- Contributed by
- Dave Thacker
- People in story:
- Leonard Stanley Thacker
- Location of story:
- Northampton, Skegness.
- Background to story:
- Royal Navy
- Article ID:
- A6167162
- Contributed on:
- 16 October 2005
Len Thacker, back row, fourth from the left, in WT Operator's Course Class Photo, HMS Royal Arthur, August 1941.
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 was working at Northampton General Post Office when he volunteered to join the Navy in January 1941, aged 18, never having been outside the County much never mind having been abroad.
By March he had the number C/JX 233808 and found himself aboard his first "ship": HMS Royal Arthur, ie a training camp in Skegness, where he learned morse and other skills to qualify as a Wireless Telegraphist.
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