cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6pie.1
title: Photograph of Lily Freeman, sister of Hubert Freeman

description: Photograph of Lily Freeman, the recipient of an embroidered 'London Scottish' postcard sent by her brother, Hubert Freeman, killed 1st July 1916, and sister-in-law of Edward Thorndycraft, killed 5th november 1915
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian7xk.2
title: Memoirs of Horrace Foakes (16)

description: An account of how my Grandfather, Horrace Foakes, won his Military medal. The medal is now displayed in the Regimental Museum in the Tower of London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian85od.2
title: Card from 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes

description: Card from the trenches saying that coming home for leave the following week.

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant Albert Brainerd Raynes, Royal Sussex Regiment, attached 2nd Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment, was killed in action on 10th March 1915, aged 20. The son of Albert Edward and Alice Mary Raynes, of 201, Denman St., Nottingham, he is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. Lieutenant Raynes fell on the opening day of the battle of Neuve Chapelle, his battalion taking part in the attack of the 8th Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian87p7.2
title: Memoirs of Horrace Foakes (11)

description: An account of how my Grandfather, Horrace Foakes, won his Military medal. The medal is now displayed in the Regimental Museum in the Tower of London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8bi2.1
title: Jlluftrite Zeitung No.48 [German newspaper]

description: German newspaper. Mr Shearer's grandfather is sitting down in the photo on page 3 with the annotated arrows pointing to him saying, "do you remember having been in such a position?"
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandcn7.1
title: Photograph of Edward Thorndycraft

description: Photograph of Edward Thorndycraft, brother-in-law of Lily Freeman, killed 5th November 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandoka.2
title: Memoirs of Horrace Foakes (8)

description: An account of how my Grandfather, Horrace Foakes, won his Military medal. The medal is now displayed in the Regimental Museum in the Tower of London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandp6t.1
title: Letter of private George Kipps May 1915 and Final letter Oct 1915

description: The letter dated April 1915 from Private George Kipps to his mother, suggests that Easter seems to have been fairly quite in their part of the trenches. he says' I think they all went home yesterday to keep up Good Friday'.
The final communication ( October 1915),to his mother is from his Commanding Officer, informing her that her son had been shot in the face.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandqyu.2
title: Memoirs of Horrace Foakes (14)

description: An account of how my Grandfather, Horrace Foakes, won his Military medal. The medal is now displayed in the Regimental Museum in the Tower of London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandr2q.1
title: Book of postcards from Koln (Cologne)

description: Folded picture postcard book sent from Koln in 1919 with note from Sergeant Shearer.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandw3c.2
title: Card from 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes

description: The last communication home from Brainerd, the day before he was killed in action. 

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant Albert Brainerd Raynes, Royal Sussex Regiment, attached 2nd Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment, was killed in action on 10th March 1915, aged 20. The son of Albert Edward and Alice Mary Raynes, of 201, Denman St., Nottingham, he is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. Lieutenant Raynes fell on the opening day of the battle of Neuve Chapelle, his battalion taking part in the attack of the 8th Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianhzo.1
title: Flowers sent by soldiers to family

description: The lavender and the violet were sent home by the same person (Bert). The lavender from Crannock Chase England (training ground 1917). The violets from France.

The daffodil is attached to a letter sent by Private George Kipps of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards British Expeditionary Force. The letter is dated 3rd April 1915. this is one of several surviving letters from this soldier.

I thought it would be interesting to include surviving examples of flora sent home by soldiers to their loved ones. I wonder if any poppies survive?
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj12x.1
title: Postcard sent from Hubert Freeman to Lily Freeman, 'London Scottish'

description: Embroidered postcard given by Hubert Freeman, (killed on the 1st day of the battle of the Somme) to his sister Lily Freeman.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjakf.2
title: Memoirs of Horrace Foakes (9)

description: An account of how my Grandfather, Horrace Foakes, won his Military medal. The medal is now displayed in the Regimental Museum in the Tower of London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjbya.2
title: Memoirs of Horrace Foakes (15)

description: An account of how my Grandfather, Horrace Foakes, won his Military medal. The medal is now displayed in the Regimental Museum in the Tower of London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjwns.1
title: Photograph of Hubert Freeman

description: Photograph of Hubert Harold Freeman, London Scottish, who died on the 1st day of the battle of the Somme. Brother of Lily Freeman.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjz4g.2
title: Card from 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes

description: Card saying that about to land in France.

