Preliminary Guide to the Great War Collection
Preliminary Guide to the Great War Collection, ca. 1910-1922 [bulk dates 1914-1918]
Collection number: Bernath Mss 20
Department of Special CollectionsDavidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Processed by:
- Preliminary arrangement and description by D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
- Dec. 20, 2007
- Latest revision:
- April 15, 2013
- Encoded by:
- A. Demeter
Individual / Unit Papers and Records
Scope and Content Note
Boyes, Bedford W. - 1st Division Circus
Breuer, Greg
Crossman, Ernest (Sgt., 2nd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment) - diaries, Sept. 1914-Dec. 1916
Gerrard, T. F.
Grounds, Noel B. C. B.
Heckert, Sidney F., Jr.
Hopper, Harry J.
Kerr, Hume Victor
Kiggell, J.
MacDonnell [Lady] - see also: oversize scrapbook
Pickering, Percy - postcards with messages
Richardson, A. (2nd Lt., "B" Battery, 157th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, 35th Division) - diary, May 1917-Nov. 1918
Royal Air Force, 47th Balloon Section
Documents
Scope and Content Note
Photographs
Loose (foldered)
Official British Photos
Airplanes, Paratroopers, and Balloons - 23 images
Carrier Pigeons - 9 images
Mesopotamian Campaign - 81 images of Iraq (Ramadie, Baghdad, countryside), Jebel Hamarin, signal corps, artillery, dressing stations for wounded, captured Turkish positions and prisoners, Indian troops, cavalry, camel transport
Nurses and Hospitals - 5 images
Western Front - 228 images of trenches, battlefields, cavalry, destroyed buildings, artillery, troops on the move, mule transport, German prisoners, casualties, wounded and hospitals
Women - 17 images Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (baking, tending gardens and graves), British First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Ambulance-car drivers, and French laundresses)
Aerial Views - 90 images, mainly of France and Italy
German Southwest Africa Campaign (Ovamboland) - 20 images, including artillery and mule transport, Camel Corps, countryside, German families being returned home, and German government offices at Windhoek, 1915-1917
Imperial German Navy, ca. 1910-1914 - 14 images of warships
Panoramic Views - 13 images, mainly places in Italy, such as Asiago
R.N.A.S. - 27 images, including convoys, seaplanes, surrendered German submarines, Portsmouth Harbour
Smith, H. B. - 120+ personal photos and postcards (some dupes), mostly Germany and France
Versailles and Paris - 31 images, Allied leaders meeting at Palace of Versailles to decide the peace settlement ending World War I
Miscellany - 8 images, most apparently in Italy, including parade grounds, 1919
Albums
Anzac (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps soldiers who landed on Gallipoli Peninsula) - 49 images, 1915
Egypt? (possibly south, west, or even Sudan) - 30 images, most in desert-like terrain, with camels, armored and other vehicles, troops on the march, and oases
Egypt and Palestine - 47 images, incl. Pyramids, Deir el Belah, and Waddi Chuzzi, 1917
Egypt and Palestine - 33 images, incl. Siwa oasis, Egypt; and photo w/ caption indicating River Jordan), n.d.
England - 2 albums, 90+ images, 1st Royal Wilts Yeomanry, (training and sporting events at Forest Row, Redhill, and possibly elsewhere), 1914-1915
England - 48 images, British unit, apparently training at Eastleigh, Cranbury Park, Farnham, Maidstone, 1915-1918
Mesopotamian Campaign - 25 photos and postcards, British and Punjabi troops advancing on Turkish positions at Shaykh Sa'd, Am-el-Henna, Falluja, Amara, and on the Tigris, Jan-Apr. 1916
Middle East - 117 images and map of Iraq, incl. Samarra, Jift, Basra and Baghdad, ca. 1917-1918
U.S.S. Matsonia - 23 postcards, views at sea and in France
Panoramic Views - 8 large photos, some with more than 1 image, Italy, 1918
Picture Postcards (mainly in sets, some duplicates)
Albert
Arras
Battle of the Marne
Bethune
Camrin
Cemeteries / Graves
Collection Photo Antony d'Ypres
Campagne de 1914-1917
European War 1914-1917
Gonnehem
Guerre 1914
Guerre 1914-1916
La Guerre 1914-17
La Guerre dans le Nord
Halifax
Lens
Mesopotamia (Iraq)
Noeux-les-Mines
Paris
Reims
Service des Sites de la Guerre 1914-18
Ships
Soldiers/Sailors, Camps and Hospitals
Tanks and Artillery
Verdun
Vermelles
Ypres
Zeebrugge
Miscellany
Scrapbooks
British newspapers
July 1914-Feb. 1916
Feb. 1916-May 1917
May 1917-July 1918
Aug. 1918-Mar. 1919
Zeebrugge - one scrapbook, clippings from British newspapers, 1918-1919
Battle Plans and Maps
Printed Material
Scope and Content Note
"Appeal to the Nation for Thrift," 1915
Belgian Curiosities of War, No. 6
"The Brotherhood of St. Andrew in England and Scotland, Week of Prayer, May 9-15, 1915"
Bulletin de la Ligue Antiallemande, 1 Apr. 1915
Christ and the Wounded, 4th ed., 1914
Church Monthly, n.d.
