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DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6cf1.2
title: Rifleman Harry Green, 8th Bttn. K.R.R.C War diary. (1)

description: Extract of the war diary of the 8th Bttn Kings Royal Rifle Corps, December 1916. Harry Green was in the new draft of troops mentioned on December 15th. He was fatally wounded either on the 24th or 26th December and evacuated to the 37th Casualty Clearing Station at Avesnes Le Comte, wher he later died.

Editor's Comment:
Rifleman R/31363 Harry William Green, 8th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps (part of the 14th (Light) Division), the son of Walter H. and Mary E. Green, originally of King's Lynn, Norfolk, died of wounds 27th December 1916, age 19. He is buried in Avesnes-Le-Comte Communal Cemetery Extension.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6m2e.2
title: Excursion / Companion - North-East Dugout

description: Pencil draft in Ivor Gurney's hand of two Hospital Pictures, sent to Marion Scott in a letter of 17 November 1917. 'Excursion' was not published with the other Hospital Pictures in War's Embers (1919) but was included in Collected Poems (1982/2004).  From a Black notebook inscribed 'Pvt Gurney 241282 / Gloucester', used by Ivor Gurney between November 1917 and January 1918, whilst Gurney was at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland on a signalling course. The diary includes some early drafts of poems, notes on the camp and military matters, sketches, lists, musical scores, addresses and sums. The rear cover of the book and following pages reveal a cigarette burn-like hole.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6pq5.2
title: Photograph of soldiers in British East Africa 1918

description: Nakuru is a small town in the Rift Valley in what is now Kenya. The war did come to British East Africa and it was pretty much a hit and run affair. These troops look relaxed and happy...perhaps in the knowledge that the War is finally winding to a conclusion and they might soon be going home-intact.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ryi.2
title: Dog tags belonging to John Scott of the 7th Seaforth Highlanders.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6xzg.2
title: Model tank and old suitcase (7)

description: The photographs of tank are from a model made by a German POW and presented to my Grandfather as a present. Captain Thomas J. Costello MC of the Royal Artillery Medical Corps was stationed at Trouville No.4, Convalescent Department in the South of France in 1919 where he was given the model tank.

Also enclosed are pictures of his suitcase made for him with his monograph in Manchester around 1918.

Thomas Joseph Costello. Born June 10th 1890 died at 55 years of age, March 1945. Born in Dublin to John Costello and Rose Callaghan. Probably educated like his brother John Aloysius (Taoiseach) in O'Connell Schools, Richmond street by the Christian brothers.

From co. Clare Barefield. Married June 8th 1917. Captain in Royal Army Medical core Artillery E.Lancs regiment.

Awarded the Military Cross for riding out into No Mans Land to administer to wounded. He was gassed which was probably the reason for early death.

Worked in French POW camp where he received the tank (photos attached).

After the war he returned to Darwen, Lancashire and was given an honorary Ms Science.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ypu.2
title: Photograph of Private Harry Bowman Jackson

description: This is my grandfather (my father's father) Harry Bowman Jackson who came from Leyland in Lancashire and went to South Africa with the Leyland Paint and Varnish Company. He joined the Transvaal Scottish Regiment and died of Spanish Flu in October 1918 in barracks at Woking. His brother Will was in the same Regiment and died a few days later in the same barracks, also of Spanish Flu.

They are both remembered on the War Memorial in their home town of Leyland (Lancashire)

On the back it says: 'To Allan from Daddy 1918'

His regimental details:
Private 
No: 19741 
4th Regiment, South African Infantry (South African Scottish) Transvaal Scottish Regiment.

Born 14th February 1883
Died  22nd October 1918

I am not sure if he even saw any action although his regiment was quite busy in France.  He was an incredibly fit and handsome man and left a widow, two sons and a daughter who was born six months after his death.

Editor's Comment:
Pte. Harry Bowman Jackson is buried in Leyland (St. Andrew) Churchyard.

His brother, Pte. 22128 William Jackson, 4th Regt. South African Infantry, died 24th October 1918, and is also buried in St. Andrew's Churchyard.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian74q.2
title: Upstairs Piano

description: Reverse of manuscript, possibly copied out in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Published in 'War's Embers'  (1917). Various manuscript versions of the poem exist. In Ivor Gurney's edition of 'War's Embers' he notes after this poem, 'Best poem on Music'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian81p4.2
title: Bertie Ling's Letter Home

description: The letter home to his wife was written by Bertie Ling of the 2nd Rifle Brigade. He was killed in the early hours of the following morning as reported in the letter from the Rev'd Edmund B Potts. 