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant Albert Brainerd Raynes, Royal Sussex Regiment, attached 2nd Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment, was killed in action on 10th March 1915, aged 20. The son of Albert Edward and Alice Mary Raynes, of 201, Denman St., Nottingham, he is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. Lieutenant Raynes fell on the opening day of the battle of Neuve Chapelle, his battalion taking part in the attack of the 8th Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianmmm.2
title: Card from 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes

description: Card from the front.

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant Albert Brainerd Raynes, Royal Sussex Regiment, attached 2nd Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment, was killed in action on 10th March 1915, aged 20. The son of Albert Edward and Alice Mary Raynes, of 201, Denman St., Nottingham, he is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. Lieutenant Raynes fell on the opening day of the battle of Neuve Chapelle, his battalion taking part in the attack of the 8th Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiannn4.2
title: Card from 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes

description: Card from the trenches.

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant Albert Brainerd Raynes, Royal Sussex Regiment, attached 2nd Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment, was killed in action on 10th March 1915, aged 20. The son of Albert Edward and Alice Mary Raynes, of 201, Denman St., Nottingham, he is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. Lieutenant Raynes fell on the opening day of the battle of Neuve Chapelle, his battalion taking part in the attack of the 8th Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2fsf.2
title: Letters from Private Grattan Atkins (4)

description: A diary kept by Grattan Atkins from 1st January 1915 to 10th September 1915 (when he was shot, with a few subsequent pages on his hospitalization), is also kept by the family. 

Editor's Comment:
Letters to mother and father, sent between 15th March 1915 and 3rd August 1915, also page from diary. 

Pte. 2301 John C. Grattan Atkins, 1/23rd Bn. (County of London) Bn., Territorial Force (London Regiment), served for a time in the battalion's Trench Mortar (Reserve) Battery. The 1/23rd Bn. was part of the 47th (London) Division, joining on 11th May 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2xr8.2
title: Memoirs of Horrace Foakes (20)

description: An account of how my Grandfather, Horrace Foakes, won his Military medal. The medal is now displayed in the Regimental Museum in the Tower of London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2zd5.1
title: Letter from Mr Walter C Baynes to Walter 'Dem" Baynes

description: Letter from father to son. Son is awaiting demobilisation. Letter discusses election and various local politics. Walter Baynes (junior) served on the Somme. Brother (Arthur Baynes) served in the Navy. Father and mother - Walter and Bertha Baynes - ran china shop in Wakefield.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian68z9.2
title: Memoirs of Horrace Foakes (23)

description: An account of how my Grandfather, Horrace Foakes, won his Military medal. The medal is now displayed in the Regimental Museum in the Tower of London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6mdq.2
title: Memoirs of Horrace Foakes (18)

description: An account of how my Grandfather, Horrace Foakes, won his Military medal. The medal is now displayed in the Regimental Museum in the Tower of London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6r9n.1
title: Private Henry James Mercer

description: This is the second part of a contribution I made about my Father on 9.3.08.   He served in General Allenby's compaign.  He kept a diary with drawings (one page attached) which apparently he should not have done.   I have lots of other postcards and photos, as he made it all into a scrapbook.  Hope you find it interesting enough to use.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6tg8.2
title: Letters from Private Grattan Atkins (2)

description: A diary kept by Grattan Atkins from 1st January 1915 to 10th September 1915 (when he was shot, with a few subsequent pages on his hospitalization), is also kept by the family. 

Editor's Comment:
Letters to mother and father, sent between 15th March 1915 and 3rd August 1915, also page from diary. 

Pte. 2301 John C. Grattan Atkins, 1/23rd Bn. (County of London) Bn., Territorial Force (London Regiment), served for a time in the battalion's Trench Mortar (Reserve) Battery. The 1/23rd Bn. was part of the 47th (London) Division, joining on 11th May 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6xv3.1
title: Embroidered Postcard of Cloth Hall, Ypres, in Ruins

description: Part of collection of L Cpl Bernard Kemp.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8adg.2
title: Memoirs of Horrace Foakes (19)

description: An account of how my Grandfather, Horrace Foakes, won his Military medal. The medal is now displayed in the Regimental Museum in the Tower of London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ezi.2
title: Memoirs of Horrace Foakes (22)

description: An account of how my Grandfather, Horrace Foakes, won his Military medal. The medal is now displayed in the Regimental Museum in the Tower of London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8j9c.1
title: Letter from Mrs Bertha Baynes to Walter 'Dem" Baynes

description: Letter to son from mother awaiting his demobilisation. Mentions forms to get soldiers over 21 extr 5/- a week. States 'they will keep sending on form untill peace is declare - that is next June they say now [sic]'. Written after Armistice but before declaration of peace.

