cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian66zz.2
title: Letter from Private William George Baskerville  "Letter home  from training camp" (2)

description: Aged approx 17/18 he enlisted in the South Lancs Regiment.

Letter home written while in training at Tunbridge Wells prior to service in Belgium and France during which he was twice wounded, once near the heart (inoperable) and after return to his unit was wounded in the shoulder. He was treated at hospitals in Tunbridge Wells and Oswestry.
I believe he was invalided out of the army. 

When he returned to civilian life he resumed working for his father as a butcher. 
He married Gertrude Mitchell (of Wigan) in the 1920's and they had three children.

By the beginning of the second world war he had enrolled as a Special Policeman and when war broke out in September 1939 I, a child of 9, helped him to distribute gas masks in the Earlestown and Newton-le-Willows area of Lancashire.

In his letter he refers to digging trenches in Kent in anticipation of a German invasion and mentions a German attack on our fleet and his disappointment in not getting into action to defend the coast.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6b37.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (40)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6cav.2
title: Diary of Ivan R. Harrison (1)

description: Ivan Robert Sinclair Harrison was born on 7 June 1898 in Peterborough where he spent his childhood with his parents and two elder brothers, Eric and Cecil. The boys were educated at the King's School, Peterborough, and were choristers at the Cathedral.

After passing the Cambridge Previous Examination, Ivan joined the Army at the age of eighteen. After ten months of training, he was commissioned in the Prince of Wales's Own West Yorkshire Regiment and was posted to Etaples in France on 12 November 1917. He then began active service in the 1/8th West Yorkshire Regiment at Ypres. The following pages are a diary of his life from that date until the end of the long march into Germany following the Armistice.

Subsequently, Ivan gained an MA in History at Magdalen College, Cambridge, and took up the post of history teacher at Hampton Grammar School. From 1939-1945 he served as Captain and then Major in the Army Education Corps. In 1948, he and his wife, May, purchased the independent school of St Christopher's at Heanton Punchardon, near Braunton in Devon. They ran the school together until his retirement at the age of 65. They had one daughter, Shirley, and three granddaughters, Joanna, Sarah and Anthea.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6elt.2
title: Gun's ring inscription (3)

description: Muriel's father, Private Sidney Roberts (pictured with his wife in 1968) went to war with the Manchester Regiment. 
He left the gun ring with the inscription "peace Nov 11 1918" to his daughter, Muriel.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6f4p.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (44)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6mbu.2
title: Letter from Private ET Jones, Egypt (3)

description: No 1923 PTE Jones ET Born January 3rd 1882.. died 1963
1st/3rd County of London Yeomanry
Sharp Shooters
1st Troop C Squadron
EgyptianExpeditionary Force.
 
June 1916
Imperial Camel Corps
NO 1923 PTE ET Jones
9th Company
Imperial Camel Corps
Yeomanry Reserve Egyptian Expeditionary Force
 
Out of action after accident on camel called 'Old Sambo' June 1917. also believed to have suffered Malaria, declared unfit for active service.
 
He stayed in Egypt for the duration of the war carrying out admin duties on a prisioner of war camp  Ras-el-Tin at Alexandria . The camp changed its name to The Aliens Internment Camp on March 16th 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6pml.2
title: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd, Royal Artillery (90)

description: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd of the Royal Artillery, covering the whole war period, beginning in June 1914 and ending in March 1919, and including the Battle of the Somme. The diary details military movement and activities, engagement with the enemy, Christmas celebrations, coming home on leave, the end of the war, etc. It may possibly have been copied out from the originals after the war. Benjamin Lloyd was gassed during the war, but survived and later went on to serve in the Second World War as RMQS. The diary was deposited by his daughter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian82zp.2
title: Letter from Private William George Baskerville  "Letter home  from training camp" (1)

description: Aged approx 17/18 he enlisted in the South Lancs Regiment.

Letter home written while in training at Tunbridge Wells prior to service in Belgium and France during which he was twice wounded, once near the heart (inoperable) and after return to his unit was wounded in the shoulder. He was treated at hospitals in Tunbridge Wells and Oswestry.
I believe he was invalided out of the army. 

When he returned to civilian life he resumed working for his father as a butcher. 
He married Gertrude Mitchell (of Wigan) in the 1920's and they had three children.

By the beginning of the second world war he had enrolled as a Special Policeman and when war broke out in September 1939 I, a child of 9, helped him to distribute gas masks in the Earlestown and Newton-le-Willows area of Lancashire.

