cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianlj5.2
title: Poor Folk

description: Thanks Marion Scott for recent letters / discusses H.N. Howells and his work / compares it to 'Time and the Soldier', which he includes / also includes 'Influences' / wonders how many poems a collected volume of his own work will need / discusses being cold / Francis Ledwidge's poems and newspapers' reaction to them / Lawrence Binyon's verses / Bach / Ernest Walker's opinion of Ivor Gurney's songs / includes 'Poor Folk' / the ending of his 'soft job' / things to look forward to back in England.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrdm6.1
title: Photograph of Portugese Troops in camp
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiantuu.2
title: Influences

description: Thanks Marion Scott for recent letters / discusses H.N. Howells and his work / compares it to 'Time and the Soldier', which he includes / also includes 'Influences' / wonders how many poems a collected volume of his own work will need / discusses being cold / Francis Ledwidge's poems and newspapers' reaction to them / Lawrence Binyon's verses / Bach / Ernest Walker's opinion of Ivor Gurney's songs / includes 'Poor Folk' / the ending of his 'soft job' / things to look forward to back in England.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianyo9.2
title: A Memoir of his service by W.R.Smith , Driver , R.E. (11)

description: This memoir was handwritten in a small notebook by my father when he was 83 years old . As far as I know , it was from memory ,as I never saw any diaries etc. in his house . To me this seems remarkable . I typed it up (badly) about 20 years ago, and am pleased if it is of interest ,as my Dad would have been . I willl submit a couple of photos of him ,and a few other bits  .
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian1lf.2
title: Hail and Farewell

description: A misunderstanding / guarding beer in the canteen / includes 'Hail and Farewell' / the recent beauty of the stars / Beethoven / includes verse 3 of 'A Fire Kindled' / mentions W.B. Yeats / requests Francis Thompson's 'Selected Poems'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ggx.2
title: Photos and papers of Driver W.R.Smith , R.E. (5)

description: Further to the memoir by my father just submitted I now offer varous papers and a postcard home .   The 'smart' photo and the mounted one were at Ipswich  I believe 1915 . I also include a newspaper retained on the ' home front ' .
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2jms.1
title: Character Certificate.  Private Henry Wood

description: Private Wood joined the Royal Scots in September 1914 and is believed to have served in Salonica, Greece.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2k1r.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early 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/bodleian2pm6.2
title: The search for William Binnging: A School Project
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ujy.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Thanks Marion Scott for recent letters / discusses H.N. Howells and his work / compares it to 'Time and the Soldier', which he includes / also includes 'Influences' / wonders how many poems a collected volume of his own work will need / discusses being cold / Francis Ledwidge's poems and newspapers' reaction to them / Lawrence Binyon's verses / Bach / Ernest Walker's opinion of Ivor Gurney's songs / includes 'Poor Folk' / the ending of his 'soft job' / things to look forward to back in England.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2v1e.1
title: Collection of photographs and articles.  Cpl. Harry Smith, John D. Smith, Charles Smith, John (Jack) Rule and Willie Smith

description: Jack Rule won the Croix de Geurre

Harry Smith was killed on 1st July 1916 at the Somme in McCrae's Battalion

John D. Smith was killed at Ypres
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2yhc.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Includes the 'Preface', presumably intended for 'Severn and Somme', but as yet untitled / includes 'Ballad of the Three Spectres' / wonders what the people of Gloucester will think of the poems.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2yl1.2
title: Hail and Farewell

description: A misunderstanding / guarding beer in the canteen / includes 'Hail and Farewell' / the recent beauty of the stars / Beethoven / includes verse 3 of 'A Fire Kindled' / mentions W.B. Yeats / requests Francis Thompson's 'Selected Poems'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2zid.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Written from Bangour War Hospital. A lovely morning / discusses the poems 'After Music' and 'The Fire Kindled' / includes 'The Fields Are Full' / discusses tasks at the hospital / nurses and their kindness / the Scots / the attitudes of 'ordinary' men towards Bach and ragtime.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian3wu.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early 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/bodleian64mi.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Written while Ivor Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital, where he was sent following numerous suicide threats. Concerned about an article of Marion Scott's that Gurney was meant to send back but might have been destroyed /  is including 2 new 'songs' / possibility of being awarded a pass to come and visit / mentions 'The Stone-Breaker' / a letter from John Haines / includes 'Girl's Song' (later published as 'The Tryst (To W. M. C.)' / asks Scott to send him lines from 'Fire in the Dusk' / includes 'De Profundis'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6agm.1
title: Postcards sent home by Charles Friend