Walter Baynes (junior) served on the Somme. Brother (Arthur Baynes) served in the Navy. Father and mother - Walter and Bertha Baynes - ran china shop in Wakefield.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8pg6.2
title: Letters from Private Grattan Atkins (1)

description: A diary kept by Grattan Atkins from 1st January 1915 to 10th September 1915 (when he was shot, with a few subsequent pages on his hospitalization), is also kept by the family. 

Editor's Comment:
Letters to mother and father, sent between 15th March 1915 and 3rd August 1915, also page from diary. 

Pte. 2301 John C. Grattan Atkins, 1/23rd Bn. (County of London) Bn., Territorial Force (London Regiment), served for a time in the battalion's Trench Mortar (Reserve) Battery. The 1/23rd Bn. was part of the 47th (London) Division, joining on 11th May 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8san.2
title: Memoirs of Horrace Foakes (26)

description: An account of how my Grandfather, Horrace Foakes, won his Military medal. The medal is now displayed in the Regimental Museum in the Tower of London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ucd.1
title: Watercolour painting on postcard of soldier lighting cigarette

description: Part of collection of L Cpl Bernard Kemp.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand1c5.2
title: Memoirs of Horrace Foakes (24)

description: An account of how my Grandfather, Horrace Foakes, won his Military medal. The medal is now displayed in the Regimental Museum in the Tower of London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand1hb.2
title: Card from 2nd Lt Albert Brainerd Raynes

description: A card home sent a few days before setting sail for France.

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant Albert Brainerd Raynes, Royal Sussex Regiment, attached 2nd Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment, was killed in action on 10th March 1915, aged 20. The son of Albert Edward and Alice Mary Raynes, of 201, Denman St., Nottingham, he is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. Lieutenant Raynes fell on the opening day of the battle of Neuve Chapelle, his battalion taking part in the attack of the 8th Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandd9q.2
title: Letters from Private Grattan Atkins (7)

description: A diary kept by Grattan Atkins from 1st January 1915 to 10th September 1915 (when he was shot, with a few subsequent pages on his hospitalization), is also kept by the family. 

Editor's Comment:
Letters to mother and father, sent between 15th March 1915 and 3rd August 1915, also page from diary. 

Pte. 2301 John C. Grattan Atkins, 1/23rd Bn. (County of London) Bn., Territorial Force (London Regiment), served for a time in the battalion's Trench Mortar (Reserve) Battery. The 1/23rd Bn. was part of the 47th (London) Division, joining on 11th May 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandosb.1
title: Letters home from Benjamin Champion Prevost

description: There are 170 pages of transcripted letters from Benjamin Champion Prevost home to his parents dating from October 1916 through to his discharge in England during the early months of 1919. B. C. Prevost was a wool merchant before the beginning of hostilities, which incidentally found him stranded in Leipzig, repatriated first to Switzerland and then to Marseilles from where he returned to Australia. His father was senior partner in a Wool Merchant house dealing in Adelaide, South Australia and New Zealand. Hence there are many references to the wool trade throughout this correspondence and mention is made of many wool merchant contacts in the United Kingdom. The letters were typed out and loose-bound by a cousin, together with those of his brother Charles, also fighting in France, so that they could be handed around to the extended family and friends.
The remaining 162 pages of transcript will be put on line over the next few weeks.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandtk7.2
title: Letters from Private Grattan Atkins (5)

description: A diary kept by Grattan Atkins from 1st January 1915 to 10th September 1915 (when he was shot, with a few subsequent pages on his hospitalization), is also kept by the family. 

Editor's Comment:
Letters to mother and father, sent between 15th March 1915 and 3rd August 1915, also page from diary. 

Pte. 2301 John C. Grattan Atkins, 1/23rd Bn. (County of London) Bn., Territorial Force (London Regiment), served for a time in the battalion's Trench Mortar (Reserve) Battery. The 1/23rd Bn. was part of the 47th (London) Division, joining on 11th May 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianidm.1
title: Embroidered Postcard of Cathedral, Reims, in Flames

description: Part of collection of L Cpl Bernard Kemp.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj7ks.2
title: Letters from Private Grattan Atkins (6)

description: A diary kept by Grattan Atkins from 1st January 1915 to 10th September 1915 (when he was shot, with a few subsequent pages on his hospitalization), is also kept by the family. 