Editor's Comment:
Rifleman S/28530 Bertie Ling, 2nd Bn. Rifle Brigade, was killed in action 8th July 1917, aged 34. The husband of Annie Josephine Ling, of 1, Lower Quay St., Gloucester, he is buried in Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8242.2
title: Rifleman Harry Green. Letter from Chaplain (2)

description: Letter regarding Rifleman Harry Green, from the Chaplain at 37th Casualty Clearing Station. In reply to a letter from Harry's mother Mary Green, requesting information regarding her son's death.

Editor's Comment:
Rifleman R/31363 Harry William Green, 8th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps (part of the 14th (Light) Division), the son of Walter H. and Mary E. Green, originally of King's Lynn, Norfolk, died of wounds 27th December 1916, age 19. He is buried in Avesnes-Le-Comte Communal Cemetery Extension.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian83cu.2
title: Campaign photographs by Frederick Parson Dickerson (23)

description: Frederick Dickerson was in the Royal Army Service Corps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian87ff.2
title: Rifleman Harry Green's memorial plaque

description: Memorial plaque, or 'Death Penny" sent to the family of Rifleman Harry Green after the end of the war.

Editor's Comment:
Rifleman R/31363 Harry William Green, 8th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps (part of the 14th (Light) Division), the son of Walter H. and Mary E. Green, originally of King's Lynn, Norfolk, died of wounds 27th December 1916, age 19. He is buried in Avesnes-Le-Comte Communal Cemetery Extension.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8a22.2
title: Pvt Gurney's Black Notebook

description: Black notebook inscribed 'Pvt Gurney 241282 / Gloucester', used by Ivor Gurney between November 1917 and January 1918, whilst Gurney was at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland on a signalling course. The diary includes some early drafts of poems, notes on the camp and military matters, sketches, lists, musical scores, addresses and sums. The rear cover of the book and following pages reveal a cigarette burn-like hole.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8bqm.2
title: Photograph of 'Bill', British Artillery Horse, served 1914 - 1919

description: One of the Best "Bill" 47th Bty 2nd Div 1914, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 - WWI British Artillery Horse'.

This poignant photograph is of Bill, a veteran British artillery horse who served faithfully with the 47th Battery of the Royal Field Artillery, 2nd Division from 1914-1919. Presumably, he was one of the few horses to survive the entire campaign.

His back is covered with the characteristic scars of harness galls where his hide was rubbed raw from hours spent in sweaty, ill-fitting harness, and the hair has grown back in white. Also, his left hind ankle appears to have sustained a severe injury and as result, his leg is unable to bear his weight.

This picture of Bill might have been taken somewhere in France or Germany after the Armistice was signed. One hopes that someone took pity on him and took him home after demobilization.

It is estimated that on the Western Front alone over 256,000 horses and mules lost their lives while in the service of the British military, and untold MILLIONS perished on all sides during "The War to End All Wars."

When the war was over the "standard" and "poor quality" British animals were either auctioned off at rock-bottom prices to spend the rest of their lives in slavery or were sold to French butchers, a terrible fate given the services these brave animals had performed.

There were, however, some happy endings. Four officers clubbed together funds to purchase and then ensure a peaceful retirement for a horse called David. This extraordinary animal had served when a youngster in the Boer War. As a veteran on the Western Front, David served every day without fail except for the one occasion he was wounded.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ebw.2
title: Nurses

description: Pencil draft (continuation) in Ivor Gurney's hand of a poem sent to Marion Scott, and later published as 'Ladies of Charity'. From a Black notebook inscribed 'Pvt Gurney 241282 / Gloucester', used by Ivor Gurney between November 1917 and January 1918, whilst Gurney was at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland on a signalling course. The diary includes some early drafts of poems, notes on the camp and military matters, sketches, lists, musical scores, addresses and sums. The rear cover of the book and following pages reveal a cigarette burn-like hole.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8jyb.2
title: 7th Seaforth Highlanders Badge belonging to John Scott.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8tlu.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (85)

description: A notebook kept by Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, A Company, 42nd East Lancashire Division, believed to have been a sniper. The notebook contains a variety of material, including accounts of Snape's own movements and the operations he was involved in. He took part in the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, was in Malta later in 1915, then Egypt 1916-17, and finally France in 1917. The notebook also includes references to Gallipoli, Suvla Bay, and Anzac.

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8uzt.2
title: Model tank and old suitcase (5)

description: The photographs of tank are from a model made by a German POW and presented to my Grandfather as a present. Captain Thomas J. Costello MC of the Royal Artillery Medical Corps was stationed at Trouville No.4, Convalescent Department in the South of France in 1919 where he was given the model tank.

