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Henry John Innes WALKER.
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- Captain HENRY JOHN INNES WALKER. Twice Mentioned in Despatches. 1st Royal Warwickshire Regiment Died 25 April 1915 aged 25, location not known. Son of Henry Charles Holden and Cecilia Kathleen Walker (nee Taylor).
Laid to rest 18 April 2018 at New Irish Farm Cemetery. West-Vlaanderen, Belgium Grave. IV. BB. 7.
A statement from Pte Able 964 dated 8 May 1915.
Captain Walker was killed April 25th. Informant remembers the occasion very well as he was wounded himself that day. The battalion had been in trenches and had gone to have a rest in billetts at Bailleul but on Friday came the order to pack up and be ready to start in half an hour. The next night they slept out in a field and at about 3.30 am moved off, being instructed to find exactly where the German position was. Suddenly in the dark the Germans opened a heavy fire on them from not more than 200 yards. Informant belives that Indian troops had been driven out of some trenches in a wood and that the Germans had occupied these trenches. Brown was wounded at about 3.30 in the morning and saw, not many yards off, Capt Walker with his revolver in his hand, calling of the men him against the Germans and he saw him fall.
The informant was Private 964 Walter Howard Able Royal Warwickshire Regiment who transferred to the Worcestershire Regiment with new number 31789.
On the 30 April 1920 at his home he died from the effect of war and was laid to rest in Leamington Spa Cemetery, Whitnash Road, Warickshire aged 30. He was the husband of Daisy Able 17 Bedford Street, Leamington Spa.
