Name
Frederick Walker
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
There were two Frederick Walkers who served. Two undated newspaper cuttings from the village scrapbook record this Frederick as one of four brothers serving. Parish and census records confirm they were the sons of George and Sarah Walker (née Odell), who both died before the war. The family lived in Bury End, near Great Green and baptism records list eight children: Charles (bapt 1864), John (bapt 1868), Alice (bapt 1871), Frederick (bapt 1882), Gertrude (bapt 1885), Sidney (b 1888), Herbert (b 1890) and Arthur (b 1892). Frederick was baptised on March 5th 1882. His brothers, Sidney, Herbert and Arthur all served. Arthur, the youngest, was killed and is recorded on the Village War Memorial.
In 1911, his brothers Herbert, Sidney and Arthur and his sister Gertrude were all still living in the village but Frederick was absent, working or living away.
The Hertfordshire Express dated December 4th 1915 confirmed that he was at the Front and had previously been wounded from a ‘serious accident with his horse’.
He is recorded in the September Parish Magazine of 1917 as enlisting during 1914, but after July, and serving as a Serjeant in the 11th Hussars. He would have been about thirty-two years old when he enlisted.
Acknowledgments
Text from the book ‘The Pride of Pirton’ by Jonty Wild, Tony French & Chris Ryan used with author's permission
