cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ake.2
title: Billet

description: Typescript with some pencil markings in unknown hand.  Typed by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. An alternative version of the poem exists in another notebook. The version shown here was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6c3q.2
title: Trenches at Hill 62 Sanctuary Wood Museum

description: The Allied trenches at Sanctuary Wood, near Hill 62 (also known as Tor Top). Although the trenches have obviously been shored up with corrugated iron/zinc the shape of the trench system with zig-zags, traverses, bastions and dug-outs gives the visitors (and there are many) a very good feel for what a trench was like.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6e7v.2
title: First Time In ['The Captain addressed us...']

description: Typescript prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Multiple versions of the poem survive in other notebooks, including one beginning with the line 'After the dread tales...'. The version shown here was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6m3r.2
title: An old woman refugee with her cow in Amiens
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6og8.2
title: The sorrow of true love

description: The last page of the diary kept by Edward Thomas over his last three months as a soldier.  The diary was in the possession of Thomas' son Merfyn Thomas (1900-1965) until his death, and was rediscovered by his son Edward Thomas in 1970.  The manuscript is untitled but is labeled 'The sorrow of true love' in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems'.  Date inscribed in Helen Thomas' hand.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6p3o.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott

description: Written whilst Ivor Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital, St. Albans. Thanks Scott for 'the Carnegie article' / is anxious to know her opinion of the poems 'Toussaints', 'The Stonebreaker', 'Farm' and 'On Rest' / has just written a poem titled 'O Tree of Pride' / wants to return to Gloucester to write / looking forward to a possible visit / describes the current beauty of the weather.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6y9k.2
title: The Ballad of Lady Yolande

description: This is no. 84 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6zv5.2
title: The Ballad of Lady Yolande

description: This is no. 84 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian7pj.2
title: Site of the Beaurevoir-Fonsomme Line

description: Taken from the site of the Beaurevoir-Fonsomme Line,  initially known as the ""Hindenburg Support Line"" looking south-west, just outside Joncourt.  The valley  is the location where Owen advanced with the 2nd Manchesters at 8.30am on 29th September 1918 and won his Military Cross decoration.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian819o.2
title: The Ballad of Lady Yolande

description: This is no. 84 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian83t5.2
title: The First World War 1914-1918: The Western Front: The Somme Offensive 1916

description: A skeleton, its arm across its neck, of a German soldier at Beaumont Hamel. Britain lost her army of volunteers in the trench battles north of the River Somme in late 1916. Total British, French and German casualties were in the region of 1,200,000 killed, wounded or captured.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian873g.2
title: View of Ypres from Hill 62
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian89k5.2
title: The Old City (Gloucester)

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand, after various drafts from letters of 15th July and 22 July 1917. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8a3k.2
title: A FANY (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry) with male helper carrying out repairs to an ambulance at St Omer
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8b3l.2
title: The Lock-Keeper

description: Manuscript in black ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. Numerous versions of the poem exists in notebooks and letters. This version was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). A shorter draft of the poem appears in 'War's Embers' (1919) with the inscription 'To the memory of Edward Thomas'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8d46.2
title: Three Indian soldiers bathing in the river Auja

description: The Advance through Palestine and the Battle of Megiddo
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ivm.2
title: The Ballad of Lady Yolande

description: This is no. 84 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ok2.2
title: New Year's Eve

description: Typescript of poem with alterations in pen prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Various versions of the poem survive. This version was initially published in 'The London Mercury' in 1924, and differs substantially from the one that was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8yg6.2
title: Lights Out

description: The manuscript is untitled but is labeled 'Lights Out' in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems'. At the bottom is written 'Sent by Edward Thomas from Trowbridge to Eleanor Farjeon. The first draft of this poem.'
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian98b.2
title: A seriously wounded soldier of the Black Watch receiving basic treatment at a dressing station near Bethune, France, April 1918.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand37w.2
title: Possessions ['France has Victory...']

description: Typescript of poem prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Various versions of the poem survive, including another from a preceding notebook that begins 'Sand has the ants...'. A version of the poem shown here, including altered stanza breaks, was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand4fm.2
title: The Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) 31 July-10 November 1917

description: Assault on Passchendaele 12 October - 6 November: A derelict tank stuck in the mud.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandcod.2
title: Letter: To Mary Thomas.

