cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandpw6.2
title: Christmas Card, 1918 (2)

description: Christmas card, 1918. Reads '351 Siege Battery R. G. A., Xmas 1918, "Die Wacht am Rhein"'. Silhouette of gunners serving an Artillery piece. 

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.

No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station was located in Namur over Christmas, 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandtlo.2
title: WSA Gammon - Three Days in His Life (3)

description: Items found in the attic of my 90 + aunt upon her death.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianint.2
title: Postcards of German graves at Citadel of Dinant (2)

description: Photographs of Dinant: 'Monument erected over the Citadel at Dinant by the Germans to commemorate its capute in 1914. The graves of the German soldiers lie in three circles round the monument.' 

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/bodleianj2bd.2
title: WSA Gammon - Three Days in His Life (6)

description: Items found in the attic of my 90 + aunt upon her death.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj7lk.2
title: WSA Gammon - Three Days in His Life (4)

description: Items found in the attic of my 90 + aunt upon her death.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj8hn.2
title: German artillery panorama, Vermelles (2)

description: German artillery panorama centred on Vermelles. Pencil inscription reads 'Taken by L. T. P. from the body of a dead German. The war front from the German position'. 

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/bodleianjf8f.2
title: War Papers for Queens Royal Regiment, 10th Battalion

description: These War Papers,I believe,pinpoint the last recorded area that William was on duty.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjm4b.2
title: Photographs of Robert Glyndon Coode, including one of the Liberation Parade of Lille (4)

description: My maternal grandfather who served in France from 1914-1918. It shows his wedding on leave in 1915 to Gwladys Phoebe Kirkham in Swansea. Postcards he sent from France and a photograph of his daughter Gwladys Betty (born in June 1918), sent by her godmother Liz Kirkham to her brother-in-law at the Front. Includes a picture from Glyn of his regiment marching through Lille in 1918 after the liberation of the city. 

Editor's Comment:
Two portraits of Robert Coode wearing the cap badge of the 8th (Post Office Rifles) Bn. London Regiment; on the wedding photograph, note also the crossed-rifles over serjeant's stripes, indicating that he served for a time as a musketry instructor. 
A group photograph of men in gymn kit with numbers pinned to shirts. 
A group photograph of men of the Post Office Rifles wearing Pattern 1914 infantry equipment and armed with SMLE rifles. A photograph of the liberation of Lille: regimental band playing in helmets, watched by a Military Policeman, with a battalion marching behind.

Private 371990 Robert Glyndon Coode, 8th (Post Office Rifles) Bn. London Regiment, later served in the 24th (The Queen's) Bn. London Regiment (service no. 738054).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjpis.2
title: Account of Cavalry Action, France, 1914 (1)

description: An account by W J Cranston of a cavalry action in France in August 1914 (from the Royal Scots Greys' Association Report, 1947).

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant (acting Lieutenant Colonel) William James Cranston DSO, Royal Scots Fusiliers and Staff, served additionally in the North Staffordshire Regiment and commanded the 13th Bn. King's Liverpool Regiment and 3rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjtw8.2
title: German artillery panorama, Vermelles (1)

description: German artillery panorama centred on Vermelles. Pencil inscription reads 'Taken by L. T. P. from the body of a dead German. The war front from the German position'. 

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/bodleianjvju.2
title: Letter by Ella T Collinge about her husband's death (3)

description: Ella visited and interviewed everyone she could who knew how Wharton (Mac) Collinge died.  This is her record.

Editor's Comment:
Lieutenant Wharton Rye Collinge, 2nd/6th (Rifle) Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment), died of gas poisoning 7th August 1917 and is buried in Merville Communal Cemetery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjy52.2
title: Photograph of a German machine gun unit (2)

description: photograph of a German machine gun unit in a forest. 
names of group and further information (in German)applied in pencil and purple crayon to both sides of card.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjzei.2
title: Hand grenade lecture notes by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (29)

description: A handwritten notebook containing notes written by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (Service Number 2090) of the East Riding Yeomanry about a lecture on hand grenades. The book includes information about topics including explosives, trench catapults, the West Spring Gun, and the Stokes Gun, and is illustrated with diagrams. Part of a collection relating to Robert Rafton, deposited by his great-niece.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiankcv.2
title: Photograph of German officers in car

description: photograph shows a group of German officers and a car, against a background of ruins (a church). The letters on the car bonnet are 'KVM' and numbers under are '486'. There are also some words on the sack in the lower right of the photograph and on the plank across the top of the iron shelter. Not easily legible (may provide clue to location?)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiannkm.2
title: Hand grenade lecture notes by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (30)

