cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand468.2
title: Phoograph of Brigade Headquaters, ANZAC, belonging to Joseph Thompson

description: Inscription on reverse - Brigade Hqtrs, behind the trenches at Anzac [initials] JCT [Joseph Cecil Thompson]. 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. It is inscribed on the back in his handwriting.

Editor's Comment:
Most likely 3rd Brigade Headquaters: 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/bodleiandcs4.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Includes 'To England - A Note', in Marion Scott's hand / glad that Scott's health has improved / hoping for warmer weather / discusses 'By the Bierside' by John Masefield and Ivor Gurney's setting of it to music / mentions 'For England' and 'February Day' / discusses possible titles: 'Songs Before Dawn' / gives Scott leave to make changes / includes alterations for the 'Preface' to the collected volume / changes for 'To Certain Comrades' / gives Scott leave to deal with punctuation and 'Carol' / working on another sonnet / mentions potential publishers, with Sidgwick and Jackson as the preferred option / a new lyric forming beginning 'Starlight in Water'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandgtc.2
title: Photographs of Frank Smith (1)

description: Individual and group shots including Frank Smith
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandho8.2
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/bodleiandqi.2
title: Photograph of Australian soldiers in the trenches at Gallipoli, belonging to Joseph Thompson

description: Unknown Australian solders in the trenches at Gallipoli, probably members or stretcher bearers of the 9th Battalion 1st AIF, late 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, where he was a stretcher bearer, 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/bodleiandrdo.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Includes 'To England - A Note', in Marion Scott's hand / glad that Scott's health has improved / hoping for warmer weather / discusses 'By the Bierside' by John Masefield and Ivor Gurney's setting of it to music / mentions 'For England' and 'February Day' / discusses possible titles: 'Songs Before Dawn' / gives Scott leave to make changes / includes alterations for the 'Preface' to the collected volume / changes for 'To Certain Comrades' / gives Scott leave to deal with punctuation and 'Carol' / working on another sonnet / mentions potential publishers, with Sidgwick and Jackson as the preferred option / a new lyric forming beginning 'Starlight in Water'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandu65.2
title: Postcard from Fred Lynn to his mother (7)

description: Soldiers around a YMCA hut.

I guess this is where he went after he enlisted

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/bodleiandw2y.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/bodleianga6.2
title: Postcard from Fred Lynn to his Mother (3)

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/bodleianj1dk.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj2qz.1
title: Medals, Memorial Plaque and Scroll of John Dawson

description: Memorial Plaque, scroll, and War and Victory medals. 

Pte. 267220 John Dawson, 1/7th Bn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment, was killed in action 14th August 1917 aged 22. The son of Mr. and Mrs. William Dawson, of Cockhill Place, Bellshill, Lanarkshire, he is buried in New Irish Farm Cemetery. The 1/7th Bn., part of the 48th (South Midland) Division, were waiting to for heavy rain to clear for the attack on Langemarck to commence, the second phase of the Third Battle of Ypres.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjd8i.2
title: Photograph including Frank Smith (1)

description: Group of three soldiers.  Frank Smith is on the right.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjkfw.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/bodleianjqjw.2
title: Photograph of Uncle Ken in Blackpool
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjstn.2
title: Photographs of Frank Smith (2)

description: Individual and group shots including Frank Smith
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjwsu.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Includes 'To England - A Note', in Marion Scott's hand / glad that Scott's health has improved / hoping for warmer weather / discusses 'By the Bierside' by John Masefield and Ivor Gurney's setting of it to music / mentions 'For England' and 'February Day' / discusses possible titles: 'Songs Before Dawn' / gives Scott leave to make changes / includes alterations for the 'Preface' to the collected volume / changes for 'To Certain Comrades' / gives Scott leave to deal with punctuation and 'Carol' / working on another sonnet / mentions potential publishers, with Sidgwick and Jackson as the preferred option / a new lyric forming beginning 'Starlight in Water'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjx6y.2
title: 2 postcards from Fred Lynn to his mother (1)

description: Germ-Hun souvenir (Cartoon)
King Edward bridge, Newcastle (photo)

The messages on the back read
"To Mother From Fred with love"

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/bodleianr2jz.2
title: Photograph of Stretcher bearers and donkey, belonging to Joseph Thompson

description: Donkey in protective 'clothing' with Australian soldiers, probably Gallipoli late 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/bodleianr8qp.2
title: Postcard and photo from Fred Lynn to his mother (1)

description: Postcard verse and floral, 'Greetings to my Dear Mother'
Photo of soldiers, Fred is front row (squatting down) on the right.

