John Charles Walker
British Army Royal Signals
from:West Torrington, Wragby, Lincs
My father, John Walker, sent this picture to my mother after meeting her at Catterick in 1943. I am still trying to read my father's and mother's Military Service records and have identified that her A.T.S. record has: AWL 26th May 1943
Dad told a story of being posted to Vienna, Austria and being ordered to destroy enemy communications equipment. He suggested that some more enterprising individuals in his group had actually buried the said equipment, for likely recovery by people unknown. Dad had always wished to take mum to Vienna, and this was achieved during the mid-1980's, including a visit to an agricultural site where the equipment was thought to be the burial site. The manager of the 1980's site was pleased to meet my father, as the former 1945/46 site manager, who had died during the previous 5 years had often talked of the same story. My father was offered a spade.
