Dick Archer
Date of birth: 1889
Date of death: 23.3.1918
Area: Pontefract
Regiment: Lincolnshire
Family information: Husband of Beatrice Archer nee Towler
Rank: Private
Service number: 43350
War Service
Dick was a Private, service number 43350, in the 7th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment when he died on 23rd March 1918. He was 29 years old. He is buried at Dernacourt Communal Cemetery, France.
Family Life
Dick Archer was born in 1889 to Jack and Annie Archer of Pontefract. In 1911 he was living with his parents and siblings Arthur, Fred, Charlie, Harry and Ted in Back Northgate, Pontefract. Dick was working as a tailor’s apprentice.
He married Beatrice Towler in 1914 at Stourton, Leeds and they went to live at 122, Queen Street, Leeds.