description: The postcard of the street scene has apparantly been censored.  Marked 'Passed field censor'
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6eip.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Concerned about Marion Scott's health / waiting for a book in the post / glad that she approves of recent poems / mentions constellations / Hillaire Belloc / alterations for 'Fire Kindled' / relieved to have been put on a canteen job / intends to try to get 'soft jobs' if possible.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6k1e.2
title: Photos and papers of Driver W.R.Smith , R.E. (7)

description: Further to the memoir by my father just submitted I now offer varous papers and a postcard home .   The 'smart' photo and the mounted one were at Ipswich  I believe 1915 . I also include a newspaper retained on the ' home front ' .
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6k3i.2
title: Timeline of William Binning's Life
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6p6c.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early 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/bodleian6qij.2
title: Photos and papers of Driver W.R.Smith , R.E. (3)

description: Further to the memoir by my father just submitted I now offer varous papers and a postcard home .   The 'smart' photo and the mounted one were at Ipswich  I believe 1915 . I also include a newspaper retained on the ' home front ' .
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6sow.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6zfg.2
title: Medals of Frank Miller Bingham (2)

description: Frank Miller Bingham, MRCS, LRCP
Born 17th September 1874, at Alfreton, the second son of Dr. Joseph Bingham, of Alfreton, Derbyshire. Educated at St. Peter's School, York, and St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School. Having qualified, he took charge for about four years of a large practice in Blackwell, Alfreton, Derbyshire, associated with the Blackwell Collieries, which had been, since the collieries were sunk, under the control of his father. Subsequently he lived at Brook House, Caton, near Lancaster, and was for five years in partnership with Dr. Scott at Hornby.  From 1911 he was in partnership in Queen's Square, Lancaster, with Dr G. R. Parker and Dr C. W. Dean, as Parker, Dean and Bingham, living at Lindon Cottage (he was in practice at Caton and Lancaster for ten years). 
A good all-round sportsman, he played cricket for Derbyshire and rugby for Blackheath and Middlesex. 
An enthusiastic territorial, he preferred to serve as a combatant than as a military doctor: Lieutenant, 5th King's Own (Royal Lancashire Regiment) Territorial Battalion, November 1910; Captain, 1914; Company Commander, May 1914; acting second in command of his battalion, 1915. After the severe fighting around Ypres in Flanders in the first two weeks of May (Second Battle of Ypres), he received three days home leave and, on the day after his return to the front, was killed in action 22nd May 1915. He had been reconnoitring some new trenches that his battalion was to occupy the following day, and as he and other officers were leaving, before daybreak, they came across a man half buried by the side of a trench which had been blown in. He insisted on stopping to dig the man out himself, which took some time, and it was daylight before all had begun to leave the trenches. The party was seen by the Germans, and he received a bullet through the heart which killed him instantaneously. 
He was buried on the edge of a wood at the front, but his grave was subsequently lost in the fighting, and he is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. 
A bronze tablet was erected in his memory by the medical profession of Lancaster and district on the outer wall of the Royal Lancaster Infirmary, unveiled 2nd December 1915 by Dr G. R. Parker, senior member of the medical profession in Lancaster. 

Editor's Comment:
1914-15 Star, War and Victory Medals with ribbons.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian83wf.2
title: Photos and papers of Driver W.R.Smith , R.E. (10)

description: Further to the memoir by my father just submitted I now offer varous papers and a postcard home .   The 'smart' photo and the mounted one were at Ipswich  I believe 1915 . I also include a newspaper retained on the ' home front ' .
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian84ih.2
title: Photos and papers of Driver W.R.Smith , R.E. (2)

description: Further to the memoir by my father just submitted I now offer varous papers and a postcard home .   The 'smart' photo and the mounted one were at Ipswich  I believe 1915 . I also include a newspaper retained on the ' home front ' .
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian89mb.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Mentions drafts of 'To Certain Comrades' and 'Strange Service' / intending to write 15 to 20 more / requests for a package / has decided not to send letter of 10th October 1916 / pleased that Marion Scott's sister is well / mentions John Masefield's 'Gallipoli' and Ivor Gurney's setting of Masefield's 'For the Fallen' / promises an account of 'a day in the life of a private' / desires to see friends again / describes the quality of the men / mentions a book 'Mr Pepys in the Great War'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8bre.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early 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/bodleian8g58.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Concerned about Marion Scott's health / waiting for a book in the post / glad that she approves of recent poems / mentions constellations / Hillaire Belloc / alterations for 'Fire Kindled' / relieved to have been put on a canteen job / intends to try to get 'soft jobs' if possible.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8gx.2
title: Photograph of William Binning with friend

description: William is on the right.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8h12.2
title: Photos and papers of Driver W.R.Smith , R.E. (6)

description: Further to the memoir by my father just submitted I now offer varous papers and a postcard home .   The 'smart' photo and the mounted one were at Ipswich  I believe 1915 . I also include a newspaper retained on the ' home front ' .
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8h3b.2
title: A photograph of William Binning

