cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandznv.2
title: Towards Lillers

description: Typescript with pen corrections in blue and red 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. Some lines of the poem appear in another poem written by Ivory Gurney entitled 'Aeroplanes Over Aubers'. A version similar to this one also appears in an earlier notebook. This version of the poem, with some alterations to punctuation, was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianfog.2
title: Old Martinmas Eve

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. St Martin's Day falls on 11th November. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianivr.2
title: Recruitment and Enlistment During the First World War

description: After enlistment, an army sergeant measures one of a line of new recruits, still in civilian dress, for uniform and kit. Some of the recruits are already wearing army caps. In the foreground, a man sits at a sewing machine, ready to make any adjustments to the uniforms.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj2ga.2
title: The Send-Off

description: Drafted in April-May 1918 at Ripon and revised at Scarborough in July 1918. This is no. 165 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj7mq.2
title: Anthem for Doomed Youth

description: Includes corrections made by Owen and Sassoon. This is no. 96 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjby7.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Describes journey to Lydd with unit / countryside / firing of guns / dining and accommodation / fellow officers and men.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjfsc.2
title: Contrasts

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Ivor Gurney and Scott collaborated over the poem in numerous letters. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjgnt.2
title: Towards Lillers

description: Typescript with pen corrections in blue and red 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. Some lines of the poem appear in another poem written by Ivory Gurney entitled 'Aeroplanes Over Aubers'. A version similar to this one also appears in an earlier notebook. This version of the poem, with some alterations to punctuation, was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjlqf.2
title: Hospital wards in Oxford

description: Ward in the School Magna Borealis and Magna Australio used as a hospital for wounded soldier.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjuth.2
title: Thiepval Memorial

description: The Thiepval Memorial commemorates almost 73,000 soldiers who died on the Somme battlefields between July 1915 and 20th March 1918 who have no known grave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiankwk.2
title: The Parable of the Old Man and the Young

description: This is no. 166 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrdyz.2
title: Thiepval Memorial

description: The Thiepval Memorial commemorates almost 73,000 soldiers who died on the Somme battlefields between July 1915 and 20th March 1918 who have no known grave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian21q6.2
title: The Chances

description: Drafted in August-September 1917 at Craiglockhart, revised at Scarborough in July 1918. This is a 1918 copy. No. 164 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian23cr.2
title: American troops

description: Shown saluting at the foot of the Statue of Alfred the Great.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian24gm.2
title: Unknown Poem

description: Typescript in red and black ink with pen corrections in black ink. Prepared by Marion Scott. This fragment does not appear in any editions of Ivor Gurney's poetry.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ada.2
title: The Old City (Gloucester)

description: Typescript prepared by Marion Scott. Another draft of the poem appears in a previous notebook. This version was included in in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). Manuscript drafts of the poem exist in letters from Ivor Gurney to Marion Scott dating from 15 July and 22 July 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2goy.2
title: Dulce et Decorum Est

description: Written at Craiglockhart in the first half of October 1917, and revised at Scarborough or possibly Ripon in January-March 1918. This is no. 144 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2h63.2
title: Women of the Forestry Corps

description: Measuring and cross-cutting props for dugouts.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2jfy.2
title: Private: Stone Etching

description: On the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France which commemorates almost 73,000 soldiers who died on the Somme battlefields between July 1915 and 20th March 1918 who have no known grave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2pgp.2
title: The Fire Kindled

description: Manuscript in pen in an unidentified hand. Mentioned in two letters of 3rd February 1917 to Marion Scott. Included in 'Severn and Somme' (1917).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2uba.2
title: Thiepval Memorial

description: The Thiepval Memorial commemorates almost 73,000 soldiers who died on the Somme battlefields between July 1915 and 20th March 1918 who have no known grave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2v89.2
title: Rembrance items at the Thiepval Memorial

description: The Thiepval Memorial commemorates almost 73,000 soldiers who died on the Somme battlefields between July 1915 and 20th March 1918 who have no known grave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2xr9.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Relates that Edward Thomas is not one of the men chosen to go abroad immediately / preference for going out as a battery as opposed to singly and discussion with officer of this / desire not to be sent out with another officer / training at camp / likelihood of Christmas leave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian61np.2
title: The Sentry

description: Work on this poem began in August-October 1917 at Craiglockhart, and continued in May 1918 at Scarborough and in France in September 1918. This is no. 175 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian67w6.2
title: The Old City (Gloucester)

description: Typescript prepared by Marion Scott. Another draft of the poem appears in a previous notebook. This version was included in in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). Manuscript drafts of the poem exist in letters from Ivor Gurney to Marion Scott dating from 15 July and 22 July 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian68zw.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6axw.2
title: Wooden crosses bearing poppies

