Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookmbridge, and after his two years of teaching, spent a year in promoting Boy Scout work, and was organising secretary to the Great Rally at Birmingham in 1913. [Illustration: =Edmund Basil Walker.=] =WALKER, EDWARD HENRY=, A.B., 163583, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =WALKER, HENRY CLEMENT=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 308726, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WALKER, JAMES=, Private, No. 1780, 1/9th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F); _b._ Newcastle-on-Tyne, 23 Aug. 1891; educ. Gateshead-on-Tyne; enlisted in the Durham L.I., 21 April, 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and was killed in action on the outskirts of Ypres, 3 May, 1915. Buried in the Chateau grounds, west of Brielin, on the Poperinghe Road. He _m._ at the Roman Catholic Church, Dunston, 26 Dec. 1912, Mary (189, Rose Street, Gateshead), dau. of John Quinn, and had a child. =WALKER, JOHN JAMES=, Corpl., No. 51512. R.F.A.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; died from wounds received in action, 25 Aug. 1914. =WALKER, JAMES THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6224), 203795, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =WALKER, ROBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7858), 292549, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WALKER, SAMUEL REID=, Private, No. 1876, A Coy. 1/9th Battn. (Highlanders) Royal Scots (T.F.), yst. _s._ of John Walker, of Wentworth, Newmarket Road, Norwich, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Samuel Reid, of St. George's, Norwich; _b._ Norwich, 13 Feb. 1893; educ. Belle Vue and King Edward VI Middle School, Norwich; apprenticed to the Drapery Trade, first at Mr. Moll's, Norwich, then to Messrs. Bryant and Bryant, St. Ives, Hunts, and lastly to Messrs. Jenners, Edinburgh; volunteered and joined 1/9th Royal Scots (A Coy.), 6 Aug. 1914; left for France, 24 Feb. 1915, and died at No. 8 Hospital, Bailleul, 27 April following, of wounds received four days previously during the Second Battle of Ypres. Buried Bailleul Cemetery; _unm._ Corpl. W. M. Clarke wrote: "I thought it would perhaps comfort you to know how much he was appreciated by his comrades, and how great a shock his death was to them. His bright face and willingness made him a valued man in my section and won him everybody's affection. Our only consolation, and I hope it may be yours also, is that he died like a man fighting for the Old Country." [Illustration: =Samuel Reid Walker.=] =WALKER, THOMAS=, Private, No. 2395, 1/7th Battn. The Black Watch (T.F.), _s._ of Alexander Middleton Walker, of Middleton Place, Crossgates, co. Fife, Miner, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of the late Thomas Young, of Leven; _b._ Fordell, Dalgetty, co. Fife, 13 Feb. 1884; educ. Crossgates Public School; served as a grocer in Dunfermline Co-operative Society for nearly five years, then enlisted in the Royal Scots, 2 Jan. 1902; obtained his discharge by purchase, 11 July following, and was employed in the mines; re-enlisted in the Black Watch after the outbreak of war, 15 Sept. 1914; went to France, 1 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 16 June, 1915; _unm._ Buried there. His Captain wrote: "We were being subjected to a terrible bombardment during an attack on the Germans, and Tom along with L.-Corpl. Somerville were sitting in a dug-out sheltering from the fire, when a high explosive shell hit it, smashing in the roof. Both were killed immediately, and without suffering any pain. All the men exhibited great courage during the day and none more than your son, who was always a worker, doing his share and always willing to help others." [Illustration: =Thomas Walker.=] =WALKER, WILLIAM ARCHIBALD SMAIL=, Major, 46th Punjabis, Indian Army, 2nd _s._ of the late Major-Gen. Alexander Walker, C.S.I., R.A., Director-General of Ordnance in India, 1890-97, by his wife, Anne Yewdale Lambert, dau. of Commander William Archibald Smail, R.N.; _b._ Dum-Dum, India, 31 Oct. 1874; educ. Dulwich College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. unattd. Indian Army, 10 Oct. 1894; was attd. to the 1st Somerset L.I. for his first year; entered the Indian S.C. 10 Jan. 1896, and was promoted Lieut. 27 Nov. 1897; Capt. 10 Oct. 1903, and Major 10 Oct. 1912; served with the 45th Sikhs and then with the 40th Pathans, and was posted to the 46th Punjabis on their formation; took part in the operations on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1897-8, including the Defence of Malakand, action at Landakai, and operations in Bajaur (medal with two clasps), and in the Tirah Expedition 1897-8 (clasp), and was afterwards employed with the King's African Rifles, 25 Nov. 1903 to 10 May, 1906. After the outbreak of the European War, he was sent in Jan. 1915, with a double coy. to British East Africa and attd. to the 130th Baluchis (King George's Own). He was commanding a section of the outpost line with headquarters at Mzima on the Tsava River. While visiting sentry groups with an escort of seven men on 12 April, he came on the spoor of a large party of Germans. He followed this up for some way in order to locate the enemy. In returning he was ambuscaded by a smaller party of Germans who were following the main force, and he and two men were shot. He was buried on the banks of the Tsava River--the grave was marked by a cairn of stones; the two men who fell with him are buried by his side. A brother officer wrote: "I knew him for a fearless man. He was with my regt. in the Tirah Expedition, 1897--I have never met a braver soldier"; and another: "His escort, Dogras and Gurkhas, five of whom managed to get away, all bear great testimony to his fearlessness and gallantry. He gave the orders with his last breath for his men to scatter; such is necessary in the bush. He is a great loss to us and to our country--we can ill spare such men." He _m._ at Peshawar, N.W.P., 30 April, 1913, Marion Balfour, yst. dau. of the Rev. Frederick William Crick, M.A., Rector of Litton Cheney, Dorset, and had a dau., Anne Margaret, _b._ 21 Jan. 1914. [Illustration: =William A. S. Walker.=] =BANES-WALKER, FREDERICK CECIL=, Lieut., 3rd, attd. 2nd Battn. Devonshire Regt., eldest _s._ of Harry Banes-Walker, of Verriers, North Petherton, Somerset, B.A., C.C., Director of Brewery Companies, by his wife, Mary Alexandra, dau. of Frederick S. Barker; _b._ Northgate House, Bridgwater, co. Somerset, 19 June, 1888; educ. Mr. Coplestone's, Exmouth, Devon, and Tunbridge School, and was gaining a business experience at the Ashton Gate Brewery. He enlisted in the Gloucestershire Regt. on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, but was offered a commission in the Devons a few weeks later, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Reserve Battn. of that Regt. 7 Oct. 1914, and subsequently attd. to the 2nd Battn. (23rd Brigade, 8th Division), of which he became a Machine-Gun Officer. He went to France, 15 March, 1915; was promoted Lieut., and was killed in action near Fleurbaix, 9 May, 1915; _unm. |