description: Describes anticipation of embarkation to Edward Thomas' mother.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandhjp.2
title: Half Dead

description: Typescript in red and black ink with no corrections. Typed by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Multiple versions of the poem survive, with this being a longer version of the poem to the one included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandktc.2
title: Men of the 123rd Outram's Rifles sitting cross legged outside their dug-out
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandlyc.2
title: The Somme Offensive on the Western Front, 1916

description: Troops of the 2nd Canterbury Battalion, New Zealand Division, rest in a shell hole, Battle of Flers-Courcelette, 15 September 1916.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandmsj.2
title: The Ballad of Lady Yolande

description: This is no. 84 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandne.2
title: Dug-outs in a Mine Crater

description: View from above.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandp96.2
title: The Sentry

description: Typescript prepared by Marion Scott.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandquo.2
title: Trenches at Hill 62 Sanctuary Wood Museum

description: The Allied trenches at Sanctuary Wood, near Hill 62 (also known as Tor Top). Although the trenches have obviously been shored up with corrugated iron/zinc the shape of the trench system with zig-zags, traverses, bastions and dug-outs gives the visitors (and there are many) a very good feel for what a trench was like.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiangev.2
title: The Ballad of Lady Yolande

description: This is no. 84 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj1lv.2
title: The Lock-Keeper

description: Manuscript in black ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. Numerous versions of the poem exists in notebooks and letters. This version was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). A shorter draft of the poem appears in 'War's Embers' (1919) with the inscription 'To the memory of Edward Thomas'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj65c.2
title: My Shy Hand

description: Drafted in August 1917 at Craiglockhart and revised in January-February 1918 at Scarborough. This is no. 136 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj9sd.2
title: The Ballad of Lady Yolande

description: This is no. 84 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjbuk.2
title: Shell holes at Hill 62 Sanctuary Wood Museum
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjftn.2
title: A member of the 3/3rd Gurkha Rifles asleep while off duty in the line
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjkjz.2
title: First Time In ['The Captain addressed us...']

description: Typescript prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Multiple versions of the poem survive. The version shown here was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjqf5.2
title: ANZACs: View of field kitchens.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjt98.2
title: Robecq - Minsterworth

description: Typescript prepared by Marion Scott. Numerous versions of the poem exists, also under the title 'Ypres - Minsterworth'. This draft shows an alteration to line 19. 'Minsterworth' is where the poet F.W. Harvey, a friend of Gurney's, lived. The poem is dedicated to Harvey, who was reported missing in August 1916 but was later known to have been taken prisoner. The poem was included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjuyn.2
title: The Battle of the Somme 1 July-18 November 1916

description: Battle of Albert. British artillery bombarding the German trenches previous to the attack on La Boiselle.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjwf3.2
title: No one so much as you

description: This Typescript poem is written about Edward Thomas' mother, Mary Thomas, following time at home with his parents spent recovering from a short illness.  The manuscript is untitled and is named here after its first line.  It is no. 101 in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianl59.2
title: Crucifix Corner

description: Typescript prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Multiple versions of the poem survive in various notebooks.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrety.2
title: German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line, 1917

description: British and French troops in reserve lines.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianshb.2
title: The Sheiling

description: Refers to Gordon Bottomley's home, where Edward Thomas spent three days from his long post-OCTU leave.  Thomas and Bottomley were friends for over thirteen years.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiant41.2
title: Battle of Messines Ridge

description: Smashed fortress and trenches.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianvlt.2
title: VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) fitters at work on a car at Etaples
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianwpc.2
title: Song ['Ah, tell me not the spirits of the trees...']

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian1bm.2
title: Half Dead

description: Typescript in red and black ink with no corrections. Typed by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Multiple versions of the poem survive, with this being a longer version of the poem to the one included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian255x.2
title: A French machine gun crew of the Corps Expeditionnaire d'Orient in action under the shade of some trees, Gallipoli
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian26yj.2
title: The Ballad of Lady Yolande

description: This is no. 84 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2746.2
title: Identification of British Battle Casualties

description: Two casualties.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2cdo.2
title: Who is the god of Canongate

description: Probably written at Scarborough. This is no. 135 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ek4.2
title: The Ballad of Lady Yolande

description: This is no. 84 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2k6l.2
title: The Trumpet