In his letter he refers to digging trenches in Kent in anticipation of a German invasion and mentions a German attack on our fleet and his disappointment in not getting into action to defend the coast.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian87aw.2
title: Tel Aviv monument to British 52nd Division (3)

description: Exploring around Tel Aviv in early July 2004 I ran across a monument to the crossing of the Yarkon River (then called Nahr Auja) by the British 52nd Division on 22 December 1917.  It is a simple stone column about 12 feet high.  The attached photographs show:

--The placement of the monument on the north bank of the mouth of the Yarkon (shown in the background).

--The original Hebrew inscription on the monument.  It is damaged and badly restored.  The best I can make of the Hebrew is:  "On the evening of 7 Tevet / of the year 5678 [corresponding to 22 December 1918] / crossed the 15[illegible] Brigade / of the [illegible] Division / this ford / [illegible, but possibly containing the word 'column']."  Archibald Wavell's history of the campaign gives the unit as the 156th Brigade of the 52nd (Lowland) Division, preceded by a battalion from the 156th.

--A modern inscription at the base, in English as follows, with the equivalent in Hebrew: "Commemoration of the 52nd Division of the Australian soldiers in their fight against the Turks in Palestine during the First World War.  Restored by the Tel Aviv Municipality, 1990."  The 52nd was clearly a British formation; perhaps the Tel Aviv authorities assumed the troops were Australian because so many units from that country served under Allenby.

To find the monument, take Mordecai Namir Road in Ramat Aviv to Agnon Street; go west on Agnon for about .5 km; turn right at the fire station and follow the road past the power plant (on your right) to a dirt parking lot facing the Mediterranean.  The monument will be to your right.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ab4.2
title: Letter from Private ET Jones, Egypt (2)

description: No 1923 PTE Jones ET Born January 3rd 1882.. died 1963
1st/3rd County of London Yeomanry
Sharp Shooters
1st Troop C Squadron
EgyptianExpeditionary Force.
 
June 1916
Imperial Camel Corps
NO 1923 PTE ET Jones
9th Company
Imperial Camel Corps
Yeomanry Reserve Egyptian Expeditionary Force
 
Out of action after accident on camel called 'Old Sambo' June 1917. also believed to have suffered Malaria, declared unfit for active service.
 
He stayed in Egypt for the duration of the war carrying out admin duties on a prisioner of war camp  Ras-el-Tin at Alexandria . The camp changed its name to The Aliens Internment Camp on March 16th 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8bm9.2
title: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd, Royal Artillery (89)

description: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd of the Royal Artillery, covering the whole war period, beginning in June 1914 and ending in March 1919, and including the Battle of the Somme. The diary details military movement and activities, engagement with the enemy, Christmas celebrations, coming home on leave, the end of the war, etc. It may possibly have been copied out from the originals after the war. Benjamin Lloyd was gassed during the war, but survived and later went on to serve in the Second World War as RMQS. The diary was deposited by his daughter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8dfm.2
title: Letter from Private ET Jones, Egypt (1)

description: No 1923 PTE Jones ET Born January 3rd 1882.. died 1963
1st/3rd County of London Yeomanry
Sharp Shooters
1st Troop C Squadron
EgyptianExpeditionary Force.
 
June 1916
Imperial Camel Corps
NO 1923 PTE ET Jones
9th Company
Imperial Camel Corps
Yeomanry Reserve Egyptian Expeditionary Force
 
Out of action after accident on camel called 'Old Sambo' June 1917. also believed to have suffered Malaria, declared unfit for active service.
 
He stayed in Egypt for the duration of the war carrying out admin duties on a prisioner of war camp  Ras-el-Tin at Alexandria . The camp changed its name to The Aliens Internment Camp on March 16th 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8fne.2
title: Silk handkerchief with embroidered motto '1918 Souvenir de France' (1)

description: Silk handkerchief with embroidered motto '1918 Souvenir de France'. '1918' made up of allied flags.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ghj.2
title: 18 Pounder (Mk II)  Shell (1)

description: Bears inscription:

France
1914 - 1919 
Souvenir of the Great War

and on 'reverse' side, the inscription:

Made by a
German Prisoner of War
Glisy 13th MArch 1919
Gefr. Krzik.

Plant/leaf decoration, with Welsh dragon and mortar inscribed motifs. 

