cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2btx.2
title: John Eadie and David Abrahamson (3)

description: Letter to daughter from John Eadie
Residue of Naval Assets (John Eadie)
Leith School Board, two certificates for David Abrahamson
Postcard, lowestoft
Patriotic card 'To Lottie from Dadda'
Photo x 2 John Eadie

Photo group.  the Eadie family:
Sophia, holding book
Agnes, oldest child
Charlotte, 2nd daughter
Johnny, son referred to in letter

My grandfather John Eadie was lost on 2nd April 1916 when his minesweeper HMS Commandant struck a mine at Lowestoft.
The letter he sent to my mother was probably written the Christmas before he died. He refers to Zeppelins and he died the day they attacked Leith.

He was a Leith man who married a Newhaven woman and lived in Newhaven at the time he died.  The Family wrote letters to say they were OK, but he had died the same day.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ln3.2
title: Letter from Osborne Pigrome to his elder brother Ted (1)

description: Letter from Osborne Pigrome to his brother Edward Pigrome. One of 42 written to the addressee from 18th June 1915 to 8th December 1918. Osborne served in France from 1917 until the end of 1918. Before and after the war, he was a regular weekend watercolour painter. According to family stories, Osborne never spoke about the Great War. He never married and lived quietly with two elder sisters and a niece. Born 4th February 1880, died 26th April 1963. 

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 2314 (later 301475) Osborne Pigrome, 2/5th (City of London) Bn. Territorial Force (London Rifle Brigade), later 28th (County of London) Bn. Territorial Force (Artists Rifles).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2q1d.2
title: Group of new recruits, 26th Bankers' Battalion, Royal Fusiliers

description: This is a photograph of the new recruits to the Bankers' (Service) Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers. They later went on to Aldershot for training, landing in France in May 1916. Thier first action was at Flers in Septmeber 1916 as part of the Somme campaign, where the Battalion suffered heavy losses. Private Ernest Powell is the extreme left of the second row. In 1916, he was seconded to the Heavy Section of the Machine Gun Corps, as a member of a tank crew.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2uer.2
title: Certificate of Employment during the war for Ralph William Readhead (2)

description: Part of a collection relating to Ralph William Readhead of the 4th East Yorks.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2uw.2
title: Letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC (2)

description: This is what remains of a long letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC sent on 11th Feb 1916, from Egypt to his Mother. It describes the monotony of life there after the evacuation from Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, about his trips to the dentist, trips to Alex [Alexandria] to the officers' clubs there. There is also the description of an officer's notification of the award of the M.C. at Suvla Bay - and how many M.O.s [medical officers] seem to 'make a hobby of going out to [the] wounded when any normal man would get killed as soon as he showed himself...' [The Military Cross was awarded to Blore himself.] Blore continues weighing up the risks to the many of an ambulance or medical staff being lost in these ventures. He describes his actions on 21st August when he was with a stretcher party which came under fire from snipers or from the trenches, quite a few of his comrades were hit, and Blore feels partly responsible for this.

Blore also describes his work during the landings at Suvla Bay - in the dressing station. The landing itself - at the wrong beach is also mentioned including the resulting march with their stores to the right location. Page 8 includes a small sketch of Suvla Bay and the location of the dressing stations etc. as well as his first experiences of being bombed.

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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian41j.2
title: Christmas card from Tank Corps

description: Sent by Gunner Ernest Powell (4th Battalion, Tank Corps) to his mother
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian57d.2
title: Photographs of George Henry Morton (3)

description: Photographs of / taken by Henry Morton. Top left and middle left picture groups of Royal Air Force aircraftsmen in the 1918 pattern uniform, with Spanish servicemen (aircraftsmen?). Bottom left shows Henry Morton in the plastron fronted ('maternity') jacket of the Royal Flying Corps, with embroidered shoulder titles. Bottom right shows Henry Morton in ordinary Service Dress. Middle right shows Herbert Morton wearing the 1918 pattern Royal Air Force uniform.