description: Written whilst Edward Thomas began his field-training as an officer cadet with the Royal Artillery in London.  He had first been attracted by the trumpets in barracks in Trowbridge in October 1916.  This manuscript is untitled but is labeled 'The Trumpet' in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2uhd.2
title: Identification of British Battle Casualties

description: Two men identifying a casualty.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2xoc.2
title: Ypres Cathedral and Cloth Hall

description: Reconstructed after the First World War after witnessing intense and sustained battles. Bullet and shell marks can stillb e seen on the remaining original stonework.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2yb5.2
title: After War

description: Typescript in red and black ink, with pen corrections in blue ink in an unknown hand. Prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Multiple versions of the poem survive. Line 6 includes a reference to 'wedges and streaks', the shapes made by candlelight on the barn roof, something described in other poems by Ivor Gurney. Scott notes at the bottom of the draft in red ink that line 6 originally included a reference to a 'candle', but that Gurney crossed it out in a previous version.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2yh.2
title: The Rime of the Youthful Mariner

description: This is no. 134 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2z5g.2
title: I have loved children

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand of an unpublished poem.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian3vp.2
title: Melancholy

description: Typescript.  Refers to a period spent recovering from a chill and a boil at Edward Thomas' parent's house.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian63qa.2
title: Half Dead

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Various versions exist in notebooks and letters. Line 8 with 'cloths of heaven' is after a poem by W.B. Yeats.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian64ky.2
title: Memory, let all slip

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand, after drafts from letters of 8th and 16th October 1917. Written while Ivor Gurney was a patient at Bangour War Hospital.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian67fy.2
title: The capture of Jerusalem, 1917

description: The Mayor of Jerusalem, Dr Hussein Salim al-Husseini (with walking-stick and cigarette), with his party under a white flag-of-truce, attempts to deliver the Turkish Governor's letter surrendering the city to Sergeants James Sedgwick and Frederick Hurcomb of 2/19th Battalion, the London Regiment, just outside Jerusalem's western limits in the early morning of 9 December 1917. The two sergeants, who were scouting ahead of General Allenby's main force, refused to take the letter, which was eventually accepted by Brigadier-General C F Watson, Commanding 180th Infantry Brigade. The resplendent figure at far left is Habj Abd al-Kadir, Chief of the Jerusalem Police Force.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6875.2
title: Craiglockhart Military Hospital

description: Craiglockhart Military hospital was the famous meeting place of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon' in August 1917. Today the hospital forms part of Napier University.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6a8i.2
title: German March 1918 Offensive

description: British casualties.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ebu.2
title: Women in the First World War

description: Medicine: The two 'Women of Pervyse', Mairi Chisholm and the Baroness de T'Serclaes driving their motor ambulance through the ruins of Pervyse. The two women manned a first aid post in the Belgian front line for most of the war.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6l9t.2
title: Who is the god of Canongate

description: Probably written at Scarborough. This is no. 135 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6m1u.2
title: Dragon Memorial

description: The Welsh Dragon Memorial commemorates the attacks on Mametz wood by the Welsh battalions in the period 7th to 12th July 1916.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6p2r.2
title: Blenheim Oranges

description: Typescript.  Written while resting from mathematical training in London at his parents' home.  Lines 17-24 recall Edward Thomas' affection for the old London houses of his youth.  This manuscript is untitled but it is labeled 'Blenheim Oranges' in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems'.  This is after the title provided by Edward Thomas to in a letter to Eleanor Farjeon of 19 September 1916.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6rvr.2
title: Ypres

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6sqj.2
title: Half Dead

description: Typescript with numerous pencil corrections in an unknown hand. and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Multiple versions of the poem survive.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian7dl.2
title: Page Eglatine

description: This is no. 133 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8936.2
title: Laventie Front

description: Typescript with pen alterations in an unknown hand. Prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. An alternative version of the poem entitled 'Laventie' with substantial differences was prepared for publication by Edmund Blunden.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8a14.2
title: Ypres Sculpture

description: Just along the water from the Menin Gate, Ypres is this memorial 'in the ruined 'cat town' of Ieper the allied forces were our only source of hope'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8b2k.2
title: Merfyn

description: The title of the poem refers to Edward Thomas' son Merfyn Thomas, who also served in the First World War in England with the Kent Rifle Regiment in 1918.  The manuscript is untitled but is labeled '[2 Merfyn]' in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8e7m.2
title: The gravestone of R.Gregg, Joncourt Church Cemetery

description: The row of gravestones for Owen's friend  who was amongst the Joncourt battle casualties. Lieutenant Gregg had been with Owen since Scarborough, the battle which earned Owen his Military Cross.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8glt.2
title: Men of the R.G.A.