Editor's Comment:
Letters to mother and father, sent between 15th March 1915 and 3rd August 1915, also page from diary. 

Pte. 2301 John C. Grattan Atkins, 1/23rd Bn. (County of London) Bn., Territorial Force (London Regiment), served for a time in the battalion's Trench Mortar (Reserve) Battery. The 1/23rd Bn. was part of the 47th (London) Division, joining on 11th May 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjdau.1
title: Postcard and photograph of Dispatch Riders

description: Part of collection of L Cpl Bernard Kemp. Reverse reads 'To (?) Our late Dispatch Rider with kindest Regards! Gone but not forgotten! Keep on Revving !!!'
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjt6g.1
title: Postcard/Photograph of Bernard Kemp, Lance Corporal, Dispatch Rider
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjycy.2
title: Memoirs of Horrace Foakes (25)

description: An account of how my Grandfather, Horrace Foakes, won his Military medal. The medal is now displayed in the Regimental Museum in the Tower of London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjyhi.2
title: Ernest Frederick Sewell in the trenches

description: Ernest Sewell (known as Fred) served in the Royal Engineers and survived the war - he is the soldier at the front of the photograph wearing a scarf - I do not know the names of the other soldiers. Ernest Frederick Sewell was born in Middleton Cheney 1886-1960. He lived and died in Banbury, Oxfordshire.

Editor's Comment:
Photograph taken at the front in 1914 or 1915, as Service Dress Caps are worn. Note also the Wellington Boots, Cap Comforters, and scarf. 

Sapper 191686 Ernest Frederick Sewell, Royal Engineers
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianksa.2
title: Letters from Private Grattan Atkins (3)

description: A diary kept by Grattan Atkins from 1st January 1915 to 10th September 1915 (when he was shot, with a few subsequent pages on his hospitalization), is also kept by the family. 

Editor's Comment:
Letters to mother and father, sent between 15th March 1915 and 3rd August 1915, also page from diary. 

Pte. 2301 John C. Grattan Atkins, 1/23rd Bn. (County of London) Bn., Territorial Force (London Regiment), served for a time in the battalion's Trench Mortar (Reserve) Battery. The 1/23rd Bn. was part of the 47th (London) Division, joining on 11th May 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianur6.2
title: Memoirs of Horrace Foakes (21)

description: An account of how my Grandfather, Horrace Foakes, won his Military medal. The medal is now displayed in the Regimental Museum in the Tower of London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianwa4.1
title: Postcard and photograph of Bernard Kemp, Lance Corporal, Dispatch Rider

description: Reverse reads 'Faithfully yours, James Geades (Mick)'
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian238m.1
title: Token of Service in Machine Gun Corps, Sgt PC Walker; Note of Appreciation Sgt PC Walker. Medals, PC Walker. Austro-Hungarian 1 Crown note.

description: I was executor for a member of PC Walker's family, and found these items. Advice on the best use of the medals (I dont think any of the family survives) would be welcome
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2g6l.2
title: Letters from Private Grattan Atkins (12)

description: A diary kept by Grattan Atkins from 1st January 1915 to 10th September 1915 (when he was shot, with a few subsequent pages on his hospitalization), is also kept by the family. 

Editor's Comment:
Letters to mother and father, sent between 15th March 1915 and 3rd August 1915, also page from diary. 

Pte. 2301 John C. Grattan Atkins, 1/23rd Bn. (County of London) Bn., Territorial Force (London Regiment), served for a time in the battalion's Trench Mortar (Reserve) Battery. The 1/23rd Bn. was part of the 47th (London) Division, joining on 11th May 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2oue.2
title: Memoirs of Horrace Foakes (29)

description: An account of how my Grandfather, Horrace Foakes, won his Military medal. The medal is now displayed in the Regimental Museum in the Tower of London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2rf1.1
title: Till the Boys Come Home

description: Postcard 3 in a set of 3.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian61qv.2
title: Letters from Private Grattan Atkins (14)

description: A diary kept by Grattan Atkins from 1st January 1915 to 10th September 1915 (when he was shot, with a few subsequent pages on his hospitalization), is also kept by the family. 

Editor's Comment:
Letters to mother and father, sent between 15th March 1915 and 3rd August 1915, also page from diary. 