description: Photograph of William Binning in uniform for the first time.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8m7.1
title: Bank note, possibly Bulgarian

description: Private Wood joined the Royal Scots in September 1914 and is believed to have served in Salonica, Greece.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ogx.1
title: Map and picture

description: Map signed by The Earl Haig

Picture of The Battle of Jutland
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8wbc.2
title: William Binning's Diary (1915) (1)

description: William kept a small pocket diary for the early part of 1915 whilst he was in officer training. Below is a transcription of the diary. Any comments and paraphrasing are in italics.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianbm1.2
title: Card of the 91st Psalm given to Frank Miller Bingham by his wife

description: Frank Miller Bingham, MRCS, LRCP
Born 17th September 1874, at Alfreton, the second son of Dr. Joseph Bingham, of Alfreton, Derbyshire. Educated at St. Peter's School, York, and St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School. Having qualified, he took charge for about four years of a large practice in Blackwell, Alfreton, Derbyshire, associated with the Blackwell Collieries, which had been, since the collieries were sunk, under the control of his father. Subsequently he lived at Brook House, Caton, near Lancaster, and was for five years in partnership with Dr. Scott at Hornby.  From 1911 he was in partnership in Queen's Square, Lancaster, with Dr G. R. Parker and Dr C. W. Dean, as Parker, Dean and Bingham, living at Lindon Cottage (he was in practice at Caton and Lancaster for ten years). 
A good all-round sportsman, he played cricket for Derbyshire and rugby for Blackheath and Middlesex. 
An enthusiastic territorial, he preferred to serve as a combatant than as a military doctor: Lieutenant, 5th King's Own (Royal Lancashire Regiment) Territorial Battalion, November 1910; Captain, 1914; Company Commander, May 1914; acting second in command of his battalion, 1915. After the severe fighting around Ypres in Flanders in the first two weeks of May (Second Battle of Ypres), he received three days home leave and, on the day after his return to the front, was killed in action 22nd May 1915. He had been reconnoitring some new trenches that his battalion was to occupy the following day, and as he and other officers were leaving, before daybreak, they came across a man half buried by the side of a trench which had been blown in. He insisted on stopping to dig the man out himself, which took some time, and it was daylight before all had begun to leave the trenches. The party was seen by the Germans, and he received a bullet through the heart which killed him instantaneously. 
He was buried on the edge of a wood at the front, but his grave was subsequently lost in the fighting, and he is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. 
A bronze tablet was erected in his memory by the medical profession of Lancaster and district on the outer wall of the Royal Lancaster Infirmary, unveiled 2nd December 1915 by Dr G. R. Parker, senior member of the medical profession in Lancaster.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand3in.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand4wf.1
title: Letters of Lieutenant A. Fraser MacLean, 16th Royal Scots.  The 'Merchant Maiden' Magazine

description: Gives a good administartive history, as well as detailing aspects of his toime during the war, and what he thought of life during this time.  Also provides an image of him.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandggg.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early 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/bodleiandlm7.2
title: Photos and papers of Driver W.R.Smith , R.E. (8)

description: Further to the memoir by my father just submitted I now offer varous papers and a postcard home .   The 'smart' photo and the mounted one were at Ipswich  I believe 1915 . I also include a newspaper retained on the ' home front ' .
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandmhm.2
title: William Binning's Early Life
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandpgm.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Describes being back in reserve trenches / asks for letters, as 'no one knows how long this will last' / letters from friends / being 'over wrapt-up' in one's self / discusses poems, including Robert Bridges 'Spirit of Man' / the French being on rations / German prisoners / the British soldiers' attitudes toward the German soldiers being devoid of hate.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandr7i.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Concerned about Marion Scott's health / waiting for a book in the post / glad that she approves of recent poems / mentions constellations / Hillaire Belloc / alterations for 'Fire Kindled' / relieved to have been put on a canteen job / intends to try to get 'soft jobs' if possible.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianh1k.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early 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/bodleianiij.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Written while Ivor Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital, where he was sent following numerous suicide threats. Discusses aeroplanes and poetry / apologises for having sent a parcel to Marion Scott to be forwarded on / includes 'Girl's Song' (later published as 'The Tryst (To W. M. C.)'  / 'Solace of Men' / 'To F.W.H.' (friend and fellow poet F.W. Harvey) / another poem entitled 'Girl's Song' / reports that that is all for now / notes that it is raining 'horribly' outside.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj179.2
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Concerned about Marion Scott's health / waiting for a book in the post / glad that she approves of recent poems / mentions constellations / Hillaire Belloc / alterations for 'Fire Kindled' / relieved to have been put on a canteen job / intends to try to get 'soft jobs' if possible.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj9h5.2
title: William Binning's Military Life
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjdw6.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Thanks Marion Scott for a parcel / asks after her family / describes existing at the front / trying to appreciate being at the front / the French war loan / a lovely wood / London and friends / the loveliness of autumn.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjj2z.2
title: Photos and papers of Driver W.R.Smith , R.E. (1)

description: Further to the memoir by my father just submitted I now offer varous papers and a postcard home .   The 'smart' photo and the mounted one were at Ipswich  I believe 1915 . I also include a newspaper retained on the ' home front ' .
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjqw1.1
title: Letters of Hew Hutchison Grieg to his mother

description: hew was born in India on 21st Sept. 1892.  After fighting in the Great War he went on to become an Engineer.
Letter 1.  Personal items sent home for safe keeping and how good he now is at sowing and mending his clothes.