Also enclosed are pictures of his suitcase made for him with his monograph in Manchester around 1918.

Thomas Joseph Costello. Born June 10th 1890 died at 55 years of age, March 1945. Born in Dublin to John Costello and Rose Callaghan. Probably educated like his brother John Aloysius (Taoiseach) in O'Connell Schools, Richmond street by the Christian brothers.

From co. Clare Barefield. Married June 8th 1917. Captain in Royal Army Medical core Artillery E.Lancs regiment.

Awarded the Military Cross for riding out into No Mans Land to administer to wounded. He was gassed which was probably the reason for early death.

Worked in French POW camp where he received the tank (photos attached).

After the war he returned to Darwen, Lancashire and was given an honorary Ms Science.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand13p.2
title: Song ['My heart makes songs...']

description: Pencil draft (continuation) in Ivor Gurney's hand. From a Black notebook inscribed 'Pvt Gurney 241282 / Gloucester', used by Ivor Gurney between November 1917 and January 1918, whilst Gurney was at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland on a signalling course. The diary includes some early drafts of poems, notes on the camp and military matters, sketches, lists, musical scores, addresses and sums. The rear cover of the book and following pages reveal a cigarette burn-like hole.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand21w.2
title: Diary as a P.O.W. of C.S.M Peter McNally of the 4th Batt. East Yorks (2)

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/bodleiand3j.2
title: Campaign photographs by Frederick Parson Dickerson (25)

description: Frederick Dickerson was in the Royal Army Service Corps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand7eh.2
title: Reminiscences of the War collated by Joseph Hirst

description: A collection of papers collated by Joseph Hirst, City Architect of Hull, relating to his son, who served as a 2nd Lieutenant with the East Yorkshire Regiment in France. The volume includes a wide variety of materials, including: newspaper cuttings, a Christmas card, battalion orders, notes on training soldiers (including a ten week syllabus), luggage and kit lists, details of knowledge requirements for young officers, exam papers with Hirst's answers, Officers' mess regulations, barrack room instructions, standing orders, a booklet entitled "A Short History of the East Yorkshire Regiment", documents relating to a court martial, photographs, and letters, including one from Buckingham Palace welcoming home prisoners of war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandcv1.2
title: Trench art: decorated shell case (2)

description: A decorated shell case, which held pokers and tongs for the fire in the house of Walter Powell. Markings on the base of the case include: 'APR | 1916' (manufactured April 1916); 'Sp235' (An inspection mark from Karlsruhe: Sp=Spandau); '18';  'Patronen Fabrick | Karlsruhe' (The manufacturer). On the primer: 'Fried Krupp A.G.' (the manufacturer); '12'. The case itself belongs to the German 7.5 cm Feld Kanone. 

Although Walter served in France with an anti-aircraft battery the family believe that this was actually purchased from a friend in Mid-Wales. The decoration is Middle Eastern, and it was probably purchased from Shiek Audi's Jerusalem Oriental Bazaar, Station Crescent, Llandrindod Wells, Radnorshire, (now Powys). According to local historians Audi spent between March and October of every year in business at Llandrindod before returning to his native home in the winter months. He was taken ill and died in February 1919 in Llandrindod. 

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/bodleiandft7.2
title: Rifleman Harry Green, memorial card.

description: Memorial card sent to friends and relatives of Rifleman Harry Green.

Editor's Comment:
Memorial card with facing poem: 'Could we have raised his dying head | or heard his last farewell...'

Rifleman R/31363 Harry William Green, 8th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps (part of the 14th (Light) Division), the son of Walter H. and Mary E. Green, originally of King's Lynn, Norfolk, died of wounds 27th December 1916, age 19. He is buried in Avesnes-Le-Comte Communal Cemetery Extension.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandin3.2
title: Memoir: 'The Lost Years', by Frederick Boland, Royal Artillery (2)

description: A memoir of my grandfather's (Frederick William Boland c1872 - 1929) service in the Royal Artillary which was originally published in the 'Clonmel Chronicle' (Ireland).

Editor's Comment:
Corporal L/44761 Frederick William Boland, 189th Bde. Royal Field Artillery, later clerk, Artillery Depot, Rouen, and Artillery Headquaters, Second Army, transferred during the war into the Royal Garrison Artillery, with the service no. 185591.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandoxm.2
title: Postcard and photograph of Bernard Kemp, Lance Corporal, Dispatch Rider (1)

description: Reverse reads 'Faithfully yours, James Geades (Mick)'
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandr6e.2
title: Trench art: decorated shell case (5)

description: A decorated shell case, which held pokers and tongs for the fire in the house of Walter Powell. Markings on the base of the case include: 'APR | 1916' (manufactured April 1916); 'Sp235' (An inspection mark from Karlsruhe: Sp=Spandau); '18';  'Patronen Fabrick | Karlsruhe' (The manufacturer). On the primer: 'Fried Krupp A.G.' (the manufacturer); '12'. The case itself belongs to the German 7.5 cm Feld Kanone. 