description: Wooden crosses bearing poppies left as a symbol of remembrance at the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. The Thiepval Memorial commemorates almost 73,000 soldiers who died on the Somme battlefields between July 1915 and 20th March 1918 who have no known grave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6jhc.2
title: To Y

description: Manuscript in black pen with corrections in blue ink, signed 'Ivor Gurney'. From manuscript notebook 'GA1'. Written while Gurney was either at Barnwood House asylum, Gloucester (September-December 1922) or Stone House, Dartford, Kent (the City of London Mental Hospital where Gurney stayed from December 1922 until his death). Appears in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6m82.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Relates that Edward Thomas is not one of the men chosen to go abroad immediately / preference for going out as a battery as opposed to singly and discussion with officer of this / desire not to be sent out with another officer / training at camp / likelihood of Christmas leave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6nlh.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Discusses potential for leave or immediate deployment / upcoming examination / performance at firing / Bronwen's health / desire to come home on Sunday with a friend / Helen Thomas' eggs.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6uaq.2
title: American Troops

description: Silhouette, troops on the roof of a Nissen hut.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6wjs.2
title: Munitions Township, Gretna Green

description: Extension of the Presbyterian Church.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6y1h.2
title: The Fire Kindled

description: Manuscript in pen in an unidentified hand. Mentioned in two letters of 3rd February 1917 to Marion Scott. Included in 'Severn and Somme' (1917).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6zif.2
title: The Fire Kindled

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Mentioned in two letters of 3rd February 1917 to Marion Scott. Included in 'Severn and Somme' (1917).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian83i8.2
title: Spring Offensive

description: This is no. 177 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian881e.2
title: Swift and Slow

description: Typescript with one pencil correction in an unknown hand. Signed 'Ivor Gurney'. Prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Another draft of this poem exists in another notebook.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8eb8.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Relates that Edward Thomas is not one of the men chosen to go abroad immediately / preference for going out as a battery as opposed to singly and discussion with officer of this / desire not to be sent out with another officer / training at camp / likelihood of Christmas leave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8iia.2
title: The Fire Kindled

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Mentioned in two letters of 3rd February 1917 to Marion Scott. Included in 'Severn and Somme' (1917).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8lag.2
title: Women in the First World War

description: A signal woman operating levers in a railway signal box.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8o48.2
title: Thiepval Memorial

description: The Thiepval Memorial commemorates almost 73,000 soldiers who died on the Somme battlefields between July 1915 and 20th March 1918 who have no known grave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8rnn.2
title: The Sentry

description: Work on this poem began in August-October 1917 at Craiglockhart, and continued in May 1918 at Scarborough and in France in September 1918. This is no. 175 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8sly.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Discusses potential for leave or immediate deployment / upcoming examination / performance at firing / Bronwen's health / desire to come home on Sunday with a friend / Helen Thomas' eggs.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8tw1.2
title: To Y

description: Manuscript in black pen with corrections in blue ink, signed 'Ivor Gurney'. From manuscript notebook 'GA1'. Written while Gurney was either at Barnwood House asylum, Gloucester (September-December 1922) or Stone House, Dartford, Kent (the City of London Mental Hospital where Gurney stayed from December 1922 until his death). Appears in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian9x6.2
title: The Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) 31 July-10 November 1917

description: Three derelict British tanks.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianbgn.2
title: The Fire Kindled

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Mentioned in two letters of 3rd February 1917 to Marion Scott. Included in 'Severn and Somme' (1917).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand1cn.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Relates that Edward Thomas is not one of the men chosen to go abroad immediately / preference for going out as a battery as opposed to singly and discussion with officer of this / desire not to be sent out with another officer / training at camp / likelihood of Christmas leave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand223.2
title: Toussaints

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Exists in another fair copy dated 'St Albans September 1918'. Ivor Gurney asked Marion Scott's opinion of the poem in a letter of September 1918. Written while Gurney was a patient at Middlesex War Hospital. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand4tn.2
title: Thiepval Memorial Cemetery

description: The  cemetery at the rear of the Thiepval Memorial contains both British and French burials - 300 of each - to commemorate the joint Anglo-French Somme action.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandl2i.2
title: Exposure

description: Begun in Scarborough in December 1917 and revised there in early 1918. Completed in September 1918 in France. This is no. 174 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandn7r.2
title: Down Commercial Road [Gloucester]

