cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian29e5.2
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/bodleian2a68.2
title: The Wrestlers

description: Preliminary workings. This is no. 138 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2acu.2
title: A Cameron Captured (8)

description: 1,2,3 Attestation papers
4,5,6 Two group photographs: new recruits
7 Card: To father
8 Letter: Wounded
9 First page of New Testiment
10 Letter: Reported missing
11 Card:  Captured and wounded
12 Card:  Captured
13 Letter:  Parcel
14 Letter;  Quedlinburg POW camp
15 Letter:  Food parcel
16 Card:  Recovered from wound
17 Card:  Parcel
18 Letter; To mother
19 POW money
20 Card:  Started work as POW
21,22,23 Card:  Parcels
24 Card: To mother
25 Letter: To mother
26 Letter: To mother
27,28 Cards:  Parcels
29 POW concert programme
30,31 POW Group photo.
32 Letter:  To mother
33 Card:  From Holland (on his way home)
34 Letter:  King George letter to POWs'
35 Certificate:  Ensuring funds while seeking employment
36 Certificate:  Transfer to Z reserve
37 Summary of POW mail
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2dcr.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2tza.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Discusses life in reserve / the troilet form / Lawrence Binyon's 'To the Fallen' / F W Harvey's book / life in the trenches / the weather / news from Romania, Verdun and the Somme / 'Wild Wales' / Greek plays / British soldiers and food.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2up1.1
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/bodleian2v5u.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis'. This page includes a drawing by David Jones of interposed shapes. (Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' is about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2vjo.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Includes 'Nurses', 'Recompense' and 'The Plain' from the 'Hospital Pictures' series. Posted while Ivor Gurney was on a signalling course at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian677d.2
title: Classified advert from Belgium battlefield tours, from Diary of W. J. Powell

description: A classified advert found in the back of the diary of W.J. Powell for 1918 (also in this collection). This advertises "delightful holidays, bracing Knocke... Sea-bathing, golf. Cheap excursions, battlefields, Ypres, Nieuport, Yser..."

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/bodleian6a73.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis'. This page includes a sketch by David Jones of a woman. (Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' is about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ait.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Written while Ivor Gurney was on a signalling course at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland. Discusses the situation of the war and the hopes that the 'Liberal Elements' of the Central Powers will respond to the Allies / dislikes the position that Great Britain must 'get even' with the Kaiser / likes the approach of the 'Westminster Gazette' / identifies poems written in the trenches / feeling 'dry' / instructs Marion Scott to wait a bit before sending poems to newspapers / asks if she has heard that 'Severn and Somme' has sold out / mentions that he spent a pleasant night with a fellow soldier and his wife.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6j2t.1
title: Photos of Walter Powell lying on a camp bed in a tent

description: 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/bodleian6jf4.2
title: The Wrestlers

description: Preliminary workings. This is no. 138 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6o67.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Discusses life in reserve / the troilet form / Lawrence Binyon's 'To the Fallen' / F W Harvey's book / life in the trenches / the weather / news from Romania, Verdun and the Somme / 'Wild Wales' / Greek plays / British soldiers and food.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6umc.1
title: Soldier's pocket Bible

description: Front cover and flyleaf of a soldier's pocket Bible. Printed on the cover in gold is: ' "Active Service" Testament 1914'. The left-hand page of the flyleaf bears a message from Lord Roberts beginning "I ask you to put your trust in God. " The right-hand page is inscribed: "From the Rev. C. Moore [or possibly Moon] Rector of Trusthorpe 1914." and then, in a different hand: "To J W[?] Wray 1050 D Coy". Part of a collection relating to Robert Rafton, deposited by his great-niece.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6v71.2
title: A Cameron Captured (7)

description: 1,2,3 Attestation papers
4,5,6 Two group photographs: new recruits
7 Card: To father
8 Letter: Wounded
9 First page of New Testiment
10 Letter: Reported missing
11 Card:  Captured and wounded
12 Card:  Captured
13 Letter:  Parcel
14 Letter;  Quedlinburg POW camp
15 Letter:  Food parcel
16 Card:  Recovered from wound
17 Card:  Parcel
18 Letter; To mother
19 POW money
20 Card:  Started work as POW
21,22,23 Card:  Parcels
24 Card: To mother
25 Letter: To mother
26 Letter: To mother
27,28 Cards:  Parcels
29 POW concert programme
30,31 POW Group photo.
32 Letter:  To mother
33 Card:  From Holland (on his way home)
34 Letter:  King George letter to POWs'
35 Certificate:  Ensuring funds while seeking employment
36 Certificate:  Transfer to Z reserve
37 Summary of POW mail
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6v8t.2
title: The Wrestlers

