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at Parkside, Upper Hale, Farnham 21st Sept. '16 Your card dated 10th inst.
duly recd. & I have been
expecting to get your
present add. ever since
however I shall risk this
card to your regt. We had one
of the Y.C.V's from Belfast (Carson
by name, here last week, he was
in a V.A.D: near, got wounded on
the 14th.I think he has got leave
now. Let me know where you
are &how you are getting on.
No word from Tring lately.
Arthur expects soon to be on the
way out again. Oh I do wish I
could have seen our lovely old 'Tanks'
take the field. Yrs. J. Jn. C
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31 Ward A. Block Wharncliffe War Hosp Sheffield Lce. Corp. George Hackney. B boy, Fourteenth(8) Batt. R.I.Rfles. B.Ex Force, France
A card addressed to George Hackney (1889-1977). The card was addressed to George's
battalion in France, but the card has been redirected to the Sheffield hospital in
which George was recuperating. The writer inquires after George's location and well-being,
and refers briefly to life at home and to a promised present from George.This letter
is from the papers of George Naphthali Hackney, a Lance Corporal from Clifton, Belfast.
Before his time in the army, he worked as a book-keeper for a florist. He was the
youngest in a Presbyterian family of six, with three older sisters. In 2014, his collection
of photographs taken in the trenches were made available to the public in an Ulster
Museum exhibition, and his life and photography became the subject of a BBC documentary,
'The Man who Shot the Great War'.