Although Walter served in France with an anti-aircraft battery the family believe that this was actually purchased from a friend in Mid-Wales. The decoration is Middle Eastern, and it was probably purchased from Shiek Audi's Jerusalem Oriental Bazaar, Station Crescent, Llandrindod Wells, Radnorshire, (now Powys). According to local historians Audi spent between March and October of every year in business at Llandrindod before returning to his native home in the winter months. He was taken ill and died in February 1919 in Llandrindod. 

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/bodleianfup.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (87)

description: A notebook kept by Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers, A Company, 42nd East Lancashire Division, believed to have been a sniper. The notebook contains a variety of material, including accounts of Snape's own movements and the operations he was involved in. He took part in the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, was in Malta later in 1915, then Egypt 1916-17, and finally France in 1917. The notebook also includes references to Gallipoli, Suvla Bay, and Anzac.

Snape's account is in multiple sections throughout the notebook, but each is a continuous narrative, suggesting it may have been written as a retrospective memoir rather than a diary kept day by day. The longest section occupies most of the second half of the book: it begins with Snape's enlistment on 27th May 1915, and ends with his division leaving Egypt for France on 3rd March[?] 1917. There are also notes on training courses (subjects covered include sniping, orders for a camp guard, and bombing), details of the Dardanelles losses up to December 11th 1915, a list of payments, and two poems, one beginning "Here is a story of which a soldier tells / Who was in that famous landing / on the shores of the Dardanelles", and the other entitled "Empire".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianhbg.2
title: Photograph of unknown soldier and Child -The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

description: In spite of the long blonde hair, it is hard to tell if this little child is a girl or a boy. The heavy corduroy skirt has been pushed up to reveal a pair of buttoned up leggings.  But at this time, little boys frequently wore skirts at this young age, and many had long hair.

The proud father is a British soldier in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, as is evidenced by his cap badge.  The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry regiment officially existed from 1881 to 1968, but its predecessors go back to 1755.

During WWI,  the regiment fielded 13 battalions on active service and lost a total of 9,947 men. The 2nd Battalion was the first to go into action at Le Cateau, taking some 600 casualties, half of whom were killed.  Although the 1st Battalion was in Singapore at the outbreak of the war, it did reach France by January 1915, moving to Salonika later that year and only returning to France to take part in the final advances in 1918.  Battalions of the Regiment served with both 49 (West Riding) and 62 (West Riding) Divisions throughout the war.  

After the war, the 1st Battalion served in Mesopotamia before assuming duties with the army of occupation in Germany, returning to England in 1924 where it remained until moving to Gibraltar in 1935. 

The WWI Major Battle Honors won by the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry include Marne, Messines, Ypres, Somme, and Cambrai.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj1jc.2
title: Trench art: decorated shell case (4)

description: A decorated shell case, which held pokers and tongs for the fire in the house of Walter Powell. Markings on the base of the case include: 'APR | 1916' (manufactured April 1916); 'Sp235' (An inspection mark from Karlsruhe: Sp=Spandau); '18';  'Patronen Fabrick | Karlsruhe' (The manufacturer). On the primer: 'Fried Krupp A.G.' (the manufacturer); '12'. The case itself belongs to the German 7.5 cm Feld Kanone. 

Although Walter served in France with an anti-aircraft battery the family believe that this was actually purchased from a friend in Mid-Wales. The decoration is Middle Eastern, and it was probably purchased from Shiek Audi's Jerusalem Oriental Bazaar, Station Crescent, Llandrindod Wells, Radnorshire, (now Powys). According to local historians Audi spent between March and October of every year in business at Llandrindod before returning to his native home in the winter months. He was taken ill and died in February 1919 in Llandrindod. 

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/bodleianj5ts.2
title: Medals of Rifleman Harry Green

description: Medals of Rifleman Harry Green issued to his family after the war.

Editor's Comment:
War and Victory Medal with ribbons. 

Rifleman R/31363 Harry William Green, 8th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps (part of the 14th (Light) Division), the son of Walter H. and Mary E. Green, originally of King's Lynn, Norfolk, died of wounds 27th December 1916, age 19. He is buried in Avesnes-Le-Comte Communal Cemetery Extension.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjcej.2
title: Diary as a P.O.W. of C.S.M Peter McNally of the 4th Batt. East Yorks (1)

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.