25 letters and 1 telegram Letters written by Charles Hacker as he travelled to the Gulf of Suez, Crete and Shanghai. In later letters he writes about his time at the Connaught Hospital and waiting for the first military wounded to arrive. He also writes about his time at Aldershot, training to ...
20 letters and 2 telegrams The letters cover Charles Hacker's time in France during World War One. They contain descriptions of life in the trenches and some are headed with the address 'No. 10 Casualty Clearnign Station'. There is also a letter from Rosalind Dalis Hacker, whom Charles married ...
Published by George Allen and Unwin Ltd. On the first page is autographed 'Muriel Maitland from Audrey. Nov. 5th 1929'. Throughout the book are autograph notes in pencil giving, possibly written by Muriel Radford, giving the real names of the people the characters in the book are based upon.