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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'.
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