description: A handwritten notebook containing notes written by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (Service Number 2090) of the East Riding Yeomanry about a lecture on hand grenades. The book includes information about topics including explosives, trench catapults, the West Spring Gun, and the Stokes Gun, and is illustrated with diagrams. Part of a collection relating to Robert Rafton, deposited by his great-niece.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrdu9.2
title: Hand grenade lecture notes by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (25)

description: A handwritten notebook containing notes written by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (Service Number 2090) of the East Riding Yeomanry about a lecture on hand grenades. The book includes information about topics including explosives, trench catapults, the West Spring Gun, and the Stokes Gun, and is illustrated with diagrams. Part of a collection relating to Robert Rafton, deposited by his great-niece.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianre26.2
title: Wiliam James Cranston - service record

description: Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant (acting Lieutenant Colonel) William James Cranston DSO, Royal Scots Fusiliers and Staff, served additionally in the North Staffordshire Regiment and commanded the 13th Bn. King's Liverpool Regiment and 3rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrja.2
title: Photographs of Robert Glyndon Coode, including one of the Liberation Parade of Lille (6)

description: My maternal grandfather who served in France from 1914-1918. It shows his wedding on leave in 1915 to Gwladys Phoebe Kirkham in Swansea. Postcards he sent from France and a photograph of his daughter Gwladys Betty (born in June 1918), sent by her godmother Liz Kirkham to her brother-in-law at the Front. Includes a picture from Glyn of his regiment marching through Lille in 1918 after the liberation of the city. 

Editor's Comment:
Two portraits of Robert Coode wearing the cap badge of the 8th (Post Office Rifles) Bn. London Regiment; on the wedding photograph, note also the crossed-rifles over serjeant's stripes, indicating that he served for a time as a musketry instructor. 
A group photograph of men in gymn kit with numbers pinned to shirts. 
A group photograph of men of the Post Office Rifles wearing Pattern 1914 infantry equipment and armed with SMLE rifles. A photograph of the liberation of Lille: regimental band playing in helmets, watched by a Military Policeman, with a battalion marching behind.

Private 371990 Robert Glyndon Coode, 8th (Post Office Rifles) Bn. London Regiment, later served in the 24th (The Queen's) Bn. London Regiment (service no. 738054).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianyqj.2
title: Photograph of William Robert Jones

description: A photograph of William Robert Jones taken before he signed up
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian1gn.2
title: Details of journey undertaken by Private Patrick O'Malley (4)

description: Details of a journey undertaken by Private Patrick O'Malley (Service Number 12871) of the 6th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers, as part of Expeditionary Force Egypt to France. Gives information about travel from Egypt via Italy to France, battle in the Aigne-Picardie area of the Somme on the 8th October 1918 (O'Malley received a gunshot wound to the chest; casualty numbers also given), details of daily life, the Armistice, and discharge. Part of a collection relating to Thomas Fallan, his brother Michael James Fallan, and Patrick O'Malley.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2fhh.2
title: Hand grenade lecture notes by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (42)

description: A handwritten notebook containing notes written by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (Service Number 2090) of the East Riding Yeomanry about a lecture on hand grenades. The book includes information about topics including explosives, trench catapults, the West Spring Gun, and the Stokes Gun, and is illustrated with diagrams. Part of a collection relating to Robert Rafton, deposited by his great-niece.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2gyc.2
title: Postcards from Thomas George Elliot of Penzance writing to Ivy Nancholas (2)

description: Born 1897 Attached to 1/5 Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry ( scan of 1 page of war diary attached - more if required)died 1968
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2hj4.2
title: Photographs of Cologne and British occupation (2)

description: Photographs of British occupation of Cologne: a parade with bagpipers; general views of the city and cathedral; an Austin series 3 armoured car in a square. 

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.

No. 44 Casulaty Clearing Station was located in Cologne from April, 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2iul.2
title: Despatches of William Cranston (2)

description: A collection of the 'Mentions in Despatches' of William Cranston 1914-18.

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant (acting Lieutenant Colonel) William James Cranston DSO, Royal Scots Fusiliers and Staff, served additionally in the North Staffordshire Regiment and commanded the 13th Bn. King's Liverpool Regiment and 3rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2pe6.2
title: Bomb-Throwing Instructor's Certificate

description: Editor's Comment:
From the effects of Lieutenant Wharton Rye Collinge, 2nd/6th (Rifle) Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment), who died of gas poisoning 7th August 1917 and is buried in Merville Communal Cemetery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2uvk.2
title: Hand grenade lecture notes by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (35)

description: A handwritten notebook containing notes written by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (Service Number 2090) of the East Riding Yeomanry about a lecture on hand grenades. The book includes information about topics including explosives, trench catapults, the West Spring Gun, and the Stokes Gun, and is illustrated with diagrams. Part of a collection relating to Robert Rafton, deposited by his great-niece.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2w7x.2
title: Life of Col Cranston (2)

description: An appreciation by Capt W J Reeves of the life of Col Cranston from the Royal Scots Greys' Assoication Report 1947.