description: Preliminary workings. This is no. 138 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian82j2.2
title: A Cameron Captured (2)

description: 1,2,3 Attestation papers
4,5,6 Two group photographs: new recruits
7 Card: To father
8 Letter: Wounded
9 First page of New Testiment
10 Letter: Reported missing
11 Card:  Captured and wounded
12 Card:  Captured
13 Letter:  Parcel
14 Letter;  Quedlinburg POW camp
15 Letter:  Food parcel
16 Card:  Recovered from wound
17 Card:  Parcel
18 Letter; To mother
19 POW money
20 Card:  Started work as POW
21,22,23 Card:  Parcels
24 Card: To mother
25 Letter: To mother
26 Letter: To mother
27,28 Cards:  Parcels
29 POW concert programme
30,31 POW Group photo.
32 Letter:  To mother
33 Card:  From Holland (on his way home)
34 Letter:  King George letter to POWs'
35 Certificate:  Ensuring funds while seeking employment
36 Certificate:  Transfer to Z reserve
37 Summary of POW mail
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian882v.1
title: Postcards of the visit of King George V and Queen Mary to Hawarden Park, Flintshire

description: Black and white photocopies of postcards of the visit of King George V and Queen Mary to North Wales to inspect the munitions factory at Queensferry, May 1917, to meet and to present some medals to wounded Tommies and officers. Their Daimler motor car can be seen in each postcard, as well as a throng of civilians lining the drive. In this collection is a transcription of Walter Powell's memories of the day he was a footman in the convoy of this visit, as well as photos of him in his 'poshed-up' uniform for the occasion.

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/bodleian88fz.2
title: At a Calvary near the Ancre

description: Probably written in late 1917 or early 1918. This draft is in Susan Owen's hand. o. 137 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8n7f.2
title: A Cameron Captured (6)

description: 1,2,3 Attestation papers
4,5,6 Two group photographs: new recruits
7 Card: To father
8 Letter: Wounded
9 First page of New Testiment
10 Letter: Reported missing
11 Card:  Captured and wounded
12 Card:  Captured
13 Letter:  Parcel
14 Letter;  Quedlinburg POW camp
15 Letter:  Food parcel
16 Card:  Recovered from wound
17 Card:  Parcel
18 Letter; To mother
19 POW money
20 Card:  Started work as POW
21,22,23 Card:  Parcels
24 Card: To mother
25 Letter: To mother
26 Letter: To mother
27,28 Cards:  Parcels
29 POW concert programme
30,31 POW Group photo.
32 Letter:  To mother
33 Card:  From Holland (on his way home)
34 Letter:  King George letter to POWs'
35 Certificate:  Ensuring funds while seeking employment
36 Certificate:  Transfer to Z reserve
37 Summary of POW mail
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8n8v.2
title: The Wrestlers

description: Preliminary workings. This is no. 138 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8oiv.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Thanks Marion Scott for a recent letter / does not agree with her recent suggested alterations / pleased with a review in 'The Times' / reports that he has been sent on a signalling course (in Seaton Delaval, Northumberland) / includes a list of dedications to be included with verses in 'Severn and Somme'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ovd.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/bodleian8p.2
title: Acquiescence

description: Includes 'Bach and the Sentry' / 'Sawgint' / 'Maisemore' / 'The Colonel' / 'Song' / multiple drafts of 'Requiem' / 'Acquiescence' /  'The Signallers Vision'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8t7j.1
title: Letter describing how the photograph after an advance on the Somme (13th Royal Fusiliers) was taken

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/bodleian8y63.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Discusses life in reserve / the troilet form / Lawrence Binyon's 'To the Fallen' / F W Harvey's book / life in the trenches / the weather / news from Romania, Verdun and the Somme / 'Wild Wales' / Greek plays / British soldiers and food.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian9il.1
title: Army booklet on the West Spring Gun

description: An army booklet entitled "Instructions for Mounting, Operating and Care of the West Spring Gun", illustrated with a number of diagrams. The top right corner of the front page is stamped "School of Military Engineering, No ........... [This has not been completed], 18 Oct 1915, Grand Hotel, Tynemouth". Part of a collection relating to Robert Rafton, deposited by his great-niece.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand47z.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Notes that two letters from July and August from Marion Scott have arrived / discusses Will Harvey / which poems, new and old, to include in 'Severn and Somme' / Easter writers / F.W. Harvey's work / the weather being hotter / links between colours and composers / breaking through the 'Rhine Bridges'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand7qi.2
title: The Wrestlers

