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JAMES HAROLD WALKER
BORN HULL 1894. SON OF WILLIAM WALKER (1853-1915) AND ALICE PRISCILLA DEARNES (1857-1945), OF 2, ST THOMAS TERRACE, CAMPBELL STREET, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS). SON OF A TANNER'S LABOURER. HE HAD AN ELDER BROTHER, WILLIAM AND THREE SISTERS, ALICE, MAY AND MILLICENT. HE WORKED AS A SHOP ASSISTANT BEFORE THE WAR (1911 CENSUS). DESCRIBED AS 6 FOOT TALL, 36 INCH CHEST, "VERY GOOD" CHARACTER.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 17/11/1914. SERVED WITH THE 3RD NORTHUMBERLAND, RAMC. POSTED TWICE ABROAD. SERVED IN BELGIUM AND FRANCE, CONTRACTED TRENCH FEVER AND RHEUMATISM IN FRANCE, IN JULY 1916. LATER CONTRACTED PNEUMONIA. DISCHARGED ON 31/03/1920. SERVED FOR FIVE YEARS AND 136 DAYS IN THE ARMY.
HE MARRIED ON 27/01/1918. HUSBAND OF FRANCES EMMA WALKER, OF 19, FINSBURY STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
SERVED AS PRIVATE, IN THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. DIED OF THUBERCULOSIS OF THE LUNG, ON 11/11/1921, AGED 27.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON ST MARY'S CHURCH WW1 MEMORIAL, SCULCOATES LANE, HULL.
HE IS BURIED AT HULL WESTERN CEMETERY.
HIS MOTHER ALICE PRISCILLA WALKER ,LEFT £177 IN HER WILL TO HIS WIDOW FRANCES EMMA WHEN SHE DIED IN 1945.
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