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant (acting Lieutenant Colonel) William James Cranston DSO, Royal Scots Fusiliers and Staff, served additionally in the North Staffordshire Regiment and commanded the 13th Bn. King's Liverpool Regiment and 3rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2zng.2
title: Various photographs and postcards of German 'Big Bertha' 15" Gun at Chuignes (2)

description: Various photographs of a 15" naval gun (erroneously captioned 16") in static mounting at Chuignes, known as 'Big Bertha'. The Chuignes Gun was used to bombard Amiens, and was captured by the 1st Australian Division, having been destroyed by the Germans on 8th August 1918, to prevent it falling into Allied hands. The man posing for the camera in the barrel of the gun is Revd. Pearson.

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/bodleian61t5.2
title: Postcards from Thomas George Elliot of Penzance writing to Ivy Nancholas (4)

description: Born 1897 Attached to 1/5 Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry ( scan of 1 page of war diary attached - more if required)died 1968
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian64wl.2
title: Photographs taken by Richard Eliot Petch

description: Four photographs taken by Richard (Dick) Eliot Petch (born 30th June 1891) of the East Riding Yeomanry and the RFC. The photographs, which are attached to a single sheet of paper, are of:
A man in uniform, labelled ' "Jeff" 1921' (location unspecified, but possibly East Yorkshire)
A young child in a desert landscape, labelled 'Egypt 1916'
A man dressed in a shirt and shorts, standing in a desert landscape, labelled ' "Frank" '
A man lying in the entrance to a tent on sandy ground, labelled 'Dick'
Part of a collection relating to Richard Eliot Petch.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian695e.2
title: Photographs of Robert Glyndon Coode, including one of the Liberation Parade of Lille (9)

description: My maternal grandfather who served in France from 1914-1918. It shows his wedding on leave in 1915 to Gwladys Phoebe Kirkham in Swansea. Postcards he sent from France and a photograph of his daughter Gwladys Betty (born in June 1918), sent by her godmother Liz Kirkham to her brother-in-law at the Front. Includes a picture from Glyn of his regiment marching through Lille in 1918 after the liberation of the city. 

Editor's Comment:
Two portraits of Robert Coode wearing the cap badge of the 8th (Post Office Rifles) Bn. London Regiment; on the wedding photograph, note also the crossed-rifles over serjeant's stripes, indicating that he served for a time as a musketry instructor. 
A group photograph of men in gymn kit with numbers pinned to shirts. 
A group photograph of men of the Post Office Rifles wearing Pattern 1914 infantry equipment and armed with SMLE rifles. A photograph of the liberation of Lille: regimental band playing in helmets, watched by a Military Policeman, with a battalion marching behind.

Private 371990 Robert Glyndon Coode, 8th (Post Office Rifles) Bn. London Regiment, later served in the 24th (The Queen's) Bn. London Regiment (service no. 738054).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6d5g.2
title: Hand grenade lecture notes by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (37)

description: A handwritten notebook containing notes written by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (Service Number 2090) of the East Riding Yeomanry about a lecture on hand grenades. The book includes information about topics including explosives, trench catapults, the West Spring Gun, and the Stokes Gun, and is illustrated with diagrams. Part of a collection relating to Robert Rafton, deposited by his great-niece.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6hor.2
title: Various photographs and postcards of German 'Big Bertha' 15" Gun at Chuignes (3)

description: Various photographs of a 15" naval gun (erroneously captioned 16") in static mounting at Chuignes, known as 'Big Bertha'. The Chuignes Gun was used to bombard Amiens, and was captured by the 1st Australian Division, having been destroyed by the Germans on 8th August 1918, to prevent it falling into Allied hands. The man posing for the camera in the barrel of the gun is Revd. Pearson.

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/bodleian6jwv.2
title: Despatches of William Cranston (4)

description: A collection of the 'Mentions in Despatches' of William Cranston 1914-18.

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant (acting Lieutenant Colonel) William James Cranston DSO, Royal Scots Fusiliers and Staff, served additionally in the North Staffordshire Regiment and commanded the 13th Bn. King's Liverpool Regiment and 3rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6jz.2
title: Photographs of Cologne and British occupation (1)

description: Photographs of British occupation of Cologne: a parade with bagpipers; general views of the city and cathedral; an Austin series 3 armoured car in a square. 

