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"Columbia Street, New Westminster, B.C.
Hacking, Photo."
Post Card. Published by J.J. Mackay & Co., New Westminster, B.C.
View looking north up from the 600-block of Columbia Street towards 6th Street in New Westminster, BC.
Information from the CWGC database:
Probably: Private Frederick Hacker (Service No: 21118), 6th (Wiltshire Yeomanry) Bn., Wiltshire Regiment; died 23 March 1918; name recorded on the Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France (Bay 7.); [in the 1901 Census, there is a Frederick C. Hacker, b. 1893, identifed as the son of Charles and Mary Hacker of Stop Street, Fonthill Gifford, via the Wiltshire OPC]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/637512/HACKER,%20FRED...
Probably: Corporal R. Hacker (Service No: 21119), 1st Bn., Wiltshire Regiment; died 12 April 1918; buried in Strand Military Cemetery, Hainaut (VII. Q. 5.): [in the 1911 Census, Reginald J. Hacker, b. 1897, was identified as a general labourer living at "Greenwich," the son of Charles and Mary Hacker, via the Wiltshire OPC]; www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/165181/HACKER,%20R
Private Percival Macey (Service No: 26105), 5th Bn., Wiltshire Regiment; died 14 January 1917, aged 40; name recorded on the Basra Memorial, Iraq (Panel 30 and 64.); son of John Macey, of The Lodge, Fonthill Gifford, Wilts; husband of Fanny Macey: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1657514/MACEY,%20PERC...
Private Alex Harrod (Service No: 18871),1st Bn., South Wales Borderers ; died 10 November 1917, aged 24; name recorded on the Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen (Panel 65 to 66.); only Son of Annie Harrod, of Wood Lane, Fonthill Gifford, Tisbury, Wilts., and the late William Harrod: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/838738/HARROD,%20ALEX
Not included on the memorial (but associated with the parish in the Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book, 1914 - 1918):
Driver Bertie John Doggrell (Service No: 286), Army Service Corps, attd. 1st South-Western Mounted Bde.; died 1 May 1916, aged 19; buried in Fonthill Gifford (Holy Trinity) Churchyard: son of John and Emma Doggrell, of Fonthill Gifford, Tisbury: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/406531/DOGGRELL,%20BE...
Makes Johnny a dull boy, and causes him to take crappy cell-phone pics. Was a nice day though, got a good amount of math thinking done _and_ chased down a long standing, tough to find bug in the free/open source Python numerical library I was using. Half an hour later the fix was commited, and the next day I received thank yous from other people who were affected by the bug.
It was particularly rewarding since it represented the first time in probably ten years that I did any C hacking and still I managed to trace down a nasty low-level platform specific mistake in generated memory handling code. Now if you didn't understand anything I just said, don't worry, you're not missing much. But if it gave you a thrill, do look closer at the picture which, despite the crappy cellphone quality, will show you the results of what I had been doing :)
Brief history of the Hacker Family.
William C. Hacker 1808-1888
Barbara, his wife 1822-1877
Willie Hacker 1865-1866