- Contributed by
- Dave Thacker
- People in story:
- Leonard Stanley Thacker
- Location of story:
- Tunisia, Egypt, Kent
- Background to story:
- Royal Navy
- Article ID:
- A6200821
- Contributed on:
- 19 October 2005
Len Thacker, arrowed, with shipmates at a rest camp in Kent, December 1944.
This story is submitted to the People's War Website by David Thacker, a volunteer from BBC Radio Northampton, on behalf of his Mother, Isabella, wife of the late Len Thacker, and has been added to the site with her permission. She fully understands and accepts the site's terms and conditions.
Len had various spells of leave during the war. In November 1943 he went to Cairo, and saw the Pyramids. In July 1944 he went to Tunis and saw the Casbah, and in December that year, Thruster's crew were sent to a rest camp in Kent and did agricultural work.
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