George Henry Herbert Morton has no medal card in the Nation Archives records, suggesting that he went overseas too late to qualify for the War or Victory Medals. He seems to have been attached to the staff of the British Air Attache in Madrid, Lt. Col. Sandy.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian61fe.2
title: John Eadie and David Abrahamson (5)

description: Letter to daughter from John Eadie
Residue of Naval Assets (John Eadie)
Leith School Board, two certificates for David Abrahamson
Postcard, lowestoft
Patriotic card 'To Lottie from Dadda'
Photo x 2 John Eadie

Photo group.  the Eadie family:
Sophia, holding book
Agnes, oldest child
Charlotte, 2nd daughter
Johnny, son referred to in letter

My grandfather John Eadie was lost on 2nd April 1916 when his minesweeper HMS Commandant struck a mine at Lowestoft.
The letter he sent to my mother was probably written the Christmas before he died. He refers to Zeppelins and he died the day they attacked Leith.

He was a Leith man who married a Newhaven woman and lived in Newhaven at the time he died.  The Family wrote letters to say they were OK, but he had died the same day.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian657p.2
title: Group photograph of German infantrymen

description: Group of German infantryman in late 1915. The soldier wearing the peaked cap is an NCO, the man to his right is a senior private.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian66gu.2
title: Letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC

description: This is an extract from a photocopy of a letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC sent on 14th October 1915, from Suvla Bay, Gallipoli. It includes a sketch of Blore's dug-out which he had photographed, the film must still be awaiting development - as it was not developed until Blore and his comrades were evacuated in December 1915/January 1916. His family believe that Blore was the last RAMC doctor to leave Suvla Bay during that evacuation. This letter describes the chair which was actually shipped over from England in his luggage. Also described in the letter is his 'washing', which is probably the Kapoc sleeping bag hanging on the bushes. He describes the waterproof cover and the location and direction of the ditches designed to keep his dug-out dry.

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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6cmg.2
title: Letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC (1)

description: This is what remains of a long letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC sent on 11th Feb 1916, from Egypt to his Mother. It describes the monotony of life there after the evacuation from Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, about his trips to the dentist, trips to Alex [Alexandria] to the officers' clubs there. There is also the description of an officer's notification of the award of the M.C. at Suvla Bay - and how many M.O.s [medical officers] seem to 'make a hobby of going out to [the] wounded when any normal man would get killed as soon as he showed himself...' [The Military Cross was awarded to Blore himself.] Blore continues weighing up the risks to the many of an ambulance or medical staff being lost in these ventures. He describes his actions on 21st August when he was with a stretcher party which came under fire from snipers or from the trenches, quite a few of his comrades were hit, and Blore feels partly responsible for this.

Blore also describes his work during the landings at Suvla Bay - in the dressing station. The landing itself - at the wrong beach is also mentioned including the resulting march with their stores to the right location. Page 8 includes a small sketch of Suvla Bay and the location of the dressing stations etc. as well as his first experiences of being bombed.

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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6j15.2
title: Sketches by W.G. Vernon (8)

description: Right page contains a field postcard, right page contains sketches of Indian Regiment soldiers. Part of a series of sketches sent home from France by my grandfather W.G.Vernon whilst serving in the 11th Battalion The Lancashire Fusiliers September 1917 and May 1918. Also from the east coast of England with the 11th Batallion Bedfordshire Regiment, June 1916 to September 1917, as well as when prisoner of war in Germany July 1918 until January 1919. Vernon William was from Southfield Road, Cowley.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6m3q.2
title: Autograph book from Didcot relating to Kenneth Tallett and Family (47)

description: The autograph book contains cartoons and poems relating to the Tallett family. Kenneth Tallett who survived the war and his brother Horace James Tallett of the King's Royal Rifles who died a trench during the Battle of Arras. The autograph book was submitted with a series of photgraphs by their son Jim Tallett.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6og9.2
title: Photographs of George Henry Morton (2)

