Aubrey Bernard Thacker
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Aubrey Bernard Thacker was the first Charlottesville soldier to be killed in World War I. [1]
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Biography
Thacker was born on December 8, 1896. He was the son of Bernard F. Thacker, a bridge foreman for the C&O Railway. He joined the Army in 1915 and served a series of posts before the war. Thacker married Valeda Ayotte and had a child who was seven weeks old at the time of his death.
References
- ↑ Web. Aubrey Thacker First To Die, Staff Reports, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, August 8, 1918, retrieved August 9, 2016 from University of Virginia Library. Print. August 8, 1918 page 1.