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Donald Hankey was – and has remained – one of the most enigmatic personalities to feature in the narrative of the Great War.

‘World War I is one of the most studied topics of modern scholarship.

Rachel Duffett has written a fine social history of British rank and file soldiers, or rankers, and their experiences of food during the Great War. She states, ‘The ranker’s relationship with food was a constant thread, woven throughout his army experience … every day, wherever he was, a man needed to eat’ (p. 229).

In Handley Cross, an early Victorian sporting novel, Mr.

Introduction: trauma, modernity, and the First World War