Samuel Edward Thacker

A Cook with the tug S.S. Aid (London), Samuel died on 29th November 1940 aged 21.

Samuel was born at Kessingland on 19 August 1918, a son of Alfred William and Mary Anne Thacker. He was baptised at Saint Edmund’s Church, Kessingland, on 15 December 1918 and his family lived at Brooklands, Kessingland Beach. In 1921 his family lived at 2 Shelter Cottages, Kessingland. By 1939 Samuel was a fisherman and he lived with his widowed mother The Sailor’s Home, Kessingland, fisherman. Later his mother lived at 1 Shelter Cottages Kessingland.

Samuel died when his tug was attacked and sunk by enemy action about eight miles off Start Point, Devon. Five members of the crew were killed.