cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8xn1.2
title: Photograph of Frank Brant, Worcestershire Regiment

description: Photograph of Uncle Frank.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand3wq.2
title: On My Songs

description: This is no. 110 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianddfs.2
title: Identity tag for Pte William Jewett, 1 Btn East Yorks

description: William Jewett served in France, and was wounded when he became trapped on barbed wire.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandg2s.2
title: Letter: To Mrs Voynich

description: Discusses 'Steel and Flame' / hopes that Mrs Voynich is feeling better / the East End of London / sorry about a 'crack on the head' taken by Mr Voynich / discussing Mrs Voynich writing a book / wishes her to meet with Marion Scott so that she can see Ivor Gurney's setting of John Masefield's 'For the Fallen' and comment on it / recent reviews / Greek dramatists / describes stars and includes a musical stanza to describe them / hopes the war will be over soon.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandheq.1
title: Photograph of William Owen sent to Mother

description: Private 3134 William William Owen, 1st Bn. Welsh Guards, was killed in action 20th September 1917, aged 41. The husband of Asneth Owen, of Pembroke House, Penygroes, Carnarvonshire, he is buried in Canada Farm Cemetery. The 1st Bn., part of the Guards Division, was taking part in the Battle of the Menin Road, third phase of the Third Battle of Ypres.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandklh.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early 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/bodleiandkr8.1
title: Towards Lillers

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Other much-corrected drafts of the poem exist, and part of the poem can be found in the typescript of 'Aeroplanes Over Aubers'. This version was included in the Leonard Clark edition of Gurney's poems in 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/bodleiandl8b.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Hopes that Marion Scott's health is improving / Ivor Gurney is at present in camp at a hospital having his 'spectacles and teeth mended' / enjoys her letters / attending lectures / discusses best friend and fellow poet F.W. Harvey and his presumed death (it later became known that he was taken as a prisoner) / thoughts of Bach / desires Scott's opinion of his setting of John Masefield's 'For the Fallen' / relative quietness of the sector / proofs and corrections / the moods in England and France / predicting the end of the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiands8t.1
title: The Times newspaper

description: This is the cover of The Times newspaper recording the text of Admiral Jellicoe's despatch about the Battle of Jutland. Pam Hyett's great uncle Henry James Pritchard died in May 1916 at the battle of Jutland. Also presented are some of the advertisements such as: The Famous Moscow Service kit for officers; Admiral Jellicoe's Swan Pen; Be British Buy Clincher motor tyres; Pan Yan the world's best pickle.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandt2e.2
title: Record of service 11th Hull Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (4)

description: Record of service 11th Hull Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

J.E. Burnham enlisted between 3rd and 10th December 1914
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj2fb.2
title: Postcard Portrait of RAF Cadet Christopher Grey (1)

description: Christopher Grey was my Great Uncle. I found this post card among my parents' possessions when clearing their house. I have no knowledge of Uncle Chris's war service, but believe he was in France at the end of the war. He was a Warwickshire farmer, and died in about 1965.

Editor's Comment:
179834 Christopher Grey, 'b' Flight, 6 Squad., 5 Royal Air Force Cadet Wing, has no Medal Card, suggesting he did not serve overseas before the Armistice.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj78c.2
title: Record of service 11th Hull Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (5)

description: Record of service 11th Hull Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

J.E. Burnham enlisted between 3rd and 10th December 1914
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjf6w.1
title: Tobacco

description: Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. A longer version of the poem exists in the pink manuscript exercise book 64.1. The shorter draft found here was printed in 'The London Mercury' in 1924. Found in a green hard-covered manuscript exercise book, marked 'The Note Book / (between music makings) / of Ivor Gurney / 1921-1922 / 'corrected Feb 1925' / 'Ivor Gurney''.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjflj.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early 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/bodleianjkex.1
title: Comic 'The Rainbow'

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjn8g.1
title: John 'Jack' Bovey returns to the trenches: Transcript of Audio Interview

description: This is a transcript of a recording made in 1969 with my father, John 'Jack' Bovey recalling his experience in the trenches. My father was a private in the 25th Field Ambulance Division, Wessex Division (no. 487496).

The interview extracts cover Jack's visit to Tyne Cot years later,spending the night behind German Lines in a 'comfy' dugout (by mistake), his memories of Passhendale and being taken as a Prisoner of War (POW) and his subsequent release.

