cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianodd.2
title: Photographs, etc. related to Robert Irvine Hulley (1)

description: R I Hulley 13/12/1889 - 03/07/1995.  My father (on the right by the FK8 in "Lloyd Hulley FK8") lied about his age - like many others - to join the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), probably in 1916.  Within six weeks of joining his first squadron, he was it's longest surviving member. The attached photographs were taken late in the war when he was with No. 82 (Army Co-operation) Squadron.  He was the observer, in the rear cockpit, and operated the Lewis gun for rear defence.  The pilot was Kenneth Lloyd, on the left.  My father told me that the observers all used to cut the finger tips off their gloves, regardless of the cold, "because you could not change the magazine on your gun with full gloves on".  See photo "Gloves 01" - these are his own silk under gloves which he wore during the war.  More information on No. 82 Squadron may be found in "Cross and Cockade" Vol 32 Issues 1 and 2, 2001.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr8a8.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Informs that the battalion will be back 'at work' in the trenches again soon / discusses 'Firelight' / does not require a copy of 'The Fire Kindled' / describes how he sees his collected volume / suggests changes for 'Hail and Farewell' / possible inclusions and omissions for the volume / expresses sorrow of the death of one of Marion Scott's friends / wonders after F W Harvey in a prisoner of war camp / suggests corrections for 'To the Poet Before Battle' / will try to rediscover the origins of 'Firelight' / wonders what Scott finds interesting in his letters / the 'pluck' of Ivor Gurney's fellow soldiers / includes 'Afterglow', dedicated to F W Harvey / 'Praise'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiansz1.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Thinking of 'what's in store' / reserve better than front lines / describes how the army has forced Ivor Gurney to get along better with people / thinks about possible death, and expresses some contentment / takes comfort in his 'English Preludes' and verses / working on the sonnet 'England' for the 'Sonnets 1914' sequence / John Masefield's 'Good Friday'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiant33.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final 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/bodleian1vs.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final manuscript draft of Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' entitled 'The five unmistakable marks' ['Invenimus eam in Campis silvae' DELETED]. (Part VII of 'In Parenthesis' is about the attack on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian226i.2
title: 2 postcards from Fred Lynn to his mother (1)

description: The photo of the Camp shows a steam roller on the road. On the back Fred wrote "To Dear Mother with love from Fred.
Hut 35 in full view"
Presumably that was where he was staying.

Fred Lynn's story
Fred's story is told here through a number of photographs and post cards that he sent to his mother. She kept them in an album, together with those from his brothers and sisters.

Frederick Lynn was the sixth of 7 surviving children of Sarah Ann and Christmas Lynn. Fred was born in 1896 and brought up in Gedney Hill in south Lincolnshire. 

Fred and his brothers Robert and John went to Lincoln to enlist in April 1916. 
Robert was not accepted. I don't know if this was because he was not fit or because he was now the head of the household (his father had died in 1915) or because he was a farmer.
Fred enlisted in the Notts and Derby Regiment of the Sherwood Foresters. He became a Lance Corporal in the 15th Battalion and was wounded in 1918. 
He was in hospital in Southampton in May 1918 but was discharged and returned to his Battalion. Tragically he was killed on 29th September 1918 and is commemorated on the Memorial at the Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium and on the war memorials in his home village of Gedney Hill.

Fred's brother John Lynn also enlisted but I have no photographs of him and very few postcards to his mother. John survived the war but died in 1918, perhaps in the flu pandemic.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian22q9.2
title: Photograph of women watching from a ridge, belonging to Joseph Thompson

description: Women watching from a ridge, likely 1915, either Gallipoli area, Mudros Island or Lemnos. This photograph was most probably taken, or perhaps collected, by 494 Sergeant Joseph Cecil Thompson of the 9th Battalion 1st AIF during his service at Galliopli and in Egypt. 

Editor's Comment:
The 9th Bn., as part of 3rd Brg. Australian Imperial Force, were the first to land at the ANZAC beachead on Gallipoli, 25th April 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian275p.2
title: War memorial and roll of honour, Presbyterian Church, Llandrindod Wells (2)

description: Photographs and extracts from the programme for the unveiling and dedication in remembrance of the fallen in the Great War, 1914-1918, June 11th 1922. Officiating minister: Revd S. George. 

William J. Powell (father of Walter Powell) was an elder and secretary/treasurer of the Presbyterian Church in Ithon Road, Llandrindod. He and his wife Clara lost two sons, Percy and Clifford, both died of wounds, and their youngest son returned from France in 1919, safe, but suffering the effects of being gassed. W.J. Powell's younger brother Humphrey also died of his wounds. The war memorial was unveiled in 1922 and was a gift from William and Clara Powell. Walter's notes record that "Father presented it in memory of fallen Tommies". The diaries of W.J. Powell (also part of this collection) show that a roll of honour was being kept in the church throughout the war, and this particular memorial was erected in 1918, completed in 1922. It shows the names of all the men from the congregation who served (about 95-100) - not only those killed (22 men).

