Postcard from M.J. Stevenson to George Hackney, 22 September 1916
INLAND POSTAGE ONLY. Hope you are
on the way to
recovery. Pleased
to know you are
coming nearer old
Belfast Kindest regards M.J. Stevenson 22/9/16
POSTCARD Private G. Hackney,
31. Ward, "D" Block,
Wharncliffe War Hospital,
Sheffield,
England 2 A.R. Hoog,] Presbyterian Women's Union — Reading Room, Assembly Buildings, Belfast. [Photo.
This postcard is from Margaret's Stevenson to George Hackney. She expresses gladness that George is now closer to home as he was recovering from an injury in Wharncliffe War Hospital, Sheffield. She hopes that he is on the way to recovery. The picture on the reverse side depicts the Reading Room of the Presbyterian Women's Union, Belfast. This letter is from the papers of George Naphthali Hackney (c. 1889-1977), 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'. M.J. Stevenson (born c. 1881) was a Margaret J. Stevenson, an unmarried, Presbyterian warehouse clerk living on Wheatfield Avenue in Clifton.
How to cite
Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__2827.html)
- Place
- Belfast, Ireland
- Mentioned in
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- Letter from Wilfrid Spender to the Ministry of Home Affairs, 20 June 1922
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- Place
- Ward 31, 'D' Block, Wharncliffe War Hospital, Sheffield, England
- Mentioned in
- Letter from John Lynn to George Hackney, 26 September 1916
- Postcard from M.J. Stevenson to George Hackney, 22 September 1916