Reginald Frederick Tucker
Reginald Frederick Tucker (1904-1939)
1939 Obituary.[1]
Captain Reginald Frederick Tucker, elected Graduate in 1920 and Associate Member in 1937, was born in 1904.
He entered the L.M.S. Railway Company as an apprentice at Abergavenny Motive Power Depot in 1920 and was subsequently transferred to Crewe C.M.E. Works in 1922. After training there and at Shrewsbury Motive Power Depot, he became Improver Assistant to the District Locomotive Superintendent at Accrington in 1928. He was made Running Foreman’s Assistant at Crewe Shed in 1931 and then became Assistant District Controller at Warrington in 1933. In the same year he was appointed Junior Assistant to the Superintendent of Motive Power at Derby, and afterwards at Euston, from whence he was transferred to Crewe as Assistant to the Divisional Supt. of Operation (Motive Power Section) in 1935.
He joined the No. 2 Docks Group, Royal Engineers, in June, 1938, and was gazetted a Captain a fortnight before he was killed in a motoring accident on Active Service in France on the 25th September, 1939.