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Pte. James Walker
British Army 21st Btn Durham Light Infantry
served with 10th DLI, 22nd DLI and 18th DLI
James Walker
British Army 5th Btn. King's Own Scottish Borderers
from:Annan
(d.9th Aug 1915)
Pte. James Langlands Walker
British Army 1st Btn. Gordon Highlanders
from:Kirriemuir, Scotland
(d.18th Aug 1916)
James Walker died in the Battle of the Marne in 1916.
Cpl. James Fredrick Walker
British Army 8th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Cannock, Staffordshire
(d.14th Jun 1917)
My great uncle James Walker served with the 8th Northumberland Fusiliers. From researching my family tree on Ancestry.co.uk, he enlisted at Hednesford, Staffordshire and was killed in action.
Cpl. James Fred Walker MiD.
British Army 8th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Cannock, Staffs
(d.14th June 1917)
James Walker was the inspiration for me to join the Armed Forces and I have part of his name. I have only ever heard stories of him as he died before I was born. In fact he was killed in action 14th of June 1917 in the Ypres Salient or Messines. I have been unable to find a grave for him but I do know his name is on the Menin Gate Memorial. He was also Mentioned in Dispatches but I have not been able to find out why or when or where. His wife remarried after his death and her name became Alice Humphries. I did know her although she was never able to tell me much about him.
He remains etched in my memory a great, kind and brave man. May he Rest in Peace with his friends and fellow soldiers who also gave their lives for our tomorrow.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
Gnr. Jeffrey Walker
British Army 22nd Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Wallasey
My Grandad Jeffrey Walker was born in 1895 in Liverpool. According to his demob paper he joined up January 1915, although it's not very clear as it has faded. There was a story in the family that he was gassed during the war, which left him with chest problems throughout his life, although we don't know any more detail than this. I remember seeing pictures of him in his uniform, with a horse and a large gun. Sadly we no longer have this picture. He was disembodied at the end of WW1 to the 2nd Lancs Reserve Battery.
Pte. Joe Walker
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Scots (Lothian) Regiment
from:Meltham, West Yorkshire
(d.10th April 1918)
Pte. John Walker
British Army 8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment
from:Middlesbrough
My Grand father John Walker enlisted on the 2nd of Sep 1914 aged 29 as 13203 Yorkshire Regiment. He joined the 8th (Service) Battalion which was fFormed at Richmond on 22 September 1914 as part of K3 and in October attached to 69th Brigade, 23rd Division. They moved to Frensham and in February 1915 went on to Folkestone and Maidstone in Kent. they Landed at Boulogne on the 26th August 1915 The 8th Battalion saw action on the Western Front, including the Battle of Messines in June 1917. John returned home in 1918.
Pte. John Walker
British Army 33rd Coy. Machine Gun Corps
from:Edinburgh
(d.10th Jun 1917)
John Walker enlisted with the 6th Battalion, Border Regiment on the 27th of August 1914 at Hennington. He embarked from Liverpool on 1st July 1915 for Gallipoli and landed at Suvla Bay. He was wounded in lower extremities in the Dandelles on the 14th August 1915. On the 17th August 1915 he was reported as having suffered a gun shot wound right shoulder and was transferred for rehab at Citadel, Cairo, Egypt. John was appointed Lance Corporal 3rd March 1916 at Sidi Bashr and transferred to 33rd Coy Machine Gun Corps, 33rd Brigade, 11th Division at Ballah, his new Service Number being 39238.
He departed to join the BEF onboard HMT Minnewaska from Alexandria on the 28th of June 1916 and disembarked at Marseilles on 8th of July 1916. He was promoted to Corporal on 28th October 1916 and paid Lance Sergeant from 2nd December 1916. He was promoted to Acting Sergeant on 27th January 1917 in the field. From the 1st to 4th of April 1917 he attended the Divisional Gas School Course. John was demoted to Private on 12th April 1917 due to drunkenness in the billet at 0845 hrs. He was killed in action on the 10th of June 1917.
