Name
Albert Walker
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
There were three Arthur Walkers who served; one died and is listed on the Village War Memorial; another served with the Bedfordshire Yeomanry, and then with the Liverpool Regiment (who is detailed here) and Arthur Robert Walker.
The detail provided by David Walker for Albert John Walker (separate biography) is comprehensive. For this reason, and because it conflicts with the information appearing here, it suggests that another Albert Walker served.
This Albert Walker, who served and survived, appears on the School War Memorial, confirming that he attended the school. Parish records suggest only one man of this name who could have served, and he was born on June 18th 1882 to Stephen and Emma Walker (née Weeden) and the school records confirm this man as the person who attended. Baptism records list five children: Charles (b 1880), Albert (b 1882), Frederick (bapt 1884), Ellen (b 1887) and Joseph (b 1890).
Sometime after 1901, but before the war, at least some of the family including both parents and Joseph, moved to Offley and lived in one of the Claypit Cottages. Albert, Fred and Joseph all served. Albert and Fred survived, but Joseph suffered a terrible death and appears in the chapter ‘Should These Names Be On Our War Memorial?’
The Parish Magazine of September 1915 records Albert as enlisting during 1915, but before August and serving in the King's Bays. He would have been about thirty-three when he enlisted.
Acknowledgments
Text from the book ‘The Pride of Pirton’ by Jonty Wild, Tony French & Chris Ryan used with author's permission, David Walker
