BORN HULL 1879. SON OF GEORGE DIXON WALKER & SARAH KIRBY, OF 17 HANOVER SQUARE, NEW GEORGE STREET, HULL. EMPLOYED AS A LABOURER. HE MARRIED CATHERINE BURTON, AT ST MATTHEW’S CHURCH, BOULEVARD, ON 30/12/1900. HIS WIFE, KATE WALKER & FOUR CHILDREN, LIVED AT 37 NILE STREET, HULL, 17 PERSEVERENCE TERRACE, WOODS LANE, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS) AND 8 KOTTINGHAM AVENUE, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL. (HDM 13/01/1917).
HE ENLISTED ON 29/04/1915 AT HULL, AGED 36. HE WAS DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 5.5 INCHES TALL, 147 LBS WEIGHT & 35 INCH CHEST SIZE. ON 08/10/1915, HIS WIFE. KATE, WAS SENTENCED TO 6 MONTHS HARD LABOUR FOR NEGLECTING HER CHILDREN, WHO WERE THEN LOOKED AFTER BY MRS AMELIA WOODMAN, OF 4 COBDEN PLACE, PORTER STREET, HULL. ARTHUR DIXON WENT TO FRANCE ON 24/12/1915. SERVED WITH THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. REPORTED KILLED IN ACTION ON 10/07/1916, AGED 37. HE IS COMMEMORATED AT THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL.
HE HAD SERVED IN THE ARMY FOR 1 YEAR AND 73 DAYS.
HIS WIFE, KATE BURTON, LATER MOVED TO 8 HODGSON SQUARE, SYKES STREET, HULL IN 1918. SHE WAS AWARDED A 25 SHILLING PENSION FOR HER HUSBAND’S DEATH. THE WAR PENSION REMAINED WITH MRS WOODMAN, THE GUARDIAN OF THEIR CHILDREN.
