One of the sites which we in Britain have to use too often when researching our ancestors is the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site. (www.cwgc.org.uk) After tracing down a cousin who was killed in the Second World War, I realised that the CWGC site's search engine could tell us where the Tuckers came from. In Britain it was usual to enlist in your county regiment, and in the First World War there was comparatively little cross-posting. So I stuck "Tucker" into the Search Engine, and found that the British Commonwealth Tuckers who died in that war added up like this: 1914 - 23 were killed 1915 - 70 1916 - 103 1917 - 140 1918 - 124 1919 - 18 Total - 478 Tuckers were killed in the First World War from the British Commonwealth. The next step was to check their regiments. As expected the Devons and the Somerset Light Infantry figured prominently, and the Tuckers who died while serving in other other regiments followed roughly what I knew of emigration from the West of England during the 19th century. The west of England went into a decline in the late 18th and the 19th centuries when the textile trade went north, and agriculture suffered. Therefore many people in these parts left, and many of their descendants figured in the casualty lists from other parts of Britain and overseas. The totals panned out like this: West Country - London area - North of England - Wales - Australia - Canada - New Zealand 62 53 60 15 41 34 9 Also there were only 2 or 3 from South Africa, but a surprise was the presence of 3 or 4 West Indian Tuckers. It was also quite a surprise to see how few Welsh Tuckers there seemed to be. Of course, the proportion of Tuckers who emigrated to the United States is impossible to find out. But remembering previous postings to this site, I found the following: TUDOR HENRY ST. GEORGE TUCKER Major attd., 21st Punjabis who died on Sunday 19th August 1917.Citation: Additional Information: (Buried Dera Ismail Khan Cem. 51.) Commemorative Information - Cemetery: DELHI MEMORIAL (INDIA GATE), India Grave Reference/Panel Number: Face 2 Location: The Delhi Memorial (India Gate) stands at the eastern end of the Rajpath, or Kingsway. - Historical Information: Of the 13,300 Commonwealth servicemen commemorated by name on the memorial, just over 1,000 lie in cemeteries to the west of the River Indus, where maintenance was not possible. The remainder died in fighting on or beyond the North West Frontier and during the Third Afghan War, and have no known grave. The Delhi Memorial also acts as a national memorial to all the 70,000 soldiers of undivided India who served and died in every main theatre of operations except Italy during the First World War, the majority of whom are commemorated by name outside the confines of India. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Tim Tucker