TUCKER, Frederick

SERVICE NO:                   654107
RESIDENCE:                    Exeter – Ontario 
DATE OF BIRTH:            November 24, 1878
                                             Croydon – Surrey - England
DATE OF DEATH:           August 10, 1919                   40 years     8 months
CEMETERY:                    Guelph (Woodlawn) Cemetery – Guelph – 
                                             County of Wellington – Ontario 
                                             9     Block K
Occupation:                        Tailor                                    Religion:     Church of England
Enlistment:                         Exeter – December 7, 1915 – 161st Huron Battalion
Enlistment Age:                 36 years

Private Tucker and the 161st Battalion sailed from Canada on November 1, 1916 and arrived in Liverpool on November 11, 1916. On December 1, 1916 he was Taken on Strength with the 58th Battalion. On December 20th he left for overseas and arrived in France on December 23, 1916. He joined his unit in the field on March 6, 1917.
On October 27, 1917 he left the unit and went to the Labour Pool and classified as B3 which meant the man was able to do light work. In early December of 1917 he was sent to England to the 2nd Central Ontario Regiment Depot based at Shorncliffe – Kent.
Then in January 1918 he was attached to the Canadian Discharge Depot and departed England for Canada on January 31, 1918. Once in Canada he went to the No. 1 Canadian Casualty Unit on February 18, 1918 and left there in mid March.
He suffered from back aches, leg pain and his knees would swell. He had lost partial loss of mobility. He was becoming stooped when he walked. He was diagnosed in early 1918 with Myalgia Lumbar. 
Frederick was discharged from the Canadian Corps and His Majesty’s Service on March 11, 1918.
Frederick was living in Guelph following the war and employed as a clothes presser. He died at Speedwell Hospital from the effects of a fractured skull causing his immediate death.