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Arthur Colin Thacker

Private

Service No. 24058

Age 24

Died on 25 September 1916

Grenadier Guards

GUARDS' CEMETERY, LESBOEUFS

Somme, France

Son of John and Sarah Thacker, of 27, London Rd., Chesterton, Stoke-on-Trent.

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Jean Thacker

I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE, BUT I SHARE MY NAME WITH YOU. I HONOUR YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE-SO CASTLY! IN ADDITION I HONOUR MY FATHER-IN-LAW GEORGE THACKER WHOM I NEVER MET, AND WHO DIED HAVING NEVER FULLY RECOVERED FROM WOUNDS SUSTAINED WHEN HE SERVED

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Henry Harrison

Arthur, O valiant heart, who to your glory came….your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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Arthur, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, although so many of our comrades must have been blown...

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