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/bodleian2eqn.2
title: 2 postcards from Fred Lynn to his mother (2)

description: Germ-Hun souvenir (Cartoon)
King Edward bridge, Newcastle (photo)

The messages on the back read
"To Mother From Fred with love"

Fred Lynn's story
Fred's story is told here through a number of photographs and post cards that he sent to his mother. She kept them in an album, together with those from his brothers and sisters.

Frederick Lynn was the sixth of 7 surviving children of Sarah Ann and Christmas Lynn. Fred was born in 1896 and brought up in Gedney Hill in south Lincolnshire. 

Fred and his brothers Robert and John went to Lincoln to enlist in April 1916. 
Robert was not accepted. I don't know if this was because he was not fit or because he was now the head of the household (his father had died in 1915) or because he was a farmer.
Fred enlisted in the Notts and Derby Regiment of the Sherwood Foresters. He became a Lance Corporal in the 15th Battalion and was wounded in 1918. 
He was in hospital in Southampton in May 1918 but was discharged and returned to his Battalion. Tragically he was killed on 29th September 1918 and is commemorated on the Memorial at the Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium and on the war memorials in his home village of Gedney Hill.

Fred's brother John Lynn also enlisted but I have no photographs of him and very few postcards to his mother. John survived the war but died in 1918, perhaps in the flu pandemic.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2gkx.1
title: Alfred L Pyke drawing and window design

description: Contribution from Alfred L Pyke to Bessie Marks' (my great aunt) autograph book whilst he was her patient in Whalley Range Military Hospital, 1915.  Scan of memorial window designed by Alfred L Pyke featuring QARNS (Queen Alexandra's Royal Nursing Service) nurse, wounded soldier and children at church of St George the Matryr in Redditch Worcs, his first post war design in 1920.  He later emigrated to Canada.  She married another patient Hugh H Hopgood, artist.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2kf5.2
title: Frank Smith's log book (3)

description: Records flying hours during training.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2myd.2
title: To England - A Note

description: Includes 'To England - A Note', in Marion Scott's hand / glad that Scott's health has improved / hoping for warmer weather / discusses 'By the Bierside' by John Masefield and Ivor Gurney's setting of it to music / mentions 'For England' and 'February Day' / discusses possible titles: 'Songs Before Dawn' / gives Scott leave to make changes / includes alterations for the 'Preface' to the collected volume / changes for 'To Certain Comrades' / gives Scott leave to deal with punctuation and 'Carol' / working on another sonnet / mentions potential publishers, with Sidgwick and Jackson as the preferred option / a new lyric forming beginning 'Starlight in Water'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2qbu.2
title: Granting of a (Temporary) Commission (2)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2sa8.2
title: Postcard from Fred Lynn to his mother (5)

description: Postcard of 2 soldiers practising shooting, and a woman offering 'ammunition' for letter-writing.
On the reverse Fred wrote
"Dear Mother I have passed the Dr and you will see my clothe [sic] home soon by rail From Your loving Son Fred.

Fred Lynn's story
Fred's story is told here through a number of photographs and post cards that he sent to his mother. She kept them in an album, together with those from his brothers and sisters.

Frederick Lynn was the sixth of 7 surviving children of Sarah Ann and Christmas Lynn. Fred was born in 1896 and brought up in Gedney Hill in south Lincolnshire. 

Fred and his brothers Robert and John went to Lincoln to enlist in April 1916. 
Robert was not accepted. I don't know if this was because he was not fit or because he was now the head of the household (his father had died in 1915) or because he was a farmer.
Fred enlisted in the Notts and Derby Regiment of the Sherwood Foresters. He became a Lance Corporal in the 15th Battalion and was wounded in 1918. 
He was in hospital in Southampton in May 1918 but was discharged and returned to his Battalion. Tragically he was killed on 29th September 1918 and is commemorated on the Memorial at the Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium and on the war memorials in his home village of Gedney Hill.

Fred's brother John Lynn also enlisted but I have no photographs of him and very few postcards to his mother. John survived the war but died in 1918, perhaps in the flu pandemic.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2u4p.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final 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/bodleian2yvb.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final 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/bodleian4b4.2
title: Granting of a (Temporary) Commission (1)
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian61se.1
title: Percy Watson

description: Attached are photographs of Corporal Percy Watson, who originally enlisted with the 7th Battlion, Mancheser Regiment and then was merged into the East Lancashire Regiment towards the end of the war. The 7th Manchester Regiment was a Terattorial Regiment and as Percy was a butcher by trade, it is believed that he was the Butcher to the regiment. 

