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Pte. Frederick Edward Thacker
British Army 1st Btn Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Moulton, Lincolnshire
Frederick Thacker was born on 5th of December 1879 in the Lincolnshire village of Edlington. His father was Edward Thacker and Sarah Ann Thacker, his mother, was a tailoress. He was baptised in 1880 in Birmingham. A year later he was living at Seas End, Moulton, near Spalding in Lincolnshire with his mother, now a widow.
At the age of twenty-one Thacker, then employed as a farm labourer, enlisted with the Lincolnshire Regiment and training was undertaken at Hutment Barracks in Fleetwood, Lancashire. By 1911 he was living at 2 Clayton Street, Grimsby and employed as a postman.
At the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 he enlisted as a Private with his former regiment the Lincolnshires and deployed with the 1st Battalion on 13th of September 1914. He landed in France the following day and his first major engagement was the First Battle of Ypres in October-November 1914. Whilst on the Western Front he transferred to the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment. For his involvement during the campaign he received the Victory Medal, British War Medal and the 1914 Mons Star.
It would appear he remained in the Army. An application was submitted for the Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. He died aged 74, in 1954, in Chelmsford, Essex.
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