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Jan 14 2008
11:08 pm
Blogging WWI - 90 Years Later
By: redmondkr

William Henry Bonser Lamin was born in Awsworth Notts, Derbyshire, England in 1887. He fought in the 9th Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment during World War I and sent many letters home documenting his experiences.

Now those letters are being published in the form of a blog. Each is being posted exactly ninety years after it was written.
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That is cool

Submitted by lovable liberal on Tue, 2008/01/15 - 12:02am.

I've always thought that a good way to learn recent history would be to live it with a daily newspaper, compressing it, say, to a week per day. Think of all the good questions that would spawn, sort of a scripture-reading model but more Talmudic than homiletic.

Liberty and justice for all.

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The companion blog, the

Submitted by edens on Tue, 2008/01/15 - 1:22am.

The companion blog, the battalion war diaries, are interesting, too.

(link...)

They took quite a beating at Passchendaele.

Lucked out on the transfer to Italy, though, and missed the German Michael offensive in the spring of '18.

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