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DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandafq.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (9)

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/bodleiandbog.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (15)

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/bodleiandfgh.2
title: Soldier`s Small Book - Edward Burkenshaw (2)

description: This was my grandfather`s army record and although not fully completed, shows some details of his service.
I also have photographs and postcards from India, Waziristan and Liverpool, where he was posted during the riots and looting which accompanied a Police strike in 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandh5v.2
title: Artifacts relating to William Robert Jones (7)

description: Artifacts relating to Private Wiliam Robert Jones (no.22645) including letters, identification, music union card and a postcard from Italy.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandsm8.2
title: 2 unwritten postcards showing Bridge building exercise

description: Owned by Lawrence Crisp of the Royal Engineers.

Editor's Comment:
Two photographs of wooden bridges built on exercise. 

Sapper 216741 Lawrence Crisp, Royal Engineers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianduct.2
title: Group Photograph including Charles Henry Gerrish

description: Charles Henry Gerrish, standing centre row on right

Editor's Comment:
Driver 269516 Charles Henry Gerrish, Royal Field Artillery.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandw6j.2
title: Artifacts relating to William Robert Jones (5)

description: Artifacts relating to Private Wiliam Robert Jones (no.22645) including letters, identification, music union card and a postcard from Italy.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandyke.2
title: Official German Cards showing wrecked British Tanks (5)

description: Photograph postcards of wrecked British tanks: a Mark IV 'Female' tank (armed with machine guns); German staff officers with five wrecked tanks in background; two wrecked Mark IVs, one 'Male' (armed with machine guns and two 6pdr guns); a wrecked Mark IV 'Female' with German soldiers to front; a ditched Mark IV 'Male' with German staff officers to front. Photographs taken at Cambrai and possibly the 'Tank Graveyard' along the Menin Road. 

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandzvk.2
title: Letters of Lieutenant A. Fraser MacLean, 16th Royal Scots.  The 'Merchant Maiden' Magazine (6)

description: Gives a good administartive history, as well as detailing aspects of his toime during the war, and what he thought of life during this time.  Also provides an image of him.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianftg.2
title: Official German Cards showing allied corpses (1)

description: German propaganda showing Allied corpses: two shots of men lying dead by the escape hatches of their Mark IV 'Female' tanks, one showing the terrible effects of a tank fire and surrounded by Lewis Gun magazines; allied dead in a trench surrounded by ammunition boxes. 

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj5gj.2
title: Soldier`s Small Book - Edward Burkenshaw (3)

description: This was my grandfather`s army record and although not fully completed, shows some details of his service.
I also have photographs and postcards from India, Waziristan and Liverpool, where he was posted during the riots and looting which accompanied a Police strike in 1919.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjgvr.2
title: Letters of Lieutenant A. Fraser MacLean, 16th Royal Scots.  The 'Merchant Maiden' Magazine (7)

description: Gives a good administartive history, as well as detailing aspects of his toime during the war, and what he thought of life during this time.  Also provides an image of him.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjk5t.2
title: Artifacts relating to William Robert Jones (8)

description: Artifacts relating to Private Wiliam Robert Jones (no.22645) including letters, identification, music union card and a postcard from Italy.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjmfx.2
title: Notebook of Private Arthur Snape of the 1/8th Lancs Fusiliers, including notes on training, poems, and diary (10)

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/bodleianjo1c.2
title: Postcard of aeroplane

description: Postcard of a German aeroplane, taken in flight from above.

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjxcg.2
title: Orders for William Cranston, 1917

description: Battalion order issued by Col Cranston July 1917.

Editor's Comment:
Second Lieutenant (acting Lieutenant Colonel) William James Cranston DSO, Royal Scots Fusiliers and Staff, served additionally in the North Staffordshire Regiment and commanded the 13th Bn. King's Liverpool Regiment and 3rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianlqz.2
title: Artifacts relating to William Robert Jones (3)

description: Artifacts relating to Private Wiliam Robert Jones (no.22645) including letters, identification, music union card and a postcard from Italy.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianpr4.2
title: William Cranston - 3rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps Journal (4)

description: Articles from the magazine of the 3rd Bn Machine Gun Corps, issue no 1, May 1919.  I have 100 pages of the originals of issues 1-6 with many descriptions of actions in the Great War and accounts of regimental life.

