Anthony Leonard Samuel Salter Thackara (14 March 1917 – 25 November 2007) was an English first-class cricketer and Royal Navy officer. Thackara served in the Royal Navy for approximately twenty years from 1938 to 1959, during which time he served in the Second World War and played first-class cricket for the Combined Services cricket team.
Thackara was born at Portsmouth. He enlisted in the Royal Navy prior to January 1938, when he gained the rank of sub-lieutenant in January 1938.[1] Thackara served in the Second World War, with promotion to lieutenant coming three months into the conflict.[2] A year later he was mentioned in dispatches in December 1940.[3] Thackara had served aboard HMS Neptune during 1940, a year before it sank after striking a mine off the coast of Tripoli in December 1941.[4] Following the war, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander in June 1947.[5]
In 1958, he was the Training Commander at RNAS Bramcote.[10] Thackary retired from active service in April 1959, retaining the rank of commander.[11] He died at Billingshurst in November 2007.
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