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Lt. Frederick Rennell Thackerey MC.
British Army 2nd Btn. Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regt.

(d.18th April 1915)
Frederick Thackerey served as a Lt in 2nd Battalion Duke Of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment. He died during the Second Battle of Ypres aged 23, on the 18th of April 1915. He had won the Military Cross at some point prior.
His father, also named Frederick Rennell Thackeray, was a Colonel in Royal Field Artillery, died aged 59 on 15th October 1915. The family have a long military family connection, going back two more generations Major Gen Frederick Rennell Thackeray of the Royal Engineers, fought in Napoleonic wars. Col Edward Talbot Thackeray (Royal Engineers) won the VC in India.

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