On Saturday evening I received a call from the local hospital to say that
my father, Bill Lamin, passed away peacefully in his sleep. He fought a
long batt...
9 years ago
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About Me
- Pte Harry Lamin
- Born in August 1887 in Awsworth Notts, to Henry and Sarah Lamin. Elder Sisters Catherine (Kate), Mary Esther and Sarah Anne(Annie) and Elder brother John (Jack). Educated at Awsworth Board School, just outside Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England. I served with honour in the 9th Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment seeing front line action in Flanders and Northern Italy from the end of 1916 to January 1920.
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What a fantastic find the War Diary has been. I wasn't aware of such a document until almost a year into the project. After that it became the main source...14 years ago
Hi,
This blog is really good. Keeping me in suspense and great from a historical point of view. Have added it to my favourites.
Here at the Grimsby Wargames Society we play WW1 games frequently and about to make some new terrain for those games.
Good work.
1:34 PM
This has to be one of the more original and ingenious blogs out there. Thank you for coming up with this. As a student of history, there is simply no way to factor the value of the release of the letters 90 years, to the day.
Thanks again for your blog.
7:19 PM
I've just found this fascinating story via the blog Corners of My Mind and have read through it all - appropriate on Remembrance Sunday. My grandfather fought with the 5th & 6th battalion of the Warwickshire Regiment in WW1 but I have never heard or read anything about his experiences so this gives me a small insight into his life. I look forward to reading more.
8:35 PM
Amazing blog. I will keep my eyes peeled for the diaries, and good luck...
10:16 PM
I really enjoy reading this blog. Thank you so much for creating it and letting us read it.
7:18 AM
Hi there, Just found your blog. Fascinating. My Dad is transcribing his father's WWI diaries. I have thought about blogging them when they are done. Here is my grandfather's 11-11-1917 entry:
Sunday, November 11, 1917 Weather: Showers
Were relieved this morning at 9 A,M, Was never so thankful for anything in my life. Was wet thru & coated with mud from head to foot. Returned to billets & turned in for a sleep. Stayed in bed all day. We fired 240 rounds during our twenty-four hours duty This is my twenty-second birthday. Spent my last birthday in England and the one before that in Canada. Where shall I spend the next? I hope in Canada.
10:51 AM
Hi, thanks for your comment on my blog. Re my grandfather being at the same school as yours - I think probably not as by 1891 his direct family had moved from Awsworth to Ilkeston (not many miles away) although his grandparents were still in Awsworth. I have put a photo of him on my family history blog and a link in my post.
I am so pleased to have found you and look forward to following Harry's story.
10:52 AM
This is terrific! I'm linking you to my blog.
1:23 PM
Nice stuff! Even from here, where no war was done, it sounds amazing.
1:28 PM
This is a great idea; however, when there are breaks in the dates, can you please put at the bottom of the post when the next entry will be? I think that would be a great help.
Cheers,
mjc
5:40 PM
What an amazing thing you are doing in your Grandfathers memory! I went back to the beginning and found it so interesting.
My Great Grandad was in that same war and was from the Birmingham area. I have an old portrait photo of him in uniform. You`ve made me want to get it out and have another good look at it and try to imagine what they must have saw. If it`s there, in his eyes.
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1:09 AM
Thanks for this blog
4:06 AM
I knew a WWI veteran when I was a kid, 4-5. He was a man physically and emotionally damaged by his experiences.
I wrote a blog about him at my site about my parents and their experiences in the concentration camps of WWII.
Here's the url:
http://lightning-and-ashes.blogspot.com/2007/11/november-11-1918-day-world-war-i-ended.html
2:56 PM
Bravo! Wonderful use of a Blog! It's a shame that so few people have the insight to educate their readers when it comes to this format.
1:42 AM
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11:51 AM
This is really the most original blog I have ever come across. Very nice work!!!
5:28 PM
This is a fine blog. A great piece of work. For those who would like to know more, I recommend the books of Lyn MacDonald, who wrote about the war in the trenches from the soldiers' perspectives. The Third Battle of Ypres, which lasted from July 31 to November 10 (officially) is one of those perfectly ghastly wastes of human lives called war, and you will note the complete idiocy of FM Haig in pouring men into the mud of the Ypres salient.
Particularly poignant is MacDonald's "The Roses Of No Man's Land", about the women -- and doctors -- who tended to the wounded. The men make the mess, the women clean up after them. Sounds familiar somehow.
8:50 AM
I completely agree with Tallyrand. The works of Lyn MacDonald are unbelievable.
She has a gift for writing in such a way that history shakes itself free of the flatness of facts, and gives us instead the bones and suffering.