description: George Henry Herbert Morton has no medal card in the Nation Archives records, suggesting that he went overseas too late to qualify for the War or Victory Medals. He seems to have been attached to the staff of the British Air Attache in Madrid, Lt. Col. Sandy.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6uiu.2
title: Sketches by W.G. Vernon (4)

description: Two sketchs of a soldier and a soldier on a horse on the right page. Part of a series of sketches sent home from France by my grandfather W.G.Vernon whilst serving in the 11th Battalion The Lancashire Fusiliers September 1917 and May 1918. Also from the east coast of England with the 11th Batallion Bedfordshire Regiment, June 1916 to September 1917, as well as when prisoner of war in Germany July 1918 until January 1919. Vernon William was from Southfield Road, Cowley.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian82g4.2
title: Photograph of tank crew

description: Photograph of Mark V (or possibly Mark V*) female tank in 1918. Gunner Ernest Powell is at the extreme right on the top of the tank
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian838f.2
title: John Eadie and David Abrahamson (9)

description: Letter to daughter from John Eadie
Residue of Naval Assets (John Eadie)
Leith School Board, two certificates for David Abrahamson
Postcard, lowestoft
Patriotic card 'To Lottie from Dadda'
Photo x 2 John Eadie

Photo group.  the Eadie family:
Sophia, holding book
Agnes, oldest child
Charlotte, 2nd daughter
Johnny, son referred to in letter

My grandfather John Eadie was lost on 2nd April 1916 when his minesweeper HMS Commandant struck a mine at Lowestoft.
The letter he sent to my mother was probably written the Christmas before he died. He refers to Zeppelins and he died the day they attacked Leith.

He was a Leith man who married a Newhaven woman and lived in Newhaven at the time he died.  The Family wrote letters to say they were OK, but he had died the same day.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian87mt.2
title: Letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC (2)

description: This is an extract from a photocopy of a letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC sent on 7th March 1916, from Egypt. It describes a photo which is enclosed, of Dr Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli in 1915. That dugout was sketched in his letter of 14th October. In this letter he mentions the chair in the photo which was actually shipped over from England in his luggage, and which was evacuated to Egypt. Blore also describes his hair-cut and his uniform.

Also part of this collection are the photograph described here, and the sketch from the earlier letter as well as 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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian881m.2
title: Sketches by W.G. Vernon (6)

description: Left page inscribed 'No. 7 S.H.', right page contains a sketch of soldiers of different nationalities and a horse. Part of a series of sketches sent home from France by my grandfather W.G.Vernon whilst serving in the 11th Battalion The Lancashire Fusiliers September 1917 and May 1918. Also from the east coast of England with the 11th Batallion Bedfordshire Regiment, June 1916 to September 1917, as well as when prisoner of war in Germany July 1918 until January 1919. Vernon William was from Southfield Road, Cowley.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8a3g.2
title: Autograph book from Didcot relating to Kenneth Tallett and Family (48)

description: The autograph book contains cartoons and poems relating to the Tallett family. Kenneth Tallett who survived the war and his brother Horace James Tallett of the King's Royal Rifles who died a trench during the Battle of Arras. The autograph book was submitted with a series of photgraphs by their son Jim Tallett.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8d4i.2
title: Autograph book from Didcot relating to Kenneth Tallett and Family (51)

description: The autograph book contains cartoons and poems relating to the Tallett family. Kenneth Tallett who survived the war and his brother Horace James Tallett of the King's Royal Rifles who died a trench during the Battle of Arras. The autograph book was submitted with a series of photgraphs by their son Jim Tallett.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8f7n.2
title: Photograph of German church service

description: Church service being held somewhere on the Eastern Front. Most of the soldiers are wearing steel helmets; the band pickelhaubes.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8rf2.2
title: John Eadie and David Abrahamson (4)

description: Letter to daughter from John Eadie
Residue of Naval Assets (John Eadie)
Leith School Board, two certificates for David Abrahamson
Postcard, lowestoft
Patriotic card 'To Lottie from Dadda'
Photo x 2 John Eadie

Photo group.  the Eadie family:
Sophia, holding book
Agnes, oldest child
Charlotte, 2nd daughter
Johnny, son referred to in letter

My grandfather John Eadie was lost on 2nd April 1916 when his minesweeper HMS Commandant struck a mine at Lowestoft.
The letter he sent to my mother was probably written the Christmas before he died. He refers to Zeppelins and he died the day they attacked Leith.

