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| 22nd July; More on Messines Ridge I need to let the reader know that we have a gap in the letters. I don't think that Harry didn't write any, I suspect that a small bundle was lost or removed. I know that this is slightly against the spirit of the blog, but the family at home would probably have had the comfort of letters.
I have, thanks to a helpful reader, found the location of Harry's Unit for this battle. It would appear [..] |
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| Jack, Harry's brother. 25th June
Jack
I have just realised that we haven?t introduced Jack, Harry?s brother, the recipient of around half the letters.
John Ernest (Jack) Lamin was born in 1870 to Henry Lamin.. He was considerably older than Harry.
By the 1901 census he was an elementary schoolmaster living in Oxford. Harry is recorded as staying with him. Oxford is mentioned in quite a few of the letters so Harry [..] |
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| Letters resume - Harry wounded. To get an idea of Harry's situation in the grand scheme of things, it is worth following the link to the Battalion's War Diary.
As you can read in today's letter, Harry is in C Company. Their movements are mentioned from time to time in the Dairy. It may help to put Harry's letters into context if the dates are considered.
September 23rd 1917. Dear Jack I have received your letter and I [..] |
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| Characters in Harry's letters Time to meet some of the characters that you will come across in Harry's letters....
ETHEL . This is Harry's wife. They married in March 1914 in a civil ceremony in a Registry Office in Basford, a suburb of Nottingham. Harry's Occupation was recorded as a Lacemaker, Ethel a spinster.
The two were married a few months before the outbreak of the war.
WILLIE is their son. He was born in March [..] |
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| Please be patient There is a gap in the letters at the moment which I can't explain. Maybe there was a small bundle that was lost. I just don't know. Maybe Harry had a leave during this time and so didn't write letters. All I can do in this gap is to keep you up to date with his Unit's War Diary. We can see from that that Harry is not seeing too much action. I can reassure you that he is O.K. and will continue [..] |
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| Harry's letters about Battle of Messines Ridge June 11th /1917
?. Dear Jack
I was very pleased to hear from you and that you are going on all right I have been to the place you mentioned in your letter we went there for our bath about a fortnight ago. The part of the line and we are in is straight forward so you will know where I am. We have had another terrible time this week the men here say it was worst than the Somme advance last July. [..] |
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| Battle Of Menin Road, 20th September 1917 This was a major offensive in the 3rd battle of Ypres. The attack started at 5.40 A.M. Harry's battalion were in the second wave of troops supporting the attack. The careful planning of General Plumer, that had ensured success at Messines Ridge two months earlier, delivered some initial success this time.
This is now part of the dreadful Passchendaele experience - stalemate in the Flanders mud [..] |
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| War Diaries August 1917 I am almost apologising for not having letters to post. (Almost but not quite!)
The reality is, of course, that I can't publish letters that I don't possess or don't exist.
I have transcribed the War Diary of Harry's Battalion. It can be seen that, for the month of August 1917, the 9th Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment saw little action. They spent their time in various camps in the Ypres ( [..] |
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| Aditional letter to Jack This is a letter that was included in the bundle of Harry's letters. As it is contemporaneous with Harry's and, clearly, has some link, I have included it.
No 11/1141, No 4 platoon A Coy, B.E.F. France May 30th 1917 Dear Sir, You?re kind and welcome letter dated May 22 to hand and many thanks for your interest in me. It certainly set me thinking at first until I read further [..] |
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| The Front Line It can be seen from the Battalion's War Diary that today, 29th September 1917, Harry's platoon moves to the front line, relieving the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, completing the move at about 10 P.M.
Even after reading the letters many times and working on this material for months, I get an involuntary shiver when I think of Harry in these situations. I hope that the reader can share a [..] |
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| Training Camp 1917 As you may have realised, there were no other letters from the training camp that were preserved.
It sounds, from the first letter, that Harry had just arrived at Rugeley camp and so we could work out roughly how long the training lasted at that time.
In 1914, at the start of the war, training was planned to take around eight months for an infantryman like Harry. By the spring of 1917, this had [..] |
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| Battle of Messines Ridge June 8th 1917 was a significant day for Harry.
For the last 18 days and nights there has been continuous heavy bombardment of the German Lines.
At 0250 the bombardment stopped and Harry and his colleagues were ordered to lie down.
A 0310 the largest man-made explosion to date blew apart the German front lines at Messines Ridge. 450 tonnes of high explosive, in 19 mines, was detonated. The [..] |
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| Letters to Kate and Jack TWO letters written on Sunday 30th December 1917. The Battalion's War Diary records only that there was a church parade on that day, so he would have had the time to write. Reminder, the days in 1917 match 2007 so the 30th December was a Sunday for Harry also.
December 30 1917
32507 9th Batt York and Lancs
C Company
12 platoon L. G. section
BEF Italy Dear Kate I have received a letter from [..] |
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| Link to readings of letters 15th June 1917
The following audio files are now available .
BBC "Five Live" interview with Harry's grandson.
BBC World Service broadcast about the Blog
Harry's Grandson reading a letter to brother Jack after Messines Ridge
Harry's Grandson reading a letter to sister Kate after MessinesRidge
There will also be scans of the original letters appearing on the blog soon.
There is an RSS feed on [..] |
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