Base reads: 
18 PR ('R' superscripted and underscored)
  II

Lot J150 
1917
2.9 
JM ROC [logo]
other inscriptions as per image.

Brought home by my grandfather, Sgt., Major Edward Rowlands, of Llanfairpwll, Anglesey, north Wales.

Shell height: 294mm, diameter (projectile end)ca. 88mm, firing pin lip end diameter: 102mm
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8k4n.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (43)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8q33.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (39)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiana3l.2
title: Poster advertising Rigolletto at Kassel

description: Found in the belongings of Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Philip Edward Jenkins ( No 19162) of the 6th City Battalion Manchester Pals.Serving in the 16th Manchesters in 1918. Captured at the Battle of Manchester Hill, St Quentin. Imprisoned at Kassel, Hessen where he became a 'Trusty' being sent to to town to obtain provisions for his fellow prisoners. How he came by the poster is not known
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianahn.2
title: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd, Royal Artillery (83)

description: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd of the Royal Artillery, covering the whole war period, beginning in June 1914 and ending in March 1919, and including the Battle of the Somme. The diary details military movement and activities, engagement with the enemy, Christmas celebrations, coming home on leave, the end of the war, etc. It may possibly have been copied out from the originals after the war. Benjamin Lloyd was gassed during the war, but survived and later went on to serve in the Second World War as RMQS. The diary was deposited by his daughter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand3lv.2
title: Gun's ring inscription (2)

description: Muriel's father, Private Sidney Roberts (pictured with his wife in 1968) went to war with the Manchester Regiment. 
He left the gun ring with the inscription "peace Nov 11 1918" to his daughter, Muriel.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand6w8.2
title: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd, Royal Artillery (87)

description: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd of the Royal Artillery, covering the whole war period, beginning in June 1914 and ending in March 1919, and including the Battle of the Somme. The diary details military movement and activities, engagement with the enemy, Christmas celebrations, coming home on leave, the end of the war, etc. It may possibly have been copied out from the originals after the war. Benjamin Lloyd was gassed during the war, but survived and later went on to serve in the Second World War as RMQS. The diary was deposited by his daughter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandcgy.2
title: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd, Royal Artillery (85)

description: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd of the Royal Artillery, covering the whole war period, beginning in June 1914 and ending in March 1919, and including the Battle of the Somme. The diary details military movement and activities, engagement with the enemy, Christmas celebrations, coming home on leave, the end of the war, etc. It may possibly have been copied out from the originals after the war. Benjamin Lloyd was gassed during the war, but survived and later went on to serve in the Second World War as RMQS. The diary was deposited by his daughter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandfc9.2
title: Tel Aviv monument to British 52nd Division (1)

description: Exploring around Tel Aviv in early July 2004 I ran across a monument to the crossing of the Yarkon River (then called Nahr Auja) by the British 52nd Division on 22 December 1917.  It is a simple stone column about 12 feet high.  The attached photographs show:

--The placement of the monument on the north bank of the mouth of the Yarkon (shown in the background).

--The original Hebrew inscription on the monument.  It is damaged and badly restored.  The best I can make of the Hebrew is:  "On the evening of 7 Tevet / of the year 5678 [corresponding to 22 December 1918] / crossed the 15[illegible] Brigade / of the [illegible] Division / this ford / [illegible, but possibly containing the word 'column']."  Archibald Wavell's history of the campaign gives the unit as the 156th Brigade of the 52nd (Lowland) Division, preceded by a battalion from the 156th.

--A modern inscription at the base, in English as follows, with the equivalent in Hebrew: "Commemoration of the 52nd Division of the Australian soldiers in their fight against the Turks in Palestine during the First World War.  Restored by the Tel Aviv Municipality, 1990."  The 52nd was clearly a British formation; perhaps the Tel Aviv authorities assumed the troops were Australian because so many units from that country served under Allenby.

To find the monument, take Mordecai Namir Road in Ramat Aviv to Agnon Street; go west on Agnon for about .5 km; turn right at the fire station and follow the road past the power plant (on your right) to a dirt parking lot facing the Mediterranean.  The monument will be to your right.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandi3i.2
title: Diary of Ivan R. Harrison (3)

description: Ivan Robert Sinclair Harrison was born on 7 June 1898 in Peterborough where he spent his childhood with his parents and two elder brothers, Eric and Cecil. The boys were educated at the King's School, Peterborough, and were choristers at the Cathedral.

