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Stkr1. Frederick Charles Tacon

Royal Navy HMS Invincible

from:Acton, London

(d.31st May 1916)

Frederick Tacon was born in Lewisham in 1890, son of William and Alice Tacon. His father was an Optical Turner. The 1911 census shows that the family had moved to Valetta Road in Acton and Frederick was employed as a Brass Finisher (Electrical).

Frederick enlisted into the Royal Navy, and was killed, along with 1025 other men, on HMS Invincible when she was sunk at the Battle of Jutland on the 31 May 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial. He is also remembered on the War Memorial, St Mary's Church, Acton, London.



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