description: Wearing gas masks and operating a Fullerphone in a shell hole, forward signal post.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8gqh.2
title: First Time In ['The Captain addressed us...']

description: Typescript prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Multiple versions of the poem survive. The version shown here was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8jvk.2
title: Ypres

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8o8b.2
title: German March 1918 Offensive

description: British casualties by roadside.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8sib.2
title: The gravestone of R. Gregg, Joncourt Church Cemetery

description: The row of gravestones for Owen's friend  who was amongst the Joncourt battle casualties. Lieutenant Gregg had been with Owen since Scarborough, the battle which earned Owen his Military Cross.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8tf5.2
title: A portrait of sentries of the 3/3rd Gurkha Rifles in the front line trenches in Palestine
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand2j7.2
title: Edward Brittain in uniform
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand3b4.2
title: The Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele)  31 July-10 November 1917

description: The Battle of Pilckem Ridge 31 July - 2 August, 1917. Three Irish Guardsmen wearing German body-armour, examining a captured German machine-gun.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand56d.2
title: Robecq - Minsterworth

description: Typescript prepared by Marion Scott. Numerous versions of the poem exists, also under the title 'Ypres - Minsterworth'. This draft shows an alteration to line 19. 'Minsterworth' is where the poet F.W. Harvey, a friend of Gurney's, lived. The poem is dedicated to Harvey, who was reported missing in August 1916 but was later known to have been taken prisoner. The poem was included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand64t.2
title: The Wind's Song

description: Typescript.  The manuscript is untitled and is named as 'The Wind's Song' in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems' [110].
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandelb.2
title: Laventie Front

description: Typescript without alterations. Prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. An alternative version of the poem entitled 'Laventie' with substantial differences was prepared for publication by Edmund Blunden.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandgqw.2
title: Home [2]

description: Typescript.  The manuscript is listed as '61 Home [2]' in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandisz.2
title: The Ballad of Lady Yolande

description: This is no. 84 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandkj1.2
title: Canadian Memorial at Hill 62

description: This memorial sits on top of Hill 62, at the crest of a series of steps and tiers and walls. The inscription reads 'Here at Mount Sorrel and on the line from Hooge to St. Eloi the Canadian Corps fought in the defence of Ypres, April - August 1916'. Around the monument are names pointing to for example Ypres, Hill 60 and Messines. From Hill 62 you can see Ypres.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandnv2.2
title: Roland Leighton in uniform
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandr3o.2
title: Leisure and Entertainment During the First world War

description: Leisure and entertainment at the Front: Men of the Army Service Corps playing cards on a duckboard in a shell hole at Poperinghe. Cards, being light and portable, were ubiquitous at the front.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandsrc.2
title: Canadians

description: Typescript in red and black ink, with red ink punctuation corrections added 'conjecturally by M. M. S. (Marion Scott) as probably being what the poet intended.' Possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Multiple versions of the poem survive. This version substitutes 'Jack London' for 'Quebec, Stewart White' in line 16, and is close to the draft included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianf5q.2
title: Vera Brittain in V. A. D. uniform
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianh69.2
title: The sun used to shine

description: Typescript.  The poem recalls the holiday spent by Edward Thomas and his family with the family of the American poet Robert Frost while he was in England in Herefordshire in 1914.  The occasion was likely the receipt of a letter from Frost on 21 May 1916 after a long period of silence.  The manuscript is untitled but is labeled 'The sun used to shine' in 'Edward Thomas Collected Poems'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiani5t.2
title: The Old City (Gloucester)

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand, after various drafts from letters of 15th July and 22 July 1917. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj6js.2
title: Devonshire Hospital, Buxton

description: The hospital where Vera Brittain worked in Buxton between June and November 1915.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj8li.2
title: Laventie Front

description: Typescript with pen alterations in an unknown hand. Prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. An alternative version of the poem entitled 'Laventie' with substantial differences was prepared for publication by Edmund Blunden.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjdpn.2
title: The Old City (Gloucester)

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand, after various drafts from letters of 15th July and 22 July 1917. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).