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Various versions of the poem exists in the small black notebook 64.5.7 and from a fair copy made by Ivor Gurney dated 'Warrington July 1918'. Written while Gurney was a patient at Lord Derby's War Hospital. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandyms.2
title: Signallers

description: Manuscript in blue ink with corrections in black pen, signed 'Ivor Gurney'. From manuscript notebook 'GA1'. Written while Gurney was either at Barnwood House asylum, Gloucester (September-December 1922) or Stone House, Dartford, Kent (the City of London Mental Hospital where Gurney stayed from December 1922 until his death). Appears in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandzzu.2
title: Royal Army Clothing Department

description: Men workers wearing various types of uniform.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj627.2
title: Beauty

description: Typescript prepared by Marion Scott. Dedicated to 'H.N. Howells', a friend of Ivor Gurney's.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjgza.2
title: The Woman Postman

description: On bicycle, clearing the pillar box.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjomb.2
title: Signallers

description: Manuscript in blue ink with corrections in black pen, signed 'Ivor Gurney'. From manuscript notebook 'GA1'. Written while Gurney was either at Barnwood House asylum, Gloucester (September-December 1922) or Stone House, Dartford, Kent (the City of London Mental Hospital where Gurney stayed from December 1922 until his death). Appears in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjqtp.2
title: Poppies at the Thiepval Memorial

description: The Thiepval Memorial commemorates almost 73,000 soldiers who died on the Somme battlefields between July 1915 and 20th March 1918 who have no known grave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianju29.2
title: The Dead-Beat

description: Begun on 22 August 1917 at Craiglockhart; eight lines were included (and probably adapted for) Owen's editorial in The Hydra no. 10 (1 September 1917). The poem was revised in March-May 1918 at Ripon. This is no. 146 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjv72.2
title: Turmut-Hoeing

description: Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Exists in numerous drafts without change. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianlbu.2
title: Thiepval Memorial

description: The Thiepval Memorial commemorates almost 73,000 soldiers who died on the Somme battlefields between July 1915 and 20th March 1918 who have no known grave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiann8i.2
title: Poppies at the Thiepval Memorial

description: The Thiepval Memorial commemorates almost 73,000 soldiers who died on the Somme battlefields between July 1915 and 20th March 1918 who have no known grave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianodu.2
title: Memory, let all slip

description: Typescript prepared by Marion Scott. Signed 'Ivor Gurney / Bangour October 1917'. Another draft of the poem appears in a previous notebook. This version was included in in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). Manuscript drafts of the poem exist in letters from Ivor Gurney to Marion Scott dating from 8 October and 16 October 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianre4w.2
title: Spring Offensive

description: This is no. 177 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianuri.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Describes leave at weekend / potential to be sent abroad in the near future / Christmas leave being given only to men likely to be posted abroad very soon.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianvck.2
title: Women at Work on the Home Front During the First World War, Hammersmith, London

description: Eight female painters at work on various sections of the exterior of the District Railway, Hammersmith. They are all painting at different levels, with some on scaffolding and ladders and one lying on the floor.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianyux.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Discusses potential for leave or immediate deployment / upcoming examination / performance at firing / Bronwen's health / desire to come home on Sunday with a friend / Helen Thomas' eggs.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianzo5.2
title: Dulce et Decorum Est

description: Written at Craiglockhart in the first half of October 1917, and revised at Scarborough or possibly Ripon in January-March 1918. This is no. 144 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian24x8.2
title: Comrades in Arms on the Training Ground

description: Soldiers in training.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian257e.2
title: Medical Services in Britain 1914-1918

description: Making an artificial leg for a wounded serviceman at Roehampton Hospital in Surrey.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian26e8.2
title: Song at Morning

description: Manuscript in pen in an Marion Scott's hand. An unfinished pencil draft exists in the red manuscript notebook 52.7. Ivor Gurney discusses the poem with Scott in letters dating from 27th June and 29th September 1917. Included in 'Severn and Somme' (1917).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2e6.2
title: Song at Morning

description: Manuscript in pen in an Marion Scott's hand. An unfinished pencil draft exists in the red manuscript notebook 52.7. Ivor Gurney discusses the poem with Scott in letters dating from 27th June and 29th September 1917. Included in 'Severn and Somme' (1917).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2feo.2
title: Poppies in field
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2oum.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Discusses idea of spending one night in London with parents and shopping prior to visit home during leave / possibly visiting with editors / firing practice / state of his hut / gifts for children.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2qek.2
title: S.I.W.