Convoy Call, 1916
"Directions to those who take part in the Day and Night Watch of Intercession" - St. Paul's Cathedral, Dec. 17, 1914
"A Form of Intercession with Almighty God, on Behalf of his Majesty's Naval and Military Forces now Engaged in War," 1914
"Un Glorieux Anniversaire: La Bataille de l'Yser," 16-31 Oct. 1914
Krieg dem Kriege, ca. 1919
The League of the Spiritual War, 1915
"Ligue Antiallemande: Association économique Française et Coloniale"
Lloyd George, David - "La Guerra Europea ...," 1914
"London Territorials and the War," ca. 1915
McCrae, John - privately printed memorial, 1918
"Manifest van Leiders en Vertegenwoordigers van Vlaamsche Genootschappen tegen het 'Activisme'," 1918
Marston, R. St. Clair - "Modern Belgium"
The Ministry of Healing
Official Souvenir Program of the Victory Parades - 1st Division, U.S.A., Sept. 1919
Passelcq, Fernand - Pages d'Histoire, 1914-1916
Patriots and People, 1917
"Protestation," 1918
Pro Patria, ca. 1915
"Les publications clandestines en Belgique occupée"
"Prayers Ordered by His Eminence Cardinal Bourne, to be recited daily at every Mass during the War"
Quarterly Paper of Intercession and Thanksgiving for the Church's Work Abroad, 2nd Quarter, 1915
Reed, Edward T. - "The Trumpet and the Battle, or, the Kikuyu Conference: What Will It Lead to?" ca. 1914
Rutten, R. P. - "Le Triomphe Moral de la Belgique," 1916
St. Paul's Cathedral - "A Form of Prayer to be used at a Memorial Service," May 10, 1915
Schooling, Hartley - "Vision. War Savings: Present and Future," 1916
"Souvenir Album of the Great European War," 1914
Sumner, Lord - "Permanent Thrift or Perpetual Waste"
"Syndicat d'Initiative du Forez," 1914
Timbertown Follies
"Le traite des blanc organisée par l'Allemagne en Belgique occupée," 1916
War Songs, 1914
Westminster Abbey - "Service of Intercession," Feb. 1916
Woods, Edward S. - "On Service," ca. 1914
Miscellany
Belgian Deportations
De Dinkum Dope - "The Impertinent unofficial organ of the 24th Bn. A.I.F."
Gallipoli and France, 1915-1919 (typescript account)
Newspapers - Placerville, CA (2 issues), 1917
Permit Book
Polish Information Committee
Religion / Churches
Ribbon
Songs of the Great War
Souvenirs and Programmes
Oversize - Boxed
Scrapbooks
German Prisoners of War in Great Britain - one scrapbook and some loose material, incl. correspondence, drawings, camp newspapers and other publications, ca. 1914-1918
Germany - two British scrapbooks, much relating to Cologne, with some other parts of Germany, France, and Belgium, mainly containing picture postcards, some photos, clippings and ephemera, 1919
MacDonnell, [Lady] Anne - British presentation scrapbook, with correspondence, photos, clippings, programs, and other ephemera, ca. 1914-1922
"Souvenir in Commemoration" series