Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant W. N. Thacker, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who died of disease on 17 February 1918
British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. W. N. Thacker. R.N.V.R.) good very fine

British War Medal 1914-20 (Eng. S. Lt. A. E. Sharp. R.N.R.) very fine (3) £70-£90

William Norman Thacker was born on 26 August 1887 and was educated at Dulwich College. Emigrating to Canada, he was commissioned into the Duke of Connaught’s Own Rifles at Vancouver in 1916; however, as such an appointment offered little immediate prospect of service in Europe, he transferred to the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve later that year, and served in the Motor Patrol Service in H.M. Motor Launch 520. Promoted Lieutenant in June 1917, he was taken seriously ill with lung trouble in August 1917, and died at the Royal Naval Hospital, Queenstown, County Cork, Ireland, on 17 February 1918. He is buried under a C.W.G.C. Headstone in Cobh (Queenstown) Old Church Cemetery, County Cork, Ireland.

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