Pte. John Walker
British Army 33rd Coy. Machine Gun Corps
(d.20th June 1917)
John Walker served with the 6th Border Regiment. He was wounded in the lower legs on the 14th of August 1915 whilst in the Dardanelles He was wounded on the 17th of August 1915 with a shoulder wound, he was sent to Gallipoli. On the 31st of October he returned to Sulva Bay, John was appointed paid Lc/Cpl. at Sidi Bishr on the 4th of February 1916 and transferred to 33rd Machine Gun Coy on the 11th of March 1916 at Ballah He departed from Alexandria on H.T. Minnewaska on 28th of June 1916, arriving at Marseilles on the 8th of July. He was promoted to Corporal on the 29th of October 1916 and promoted to Lance Sergent in the field on the 2nd of December 1916. On the 27th of January 1917 he was appointed Acting Sergent and then returned to being a Lance Sergent on completion of estblishment on the 31st of March 1917. John was on a course at the Dist Gas School from the 1st to 4th of April 1917. he was reduced to the ranks on the 12th. He died on the 10th of June 1917 during the Battle of Messines and is remembered on the Menin Gate memorial.
Ab.Sea. John Walker
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Hawke Battalion
from:Ashington, Northumberland
(d.24th Dec 1915)
John Walker was killed in action on the 24th December,1915 at Gallipoli. Although killed in the trenches he has no known grave and is remembered on the Helles Memorial. He was the youngest of four brothers who volunteered for service in the war and the only one of them to be killed. He cheated his age to enlist and was 19 years old when killed. John and his brothers were all born at Ashington, Northumberland, a mining town. The Hawke Battalion was made up almost to a man of north country miners. They were used extensively at Gallipoli for sapping, mining and digging trenches.
L/Cpl. John Reginald Walker
British Army 14th (Pioneer) Btn. Worcester Regiment
from:Foleshill, Coventry, West Midlands
My Grandfather, Reg Walker volunteered and joined the Pioneers. Although he lived in Foleshill, Coventry he joined the Worcester Regiment and not the Royal Warwickshire as they were over subscribed by men wanting to join them.
Grandad used to tell my mum little things now and again as to what had happened to him whilst he was out there. He told her he was gassed once and then another time he was shot in the face where the bullet went in his cheek and came out under his jaw. To say he was lucky is an understatement. I have a medal that he brought back that he took off a German that he had shot, he also had the helmet but over time that has been lost. I also have his dog tags that are made of leather and his wallet together with the casing of a pocket watch the dog tags were kept in. Since I have started researching my family tree on my father's side I have found out that Grandad was made a Lance Corporal from a private sometime. Not sure how that happened or if was happy with the title.
Grandad lived to be in his seventies and I have the utmost respect for him and his comrades. I have a photograph of him in his uniform. If I manage to find anything out about Grandad in the future I will certainly add it here.
Pte. John Walker
British Army 23rd Btn Durham Light Infantry
served with 23rd, 14th & 18th DLI
Sgt John Joseph Walker MM
British Army 8th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:56 Galloway St, Liverpool
(d.3rd May 1917)
Rflmn. John Walker
British Army 1st Btn. Monmouthshire Regiment
from:Blackwood
(d.8th October 1918)
John Walker was my great, great grandfather's brother. He was buried at Sequehart British Cemetery No 1. And the inscription on his head stone reads "Gone But Not Forgoten".
Pte. John James Walker
British Army Army Service Corps
from:72 Gifford St., Islington, London
My maternal grandfather, John Walker, enlisted as a private in 1915 at the age of 45. What was he thinking? There were five children at home and they were left with his wife, my grandmother, Elizabeth Walker. The youngest was my mother, aged five years. According to Elizabeth, John James simply disappeared one day, meaning perhaps, he just didn't come home, and eventually she found him at Aldershot training camp. My mother remembered being taken to the camp where Elizabeth confronted him.
It is perhaps difficult to understand the fever of enlistment that went on during the first years of WW1. My uncle, John William, known always as Will, had already enlisted when grandfather disappeared. Maybe that's what prompted him to go and leave his wife and children to fend for themselves.