After passing the Cambridge Previous Examination, Ivan joined the Army at the age of eighteen. After ten months of training, he was commissioned in the Prince of Wales's Own West Yorkshire Regiment and was posted to Etaples in France on 12 November 1917. He then began active service in the 1/8th West Yorkshire Regiment at Ypres. The following pages are a diary of his life from that date until the end of the long march into Germany following the Armistice.

Subsequently, Ivan gained an MA in History at Magdalen College, Cambridge, and took up the post of history teacher at Hampton Grammar School. From 1939-1945 he served as Captain and then Major in the Army Education Corps. In 1948, he and his wife, May, purchased the independent school of St Christopher's at Heanton Punchardon, near Braunton in Devon. They ran the school together until his retirement at the age of 65. They had one daughter, Shirley, and three granddaughters, Joanna, Sarah and Anthea.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandjmu.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (37)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandk41.2
title: Letter from Private ET Jones, Egypt (3)

description: No 1923 PTE Jones ET Born January 3rd 1882.. died 1963
1st/3rd County of London Yeomanry
Sharp Shooters
1st Troop C Squadron
EgyptianExpeditionary Force.
 
June 1916
Imperial Camel Corps
NO 1923 PTE ET Jones
9th Company
Imperial Camel Corps
Yeomanry Reserve Egyptian Expeditionary Force
 
Out of action after accident on camel called 'Old Sambo' June 1917. also believed to have suffered Malaria, declared unfit for active service.
 
He stayed in Egypt for the duration of the war carrying out admin duties on a prisioner of war camp  Ras-el-Tin at Alexandria . The camp changed its name to The Aliens Internment Camp on March 16th 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandrbz.2
title: Light Artillery Shell (1)

description: Have two identical shells, ca. 170mm long (including projectile head, itself about 40mm diameter, 108mm length) brass shell casing 94mm length, 44mm diamter at the firing pin lipped end,

Inscribed: 

Sgt Major E. Rowlands [Edward Rowlands, my grandfather]
115 Trench Mortar Bater[y] [polished, unclear]
TRECH [assumed to be surname of maker, German POW?]
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianduni.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (45)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianh9s.2
title: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd, Royal Artillery (92)

description: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd of the Royal Artillery, covering the whole war period, beginning in June 1914 and ending in March 1919, and including the Battle of the Somme. The diary details military movement and activities, engagement with the enemy, Christmas celebrations, coming home on leave, the end of the war, etc. It may possibly have been copied out from the originals after the war. Benjamin Lloyd was gassed during the war, but survived and later went on to serve in the Second World War as RMQS. The diary was deposited by his daughter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj1b4.2
title: Light Artillery Shell (2)

description: Have two identical shells, ca. 170mm long (including projectile head, itself about 40mm diameter, 108mm length) brass shell casing 94mm length, 44mm diamter at the firing pin lipped end,

Inscribed: 

Sgt Major E. Rowlands [Edward Rowlands, my grandfather]
115 Trench Mortar Bater[y] [polished, unclear]
TRECH [assumed to be surname of maker, German POW?]
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj5cl.2
title: Tel Aviv monument to British 52nd Division (2)

description: Exploring around Tel Aviv in early July 2004 I ran across a monument to the crossing of the Yarkon River (then called Nahr Auja) by the British 52nd Division on 22 December 1917.  It is a simple stone column about 12 feet high.  The attached photographs show:

--The placement of the monument on the north bank of the mouth of the Yarkon (shown in the background).

--The original Hebrew inscription on the monument.  It is damaged and badly restored.  The best I can make of the Hebrew is:  "On the evening of 7 Tevet / of the year 5678 [corresponding to 22 December 1918] / crossed the 15[illegible] Brigade / of the [illegible] Division / this ford / [illegible, but possibly containing the word 'column']."  Archibald Wavell's history of the campaign gives the unit as the 156th Brigade of the 52nd (Lowland) Division, preceded by a battalion from the 156th.

--A modern inscription at the base, in English as follows, with the equivalent in Hebrew: "Commemoration of the 52nd Division of the Australian soldiers in their fight against the Turks in Palestine during the First World War.  Restored by the Tel Aviv Municipality, 1990."  The 52nd was clearly a British formation; perhaps the Tel Aviv authorities assumed the troops were Australian because so many units from that country served under Allenby.