These both bear the message
"To Mother with Love from Fred" and were written at the same time.


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/bodleianre91.1
title: "Blighty" Thanksgiving service attended by Sapper E. Grantham (4)

description: Editor's Comment:
Service sheet, 'A "Blighty" Thanksgiving Service for your last evening in France', with pencilled note: 'Last night in France 29.1.1919.'

Sapper 146217 Ernest Grantham, 156th Field Company, Royal Engineers. The 156th Field Coy. were attached to the 16th (Irish) Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrxu.1
title: Photographs of the wedding of Sapper E. Grantham

description: Taken after marriage of Sapper Ernest Grantham and Miss Beatrice Joy behind her parents house.
It was delayed by 2 weeks after an outbreak of spotted fever quarantined Ernest when he landed in England from France.

Editor's Comment:
Sapper 146217 Ernest Grantham, 156th Field Company, Royal Engineers. The 156th Field Coy. were attached to the 16th (Irish) Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiant5n.2
title: War memorial and roll of honour, Presbyterian Church, Llandrindod Wells (1)

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/bodleianw8b.2
title: Photographs of Frank Smith (3)

description: Individual and group shots including Frank Smith
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianzkq.1
title: Letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC

description: This is an extract from a photocopy of a letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC sent on 7th March 1916, from Egypt. It describes a photo which is enclosed, of Dr Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli in 1915. That dugout was sketched in his letter of 14th October. In this letter he mentions the chair in the photo which was actually shipped over from England in his luggage, and which was evacuated to Egypt. Blore also describes his hair-cut and his uniform.

Also part of this collection are the photograph described here, and the sketch from the earlier letter as well as all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and on the Western Front - as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian1fz.2
title: Christmas card received by Walter Powell (1)

description: Printed Christmas Card sent from the Ithon Road Presbyterian Church, Llandrindod Wells Xmas, 1917, "to the members of our Church and Congregation who are with His Majesty's Forces", received by Walter Powell. A note on the back in Walter's writing records many years after that this was "Received together with socks, scarf, mits etc. - In my kit bag when I came from France in 1918".

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/bodleian21xa.1
title: Street Party in York to mark end of war
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian26wo.2
title: Patriotic and Religious Postcards (2)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2bkt.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/bodleian2ic9.1
title: Databases of Bristol Roll of Honour 1914-1919 and List of Decorations

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/bodleian2k4w.2
title: Trees

description: Includes 'June-to-come', dedicated to F.W. Harvey / 'Hark, Hark, the Lark' / 'Trees' / thanks Marion Scott for a recent parcel / describes letters received / being back in the trenches / discusses the possibility of death / the war in the newspapers, and at sea / defines the term 'in support' / the 'Musical Times' / thanks Scott for her kindness.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2m9g.2
title: Post card from Fred Lynn to his mother (3)

description: Photograph of a group of nurses in uniform.

I don't have a location, nor do I know the significance of the photo of a group of nurses!

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/bodleian2nvn.2
title: Embroidered post card from Fred Lynn to his mother (2)

description: One of many in her album, though most were from her son Walter, rather than from 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/bodleian2qw2.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Having a 'soft' time of it after time spent in the front lines / affirms that 'Purple and Black' is meant for Marion Scott / possible changes / requests books and reviews from the 'Morning Post' / mentions Robert Bridges 'Spirit of Man' / includes a list of books and verse that Ivor Gurney would read if he were at home in England.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ueq.2
title: Trench diary of George Mitchell
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2wl.2
title: Patriotic and Religious Postcards (1)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2yf4.2
title: Christmas card received by Walter Powell (2)

description: Printed Christmas Card sent from the Ithon Road Presbyterian Church, Llandrindod Wells Xmas, 1917, "to the members of our Church and Congregation who are with His Majesty's Forces", received by Walter Powell. A note on the back in Walter's writing records many years after that this was "Received together with socks, scarf, mits etc. - In my kit bag when I came from France in 1918".

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/bodleian3yg.1
title: Postcard kept throughout war by Sapper E. Grantham

description: Editor's Comment:
Sapper 146217 Ernest Grantham, 156th Field Company, Royal Engineers. The 156th Field Coy. were attached to the 16th (Irish) Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian4wr.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Having a 'soft' time of it after time spent in the front lines / affirms that 'Purple and Black' is meant for Marion Scott / possible changes / requests books and reviews from the 'Morning Post' / mentions Robert Bridges 'Spirit of Man' / includes a list of books and verse that Ivor Gurney would read if he were at home in England.