Great Britain. A British War Medal To Reverend Frank Colyer Sackett

Great Britain; (REV. F.C. SACKETT.). Naming is impressed. Original ribbon, very light contact, near extremely fine.

Footnote: Frank Colyer Sackett was born on October 23, 1876 in Chorlton, Lancashire, England, the son of Jeremiah Sackett (1836-1918) and Sarah File (1838-1896), and was the brother of Reverend Alfred Barrett Sackett (1862-1951) and Reverend Walter Sackett (1865-1924). In 1891, Sackett was living at 23 Bent Street, Cheetham, Manchester, Lancashire in the household of his parents, Jeremiah and Sarah Sackett, and was recorded in the census as Frank C. Sackett, a clerk (employed), aged 14 and born in Manchester. He was educated at Headingley College. Reverend Frank Sackett served as an outstanding Wesleyan Methodist missionary in the Hyderabad district of India from 1901 to 1945, a total of forty-four years. He married Elizabeth "Lily" Parry (born 1873), daughter of John Parry, at the Wesleyan Church, Colaba Causeway, Bombay, India, on August 4, 1905.

He was chairman of the Methodist Provincial Synod of Southern India in 1926 and Chairman of the Hyderabad Methodist Mission from 1939 to 1942, having previously been its Secretary from 1926 to 1939. He is also credited with having worked in the Karimnagar Area. His wife, Elizabeth, visited England in 1930, travelling first class on the Brittania from Bombay and arriving in Liverpool on March 13, 1930. She stayed at the Wesleyan Mission House at 24 Bishopsgate Street in London. Elizabeth Sackett returned to India and died on February 19, 1942 at home at the Methodist Mission House, Old Lancer Lines, Secunderabad, India, at the age of 69. Sackett returned to England in 1943, the year following his wife's death. He travelled first class on the Britannic from Bombay, arriving in Liverpool on November 7, 1943. His address in England was the Mission House, 25 Marylebone Road, London NW1.14. He proved his wife Elizabeth's will on March 4, 1944, her estate being valued at £51.15. Sackett married second his second wife, Agnes Ferguson, in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England in 1946 and retired to Kingsmead Furlough House, Selly Oak, Birmingham. He died on May 3, 1953 at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, at the age of 76, his obituary appearing in The Times (London) of May 7, 1953. Frank left a will which was proved on August 5, 1953, his estate being valued at £1,605 17s. 5d.