Pte. 2301 John C. Grattan Atkins, 1/23rd Bn. (County of London) Bn., Territorial Force (London Regiment), served for a time in the battalion's Trench Mortar (Reserve) Battery. The 1/23rd Bn. was part of the 47th (London) Division, joining on 11th May 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6mxc.1
title: Photographs of Geoffrey Spencer

description: Lance Corporal?
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6nap.2
title: Memoirs of Horrace Foakes (27)

description: An account of how my Grandfather, Horrace Foakes, won his Military medal. The medal is now displayed in the Regimental Museum in the Tower of London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6qde.2
title: Letters from Private Grattan Atkins (10)

description: A diary kept by Grattan Atkins from 1st January 1915 to 10th September 1915 (when he was shot, with a few subsequent pages on his hospitalization), is also kept by the family. 

Editor's Comment:
Letters to mother and father, sent between 15th March 1915 and 3rd August 1915, also page from diary. 

Pte. 2301 John C. Grattan Atkins, 1/23rd Bn. (County of London) Bn., Territorial Force (London Regiment), served for a time in the battalion's Trench Mortar (Reserve) Battery. The 1/23rd Bn. was part of the 47th (London) Division, joining on 11th May 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6qgb.2
title: Letter describing how the photograph after an advance on the Somme (13th Royal Fusiliers) was taken (1)

description: This letter is from the son of Horace Foakes to his family. It describes how a famous photograph of a group of soldiers (13th BN Royal Fusiliers) was taken after their advance on the Somme on the 7th July 1916.

The photograph has been contributed separately to the archive, along with Horace Foakes memoirs of how he won his military medal.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian83ah.2
title: Letters from Private Grattan Atkins (16)

description: A diary kept by Grattan Atkins from 1st January 1915 to 10th September 1915 (when he was shot, with a few subsequent pages on his hospitalization), is also kept by the family. 

Editor's Comment:
Letters to mother and father, sent between 15th March 1915 and 3rd August 1915, also page from diary. 

Pte. 2301 John C. Grattan Atkins, 1/23rd Bn. (County of London) Bn., Territorial Force (London Regiment), served for a time in the battalion's Trench Mortar (Reserve) Battery. The 1/23rd Bn. was part of the 47th (London) Division, joining on 11th May 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian84d2.2
title: Letters from Private Grattan Atkins (9)

description: A diary kept by Grattan Atkins from 1st January 1915 to 10th September 1915 (when he was shot, with a few subsequent pages on his hospitalization), is also kept by the family. 

Editor's Comment:
Letters to mother and father, sent between 15th March 1915 and 3rd August 1915, also page from diary. 

Pte. 2301 John C. Grattan Atkins, 1/23rd Bn. (County of London) Bn., Territorial Force (London Regiment), served for a time in the battalion's Trench Mortar (Reserve) Battery. The 1/23rd Bn. was part of the 47th (London) Division, joining on 11th May 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian84gs.2
title: Memoirs of Horrace Foakes (34)

description: An account of how my Grandfather, Horrace Foakes, won his Military medal. The medal is now displayed in the Regimental Museum in the Tower of London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8a4e.1
title: 4th Army battlefield summary of information

description: Instructions sent to my uncle second lieutenant Geoffrey Spencer of the Northamptonshire Regiment on the day that hostilities ended.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8rqw.2
title: Letters from Private Grattan Atkins (13)

description: A diary kept by Grattan Atkins from 1st January 1915 to 10th September 1915 (when he was shot, with a few subsequent pages on his hospitalization), is also kept by the family. 

Editor's Comment:
Letters to mother and father, sent between 15th March 1915 and 3rd August 1915, also page from diary. 

Pte. 2301 John C. Grattan Atkins, 1/23rd Bn. (County of London) Bn., Territorial Force (London Regiment), served for a time in the battalion's Trench Mortar (Reserve) Battery. The 1/23rd Bn. was part of the 47th (London) Division, joining on 11th May 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8vy6.1
title: Post card from Robert Lynn to his mother

description: Robert was Sarah's oldest son, born in 1889. Robert did not become a soldier - I don't know if he was unfit, or whether it was because he was now the head of the household (his father died in 1915), or because he was a farmer. He went to Lincoln, presumably with his brothers. He wrote
"Dear Mother arrived to Lincoln at Hafpast one and are getting on alright hoping you are the same with Love from Robert.

Robert survived the war, and died in 1954. He was my Grandfather.