tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31636059.post1278702453387508936..comments2023-06-05T16:00:41.868+01:00Comments on WW1: Experiences of an English Soldier: Other Soldiers' WebsitesPte Harry Laminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04673086195442900581noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31636059.post-46146685424353592552009-08-13T08:32:13.305+01:002009-08-13T08:32:13.305+01:00Thank you very much for the great support you are ...Thank you very much for the great support you are giving my own project. It is greatly appreciated.<br />With the help of friends i will be able to present my diary in english and in french.<br />Let´s start 12th september !Dieter Finzenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06564917834898528473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31636059.post-416959989133582682009-08-03T19:05:06.092+01:002009-08-03T19:05:06.092+01:00Hello Harry:
Thanks so much for your Honorable Men...Hello Harry:<br />Thanks so much for your Honorable Mention. It is greatly appreciated. Soldier's Mail is also coming together as a book, but as with the rest of this war, you Tommies are ahead of us Yanks in the job and there's still more to do. We've just sent the Hun packing but I've ended up in the hospital into the bargain. Italian food would be good right now. Stop by and read when you can. <br /><br />Regards,<br />SamSgt Sam Averyhttp://worldwar1letters.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31636059.post-5083675926978525802009-08-02T08:04:21.615+01:002009-08-02T08:04:21.615+01:00So everyone else is posting, but Harry hasn't ...So everyone else is posting, but Harry hasn't sent any messages for some time.<br />I realise that his present existence in Italy is fairly comfortable, but we KNOW that he wants to come home to Derbyshire.<br />Any hints on that front, at all?G. Tingeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31636059.post-24639796508940010962009-08-01T18:06:51.213+01:002009-08-01T18:06:51.213+01:00Someone has posted a comment on the Dieter Finzen ...Someone has posted a comment on the Dieter Finzen blog asking if Sven plans to make it available in English.<br /><br />That struck me as an excellent idea, so that the view from the other side could be accessible to more people - including Harry's fans who will at some point in the future find themselves without their regular history fix! But it could involve a lot of work, and while I'd love to contribute I couldn't promise a dependable service. So I've followed this up with a suggestion to Sven that it might be possible for him to set up a "Wiki translation": anyone who speaks both German and English could offer at least summaries or rough translations, which would spread the workload, and other members of the community could provide revisions, explanations of German military terminology etc.Roger O'Keeffenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31636059.post-48679969137295642322009-07-28T16:07:07.841+01:002009-07-28T16:07:07.841+01:00Thank you for this information!
I only know WW1 ...Thank you for this information! <br /><br />I only know WW1 from the stories that my grandmother has told; she was 7 years old in 1914. I remember that she told a lot about the food sitation back then, 900.000 civilians perished from starvation during the war. Her father served in Verdun and he was wounded. He never could speak about the war after he had returned.<br />So this account will be very valable to compare what the average soldiers worries were on both sides.Thomas A.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31636059.post-53719609681708912372009-07-28T10:36:39.057+01:002009-07-28T10:36:39.057+01:00And it was interesting to see that they had a pict...And it was interesting to see that they had a picture of our Harry in The Mail on Sunday, saying it was Harry Patch in his teens!<br /><br />LindaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31636059.post-21256016066088844812009-07-27T12:23:17.185+01:002009-07-27T12:23:17.185+01:00I have been following this post for years now and ...I have been following this post for years now and thought we should take notice of the death of Harry Patch. Patch was the last British survior of WWI and passed away over the week-end at the age of 111. Records show the last WWI survior to be Frank Buckles (ambulance driver in France) of Charlestown, West Virginia-USA, age 108. It is great to know that their stories are circulating around the world and will last for many more years to come.Kenneth Nallnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31636059.post-24213832669656574872009-07-26T20:53:39.802+01:002009-07-26T20:53:39.802+01:00thanks for inspiring others! this is invaluable ...thanks for inspiring others! this is invaluable material that people have in their private collections. i'm glad it is being brought to light after all these years!Gretchen H., USAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31636059.post-4434760365299106842009-07-26T04:33:41.498+01:002009-07-26T04:33:41.498+01:00I've got to say the Dieter Finzen blog sounds ...I've got to say the Dieter Finzen blog sounds pretty interesting: I never got to know my great-grandfather or had a chance to ask him what it was like to serve, 1914-1918, as an infantry sgt. in the Kaiser's army --- perhaps I can get just a timy glimpse of what he experienced through Dieter's eyes. (I do have a pretty good idea what it was like for German civilians at home: thank goodness my grandfather was, occasionally, quite talkative about his childhood and the family's homefront wartime tribulations.)<br />But mostly, I'm STILL waiting for our Harry to make it home!<br />-Gustav's great-granddaughterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31636059.post-46996995285194430842009-07-25T15:25:01.651+01:002009-07-25T15:25:01.651+01:00"I also had some problems with the spatial co..."I also had some problems with the spatial configuration of the Western Front. Fixed in my head is a front line that runs from top to bottom with the offensive taking place from left to right. I couldn't adjust, mentally, to the German viewpoint, attacking from right to left. Very strange."<br /><br />I am a Swiss reader and just realized that I have the same problem. I guess this is a perfect example how history is made and viewed by the victors.<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />ParcivalParcivalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02429784880868009706noreply@blogger.com