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BORN SCARBOROUGH 1875. ELDEST SON OF ADMIRAL, CHARLES FRANCIS WALKER (1836-1925) & EDITH FRANCES DUNCOMBE (1846-1906) ABOVE. HE WAS EDUCATED AT ETON AND BALLIOL COLLEGE AND WAS A QUALIFIED BARRISTER. HE MARRIED IN 1906. HIS WIFE CHARLOTTE RANKIN HEWITT, WAS FROM, COUNTY KILDARE, IRELAND. HE WORKED AS A LEGAL BARRISTER, IN LONDON. HE WAS CAPTAIN OF THE 3RD EAST YORKSHIRE BATTALION. TRANSFERRED TO THE 1ST EYR BATTALION. HE WAS KILLED IN AN ARTILLERY BOMBARDMENT WHICH KILLED THREE OTHER OFFICERS, AT ARMENTIERES, ON 29/10/1914. HE WAS AGED 39.
HIS DEATH IS REPORTED WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH ON 12TH DECEMBER 1914. * HE IS BURIED AT RATION FARM MILITARY CEMETERY, LA CHAPELLE-D’ARMENTIERES, NORD, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE.
HE LEFT £3,413 IN HIS WILL TO HIS WIDOW AND SON, FRANCIS ROBERT WALKER, (1910-1957), AT BELMONT ROAD, SCARBOROUGH.