In May 1917 Ackerley led an attack in the Arras region where he was wounded, this time in the buttock and thigh.
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Hindoo Holiday (1932, revised and expanded 1952), a memoir of Ackerley's brief engagement as secretary to an Indian Maharaja in the city of Chhatarpur, which he called Chhokrapur (meaning "City of Boys") as a joke in the book.
The man was Roger Ackerley, who, on his death, left his son, J. R. Ackerley, a letter in which he confessed to be the girls' father and asked him to care for them.