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.

No. 44 Casulaty Clearing Station was located in Cologne from April, 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6kui.2
title: Commission Document for Wharton Rye Collinge (1)

description: Editor's Comment:
Commissioned as Second Lieutenant into the Territorial Force, 21st July 1915. 

From the effects of Lieutenant Wharton Rye Collinge, 2nd/6th (Rifle) Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment), who died of gas poisoning 7th August 1917 and is buried in Merville Communal Cemetery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6q7g.2
title: Note about Rifleman Bendell

description: An angry note about non-compliance with battalion orders.  From wallet.

Editor's Comment:
Rifleman Bendell cannot be traced. 

From the effects of Lieutenant Wharton Rye Collinge, 2nd/6th (Rifle) Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment), who died of gas poisoning 7th August 1917 and is buried in Merville Communal Cemetery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6szu.2
title: Details of journey undertaken by Private Patrick O'Malley (3)

description: Details of a journey undertaken by Private Patrick O'Malley (Service Number 12871) of the 6th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers, as part of Expeditionary Force Egypt to France. Gives information about travel from Egypt via Italy to France, battle in the Aigne-Picardie area of the Somme on the 8th October 1918 (O'Malley received a gunshot wound to the chest; casualty numbers also given), details of daily life, the Armistice, and discharge. Part of a collection relating to Thomas Fallan, his brother Michael James Fallan, and Patrick O'Malley.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6tj3.2
title: Hand grenade lecture notes by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (41)

description: A handwritten notebook containing notes written by Lance Corporal Robert Rafton (Service Number 2090) of the East Riding Yeomanry about a lecture on hand grenades. The book includes information about topics including explosives, trench catapults, the West Spring Gun, and the Stokes Gun, and is illustrated with diagrams. Part of a collection relating to Robert Rafton, deposited by his great-niece.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6w2a.2
title: Various photographs and postcards of German 'Big Bertha' 15" Gun at Chuignes (7)

description: Various photographs of a 15" naval gun (erroneously captioned 16") in static mounting at Chuignes, known as 'Big Bertha'. The Chuignes Gun was used to bombard Amiens, and was captured by the 1st Australian Division, having been destroyed by the Germans on 8th August 1918, to prevent it falling into Allied hands. The man posing for the camera in the barrel of the gun is Revd. Pearson.

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/bodleian83xb.2
title: Hand Made Dagger (Trench Art), Lambert Fell, Yorkshire Regiment. (2)

description: These items were given to me by my late mother.
The postcard/ birthday card was from my grandfather LAMBERT FELL who was a 2nd Lieutenant to my mother for her birthday on 11th May.
The 2 daggers have been hand made.
1. Appears that the handle is made from old shell cartridges.
2. Has SOMME crudely engraved.


Editor's Comment:
Acting Serjeant 21164 Lambert Fell, Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards), later Temporary Seond Lieutenant, Labour Corps (Comissioned 2nd April, 1918).
The first knife is made from a British .303 cartridge, with two additional bullets used to form a cross-guard. Soldered to the top of the handle is a button (probably the British General Service pattern with royal coat of arms), forming a pommel. Ricasso of the blade is in the form of a Maltese Cross.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian847t.2
title: Letter by Ella T Collinge about her husband's death (6)

description: Ella visited and interviewed everyone she could who knew how Wharton (Mac) Collinge died.  This is her record.

Editor's Comment:
Lieutenant Wharton Rye Collinge, 2nd/6th (Rifle) Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment), died of gas poisoning 7th August 1917 and is buried in Merville Communal Cemetery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian84r4.2
title: WSA Gammon - Three Days in His Life (7)

description: Items found in the attic of my 90 + aunt upon her death.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian86ok.2
title: Various photographs and postcards of German 'Big Bertha' 15" Gun at Chuignes (1)

description: Various photographs of a 15" naval gun (erroneously captioned 16") in static mounting at Chuignes, known as 'Big Bertha'. The Chuignes Gun was used to bombard Amiens, and was captured by the 1st Australian Division, having been destroyed by the Germans on 8th August 1918, to prevent it falling into Allied hands. The man posing for the camera in the barrel of the gun is Revd. Pearson.

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/bodleian88ww.2
title: Despatches of William Cranston (3)

description: A collection of the 'Mentions in Despatches' of William Cranston 1914-18.

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant (acting Lieutenant Colonel) William James Cranston DSO, Royal Scots Fusiliers and Staff, served additionally in the North Staffordshire Regiment and commanded the 13th Bn. King's Liverpool Regiment and 3rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps.