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He enrolled at Worcester College, Oxford in 1908 and the college archives add: 'Richard Tasker came to Worcester College from Bromsgrove School as a Cookes Scholar in 1908, and achieved third class honours in Classical Moderations in Jurisprudence in 1912. While up at Worcester he played in the College Rugby Football XV. In 1914 he was a student of the Inner Temple, and was about to be called to the Bar when war broke out. He applied for a commission and was gazetted to the Worcestershire Regiment. In January 1915 he married Vera Everett, and went to the front the following July. Captain Richard Tasker was killed in action at La Boisselle on 3 July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme.'