All I know, since I never met my grandfather, is that, when my Uncle Will was wounded in France, John James attended him in the hospital in Southampton and hopefully, was present when he died of his wounds. Will was 19. My grandfather survived with damaged lungs from being gassed and spent the rest of his life tending his allotment in North London and drinking lots of beer.
I am not aware of any heroic acts he may have performed in battle. Probably just being there during wartime was heroic enough. He was just another man caught up in war fever at a time when it was widely considered cowardly and unpatriotic not to enlist and run the risk of getting yourself killed.
Pte. John William Walker
British Army 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment
from:26 Hawick Cres, Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne
(d.4th Oct 1917)
My Grandfather John Walker who died on 4th of October 1917 at 3rd Battle of Ypres aged 27 years. He was in 10th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment. He is on the Tyne Cot Memorial. My sister visited this year and took a personalised photo. We have spent many years researching our family history being instilled by wanting to know more about what happened to John Willie during the War.
Pte John Thomas Walker
British Army 8th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Seaham Harbour, Durham
(d.22nd Sep 1918)
John Walker
British Army Cheshire Regiment
from:Hyde Cheshire
John Walker served with Cheshire Regiment
Gnr. Jonathan Walker
British Army 30th Anti-Aircraft Company Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Ashton-Under-Lyne
(d.2nd Feb 1919)
Jonathan Walker was gassed during battle and died later of bronchitis whilst at home.
Pte. Joseph William Walker
British Army 10th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Allans Yard, Staindrop, Durham
(d.10th Apr 1917)
We always believed Uncle Joe died in Turkey, but after a more in depth research discovered he died in France and buried at Tilloy British Cemetary, Tilloy-Les-Mofflaines, I would like to know more of the battle he was engaged in.
L/Cpl. Joseph Walker
British Army Royal Scots
from:Kilmaurs, Scotland
(d.3rd Jul 1916)
Pte. Joseph Walker
British Army 6th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment
from:Leeds
(d.22nd Sep 1915)
Joseph Harold Walker
British Army 1/5th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment
from:Yorkshire
(d.9th Oct 1917)
Pte. Levi Walker
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Louis Walker
British Army 19th Battalion, E Company, Platoon XIX Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Salford
My sister and I never met our grandfather, Louis Walker, who died aged just 50 in 1944. All we know is what our Dad told us. Louis was the son of a publican, the youngest of nine children, and grew up in Salford, which was a very poor area at the beginning of the twentieth century. He joined the Salford Lads Club, established to get young men off the street. Louis learned to box there and made many friends. These were the patriotic lads who responded to the call to arms by joining up as the 'Salford Pals'. My Dad said his father never recovered from seeing most of his friends struck down on the Somme.
Sgt. Richard John Walker
British Army 6th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:Forres, Morayshire, Scotland
(d.2nd June 1916)
My great uncle, Richard Walker from Forres, Morayshire, Scotland was only 19 when he killed by a German sniper on 2nd of June 1916. He is buried in Maroeuil British Cemetery in France.
Pte. Robert Cooper Walker
British Army 4th Battalion Royal Scots Fusilers
from:Edinburgh
My Grandfather Bob Walker, served in the Great War with his 4 brothers James, Alexander, John and Peter. As far as I know all 5 brothers survived the war. Bob who was first with the 5th Battalion Royal Scots and was wounded, when he recovered he joined the 4th Battalion Royal Scots Fusilers. He died in November 1977.
Pte. Robert Walker
British Army Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
from:Kilmaurs, Scotland
(d.23rd Apr 1917)
Cpl. Robert Allan Walker MM.
British Army Royal Engineers
from:Jarrow
(d.27th Nov 1919)
Robert Allan Walker served in the Royal Engineers and died age 30 on the 27th November 1919. He is buried at Jarrow Cemetery. His medal card shows the award of the War and Victory Medals. He was also awarded the Military Medal.
Robert was born in Jarrow 1889, son of the late Frederick and Sarah Walker nee Redhead. He was married to Maud Mary H Walker nee Frost of 23 Charles Street, Jarrow. In the 1891 census Robert(2), Amelia(3) Leah (1 month) are visiting with their mother Sarah(32).
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