description: Preliminary workings. This is no. 138 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand9ag.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Discusses life in reserve / the troilet form / Lawrence Binyon's 'To the Fallen' / F W Harvey's book / life in the trenches / the weather / news from Romania, Verdun and the Somme / 'Wild Wales' / Greek plays / British soldiers and food.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandfo7.2
title: A Cameron Captured (4)

description: 1,2,3 Attestation papers
4,5,6 Two group photographs: new recruits
7 Card: To father
8 Letter: Wounded
9 First page of New Testiment
10 Letter: Reported missing
11 Card:  Captured and wounded
12 Card:  Captured
13 Letter:  Parcel
14 Letter;  Quedlinburg POW camp
15 Letter:  Food parcel
16 Card:  Recovered from wound
17 Card:  Parcel
18 Letter; To mother
19 POW money
20 Card:  Started work as POW
21,22,23 Card:  Parcels
24 Card: To mother
25 Letter: To mother
26 Letter: To mother
27,28 Cards:  Parcels
29 POW concert programme
30,31 POW Group photo.
32 Letter:  To mother
33 Card:  From Holland (on his way home)
34 Letter:  King George letter to POWs'
35 Certificate:  Ensuring funds while seeking employment
36 Certificate:  Transfer to Z reserve
37 Summary of POW mail
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandjzt.2
title: A Cameron Captured (12)

description: 1,2,3 Attestation papers
4,5,6 Two group photographs: new recruits
7 Card: To father
8 Letter: Wounded
9 First page of New Testiment
10 Letter: Reported missing
11 Card:  Captured and wounded
12 Card:  Captured
13 Letter:  Parcel
14 Letter;  Quedlinburg POW camp
15 Letter:  Food parcel
16 Card:  Recovered from wound
17 Card:  Parcel
18 Letter; To mother
19 POW money
20 Card:  Started work as POW
21,22,23 Card:  Parcels
24 Card: To mother
25 Letter: To mother
26 Letter: To mother
27,28 Cards:  Parcels
29 POW concert programme
30,31 POW Group photo.
32 Letter:  To mother
33 Card:  From Holland (on his way home)
34 Letter:  King George letter to POWs'
35 Certificate:  Ensuring funds while seeking employment
36 Certificate:  Transfer to Z reserve
37 Summary of POW mail
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandvld.2
title: A Cameron Captured (11)

description: 1,2,3 Attestation papers
4,5,6 Two group photographs: new recruits
7 Card: To father
8 Letter: Wounded
9 First page of New Testiment
10 Letter: Reported missing
11 Card:  Captured and wounded
12 Card:  Captured
13 Letter:  Parcel
14 Letter;  Quedlinburg POW camp
15 Letter:  Food parcel
16 Card:  Recovered from wound
17 Card:  Parcel
18 Letter; To mother
19 POW money
20 Card:  Started work as POW
21,22,23 Card:  Parcels
24 Card: To mother
25 Letter: To mother
26 Letter: To mother
27,28 Cards:  Parcels
29 POW concert programme
30,31 POW Group photo.
32 Letter:  To mother
33 Card:  From Holland (on his way home)
34 Letter:  King George letter to POWs'
35 Certificate:  Ensuring funds while seeking employment
36 Certificate:  Transfer to Z reserve
37 Summary of POW mail
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandw1s.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: A misunderstanding / guarding beer in the canteen / includes 'Hail and Farewell' / the recent beauty of the stars / Beethoven / includes verse 3 of 'A Fire Kindled' / mentions W.B. Yeats / requests Francis Thompson's 'Selected Poems'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandwuc.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/bodleiandy4l.2
title: The Wrestlers

description: Preliminary workings. This is no. 138 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandyoz.1
title: Letter from Leonard Mortimer

description: Letter from Leonard Mortimer (Service Number 2525) of A Company, No 1 Platoon, 148th Brigade, 49th Division of the British Expeditionary Force in France, to his parent in Hull. The letter thanks them for a parcel, gives a report of recent casualties in his platoon, and sends messages to other people back at home. The letter begins on a folded sheet of paper, and continues on a postcard. The picture side of the postcard features an image of two soldiers, one British and one Indian, with a hand-coloured flag, and "What do we Care" printed along the bottom.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj3a3.2
title: A Cameron Captured (10)