Editor's Comment:
'Honorary Editor, Lt.-Colonel W. J. Cranston. D.S.O.'. Cartoon portrait of Lt.-Col. Cranston facing prefatory material, with an article 'The Chronicles of the 3rd Bn. M.G.C.  | No. 1 | Arras | March 21-28 1918'.

Second Lieutenant (acting Lieutenant Colonel) William James Cranston DSO, Royal Scots Fusiliers and Staff, served additionally in the North Staffordshire Regiment and commanded the 13th Bn. King's Liverpool Regiment and 3rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianx3w.2
title: Anti-aircraft gunners spotting a hun plane

description: Sent by Rfln Walter Corder to Miss Ethel Sams at Castle Hedingham.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian24pn.2
title: Letters of Hew Hutchison Grieg to his mother (3)

description: hew was born in India on 21st Sept. 1892.  After fighting in the Great War he went on to become an Engineer.
Letter 1.  Personal items sent home for safe keeping and how good he now is at sowing and mending his clothes.

Letter 2. Details trench attacks and food his mother sent him.  he writes of the strain of serving on the front line and his duties.

Letter 3.  He details the atrocities of warand its casualties.  He also talks of his family and sends them his best wishes.  he also writes of sending a parcel of eggs home.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian28b6.2
title: Photograph by Alfred Owen of Clutton and the postcard he sent home (2)

description: Alfred Owen was a coalminer on the North Somerset coalfield. He was badly gassed whilst tunnelling under the German Lines and was sent home on the hospital ship 'Glenart Castle'.

Editor's Comment:
Postcard of 'H.M. Hospital Ship "Glenart Castle" (Publication officially sanctioned by the Lords Commissionars of the Admiralty".
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2a8s.2
title: Letters of Hew Hutchison Grieg to his mother (11)

description: hew was born in India on 21st Sept. 1892.  After fighting in the Great War he went on to become an Engineer.
Letter 1.  Personal items sent home for safe keeping and how good he now is at sowing and mending his clothes.

Letter 2. Details trench attacks and food his mother sent him.  he writes of the strain of serving on the front line and his duties.

Letter 3.  He details the atrocities of warand its casualties.  He also talks of his family and sends them his best wishes.  he also writes of sending a parcel of eggs home.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2bfq.2
title: Embroidered Christmas card from Lawrence Crisp to parents

description: "To Mother and Father" pencilled on the back. The Crisps lived in West Wittering, Sussex.

Editor's Comment:
Union Flag and Tricolore, Holly and Mistletoe: 'Christmas Greetings'.

Sapper 216741 Lawrence Crisp, Royal Engineers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2c9k.2
title: War savings card (2)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2dlk.2
title: Photograph of Keynsham ladies knitting comforts for the troops

description: Clara Shortman seated centre row first on the left.

Editor's Comment:
Wife of Pte. 17482 Thomas James Shortman, 1st Bn. Somerset Light Infantry, killed in action 1st July 1916, aged 44, and buried in Thistle Dump Cemetery, High Wood, Longueval.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2nl5.2
title: Thmas Shortman medals and forwarding letter (2)

description: 1914/15 Star, War and Victory medals with ribbons. Includes the letter sent to his widow accompanying the 1914-15 star.

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 17482 Thomas James Shortman, 1st Bn. Somerset Light Infantry, killed in action 1st July 1916, aged 44. The husband of Clara Ann Shortman, of 14, Dapps Hill, Keynsham, Bristol, he is buried in Thistle Dump Cemetery, High Wood, Longueval. The 1st Bn., as part of the 4th Division, attacked between the villages of Serre and Beaumont Hamel on the first day of the Batlle of the Somme.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2srp.2
title: Postcard of 7 German soldiers

description: Postcard of 7 German soldiers, including an Unteroffizier (equivalent to a Corporal), standing second from right; a Feldwebel (equivalent in rank to a Sergeant Major), standing middle; a Leutnant (equivalent to a Second Lieutenant), reclining right.

