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DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2n47.2
title: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd, Royal Artillery (80)

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/bodleian2rlt.2
title: Letter from Private E.T. Jones (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/bodleian2stb.2
title: Items related to Arthur Wright, HMS Natal (4)

description: I am submitting photos of some items passed down to me by my Grandmother many years ago. There is a photo of her brother, Arthur Wright, a sailor on HMS Natal; a postcard sent to my Grandmother from HMS Natal, dated 20/6/1915; an HMS Natal brooch and a Christmas greeting sent from HMS Natal, dated Christmas 1915.

On 30th December 1915 HMS Natal was lying in the Cromarty Firth. Just after 3.20pm violent explosions ripped through the ship. Within 5 minutes she capsized. No one ever established the exact number of fatalities, the figure ranges from 390 to 420. Mystery surrounds the loss of the HMS Natal. A mine laying U-boat was suspected but it was soon established that the damage came from an internal explosion. Officially the cause of the explosion was given as faulty cordite igniting a magazine, sabotage by German agents was suspected but never proved.

My Great Uncle Arthur was one of the unfortunate crewmen who lost his life. The Christmas greeting is very touching because this was the last contact between Arthur and my Grandmother - days later he was killed.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian3xa.2
title: Infantry Training (4-Company Organizations) Mannual, 1914 (14)

description: Infantry Training (4-Company Organizations) Mannual, 1914. Images include title page, table of contents (including opening note from War Office, 10th August 1914). Also scans include full scan of Chapter XV 'Machine Guns in Battle' pp. 198-213. Originally owned by L. Cpl. P. Howlett, Southern Army Sig. Co.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian63aq.2
title: Jack Morten, Photographs of wounded soldiers and their nurses (3)

description: The soldiers had been invited to the home of R.H. Nield a local businessman; he was a piano merchant in Stockport.  Five of the ladies/girls in the photo are his daughters. They are photographed in the garden. Phyllis Nield married, in 1925, Jack Morten who wrote letters from the War which were published as "I remain Your Son, Jack".  This book is now out of print.

Editor's Comment:
Note the Scout badge (a Fleur-de-Lys with bar below) on the lower right sleeve of the man seated on the left of the first photograph. 

Pte. 2393 John Clarke Morten, 1/7th Bn. Manchester Regiment, was commissioned Second Lieutenant and later attached to the Royal Air Force.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian652f.2
title: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd, Royal Artillery (82)

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/bodleian6bbk.2
title: Items related to Arthur Wright, HMS Natal (2)

description: I am submitting photos of some items passed down to me by my Grandmother many years ago. There is a photo of her brother, Arthur Wright, a sailor on HMS Natal; a postcard sent to my Grandmother from HMS Natal, dated 20/6/1915; an HMS Natal brooch and a Christmas greeting sent from HMS Natal, dated Christmas 1915.

On 30th December 1915 HMS Natal was lying in the Cromarty Firth. Just after 3.20pm violent explosions ripped through the ship. Within 5 minutes she capsized. No one ever established the exact number of fatalities, the figure ranges from 390 to 420. Mystery surrounds the loss of the HMS Natal. A mine laying U-boat was suspected but it was soon established that the damage came from an internal explosion. Officially the cause of the explosion was given as faulty cordite igniting a magazine, sabotage by German agents was suspected but never proved.

My Great Uncle Arthur was one of the unfortunate crewmen who lost his life. The Christmas greeting is very touching because this was the last contact between Arthur and my Grandmother - days later he was killed.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6jvb.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (28)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6rza.2
title: Jack Morten, Photographs of Moving supplies in Sinai (6)

description: Several photographs showing the organisation of supply movements prior to engagements with the Turks.

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 2393 John Clarke Morten, 1/7th Bn. Manchester Regiment, was commissioned Second Lieutenant and later attached to the Royal Air Force.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6vqc.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (32)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6xds.2
title: St Mary's Hickling - Memorial Book - WW1

description: A book depicting those who served in WW1 from the village of Hickling in Norfolk.

