Postcard from M.J. Stevenson to George Hackney, 22 September 1916 Letters 1916-1923 M.J. Stevenson

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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.

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland Papers of George Hackney, Belfast; D3503/5/1-6-6 https://letters1916.ie/item/2827 English M.J. Stevenson 1916-09-22 Belfast, Ireland George Hackney Ward 31, 'D' Block, Wharncliffe War Hospital, Sheffield, England Female Country and City Life Faith World War I (1914-1918) Country and City Life

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 FOR CORRESPONDENCE 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 A.R. Hoog,] Presbyterian Women's Union — Reading Room, Assembly Buildings, Belfast. [Photo. M.J. Stevenson Postcard from M.J. Stevenson to George Hackney, 22 September 1916 Belfast, Ireland Letter from Terence Duffin to his father Adam, 29 January 1916Postcard from M. in Belfast to Piaras Béaslaí, January 1916Postcard from Eileen Corrigan to her mother, Mrs Corrigan, 24 April 1916Letter from the Earl of Shaftesbury to Matthew Nathan, 15 February 1916Letter from G O'Connell to the Earl of Shaftesbury, 1 February 1916Letter from the Earl of Shaftsbury to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 31 December 1915Letter to Elizabeth Dunlap Simpson Fadzen from her aunt and uncle, M-S Greer, 13 March 1916Letter from Elizabeth Hackney to George Hackney, 1 October 1916Postcard from M.J. Stevenson to George Hackney, 22 September 1916Letter from T.J. Hanna to John Redmond, 20 June 1916Letter from Archibald R Cameron to James Craig, 23 June 1922Letter from Wilfrid Spender to the Ministry of Home Affairs, 20 June 1922Letter from Cecil Wilson to James Craig, 19 September 1922Letter from Henry Wilson to James Craig, 1922 Ward 31, 'D' Block, Wharncliffe War Hospital, Sheffield, England Letter from John Lynn to George Hackney, 26 September 1916Postcard from M.J. Stevenson to George Hackney, 22 September 1916