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2tq3.2
title: Autograph Book (5)

description: It was common to have an 'Autograph Book', not used as they are today, but family / friends would add paintings etc. 

Editor's Comment:
Red cloth cover with flowers: 'Autographs'; embossed in gold: 'Willie'.
Contains:
Watercolour painting of field, initialled J.T. 1915
Cartoon of spinster surveying news stand: 'Latest War News- | Daily Pail Latest War News | Kitchener Gets Half a Million Men in a Month | Official', with caption underneath: 'Lar! And Here I've tried for Thirty Years and Can't Get One!'. Signed G. C. Evans, 18/5/15.
Song: 'Longue est la route de Tipperary' [It's a Long way to Tipperary]. Signed A. Seymour, Le 4. Octobre 1915.
Pen drawing, soldier with Pickelhauben hanging from bayonet. Captioned: 'A Busy Day'. Signed E. G. Hodder, 4/3/1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6b8f.2
title: Photographs of Ypres notice

description: Photograph of Ypres notice. Reads 'Notice. This is holy ground. No stone of this fabric may be taken away. It is a heritage for all civilised peoples. By order Town Mayor Ypres'. 

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6g99.2
title: Autograph Book (3)

description: It was common to have an 'Autograph Book', not used as they are today, but family / friends would add paintings etc. 

Editor's Comment:
Red cloth cover with flowers: 'Autographs'; embossed in gold: 'Willie'.
Contains:
Watercolour painting of field, initialled J.T. 1915
Cartoon of spinster surveying news stand: 'Latest War News- | Daily Pail Latest War News | Kitchener Gets Half a Million Men in a Month | Official', with caption underneath: 'Lar! And Here I've tried for Thirty Years and Can't Get One!'. Signed G. C. Evans, 18/5/15.
Song: 'Longue est la route de Tipperary' [It's a Long way to Tipperary]. Signed A. Seymour, Le 4. Octobre 1915.
Pen drawing, soldier with Pickelhauben hanging from bayonet. Captioned: 'A Busy Day'. Signed E. G. Hodder, 4/3/1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6hn2.2
title: Embroidered postcard "Hurrah for Canada"

description: Unwritten. From collection of Lawrence Crisp of the Royal Engineers.

Editor's Comment:
Canadian Red Ensign and Tricolore surrounded by Maple Leaves: 'Hurrah for Canada'.

Sapper 216741 Lawrence Crisp, Royal Engineers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6jky.2
title: Letters of Hew Hutchison Grieg to his mother (4)

description: hew was born in India on 21st Sept. 1892.  After fighting in the Great War he went on to become an Engineer.
Letter 1.  Personal items sent home for safe keeping and how good he now is at sowing and mending his clothes.

Letter 2. Details trench attacks and food his mother sent him.  he writes of the strain of serving on the front line and his duties.

Letter 3.  He details the atrocities of warand its casualties.  He also talks of his family and sends them his best wishes.  he also writes of sending a parcel of eggs home.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6meg.2
title: Two aerial views of German positions (1)

description: These aerial photographs were taken from an aeroplane. One shows a German hospital and the other the entrenched main square of a town.
the hospital photograph is marked ''L.Flt. A548. 45 NW. G 26 central'.28.10.18. 12.20".
The main square entrenchment photograph is marked ' L.Flt. A531. 44 SE. R19b. 28.10.18. 12.20".

Presumably these are number of photograph and the position and time taken.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6n5n.2
title: North Ronaldsay Man (Royal Navy Rating)

description: Editor's Comment:
Sailor with 'H.M.S. Victory' cap tally - Victory was used as a signal school until 1904, and is still a home service posting.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6o6a.2
title: Flechette Dart

description: A reproduction. These were placed in cannisters on the side of an aircraft and dropped together on trenches etc. They proved very effective against cavalry.  This is a modern reproduction, stamped 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ve9.2
title: Letters of Hew Hutchison Grieg to his mother (9)

description: hew was born in India on 21st Sept. 1892.  After fighting in the Great War he went on to become an Engineer.
Letter 1.  Personal items sent home for safe keeping and how good he now is at sowing and mending his clothes.

