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WWI Soldier’s Blog - Letters Posted 90 Years Later
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Thousands are returning to William Henry Bonser “Harry” Lamin’s blog to see when the next letter from this British WWI soldier will reveal. The letters are being posted exactly 90 years after they were written, people returning to read each new letter, wondering when the bitter news of his death will arrive.
Bill Lamin, a 59-year-old IT teacher found his grandfather’s letters when he was a boy, and has now decided to turn them into a blog.
“There are a lot of people saying how keen they are to follow him and are rooting for Harry,” said Bill Lamin.
“They get hooked as if it is happening now. People are rooting for a guy who is in the thick of it.”
This is a great way to make history come alive for a new generation.
The most recent entries from Harry, who served with the Yorkshire and Lancashire Regiment, were on December 30, 1917, after he had moved from the battlefields of northern Europe to Italy.
He thanks his brother, Jack, for the box of biscuits he sent and wishes his sister Kate a happy Christmas and New Year.
Many of the letters are mundane and focus on his wife and child in England, but some offer a glimpse of the horrors of trench warfare that young men faced.
"We have had another terrible time this week," Harry wrote on June 11, 1917, when describing his part in the Battle of Messines Ridge.
"The men here say it was worst (sic) than the Somme advance last July. We lost a lot of men but we got where we were asked to take. It was awful I am alright got buried and knocked about but quite well now and hope to remain so.
"It is a rum job waiting for the time to come to go over the top without any rum too. The C.O. got killed and our captain, marvelous how we escaped."
(news.yahoo)
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