. Postcard photo of Lance Corporal A. K. Croker of the Lancashire Hussars in 1915 during World War I. The postcard is postmarked Canterbury 3 February 1915. Croker has written a note on the back with the same date and Canterbury location, saying he had been stationed in Canterbury since October 1914. It is addressed to Miss Milly Taylor of Bolton, Lancashire. Croker is listed on the Manchester Employers Roll of Honour 1914-1916, in relation to Robert Spencer & Nephews company (source: Manchester & Lancs Family History Society). He was born in 1891 in Drypool, Hull, and at the age of 20 yrs in
. Postcard photo of Lance Corporal A. K. Croker of the Lancashire Hussars in 1915 during World War I. The postcard is postmarked Canterbury 3 February 1915. Croker has written a note on the back with the same date and Canterbury location, saying he had been stationed in Canterbury since October 1914. It is addressed to Miss Milly Taylor of Bolton, Lancashire. Croker is listed on the Manchester Employers Roll of Honour 1914-1916, in relation to Robert Spencer & Nephews company (source: Manchester & Lancs Family History Society). He was born in 1891 in Drypool, Hull, and at the age of 20 yrs in 1911 he was a boilermaker apprentice. He was the second eldest of 10 children of T. Croker, a boilermaker from Plymouth. (source: Census 1911, Sculcoates). His regiment was 1st Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry, and details of its WW1 action are here. The regiment was based in Kent from August 1914 to November 1918, then transferred to Salisbury Plain, Egypt and France. A document which may refer to Croker is a form kept in the Infantry Records, Preston, showing decorations granted under Order 20 in 1919, for the 18th Bn The Manchester Regiment. It shows Private A. Croker 10630, killed in action 1st July 1916. (Source ) Note: the subject is not related to, or known to, the uploader of this photograph. He is a subject of general historical research on the grounds that those who served in, or died in battle in WW1, are of interest to the public. The photographer was Fred C. Palmer of Tower Studio, Herne Bay, Kent (as printed on the back of the card). He lived there 1903-1922, and is believed to have died 1936-1939. The soldiers based closest to Palmer's studio in 1914-1915 were The Buffs, (East Kent Regiment), which raised nine battalions in World War I. (Today the Buffs are amalgamated into the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment.) Points of interest The ink is smudged perhaps due to rain or damp storage conditions, or perhaps due to tears as many men were lost in that w
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