Percy was born on the 27th August 1888 in Burnley to Alfred Watson and Ellen Walters. He married Bertha Lakin on the 16th November 1908 in Chorlton cum Hardy, Manchester. They had two children, Stanley, born in 1909 and Marjorie born in 1912. She is still alive but has limited memories of her father as she was six at the time of his death. 

Attached are letters to his wife Bertha, including one written the day he was killed. 

There is a detailed letter stating how Percy was killed, his death certificate, letters from the Commonwealth War Graves on both his burial and re burial and a very heartfelt letter written in August 1918 where he is clearly very certain that he will die in the trenches. 

There are also postcards from Percy's children and his wife for his birthday. These have shrapnel holes through them as he had them on his person when he was killed. Pictures are also attached of Percy and his family
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian65vh.2
title: War memorial and roll of honour, Presbyterian Church, Llandrindod Wells (3)

description: Photographs and extracts from the programme for the unveiling and dedication in remembrance of the fallen in the Great War, 1914-1918, June 11th 1922. Officiating minister: Revd S. George. 

William J. Powell (father of Walter Powell) was an elder and secretary/treasurer of the Presbyterian Church in Ithon Road, Llandrindod. He and his wife Clara lost two sons, Percy and Clifford, both died of wounds, and their youngest son returned from France in 1919, safe, but suffering the effects of being gassed. W.J. Powell's younger brother Humphrey also died of his wounds. The war memorial was unveiled in 1922 and was a gift from William and Clara Powell. Walter's notes record that "Father presented it in memory of fallen Tommies". The diaries of W.J. Powell (also part of this collection) show that a roll of honour was being kept in the church throughout the war, and this particular memorial was erected in 1918, completed in 1922. It shows the names of all the men from the congregation who served (about 95-100) - not only those killed (22 men).

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/bodleian6d2h.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final 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/bodleian6p9g.2
title: June-to-Come

description: Includes 'June-to-Come', dedicated to F.W. Harvey / 'Hark, Hark, the Lark' / 'Trees' / thanks Marion Scott for a recent parcel / describes letters received / being back in the trenches / discusses the possibility of death / the war in the newspapers, and at sea / defines the term 'in support' / the 'Musical Times' / thanks Scott for her kindness.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6q6j.1
title: Various postcards sent by Edward Henry Kelly

description: Various postcards sent home to wife and children by Edward Henry Kelly, born 23rd Dec 1878 in Peel, Isle of Man. Died in Liverpool Dec 1963. No details are known about his service record.

Editor's Comment:
Possibly Captain Edward Henry Kelly, Royal Engineers (later Major on Staff).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6rr3.2
title: Discharge papers for Frank Smith
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6snl.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final 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/bodleian6x48.2
title: Cover of photograph album belonging to Frank Smith
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6yv9.2
title: Postcard from Fred Lynn to his mother (6)

description: Soldiers around a YMCA hut.

I guess this is where he went after he enlisted

Fred Lynn's story
Fred's story is told here through a number of photographs and post cards that he sent to his mother. She kept them in an album, together with those from his brothers and sisters.

Frederick Lynn was the sixth of 7 surviving children of Sarah Ann and Christmas Lynn. Fred was born in 1896 and brought up in Gedney Hill in south Lincolnshire. 

Fred and his brothers Robert and John went to Lincoln to enlist in April 1916. 
Robert was not accepted. I don't know if this was because he was not fit or because he was now the head of the household (his father had died in 1915) or because he was a farmer.
Fred enlisted in the Notts and Derby Regiment of the Sherwood Foresters. He became a Lance Corporal in the 15th Battalion and was wounded in 1918. 
He was in hospital in Southampton in May 1918 but was discharged and returned to his Battalion. Tragically he was killed on 29th September 1918 and is commemorated on the Memorial at the Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium and on the war memorials in his home village of Gedney Hill.

Fred's brother John Lynn also enlisted but I have no photographs of him and very few postcards to his mother. John survived the war but died in 1918, perhaps in the flu pandemic.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian81vi.2
title: Postcard from Fred Lynn to his mother (4)

description: Postcard of 2 soldiers practising shooting, and a woman offering 'ammunition' for letter-writing.
On the reverse Fred wrote
"Dear Mother I have passed the Dr and you will see my clothe [sic] home soon by rail From Your loving Son Fred.

