate a night attack, blindfolding themselves before charging out of a trench down a course. Other soldiers build barbed wire entanglements while wearing gasmasks. Two soldiers in a foxhole demonstrate a rifle grenade launcher. Dismounted Cavalry demonstrate their Hotchkiss automatic rifles, including the drill if the operator is hit. A pack mule displays the carrying saddle for the Hotchkiss. The observers are officers from various Allied nations. Scottish troops at a rifle range demonstrate the 'mad minute' of high-speed firing. Other soldiers on a bayonet assault course. Gunners demonstrate the loading of a 6-inch 26cwt howitzer while wearing gasmasks. Cavalrymen saddle their horses and lead them off while wearing gasmasks. Some French officers inspect the horses. Prizes are given to various soldiers. Present at the demonstrations are the Duke of Connaught and (possibly) General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien. The Cavalry demonstrate their ability to dismount, picket, off-saddle, and bed down at high speed, then how to remount again equally quickly, all while wearing gasmasks. The film ends abruptly.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6kvf.2
title: Entering and Leaving the British Zone

description: Picquet of the 9th Scottish Rifles at the barrier on the Dusseldorf Road, examining a pass which everyone had to show on entering or leaving the British zone.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6l2k.2
title: Title page / To Certain Comrades

description: A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written. Gurney notes that 'To Certain Comrades' with a mark in ink, was written at Fauquissart.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6qyi.2
title: Sweet is your antique body, not yet young

description: Probaby written in December 1917. This is no. 130 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian84yb.2
title: Disabled

description: Drafted in October 1917 at Craiglockhart and revised in July 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 167 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.