description: 1,2,3 Attestation papers
4,5,6 Two group photographs: new recruits
7 Card: To father
8 Letter: Wounded
9 First page of New Testiment
10 Letter: Reported missing
11 Card:  Captured and wounded
12 Card:  Captured
13 Letter:  Parcel
14 Letter;  Quedlinburg POW camp
15 Letter:  Food parcel
16 Card:  Recovered from wound
17 Card:  Parcel
18 Letter; To mother
19 POW money
20 Card:  Started work as POW
21,22,23 Card:  Parcels
24 Card: To mother
25 Letter: To mother
26 Letter: To mother
27,28 Cards:  Parcels
29 POW concert programme
30,31 POW Group photo.
32 Letter:  To mother
33 Card:  From Holland (on his way home)
34 Letter:  King George letter to POWs'
35 Certificate:  Ensuring funds while seeking employment
36 Certificate:  Transfer to Z reserve
37 Summary of POW mail
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj4aq.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Discusses life in reserve / the troilet form / Lawrence Binyon's 'To the Fallen' / F W Harvey's book / life in the trenches / the weather / news from Romania, Verdun and the Somme / 'Wild Wales' / Greek plays / British soldiers and food.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj5os.2
title: A Cameron Captured (5)

description: 1,2,3 Attestation papers
4,5,6 Two group photographs: new recruits
7 Card: To father
8 Letter: Wounded
9 First page of New Testiment
10 Letter: Reported missing
11 Card:  Captured and wounded
12 Card:  Captured
13 Letter:  Parcel
14 Letter;  Quedlinburg POW camp
15 Letter:  Food parcel
16 Card:  Recovered from wound
17 Card:  Parcel
18 Letter; To mother
19 POW money
20 Card:  Started work as POW
21,22,23 Card:  Parcels
24 Card: To mother
25 Letter: To mother
26 Letter: To mother
27,28 Cards:  Parcels
29 POW concert programme
30,31 POW Group photo.
32 Letter:  To mother
33 Card:  From Holland (on his way home)
34 Letter:  King George letter to POWs'
35 Certificate:  Ensuring funds while seeking employment
36 Certificate:  Transfer to Z reserve
37 Summary of POW mail
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjo4o.2
title: The Wrestlers

description: Preliminary workings. This is no. 138 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjoo4.1
title: Memoirs of Horrace Foakes

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/bodleianjq74.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Time to stop thanking one another / glad that Marion Scott likes new poems / Sidgwick and Jackson think that the book might be out in September / 'Camps' / glad that a notebook has arrived and pleased Scott / Robert Bridges.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjzjg.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/bodleianlpf.1
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/bodleianmem.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/bodleiann54.2
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/bodleiannjl.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Includes some things that Ivor Gurney forgot in an earlier letter of the same day / 'Eternal Treasure'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiano66.2
title: The Wrestlers

description: Preliminary workings. This is no. 138 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianpzu.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr2c2.2
title: Bach and the Sentry

description: Includes 'Bach and the Sentry' / 'Sawgint' / 'Maisemore' / 'The Colonel' / 'Song' / multiple drafts of 'Requiem' / 'Acquiescence' /  'The Signallers Vision'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian288z.2
title: Acquiescence

description: Includes 'Bach and the Sentry' / 'Sawgint' / 'Maisemore' / 'The Colonel' / 'Song' / multiple drafts of 'Requiem' / 'Acquiescence' /  'The Signallers Vision'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2f8r.1
title: Navy Blue Notebook

description: A navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2fff.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/bodleian2lls.2
title: The Colonel

description: Includes 'Bach and the Sentry' / 'Sawgint' / 'Maisemore' / 'The Colonel' / 'Song' / multiple drafts of 'Requiem' / 'Acquiescence' /  'The Signallers Vision'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2s9r.2
title: The Wrestlers

description: This is no. 138 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ttv.2
title: Sawgint

description: Includes 'Bach and the Sentry' / 'Sawgint' / 'Maisemore' / 'The Colonel' / 'Song' / multiple drafts of 'Requiem' / 'Acquiescence' /  'The Signallers Vision'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2tyi.1
title: Letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC

description: A long letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC sent on 10th May 1917, from France to his 'Dad'. It describes the destruction by the Germans of property etc. as they retired from the sector he is in, and the return of civilians searching for property they buried before they fled from the original German advance. This includes one man who came to see what had become of 400 bottles of brandy he had buried in his garden!

Also part of this collection are all Blore's letters home, his notebooks from his service as a doctor at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and on the Western Front - as well as his sleeping bag and many other artefacts including a photo of Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay.