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Wuhu Missionaries (Hardcover)
Caroline Maddock Hart, Cathleen Crawford Green, Stanley Crawford
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R706
R626
Discovery Miles 6 260
Save R80 (11%)
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Dr. Edgerton H. Hart was born in China to missionary parents, was
educated in America and returned to China to head one of the
hospitals his father, Virgil Hart built in Wuhu, on the Yangtze
River. His medical skills were highly regarded by both the Chinese
and foreigners. From Caroline Harts' personal journal, At last my
preparation of years was rewarded, for I carried in my pocket a
half-read letter that appointed me to China. That early afternoon
in the spring of 1904 found me hurrying toward the operating rooms
of Chicago's huge Cook County Hospital, at that time said to be the
largest charity hospital in the world. A brief luncheon period and
a rush day in surgery had allowed only a glance at the letter, but
it was my uppermost thought as I scrubbed up, put on cap, mask and
gown and entered the room where an operation was already under way.
I moved silently to my station and after a few moments, the chief
surgeon, alert always to the personnel and efficiency of his
assistants, looked up. He said teasingly, "So the little red-headed
missionary is here to help, looking for the entire world as if she
had seen a vision. Just when and where are you going?"
In January 1940 Fred Ellison joined the RAF and was sent to serve
in the Far East on 1st June 1941. On 8th March 1942 Fred was
captured as a Prisoner of War and was released on 15th September
1945. During this time family members wrote weekly despite not
knowing whether Fred was alive from March 1942 until 30 December
1943 when his wife Alice received a postcard notifying her that he
was a POW. The letters transcribed are the surviving letters that
Fred did not tell anyone about until he showed one to his niece
Irene in the 1980s. This is a book that Fred wished to have made
for future generations to gain an insight into what the family went
through during this time.
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Fred's Letters (Hardcover)
Irene Chisnall, Caroline Maddocks, Chris Maddocks
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R1,183
Discovery Miles 11 830
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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In January 1940 Fred Ellison joined the RAF and was sent to serve
in the Far East on 1st June 1941. On 8th March 1942 Fred was
captured as a Prisoner of War and was released on 15th September
1945. During this time family members wrote weekly despite not
knowing whether Fred was alive from March 1942 until 30 December
1943 when his wife Alice received a postcard notifying her that he
was a POW. The letters transcribed are the surviving letters that
Fred did not tell anyone about until he showed one to his niece
Irene in the 1980s. This is a book that Fred wished to have made
for future generations to gain an insight into what the family went
through during this time.
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