Letter 2. Details trench attacks and food his mother sent him.  he writes of the strain of serving on the front line and his duties.

Letter 3.  He details the atrocities of warand its casualties.  He also talks of his family and sends them his best wishes.  he also writes of sending a parcel of eggs home.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ybh.2
title: Cutting showing views of the S. C. A. Hut at Cologne

description: A cutting showing two photographs of the Soldiers' Christian Association recreation hut in Cologne, showing the Quiet room and exterior. 

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian79o.2
title: War savings card (1)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian81by.2
title: German postcard 'Sei getreu bis in den Tod'

description: Postcard depicting a wounded German soldier being visited by Christ, with the caption: 'Sei getreu bis in den Tod' ('Be loyal unto death'). Noted as 'Taken from a dead German'. 

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian86nr.2
title: Emboidered postcard

description: One of many from the collection of Lawrence and Annie Crisp, still kept by the family.

Editor's Comment:
Holly and flowers: 'Christmas Greetings'.

Sapper 216741 Lawrence Crisp, Royal Engineers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian88k5.2
title: Letters of Hew Hutchison Grieg to his mother (5)

description: hew was born in India on 21st Sept. 1892.  After fighting in the Great War he went on to become an Engineer.
Letter 1.  Personal items sent home for safe keeping and how good he now is at sowing and mending his clothes.

Letter 2. Details trench attacks and food his mother sent him.  he writes of the strain of serving on the front line and his duties.

Letter 3.  He details the atrocities of warand its casualties.  He also talks of his family and sends them his best wishes.  he also writes of sending a parcel of eggs home.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8aet.2
title: Soldiers pass allowing passage through town

description: This pass was given to a soldier (part of a group) to allow him to pass through the town, having arrived by train,   and out by the south gate, by 9.15.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8nei.2
title: Letters of Hew Hutchison Grieg to his mother (8)

description: hew was born in India on 21st Sept. 1892.  After fighting in the Great War he went on to become an Engineer.
Letter 1.  Personal items sent home for safe keeping and how good he now is at sowing and mending his clothes.

Letter 2. Details trench attacks and food his mother sent him.  he writes of the strain of serving on the front line and his duties.

Letter 3.  He details the atrocities of warand its casualties.  He also talks of his family and sends them his best wishes.  he also writes of sending a parcel of eggs home.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8q8a.2
title: Postcard showing German Army being welcomed back to Cologne after Armistice (2)

description: German army marching through Cologne after the Armistice: 'The German Retreat. Notice the Crowds - about when we came through!'

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8s5c.2
title: Photographs of shell fuze door stop (2)

description: British First World War No. 82 Fuze, made in the Royal Laboratories (Royal Arsenal at Woolwich) in 1911.  This type of time and percussion fuze, of which there were four marks, was used in conjunction with the 4.5 in Howitzer Shrapnel shell (this information kindly provided by Mr Martin Garnett of the Imperial War Museum, based on sight of the attached images).  

This artefact was prepared as a door stop by a great uncle (of the Gloucestershire Regiment) as a memento for my great grandmother.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8xhy.2
title: Embroidered postcard, Cyclist Companies Divisional Mounted Troops

description: From the collection of Lawrence Crisp compiled pre 1930, now owned by his great niece.

Editor's Comment:
Insignia of the Army Cyclist Corps, with 'Cyclist Companies' over Union Flag, over 'Divisional Mounted Troops', bordered with flowers. 

Sapper 216741 Lawrence Crisp, Royal Engineers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ycc.2
title: Thmas Shortman medals and forwarding letter (3)

description: 1914/15 Star, War and Victory medals with ribbons. Includes the letter sent to his widow accompanying the 1914-15 star.

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 17482 Thomas James Shortman, 1st Bn. Somerset Light Infantry, killed in action 1st July 1916, aged 44. The husband of Clara Ann Shortman, of 14, Dapps Hill, Keynsham, Bristol, he is buried in Thistle Dump Cemetery, High Wood, Longueval. The 1st Bn., as part of the 4th Division, attacked between the villages of Serre and Beaumont Hamel on the first day of the Batlle of the Somme.