To find the monument, take Mordecai Namir Road in Ramat Aviv to Agnon Street; go west on Agnon for about .5 km; turn right at the fire station and follow the road past the power plant (on your right) to a dirt parking lot facing the Mediterranean.  The monument will be to your right.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjh3w.2
title: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd, Royal Artillery (88)

description: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd of the Royal Artillery, covering the whole war period, beginning in June 1914 and ending in March 1919, and including the Battle of the Somme. The diary details military movement and activities, engagement with the enemy, Christmas celebrations, coming home on leave, the end of the war, etc. It may possibly have been copied out from the originals after the war. Benjamin Lloyd was gassed during the war, but survived and later went on to serve in the Second World War as RMQS. The diary was deposited by his daughter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjrma.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (38)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjwgh.2
title: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd, Royal Artillery (86)

description: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd of the Royal Artillery, covering the whole war period, beginning in June 1914 and ending in March 1919, and including the Battle of the Somme. The diary details military movement and activities, engagement with the enemy, Christmas celebrations, coming home on leave, the end of the war, etc. It may possibly have been copied out from the originals after the war. Benjamin Lloyd was gassed during the war, but survived and later went on to serve in the Second World War as RMQS. The diary was deposited by his daughter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianp25.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (42)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianune.2
title: Letter from Private ET Jones, Egypt (4)

description: No 1923 PTE Jones ET Born January 3rd 1882.. died 1963
1st/3rd County of London Yeomanry
Sharp Shooters
1st Troop C Squadron
EgyptianExpeditionary Force.
 
June 1916
Imperial Camel Corps
NO 1923 PTE ET Jones
9th Company
Imperial Camel Corps
Yeomanry Reserve Egyptian Expeditionary Force
 
Out of action after accident on camel called 'Old Sambo' June 1917. also believed to have suffered Malaria, declared unfit for active service.
 
He stayed in Egypt for the duration of the war carrying out admin duties on a prisioner of war camp  Ras-el-Tin at Alexandria . The camp changed its name to The Aliens Internment Camp on March 16th 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianvhj.2
title: Letter from Private E.T. Jones (4)

description: No 1923 PTE Jones ET Born January 3rd 1882.. died 1963
1st/3rd County of London Yeomanry
Sharp Shooters
1st Troop C Squadron
EgyptianExpeditionary Force.
 
June 1916
Imperial Camel Corps
NO 1923 PTE ET Jones
9th Company
Imperial Camel Corps
Yeomanry Reserve Egyptian Expeditionary Force
 
Out of action after accident on camel called 'Old Sambo' June 1917. also believed to have suffered Malaria, declared unfit for active service.
 
He stayed in Egypt for the duration of the war carrying out admin duties on a prisioner of war camp  Ras-el-Tin at Alexandria . The camp changed its name to The Aliens Internment Camp on March 16th 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian1k5.2
title: 18 Pounder (Mk II)  Shell (2)

description: Bears inscription:

France
1914 - 1919 
Souvenir of the Great War

and on 'reverse' side, the inscription:

Made by a
German Prisoner of War
Glisy 13th MArch 1919
Gefr. Krzik.

Plant/leaf decoration, with Welsh dragon and mortar inscribed motifs. 

Base reads: 
18 PR ('R' superscripted and underscored)
  II

Lot J150 
1917
2.9 
JM ROC [logo]
other inscriptions as per image.

Brought home by my grandfather, Sgt., Major Edward Rowlands, of Llanfairpwll, Anglesey, north Wales.

Shell height: 294mm, diameter (projectile end)ca. 88mm, firing pin lip end diameter: 102mm
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian25j7.2
title: Letter from Private ET Jones, Egypt (2)

description: No 1923 PTE Jones ET Born January 3rd 1882.. died 1963
1st/3rd County of London Yeomanry
Sharp Shooters
1st Troop C Squadron
Egyptian Expeditionary Force.
 
June 1916
Imperial Camel Corps
NO 1923 PTE ET Jones
9th Company
Imperial Camel Corps
Yeomanry Reserve Egyptian Expeditionary Force
 
Out of action after accident on camel called 'Old Sambo' June 1917. also believed to have suffered Malaria, declared unfit for active service.
 
He stayed in Egypt for the duration of the war carrying out admin duties on a prisioner of war camp  Ras-el-Tin at Alexandria . The camp changed its name to The Aliens Internment Camp on March 16th 1917.