10.5287/BODLEIAN2FBJ.2
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University Of Oxford
University Of Oxford
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
The Miner
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
Dataset
1917-01-01/1918-12-31
2011-11-30 23:41:37.659293
2011
ww1-7126
Leaf
Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. From the 'Hospital Pictures' series. A draft version exists in the black manuscript notebook 52.1. Ivor Gurney included a copy of the poem in letters of 24th November 1917 and 3rd January 1918 to Scott. The miner has been identified as Pte T Evans, discussed in a letter of 26th December 1917 to Scott. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).