A the audio files of the interview has been submitted separately.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjqil.2
title: The Poet in Pain

description: Drafted earlier, but revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 108 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjs2b.2
title: Letter: To Mrs Voynich

description: Discusses 'Steel and Flame' / hopes that Mrs Voynich is feeling better / the East End of London / sorry about a 'crack on the head' taken by Mr Voynich / discussing Mrs Voynich writing a book / wishes her to meet with Marion Scott so that she can see Ivor Gurney's setting of John Masefield's 'For the Fallen' and comment on it / recent reviews / Greek dramatists / describes stars and includes a musical stanza to describe them / hopes the war will be over soon.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianju8i.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Hopes that Marion Scott's health is improving / Ivor Gurney is at present in camp at a hospital having his 'spectacles and teeth mended' / enjoys her letters / attending lectures / discusses best friend and fellow poet F.W. Harvey and his presumed death (it later became known that he was taken as a prisoner) / thoughts of Bach / desires Scott's opinion of his setting of John Masefield's 'For the Fallen' / relative quietness of the sector / proofs and corrections / the moods in England and France / predicting the end of the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiank4x.2
title: Record of service 11th Hull Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (3)

description: Record of service 11th Hull Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

J.E. Burnham enlisted between 3rd and 10th December 1914
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianlur.2
title: Whither is passed the softly-vanished day

description: Probably drafted in 1911-12, at Shrewsbury. Revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 109 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianq3z.2
title: Group photograph of bayonet fencing team, including Tom Green

description: John Green, known as Tom, signed up in Nottingham at the start of the war. He was about 23 at the time. He eventually made sergeant and a PT instructor. He was wounded and returned to England to receive further medical treatment.

Editor's Comment:
Bayonet fencing team wearing striped Jerseys, with Lee-Metford rifle and face guard to foreground.

Serjeant 13676 John Thomas Green, 1st Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianre48.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Hopes that Marion Scott's health is improving / Ivor Gurney is at present in camp at a hospital having his 'spectacles and teeth mended' / enjoys her letters / attending lectures / discusses best friend and fellow poet F.W. Harvey and his presumed death (it later became known that he was taken as a prisoner) / thoughts of Bach / desires Scott's opinion of his setting of John Masefield's 'For the Fallen' / relative quietness of the sector / proofs and corrections / the moods in England and France / predicting the end of the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrif.2
title: Letter: To Mrs Voynich

description: Discusses 'Steel and Flame' / hopes that Mrs Voynich is feeling better / the East End of London / sorry about a 'crack on the head' taken by Mr Voynich / discussing Mrs Voynich writing a book / wishes her to meet with Marion Scott so that she can see Ivor Gurney's setting of John Masefield's 'For the Fallen' and comment on it / recent reviews / Greek dramatists / describes stars and includes a musical stanza to describe them / hopes the war will be over soon.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiant7y.2
title: As bronze may be much beautified

description: Fragment is dated Good Friday, 1918 at Borage Lane. Later developed into another fragment, 'As bronze may be much beautified'. This is no. 159 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianuan.1
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/bodleianuzw.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early 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/bodleian1tj.2
title: Stunned by their life's explosion into love

description: Drafted earlier, but revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 116 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian211l.2
title: Flag showing a map of Europe in 1914

description: Part of a collection relating to Lance Corporal William Beacock, East Yorkshire regiment who was awarded the Military Medal for bravery and devotion to duty November 13th 1916 (at the Battle of Ancre). He finished his working life as a doorman at the Hull City Hall.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2b34.2
title: Group photograph in camp, including Tom Green

description: John Green, known as Tom, signed up in Nottingham at the start of the war. He was about 23 at the time. He eventually made sergeant and a PT instructor. He was wounded and returned to England to receive further medical treatment.

Editor's Comment:
Note man sitting with a pair of signalling flags to front.

Serjeant 13676 John Thomas Green, 1st Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2iwo.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Mentions Marion Scott's sister / discusses a recent parcel / one page of the letter has been crossed out / mentions a letter that he forgot to answer / asks after a verse sent to Mrs Voynich entitled 'Steel and Flame' / arguing over when the war will end / 'No Man's Land' / includes a 'Trench Dialogue' / requests cake and anchovy paste / includes an unidentified poem beginning 'Summer is over...'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ogb.1
title: The Day of Victory

description: Typescript carbon copy, after the original typescript prepared by Marion Scott.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2po3.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early 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/bodleian2ytd.2
title: The Ballad of Many Thorns

description: Written or revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 118 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2z35.1
title: Christmas postcard sent by Cecil Littlewood

description: Christmas postcard, bearing a hand-coloured photograph of two children dressed as angels, sent by Cecil Littlewood to his daughter Mary. The message reads: "Best wishes for a Happy Xmas and a prosperous New Year to my darling little jewel Mary from her loving Dad. Wishing I was home with you darling, never mind I shall not be long now pet", followed by numerous kisses. Part of a collection relating to Cecil Littlewood from Bingley in West Yorkshire.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian61md.2
title: Group photograph of convalescents, including Tom Green

description: John Green, known as Tom, signed up in Nottingham at the start of the war. He was about 23 at the time. He eventually made sergeant and a PT instructor. He was wounded and returned to England to receive further medical treatment.