Letter 2. Details trench attacks and food his mother sent him.  he writes of the strain of serving on the front line and his duties.

Letter 3.  He details the atrocities of warand its casualties.  He also talks of his family and sends them his best wishes.  he also writes of sending a parcel of eggs home.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjsgq.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early 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/bodleianjtg5.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Concerned about Marion Scott's health / waiting for a book in the post / glad that she approves of recent poems / mentions constellations / Hillaire Belloc / alterations for 'Fire Kindled' / relieved to have been put on a canteen job / intends to try to get 'soft jobs' if possible.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjums.2
title: Photos and papers of Driver W.R.Smith , R.E. (9)

description: Further to the memoir by my father just submitted I now offer varous papers and a postcard home .   The 'smart' photo and the mounted one were at Ipswich  I believe 1915 . I also include a newspaper retained on the ' home front ' .
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianlnw.1
title: Photographs, Cpl Hugh McKenzie

description: M.G Section 4th (Territorial Btn.)Royal Scots.

Postcard from Bisley (British Army Shooting Range)

Standing group: Hugh McKenzie 3rd from left.
Large group: 6th front  left
Machine gun section:  Holding horse
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiann12.1
title: Photographs and forms.  William Menzies.  1883 to 1958

description: Discharge certificate.  Medically unfit 28th November 1915

L.Cpl. Menzies

Mayfield Hospital, Woolston:
Large Group:  7th from left back row.
Interior: 2nd from left
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrdbn.2
title: The Memoirs of John Moffatt

description: These memoirs are based upon the experiences and written diaries of my father, Private John Moffatt, serving with D Company 11th Battalion R.I.F. 16th Ulster Division along the Western Front between 1915 and 1918.

The content was compiled by the later REV. Professor Vincent Moffatt, eldest son.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianww1.1
title: Letter: To Marion Scott.

description: Comments on the length between letters / discussions of a Peace Conference / tramping around in the mud / includes 'To An Unknown Lady' / 'The Strong Thing' / discusses Scots who have recently joined the regiment / possibility of leave and spending a few days in London.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianzgq.2
title: Photos and papers of Driver W.R.Smith , R.E. (4)

description: Further to the memoir by my father just submitted I now offer varous papers and a postcard home .   The 'smart' photo and the mounted one were at Ipswich  I believe 1915 . I also include a newspaper retained on the ' home front ' .
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian218u.2
title: Child's letter to Frank Downswell (2)

description: Photocopies of a letter from Frank Dowdswell's future wife's (Ethel) younger brother 'Teddy' Pritchard.

Part of a collection relating to the service of Frank (7th Buffs) and Bob (Army Service Corps) Dowdeswell, of Shaw Green, Prestbury, nr Cheltenham.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian22w7.2
title: Letters, etc. from Walter Lynn (1)

description: Walter Lynn joined the Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in 1914 at the age of 17 with his pal Frank Dowthwaite.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian27p2.2
title: Letters, etc. from Walter Lynn (4)

description: Walter Lynn joined the Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in 1914 at the age of 17 with his pal Frank Dowthwaite.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2f6n.2
title: Poster of Recruiting Poem: 'Fall In', by Harold Begbie

description: This poster of my maternal grandfather Harold Begbie's notorious recruiting poem 'Fall In' is in my possession.

'Shropshire and Herefordshire | Fall In':
'What will you lack, sonny, what will you lack | when the girls line up the street, | Shouting their love to the lads come back...'
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2qiy.2
title: In Parenthesis (Part VII) early manuscript draft

description: Early 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/bodleian2r7v.1
title: Letter: To J W Haines.

description: Thanks J.W. Haines for a typed copy of a poem and for his letters / discusses friends looking for work / asks after a night with Freeman and Robert Frost / discusses poems / adds a final stanza to 'Fire in the Dust' / describes alterations to 'Solace of Men' and 'Twigworth Vicarage' / includes stanzas of 'Toussaints' / promises more corrections soon / says that he would like to give up verse for music / discusses Robert Bridges 'Spirit of Man' / thanks Haines for his criticisms.