He was a Leith man who married a Newhaven woman and lived in Newhaven at the time he died.  The Family wrote letters to say they were OK, but he had died the same day.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8twb.1
title: Sketches by W.G. Vernon

description: A series of sketches sent home from France by my grandfather W.G.Vernon whilst serving in the 11th Battalion The Lancashire Fusiliers September 1917 and May 1918. Also from the east coast of England with the 11th Batallion Bedfordshire Regiment, June 1916 to September 1917, as well as when prisoner of war in Germany July 1918 until January 1919. Vernon William was from Southfield Road, Cowley.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ygi.2
title: Photographs of George Henry Morton (1)

description: Photographs of George Henry Morton. The top group is presumably the staff of the British Air Attache in Madrid, with attached Spanish aircraftsmen. The Royal Air Force Other Ranks wear the 1918 pattern unifrom. Seated middle is a Petty Officer of the Royal Navy. The middle photograph is of George Morton and Len King, both wearing the 1918 pattern Royal Air Force uniform, but with collar badges of the Royal Army Medical Corps.  

George Henry Herbert Morton has no medal card in the Nation Archives records, suggesting that he went overseas too late to qualify for the War or Victory Medals. He seems to have been attached to the staff of the British Air Attache in Madrid, Lt. Col. Sandy.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian926.2
title: Autograph book from Didcot relating to Kenneth Tallett and Family (49)

description: The autograph book contains cartoons and poems relating to the Tallett family. Kenneth Tallett who survived the war and his brother Horace James Tallett of the King's Royal Rifles who died a trench during the Battle of Arras. The autograph book was submitted with a series of photgraphs by their son Jim Tallett.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian9pe.2
title: Sketches by W.G. Vernon (12)

description: Left page inscribed 'J.B.D Calais Nov 1917', right page contains sketches of officers and horses. Contained within a book of sketches sent home from France by my grandfather W.G.Vernon whilst serving in the 11th Battalion The Lancashire Fusiliers September 1917 and May 1918. Also from the east coast of England with the 11th Batallion Bedfordshire Regiment, June 1916 to September 1917, as well as when prisoner of war in Germany July 1918 until January 1919. Vernon William was from Southfield Road, Cowley.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand3ug.2
title: Photograph of German band

description: Prussian Guard band. Berlin, October 1914
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand4ji.2
title: Photograph of German infantryman posing by shell

description: German infantryman pictured in July 1918. He wears an M1915 pattern tunic with senior private buttons on the collar. His M1916/1918 steel helmet has been camouflaged with paint.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand6ik.2
title: Christmas Card from Osborne Pigrome (1)

description: Christmas Card from the Artists Rifles, with cap badge to front. Inside, a copy of a pen and ink sketch of a church and village scene by Osborne Pigrome. Before and after the war, he was a regular weekend watercolour painter. According to family stories, Osborne never spoke about the Great War. He never married and lived quietly with two elder sisters and a niece. Born 4th February 1880, died 26th April 1963. 

Pte. 2314 (later 301475) Osborne Pigrome, 2/5th (City of London) Bn. Territorial Force (London Rifle Brigade), later 28th (County of London) Bn. Territorial Force (Artists Rifles).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandax7.2
title: John Eadie and David Abrahamson (6)

description: Letter to daughter from John Eadie
Residue of Naval Assets (John Eadie)
Leith School Board, two certificates for David Abrahamson
Postcard, lowestoft
Patriotic card 'To Lottie from Dadda'
Photo x 2 John Eadie

Photo group.  the Eadie family:
Sophia, holding book
Agnes, oldest child
Charlotte, 2nd daughter
Johnny, son referred to in letter

My grandfather John Eadie was lost on 2nd April 1916 when his minesweeper HMS Commandant struck a mine at Lowestoft.
The letter he sent to my mother was probably written the Christmas before he died. He refers to Zeppelins and he died the day they attacked Leith.