Editor's Comment:
A Hickling Local History Group publication, based on recent rerearch.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8f2a.2
title: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd, Royal Artillery (81)

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/bodleian8kf1.2
title: Margaret Wright

description: This photograph is of my Grandmother, Margaret Wright, who worked as a  "Clippie" for the Oxford Bus Company. With many men away fighting in France, women were required to do their jobs during the Great War.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8nze.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (31)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ud7.2
title: Photograph of an "All Clear Boy"

description: This photograph is of my grandfather, Stanley George Bird, who left his memories of the Great War. His focus was his role as an "All Clear" bugler in London with G Division of the Metropolitan Police.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8vag.2
title: Jack Morten, Photographs of wounded soldiers and their nurses (1)

description: The soldiers had been invited to the home of R.H. Nield a local businessman; he was a piano merchant in Stockport.  Five of the ladies/girls in the photo are his daughters. They are photographed in the garden. Phyllis Nield married, in 1925, Jack Morten who wrote letters from the War which were published as "I remain Your Son, Jack".  This book is now out of print.

Editor's Comment:
Note the Scout badge (a Fleur-de-Lys with bar below) on the lower right sleeve of the man seated on the left of the first photograph. 

Pte. 2393 John Clarke Morten, 1/7th Bn. Manchester Regiment, was commissioned Second Lieutenant and later attached to the Royal Air Force.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandf6x.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (29)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandgyq.2
title: Infantry Training (4-Company Organizations) Mannual, 1914 (12)

description: Infantry Training (4-Company Organizations) Mannual, 1914. Images include title page, table of contents (including opening note from War Office, 10th August 1914). Also scans include full scan of Chapter XV 'Machine Guns in Battle' pp. 198-213. Originally owned by L. Cpl. P. Howlett, Southern Army Sig. Co.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandock.2
title: Jack Morten, Photograph of a nurse

description: Editor's Comment:
Pte. 2393 John Clarke Morten, 1/7th Bn. Manchester Regiment, was commissioned Second Lieutenant and later attached to the Royal Air Force.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandq3o.2
title: Letter from Private E.T. Jones (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/bodleiandvhg.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (35)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandxor.2
title: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd, Royal Artillery (77)

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/bodleiangts.2
title: Items related to Arthur Wright, HMS Natal (3)

description: I am submitting photos of some items passed down to me by my Grandmother many years ago. There is a photo of her brother, Arthur Wright, a sailor on HMS Natal; a postcard sent to my Grandmother from HMS Natal, dated 20/6/1915; an HMS Natal brooch and a Christmas greeting sent from HMS Natal, dated Christmas 1915.

On 30th December 1915 HMS Natal was lying in the Cromarty Firth. Just after 3.20pm violent explosions ripped through the ship. Within 5 minutes she capsized. No one ever established the exact number of fatalities, the figure ranges from 390 to 420. Mystery surrounds the loss of the HMS Natal. A mine laying U-boat was suspected but it was soon established that the damage came from an internal explosion. Officially the cause of the explosion was given as faulty cordite igniting a magazine, sabotage by German agents was suspected but never proved.

My Great Uncle Arthur was one of the unfortunate crewmen who lost his life. The Christmas greeting is very touching because this was the last contact between Arthur and my Grandmother - days later he was killed.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj3hq.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (36)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj56m.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (30)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjacr.2
title: Jack Morten, Photographs of wounded soldiers and their nurses (2)

description: The soldiers had been invited to the home of R.H. Nield a local businessman; he was a piano merchant in Stockport.  Five of the ladies/girls in the photo are his daughters. They are photographed in the garden. Phyllis Nield married, in 1925, Jack Morten who wrote letters from the War which were published as "I remain Your Son, Jack".  This book is now out of print.

Editor's Comment:
Note the Scout badge (a Fleur-de-Lys with bar below) on the lower right sleeve of the man seated on the left of the first photograph. 

