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terry hastie
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As we remember I wanted to share some of my g grandfathers words
« on: Friday 06 November 09 21:04 UTC (UK) »
I hope you all don’t mind but as the time draws near for remembering all those brave men and women, I thought I would share a couple of the many verses my g grandfather Robert Hastie wrote during The Great War.

Over the years he wrote most things in verse even his letters and luckily for me many of them survived. Some of them are just on little scraps of paper but I have gleaned lots of family information from them and they are a treasure trove of his life, thoughts, and feelings.

At the end of the small 6 line verse he wrote ‘there is nothing in this only truth’

They are exactly as he wrote them……. he’s my ‘poet laureate’

Terry
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« Reply #1 on: Friday 06 November 09 21:21 UTC (UK) »
Oh Terry, that is so moving!

Thanks so much for sharing - you must be so proud of your grandad.

My grandad also died as the result of being gassed in the trenches - he was 60.

Judy
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terry hastie
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« Reply #2 on: Friday 06 November 09 21:34 UTC (UK) »
Thank you Judy, I have a few more WW1 verses, I might put another on later.  He wrote about many things and a few years ago I put them all together in a book of poems and verses and every member of my Hastie Family was given one.

Some bring tears to my eyes but others have me laughing along with him.  He's a delight.

Terry
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Re: As we remember I wanted to share some of my g grandfathers words
« Reply #3 on: Friday 06 November 09 21:42 UTC (UK) »
Thank you Terry for those very moving words.

Brought tears to my eyes.

I lost my Grandfather in 1916.

Wendy
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« Reply #4 on: Friday 06 November 09 21:44 UTC (UK) »
Hi Terry

I do hope you post some more of you grandad's verses. They deserve a wider audience and am sure they will be much appreciated by RootsChatters.

We all lost ancestors in that terrible war, and to read the poems of one of them helps us to understand what they all went through, and somehow bring them closer.

Judy
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« Reply #5 on: Friday 06 November 09 21:51 UTC (UK) »
Yes absolute treasure.... My grandad too was gassed in the war and sent home to blighty... where my Nan to be nursed him and loved him for as long as he lived which was around 40 yrs of age she died within a year of him...

bless them both xxxxxxxxxx

and all that suffered those terrible days

Xin
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« Reply #6 on: Friday 06 November 09 21:55 UTC (UK) »
Thank you Terry for sharing your ancestor's poems with us here. They are very poingnant at this time.

My husband never knew his maternal grandfather who died right at the end of WW1 in August/September 1918. His "new" grandfather suffered from the effects of gas until his death and was always a dificult person to know.

Judy
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« Reply #7 on: Friday 06 November 09 22:08 UTC (UK) »
Terry

What a delight to read this wonderful work by your great grandad!  What a crime that he was taken from us in such an evil way!

My grandfather also served in the great war, he was fortunate enough to have come home, marry and have 9 children!  Unfortunately he never made a great age, died in his 60's, and i never had the chance to meet him!  Cry  Only now in my late 30's am i discovering all about him whilst researching my family tree! 

It was whilst doing the tree i discovered that my nan had lost 2 brothers in the great war, and it was never discussed! 

I shall be praying for each and every one of the poor souls that perished as a result of the wars!  My only hope is that the wars weren't in vain!!!!


Christian Haste
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« Reply #8 on: Friday 06 November 09 22:40 UTC (UK) »
   
    Thank you Terry, we have all become familiar with "The War Poets" and appreciated their words, which were worked on to get them right -but those words were just as first written I think and although very simple all the more moving. To think a man could find those words from within himself in the midst of all the horrors is truly amazing,what a pity he did not get any recognition regarding the poems in his lifetime.The one about the little bird is lovely , so sensitive ,and at least you know his finer feelings were not blunted by his experiences.

They ought to be published for a wider readership.                                                                            What a wonderful memorial he has,you are so proud and quite rightly . Thankyou for sharing them and especially at this  remembrance time. ,Love`s last gift is remembrance you know (,my mother died 52 years ago today- I have masses of cream roses in her vase). Goodnight. Viktoria.
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