He was a Leith man who married a Newhaven woman and lived in Newhaven at the time he died.  The Family wrote letters to say they were OK, but he had died the same day.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandcou.2
title: Letter from Osborne Pigrome to his elder brother Ted (2)

description: Letter from Osborne Pigrome to his brother Edward Pigrome. One of 42 written to the addressee from 18th June 1915 to 8th December 1918. Osborne served in France from 1917 until the end of 1918. Before and after the war, he was a regular weekend watercolour painter. According to family stories, Osborne never spoke about the Great War. He never married and lived quietly with two elder sisters and a niece. Born 4th February 1880, died 26th April 1963. 

Editor's Comment:
Pte. 2314 (later 301475) Osborne Pigrome, 2/5th (City of London) Bn. Territorial Force (London Rifle Brigade), later 28th (County of London) Bn. Territorial Force (Artists Rifles).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandfwo.2
title: Letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC

description: This is an extract from a photocopy of a letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC sent on 3rd October 1915, from Suvla Bay, Gallipoli. It records Blore's scathing opinion of the reports sent to the newspapers by the Times correspondent A. Bartlett - in particular of the battle there on August 21 1915. This battle would not have been referred to in detail in any of the letters, but in his notebooks Blore recorded the details of his work. 

Also part of this collection are a couple of Bartlett's newspaper articles, 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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandyu1.2
title: Sketches by W.G. Vernon (9)

description: Letter and sketch of Indian Transport Driver and Mules. Part of a series of sketches sent home from France by my grandfather W.G.Vernon whilst serving in the 11th Battalion The Lancashire Fusiliers September 1917 and May 1918. Also from the east coast of England with the 11th Batallion Bedfordshire Regiment, June 1916 to September 1917, as well as when prisoner of war in Germany July 1918 until January 1919. Vernon William was from Southfield Road, Cowley.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandzhu.2
title: Autograph book from Didcot relating to Kenneth Tallett and Family (43)

description: The autograph book contains cartoons and poems relating to the Tallett family. Kenneth Tallett who survived the war and his brother Horace James Tallett of the King's Royal Rifles who died a trench during the Battle of Arras. The autograph book was submitted with a series of photgraphs by their son Jim Tallett.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianh6w.2
title: Memoirs in letter form of Horace Ronald Eddison (1)

description: Memoires of Horace Eddison. Details his joining up in 1914, home service in hospitals in England, service in France from December 1916 (including the battle of Arras in 1917), and employment in the manufacturing of Soda water. He was demobilised in 1919.
Partly transcribed as an article 'Soda Water Merchant', in 'Stand To!: The Journal of the Western Front Association', No. 63 (January 2002), pp. 20-21. Article includes a photograph of Horace Eddison taken when a Pte. 

Sgt. 28341 Horace Ronald Eddison, 10th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj5wk.2
title: Letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC (1)

description: This is an extract from a photocopy of a letter from Dr W.R. Blore M.C. RAMC sent on 7th March 1916, from Egypt. It describes a photo which is enclosed, of Dr Blore outside his dugout at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli in 1915. That dugout was sketched in his letter of 14th October. In this letter he mentions the chair in the photo which was actually shipped over from England in his luggage, and which was evacuated to Egypt. Blore also describes his hair-cut and his uniform.

Also part of this collection are the photograph described here, and the sketch from the earlier letter as well as 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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjgha.2
title: Autograph book from Didcot relating to Kenneth Tallett and Family (44)

description: The autograph book contains cartoons and poems relating to the Tallett family. Kenneth Tallett who survived the war and his brother Horace James Tallett of the King's Royal Rifles who died a trench during the Battle of Arras. The autograph book was submitted with a series of photgraphs by their son Jim Tallett.