Fred Lynn's story
Fred's story is told here through a number of photographs and post cards that he sent to his mother. She kept them in an album, together with those from his brothers and sisters.

Frederick Lynn was the sixth of 7 surviving children of Sarah Ann and Christmas Lynn. Fred was born in 1896 and brought up in Gedney Hill in south Lincolnshire. 

Fred and his brothers Robert and John went to Lincoln to enlist in April 1916. 
Robert was not accepted. I don't know if this was because he was not fit or because he was now the head of the household (his father had died in 1915) or because he was a farmer.
Fred enlisted in the Notts and Derby Regiment of the Sherwood Foresters. He became a Lance Corporal in the 15th Battalion and was wounded in 1918. 
He was in hospital in Southampton in May 1918 but was discharged and returned to his Battalion. Tragically he was killed on 29th September 1918 and is commemorated on the Memorial at the Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium and on the war memorials in his home village of Gedney Hill.

Fred's brother John Lynn also enlisted but I have no photographs of him and very few postcards to his mother. John survived the war but died in 1918, perhaps in the flu pandemic.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian839f.1
title: "A Soldier's Story" kept throughout war by Sapper E. Grantham

description: Editor's Comment:
Sapper 146217 Ernest Grantham, 156th Field Company, Royal Engineers. The 156th Field Coy. were attached to the 16th (Irish) Division.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian846h.1
title: Notebook of John Dawson

description: A notebook with diary entries and drafts of letters.

Pte. 267220 John Dawson, 1/7th Bn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment, was killed in action 14th August 1917 aged 22. The son of Mr. and Mrs. William Dawson, of Cockhill Place, Bellshill, Lanarkshire, he is buried in New Irish Farm Cemetery. The 1/7th Bn., part of the 48th (South Midland) Division, were waiting to for heavy rain to clear for the attack on Langemarck to commence, the second phase of the Third Battle of Ypres.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8b9t.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Includes 'To England - A Note', in Marion Scott's hand / glad that Scott's health has improved / hoping for warmer weather / discusses 'By the Bierside' by John Masefield and Ivor Gurney's setting of it to music / mentions 'For England' and 'February Day' / discusses possible titles: 'Songs Before Dawn' / gives Scott leave to make changes / includes alterations for the 'Preface' to the collected volume / changes for 'To Certain Comrades' / gives Scott leave to deal with punctuation and 'Carol' / working on another sonnet / mentions potential publishers, with Sidgwick and Jackson as the preferred option / a new lyric forming beginning 'Starlight in Water'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8fvy.2
title: War memorial and roll of honour, Presbyterian Church, Llandrindod Wells (4)

description: Photographs and extracts from the programme for the unveiling and dedication in remembrance of the fallen in the Great War, 1914-1918, June 11th 1922. Officiating minister: Revd S. George. 

William J. Powell (father of Walter Powell) was an elder and secretary/treasurer of the Presbyterian Church in Ithon Road, Llandrindod. He and his wife Clara lost two sons, Percy and Clifford, both died of wounds, and their youngest son returned from France in 1919, safe, but suffering the effects of being gassed. W.J. Powell's younger brother Humphrey also died of his wounds. The war memorial was unveiled in 1922 and was a gift from William and Clara Powell. Walter's notes record that "Father presented it in memory of fallen Tommies". The diaries of W.J. Powell (also part of this collection) show that a roll of honour was being kept in the church throughout the war, and this particular memorial was erected in 1918, completed in 1922. It shows the names of all the men from the congregation who served (about 95-100) - not only those killed (22 men).

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/bodleian8gn9.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) final manuscript draft

description: The final 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/bodleian8rs2.1
title: Photographs, Memorial Scroll, and Medal Card of Willie Gaunt

description: In memory of William Gaunt born in Barrow Lancashire in 1885 and died in France on 28 April 1917 aged 32. He left a widow, Emma (nee Cooper) and 3 children (names unknown). He was my Grandmother's brother.

On the bottom left hand side of the group photo, we found when we enlarged the photo for restoration that Willie has etched EMMA in the sand. See the tiny piece of mud on the tip of his stick!!! Included is an enlargement of the inscription.  We wonder if she ever knew as it is invisible to the eye on the original photo.

Editor's Comment:
Bombardier 21144 William Gaunt, 7th Div. Ammunition Column Royal Field Artillery, died of wounds 28th April 1917, aged 32. The husband of Emma Gaunt, of II, Newington St., City Rd., Bradford, Yorks, he is buried in Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun. The 7th Division were heavily engaged around this time in the Battle of Arras.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8u46.2
title: Photograph including Frank Smith (2)

description: Group of three soldiers.  Frank Smith is on the right.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianayj.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing letter.