tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410794479676555766.post2837651135415215089..comments2024-01-27T21:24:29.597+11:00Comments on Strong Foundations: Letter Home from the FrontSharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06636761469099608281noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410794479676555766.post-50681090926144658592014-08-21T19:04:36.442+10:002014-08-21T19:04:36.442+10:00Thank you Sherri. I agree that he was putting on ...Thank you Sherri. I agree that he was putting on a show for his father, especially knowing the problems that he had when he returned.Sharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06636761469099608281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410794479676555766.post-35212858085835341492014-08-21T06:49:03.316+10:002014-08-21T06:49:03.316+10:00A heart breaking letter. Even though Bob almost jo...A heart breaking letter. Even though Bob almost joked or bragged about the bayoneting, it is plain to me that he was only showing false bravado to his father. "I'm a man, Dad. I can take it." Good luck on your project. It sounds like a worthy one.Sherrihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03991552526356988301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410794479676555766.post-53581431146512701372014-08-19T21:50:11.789+10:002014-08-19T21:50:11.789+10:00Thank you Alex. Now to get the time to do it!
No...Thank you Alex. Now to get the time to do it!<br /><br />No the Honour Avenue (trees) wasn't just deceased soldiers as Robert (Bob) made it home and he has a tree planted. Suppose I will work it out when I have completed my research :)Sharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06636761469099608281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410794479676555766.post-65250891965641892852014-08-19T21:41:20.796+10:002014-08-19T21:41:20.796+10:00When I decided to research the other boys named in...When I decided to research the other boys named in the letter, I found it very sad that beside Bob, only one of the other boys mentioned made it home. Very sad. I have promised myself that one day I will get the French cemeteries/memorials to remember them. I am getting too emotional as I get older!Sharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06636761469099608281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410794479676555766.post-27807737039857650902014-08-19T21:37:52.443+10:002014-08-19T21:37:52.443+10:00Thank you Karen. Hoping that I can obtain some mo...Thank you Karen. Hoping that I can obtain some more photos of the Daylesford boys from WW1 for my future post/research.Sharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06636761469099608281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410794479676555766.post-59838602799893219152014-08-19T21:36:54.945+10:002014-08-19T21:36:54.945+10:00Yes it bothered me to and in the past I had not pu...Yes it bothered me to and in the past I had not published it for that reason. However decided that sometimes the truth, no matter how terrible, needs to be told. I think it bothered Bob too as from all accounts, he was a different man (and troubled) when he returned (read the link).<br />Yes totally agree with you!Sharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06636761469099608281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410794479676555766.post-24440033198817400352014-08-19T21:34:33.071+10:002014-08-19T21:34:33.071+10:00I am surprised that the letter got through (as did...I am surprised that the letter got through (as didn't they normally censor them?) with such a detailed account, which is rare. I am also surprised that the local paper published such a graphic account too.Sharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06636761469099608281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410794479676555766.post-19151730228382268202014-08-19T21:32:06.173+10:002014-08-19T21:32:06.173+10:00Yes I found this letter very disturbing and wonder...Yes I found this letter very disturbing and wondered if young Bob, who was only a boy, was having a brag (is that Aussie slang? I mean boasting) to his father? An unfortunate fact of war that would have happenned regularly but unusual as these things were not normally spoken about.Sharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06636761469099608281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410794479676555766.post-65162102037747571252014-08-19T21:25:37.333+10:002014-08-19T21:25:37.333+10:00I have so many different letters that I could have...I have so many different letters that I could have blogged about but thought that this was very confronting but a true reflection of what war was like (unfortunately)!Sharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06636761469099608281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410794479676555766.post-65424474642218430152014-08-19T04:03:43.492+10:002014-08-19T04:03:43.492+10:00Sharon I really like the sound of your project you...Sharon I really like the sound of your project you have in mind. That would be great. Is the memorial just for those that died I wonder? Great post.Alex Dawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05083753053051713061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410794479676555766.post-29333705990358236772014-08-18T09:35:35.541+10:002014-08-18T09:35:35.541+10:00I've seen other newspapers from 1914-18 that p...I've seen other newspapers from 1914-18 that printed similar letters of soldier's news and letters. Given the distance and inevitable wartime delays, many families back home read these messages from other soldiers with great interest knowing that their boy likely saw the same action. It was a shared experience unique to this time as regiments were organized around recruits from the same communities. For some families it was surely a sad and tragic moment when they received news of a death after reading another soldier's letter of safe passage. Mike Brubakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13065245846262417519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410794479676555766.post-79760102075090834122014-08-18T07:34:10.993+10:002014-08-18T07:34:10.993+10:00It's sad when our dear soldiers don't make...It's sad when our dear soldiers don't make it home, but seeing their pictures and learning about who and what was happening in their life, is keeping their memory alive! Very nice photos.21 Witshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00071361755673253230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410794479676555766.post-84528409225321729832014-08-18T05:40:09.361+10:002014-08-18T05:40:09.361+10:00The part about the German soldier begging mercy &a...The part about the German soldier begging mercy & being bayonetted in response bothered me. I know he was the enemy & had probably been firing at the Australian boys, but he was only doing his duty for his country as the Aussies were. That's what's so sad about war. A few people make a horrible decision and everyone else has to pay for it. If the potentates of the world who decide to war on another were actually made to fight the battle on their own, you can bet we'd see far fewer altercations between nations!La Nightingailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04769079547153094005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410794479676555766.post-51468104644258196112014-08-18T02:22:40.504+10:002014-08-18T02:22:40.504+10:00These amazingly graphic and detailed accounts are ...These amazingly graphic and detailed accounts are surprising in some ways, as we always seem to hear that men at the Front spared their families the worst; some didn’t even speak of it after the war. It’s always sad to see pictures of these brave young men and then hear that they didn’t survive.Little Nellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11862657943846727987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410794479676555766.post-30324294854909924472014-08-18T00:59:04.329+10:002014-08-18T00:59:04.329+10:00Reading these passages makes for a heavy heart, th...Reading these passages makes for a heavy heart, these young lads, really, not much more than boys, had to grow up in a most terrible way. One forgets that that war and WWII were really and actually a WORLD WAR, bringing such young men and women to each of them. I have a picture of the grandfather (who died before I was born) in his uniform stemming from that time. But in WWII, I had 3 uncles who served and another uncle who served during the Korean War.Nonnie USAhttp://nonniesobservations.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410794479676555766.post-36063206698225087642014-08-18T00:13:47.696+10:002014-08-18T00:13:47.696+10:00Mercy with a bayonet -- now there you go. But may...Mercy with a bayonet -- now there you go. But maybe it spared the soldier future agony, like putting down a horse with a broken leg.<br />I like the photo of Young Rocky with the tent in the background -- gives a sense of time and place, doesn't it.Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17863357756727783017noreply@blogger.com