Editor's Comment:
Note that Hospital 'Blues' Uniform is worn under Service Dress greatcoats. 

Serjeant 13676 John Thomas Green, 1st Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian64t3.1
title: Diary as a P.O.W. of C.S.M Peter McNally of the 4th Batt. East Yorks

description: Notebook containing a diary kept by Company Sergeant Major Peter McNally of the 4th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment during his time as a prisoner of war. The diary covers the period from 26th May 1918 to 5th October that year.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian66mt.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Mentions Marion Scott's sister / discusses a recent parcel / one page of the letter has been crossed out / mentions a letter that he forgot to answer / asks after a verse sent to Mrs Voynich entitled 'Steel and Flame' / arguing over when the war will end / 'No Man's Land' / includes a 'Trench Dialogue' / requests cake and anchovy paste / includes an unidentified poem beginning 'Summer is over...'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian69nc.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Losing a proof / does not know how to answer Marion Scott's questions about his health / glad that she is feeling better / William Blake / Aeschylus / inquires about his setting of John Masefield's 'For the Fallen' / going back into the ranks after serving as a signaller / requests Lawrence Binyon's 'To the Fallen' / Neuve Chapelle and the autumn sunsets.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6hln.1
title: Memories of Thomas Atkinson (1913-2002)

description: Although my father was born in 1913 he still had some memories relating to the First World War from when he was living as boy in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. These include family tragedies, the sighting of a German airship over Newcastle, the War's effects on the city of Newcastle, and his father's experience of the War.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6nzl.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Discusses issues of 'character' and 'existence' / requests that Marion Scott allow one of Ivor Gurney's fellow patients at the Bangor War Hospital to stop by for a visit to discuss music / hopes that recent bombing raids in London have not caused any harm.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6qw5.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Includes 'Scots'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6sgs.2
title: 1914

description: Drafted in late 1914 in France, and revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is a later fair copy. This is no. 113 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6z19.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early 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/bodleian82mv.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Mentions Marion Scott's sister / discusses a recent parcel / one page of the letter has been crossed out / mentions a letter that he forgot to answer / asks after a verse sent to Mrs Voynich entitled 'Steel and Flame' / arguing over when the war will end / 'No Man's Land' / includes a 'Trench Dialogue' / requests cake and anchovy paste / includes an unidentified poem beginning 'Summer is over...'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian83ho.2
title: Photograph of Syd Fensome, West Yorks.

description: Pte. 10958 Sydney Fensome, 10th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment, later served in the Labour Corps (with service no. 475714).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian84wm.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Written at Bangour War Hospital. Discusses previous letter containing biographical details to go with photograph for 'Severn and Somme' / slightly alters criticism of F.W. Harvey's 'Gloucester Friends' / discusses 'Hospital Pictures' series / praises Marion Scott's courage / hopes that she is well / discusses photographs and the presence of military police / thanks her for help with 'Music Student' / apologises for the shortness of the letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian86lc.1
title: The memoirs of Ernest Styles

description: Ernest Stanley Styles was born in Coopersale Common, near Epping, in 1893. His family came from a long line of Brickmakers in that area dating back to the 1700's.

In 1912 the family moved to Coggeshall in Essex where they purchased a Brickmaking business. Ernest, his brother and his father worked together there until the start of the First World War.

Both Ernest and his brother, Thomas, joined the Essex Yeomanry and both survived the war without serious wounds. They both returned to the hand making business of making handcrafted bricks and tiles.

Ernest was persueded to write his memories of World War One in 1980. It is mazing how clear his memory was and how many names etc. he remembered. Ernest never dwelt on the horrors of seeing his comrades killed and injured, but the story he wrote highlights the wasted lived and damaged families that can result from war.

This was a man witha strong personality and a great sense of humour who was dearly missed when he died aged 91.