description: Drafted in September 1917 at Craiglockhart and revised in May 1918 at Ripon. This is no. 155 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2sa9.2
title: The Poets of My County

description: Typescript with notations in pencil, prepared by Marion Scott. Written while Gurney was either at Barnwood House asylum, Gloucester (September-December 1922) or Stone House, Dartford, Kent (the City of London Mental Hospital where Gurney stayed from December 1922 until his death). Manuscript drafts found in the notebook 'GA 45457' entitled 'Best Poems'. Allusions to poets F.W. Harvey, John Masefield, Lascelles Abercrombie, John Taylor, W.W. Gibson, W.H. Davies and W.E. Henley. A version was included in the edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published by Leonard Clark in 1973.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian35m.2
title: List of Contents

description: Verso of one of Owen's lists of contents for proposed book Disabled and Other Poems. Included in Appendix B of ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian4eo.2
title: S.I.W.

description: Drafted in September 1917 at Craiglockhart and revised in May 1918 at Ripon. This is no. 155 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian67sp.2
title: The 9th East Surrey's at St. Waast.

description: Group photo.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian697n.2
title: S.I.W.

description: Drafted in September 1917 at Craiglockhart and revised in May 1918 at Ripon. This is no. 155 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6by2.2
title: The Silent One

description: Typescript prepared by Marion Scott. Written while Gurney was either at Barnwood House asylum, Gloucester (September-December 1922) or Stone House, Dartford, Kent (the City of London Mental Hospital where Gurney stayed from December 1922 until his death). Manuscript drafts found in the notebook 'GA 45457' entitled 'Best Poems'. Other shorter drafts also exist in various notebooks. A version was included in the Edmund Blunden edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published in 1954 as well as the version published by Leonard Clark in 1973, as well as P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6dr7.2
title: Private Harry Farr, Thiepval Memorial

description: Private Harry Farr suffered from Shell Shock and was sentenced to death by firing squad for cowardice. He is commemorated on The Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6jd9.2
title: Medicine During the First World War: Medical Transport

description: A tug towing a hospital barge down a canal in north west France.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6qp6.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Describes potential to be posted without leave / cancellation of Christmas leave / uncertainty over who will be sent where / useful Christmas gifts.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6s32.2
title: Chapel, The Ulster Tower

description: A small chapel inside the Ulster Tower containing a number of paintings and plaques from the various towns and boroughs of Northern Ireland. Built as a copy of the tower that the men had trained under at Clandeboyes in Northern Ireland, the tower marks the site of the Schwaben redoubt against which the men of Ulster advanced on 1 July 1916.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian811y.2
title: Recompense

description: Typescript prepared by Marion Scott. Gurney dated the transcript to October 1917 when he was spending time at the Bangour War Hospital. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian81c8.2
title: Butchers and Tombs

description: Typescript prepared by Marion Scott. No manuscript survives. Included in a set entitled 'Memoires of Honour'. Written while Gurney was either at Barnwood House asylum, Gloucester (September-December 1922) or Stone House, Dartford, Kent (the City of London Mental Hospital where Gurney stayed from December 1922 until his death). Included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian84p1.2
title: Letter: To Helen Thomas.

description: Describes potential to be posted without leave / cancellation of Christmas leave / uncertainty over who will be sent where / useful Christmas gifts.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian88di.2
title: Medicine During the First World War: Medical Transport

description: The interior of a hospital barge showing how the cargo hold has been converted into a functioning ward.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8g3r.2
title: The Ulster Tower

description: Built as a copy of the tower that the men had trained under at Clandeboyes in Northern Ireland, the tower marks the site of the Schwaben redoubt against which the men of Ulster advanced on 1 July 1916.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8m7c.2
title: S.I.W.

description: The image shows the poem's epigraph, lines from Yeats's 'The King's Threshold'. This is no. 155 in ed. 'The Complete Poems and Fragments'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8qyr.2
title: Of Grandcourt

description: Typescript with some notations in pencil in an unknown hand. Written while Gurney was either at Barnwood House asylum, Gloucester (September-December 1922) or Stone House, Dartford, Kent (the City of London Mental Hospital where Gurney stayed from December 1922 until his death). Prepared by Marion Scott, and initially included in manuscript notebook 'GA 45457' titled 'Best Poems'. Included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8tsn.2
title: Canal du Nord

description: Civilians and British soldier at the destroyed railway bridge over the canal.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ww9.2
title: Strafe

description: Manuscript in pen in an Marion Scott's hand. Also found in the red notebook 52.7 and sent in a letter of 11th June 1917 to Scott. Included in 'Severn and Somme' (1917).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand2sg.2
title: I Saw French Once

description: Typescript prepared by Marion Scott. Published in 'The London Mercury' in 1933. Included in the Edmund Blunden edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published in 1954 as well as the version published by Leonard Clark in 1973. Included in the Appendix to P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).