Blacker, Richard

BORN SOUTH CAVE 1894. ENLISTED SOUTH CAVE. WIFE KITTY & 2 CHILDREN LIVED ABOVE. HDM 25/5/18.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE RICHARD BLACKER 23878. Born 1893, the third of eight children, to Thomas and Harriet Blacker of 42 Church Street, South Cave, East Yorkshire. Richard had followed in his father’s footsteps and was a Shoemaker by trade. When war came he enlisted in the Pals and fought in the trenches of France for King and Country. He was fatally injured during the German Spring Offensive and died of wounds on 30th March 1918. He is buried at Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No.1. Richard Blacker was 24 years old. In July 1914, just weeks before the outbreak of war, he had married a local girl, Frances ‘Kitty’ Moverley, and probably had plans to raise children and pass on the family trade to a whole new generation of Blackers. The mud of the trenches swallowed that dream, and less than a century later, not even his trade survives him.