This is a scanned copy of a photocopy created from the original document.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian871j.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Mentions Marion Scott's sister / discusses a recent parcel / one page of the letter has been crossed out / mentions a letter that he forgot to answer / asks after a verse sent to Mrs Voynich entitled 'Steel and Flame' / arguing over when the war will end / 'No Man's Land' / includes a 'Trench Dialogue' / requests cake and anchovy paste / includes an unidentified poem beginning 'Summer is over...'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian89nd.1
title: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd, Royal Artillery

description: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd of the Royal Artillery, covering the whole war period, beginning in June 1914 and ending in March 1919, and including the Battle of the Somme. The diary details military movement and activities, engagement with the enemy, Christmas celebrations, coming home on leave, the end of the war, etc. It may possibly have been copied out from the originals after the war. Benjamin Lloyd was gassed during the war, but survived and later went on to serve in the Second World War as RMQS. The diary was deposited by his daughter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8gg7.2
title: Poetical Notes

description: On the verso of a draft of 'Purple'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8i1i.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early 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/bodleian8m7e.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Losing a proof / does not know how to answer Marion Scott's questions about his health / glad that she is feeling better / William Blake / Aeschylus / inquires about his setting of John Masefield's 'For the Fallen' / going back into the ranks after serving as a signaller / requests Lawrence Binyon's 'To the Fallen' / Neuve Chapelle and the autumn sunsets.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8rmj.2
title: Group Photograph in camp, including Tom Green

description: John Green, known as Tom, signed up in Nottingham at the start of the war. He was about 23 at the time. He eventually made sergeant and a PT instructor. He was wounded and returned to England to receive further medical treatment.

Editor's Comment:
Note range of Service dress and 'Kitchener' Blue uniform being worn, also Colour Serjeant's chest with regimental details painted to side.

Serjeant 13676 John Thomas Green, 1st Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianb5d.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early 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/bodleiand8p6.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early 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/bodleiand8ue.1
title: What's in Time

description: Typescript with some pencil notations in an unknown hand. Included in the Edmund Blunden edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published in 1954 as well as the version published by Leonard Clark in 1973. 'Eadem Semper' ('Ever the Same') is the motto of the Gloucester Regiment. The final tirade suggests an Irish 'curse poem'. Included in the Appendix to P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandabv.2
title: Photograph of Tom Green with Australian Friend

description: John Green, known as Tom, signed up in Nottingham at the start of the war. He was about 23 at the time. He eventually made sergeant and a PT instructor. He was wounded and returned to England to receive further medical treatment.

Editor's Comment:
Sjt. Green wears Crossed Swords on his collar, indicating his status as a Physical Training instructor. The Australian, according to the patches of coloured cloth on his shoulder, served in the 25th, 26th, or 27th Battalions, 2nd Australian Division. 

Serjeant 13676 John Thomas Green, 1st Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandef4.1
title: Identity cards for members of the Dowdeswell family, Cheltenham

description: Identity cards of: Frank George Dowdeswell, Odd Man, of Shaw Green, Prestbury, nr Cheltenham (Father of Pam Hyett); Ethel Pritchard, Newspaper Seller, of 10 Tewkesbury Road, Cheltenham (Mother of Pam Hyett); Helen Hannah Dowdeswell, Laundress, of Shaw Green, Prestbury, nr Cheltenham. (Mother of Esther, Frank, and Bob); Esther Lavinia Mary Dowdeswell, Poultry farming, of Shaw Green, Prestbury, nr Cheltenham. (Known as E.L.M.).

Part of a collection relating to the service of Frank (7th Buffs) and Bob (Army Service Corps) Dowdeswell, of Shaw Green, Prestbury, nr Cheltenham. Bob died in April 1917 after a lorry accident.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandexo.2
title: The Ballad of Many Thorns

description: Written or revised in October-November 1917 at Craiglockhart or in November 1917-January 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 118 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandfgz.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Mentions Marion Scott's sister / discusses a recent parcel / one page of the letter has been crossed out / mentions a letter that he forgot to answer / asks after a verse sent to Mrs Voynich entitled 'Steel and Flame' / arguing over when the war will end / 'No Man's Land' / includes a 'Trench Dialogue' / requests cake and anchovy paste / includes an unidentified poem beginning 'Summer is over...'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandh1a.2
title: On My Songs

description: This is no. 110 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandn11.1
title: Robecq - Minsterworth

description: Carbon copy of a typescript prepared by Marion Scott, with Ivor Gurney's corrections in pencil.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandnu5.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

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