Pte. 2393 John Clarke Morten, 1/7th Bn. Manchester Regiment, was commissioned Second Lieutenant and later attached to the Royal Air Force.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjb3k.2
title: Letter from Private E.T. Jones (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/bodleianjexf.2
title: Infantry Training (4-Company Organizations) Mannual, 1914 (15)

description: Infantry Training (4-Company Organizations) Mannual, 1914. Images include title page, table of contents (including opening note from War Office, 10th August 1914). Also scans include full scan of Chapter XV 'Machine Guns in Battle' pp. 198-213. Originally owned by L. Cpl. P. Howlett, Southern Army Sig. Co.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjio2.2
title: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd, Royal Artillery (78)

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/bodleianjlv.2
title: Jack Morten's Entrenching tool

description: The entrenching tool as it is today, still in use in the garden.  It was used when the 7th Manchesters went to Gallipoli when the men were desperate to dig in before daylight.  I had no idea it was such an icon until I read letters from my father-in-law to his parents when the tool is mentioned.

Editor's Comment:
The 'Sirhind' or Pattern 1908 Entrenching Tool, with helve. 

Pte. 2393 John Clarke Morten, 1/7th Bn. Manchester Regiment, was commissioned Second Lieutenant and later attached to the Royal Air Force.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjsyx.2
title: Infantry Training (4-Company Organizations) Mannual, 1914 (13)

description: Infantry Training (4-Company Organizations) Mannual, 1914. Images include title page, table of contents (including opening note from War Office, 10th August 1914). Also scans include full scan of Chapter XV 'Machine Guns in Battle' pp. 198-213. Originally owned by L. Cpl. P. Howlett, Southern Army Sig. Co.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianng.2
title: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd, Royal Artillery (75)

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/bodleianogk.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (33)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr285.2
title: Cigarette case belonging to Lt Leonard George Maddox MC and bar

description: This cigarette case was part of the effects of Lt Leonard George Maddox MC of 1/22nd Battalion London Regiment "The Queen's", who was killed on 30th August 1918 at Combles, France. My father, Pt Sidney Frank Hewett MM, who was beside him when he died, returned the effects to his family and was given the cigarette case inscribed in his memory in thanks. (I inherited the case from my father and this photograph was taken by me.)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr8fs.2
title: The Autograph Book of Beryl Ellis (44)

description: Beryl Ellis was a nurse at Moor Green Lane Hospital, Birmingham, during the Great War. This autograph book contains pictures and poems drawn and written by Veterans of the First World War she cared for at the hospital.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrtr.2
title: Infantry Training (4-Company Organizations) Mannual, 1914 (10)

description: Infantry Training (4-Company Organizations) Mannual, 1914. Images include title page, table of contents (including opening note from War Office, 10th August 1914). Also scans include full scan of Chapter XV 'Machine Guns in Battle' pp. 198-213. Originally owned by L. Cpl. P. Howlett, Southern Army Sig. Co.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleians43.2
title: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd, Royal Artillery (79)

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/bodleian23hd.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/bodleian26m8.2
title: Diary of Ivan R. Harrison (2)

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/bodleian27fm.2
title: Battle of Jutland Victory Scroll

description: Commemorative victory scroll celebrating the Battle of Jutland. Cloth scroll with wooden spindles at end. Reads 'Souvenir of the Victory of Jutland. For your splendid work I thank you. May 31st 1916.' Images include the King flanked by Beatty and Jellicoe (?), and roundels depicting warships from across the centuries.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2m3o.2
title: Gun's ring inscription (1)

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/bodleian2mhp.2
title: Diary of Benjamin Lloyd, Royal Artillery (84)

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/bodleian2qrh.2
title: Over the Top - Waldo Beales

description: One man's story of his journey through WW1 and his memories of Ypres and the Somme where he was wounded.

A book depicting those who served in WW1 from the village of Hickling in Norfolk.

Editor's Comment:
A Hickling Local History Group publication, based on the notebook of Waldo Beales, 9th and 1st bns. Norfolk Regiment (seriously wounded in the attack on Guillemont during the battle of the Somme, 1916, and invalided out of the army). Includes a photograph and postcards.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2t2y.2
title: Comic 'The Rainbow' (41)

description: The children's comic 'The Rainbow'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2xtc.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/bodleian62f5.2
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
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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian65tc.2
title: Silk handkerchief with embroidered motto '1918 Souvenir de France' (2)

description: Silk handkerchief with embroidered motto '1918 Souvenir de France'. '1918' made up of allied flags.