Captain, Edgar Walker, 3rd EYR

BORN SCARBOROUGH, 3 AUGUST 1875. ELDEST SON OF ADMIRAL, CHARLES FRANCIS WALKER (1836-1925) & EDITH FRANCES DUNCOMBE (1846-1906) OF THE HALL, 73-75, LAIRGATE, BEVERLEY. HIS FATHER WAS A FAMOUS NAVY MAN AND HAD WALKER STREET NAMED AFTER HIM IN BEVERLEY

EDGAR WILMAR WALKER WAS EDUCATED AT ETON AND BALLIOL COLLEGE. HE REPRESENTED THE UNIVERSITY AT BILLIARDS. RECEIVED A FOURTH CLASS BA DEGEE IN HUMANITIES IN 1898.

HE ENTERED THE LEGAL PROFESSION. CALLED TO THE BAR, AT INNER TEMPLE IN 1901. HE BECAME A QUALIFIED BARRISTER AND WORKED IN LONDON AND NORTHEAST CIRCUIT. HE JOINED THE INNS OF COURT VOLUNTEERS AND ENTERED THE 1ST CADET BATTALION OF THE QUUENS ROYAL WEST SURREY REGIMENT. AS A SECOND LIEUTENANT IN MARCH 1903. HE JOINED THE SPECIAL RESERVE, AS CAPTAIN OF THE 3RD EAST YORKSHIRE BATTALION, ON 19 JUNE 1905. HE WAS INSTRUCTOR OF MUSKETERY TO HIS BATTALION.

HE MARRIED IN 1906. HIS WIFE, CHARLOTTE RANKINE MAULE HEWITT (1883-1954), WAS FROM, COUNTY KILDARE, IRELAND. THEY LIVED AT PROSPECT HOUSE, SALLINS, COUNTY KILDARE.

HE TRANSFERRED TO THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRES AND WENT TO FRANCE ON 08/09/1914 WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. HE WAS KILLED BY SHRAPNEL, IN AN ARTILLERY BOMBARDMENT, WHICH KILLED THREE OTHER OFFICERS, AT ARMENTIERES, ON 29/10/1914. HE WAS AGED 39.

HE IS BURIED AT RATION FARM MILITARY CEMETERY, LA CHAPELLE-D'ARMENTIERES, NORD, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE.

HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED LOCALLY WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH ON 12TH DECEMBER 1914. HIS FATHER ERECTED A BRONZE PLAQUE TO HIM AT BEVERLEY MINSTER. HE IS ALSO COMMEMORATED ON THE FAMILY GRAVE, AT ST MARTINS CEMETERY, QUEENSGATE, BEVERLEY.

HE LEFT £3,413 IN HIS WILL TO HIS WIDOW AND SON, FRANCIS ROBERT WALKER, (1910-1957), AT BELMONT ROAD, SCARBOROUGH.

CAPTAIN WALKER  WAS A MEMBER OF THE CONSERVATIVE CLUB IN LONDON AND YORK, FOND OF SPORT, SHOOTING, FISHING, GOLF AND MOTORING.

HE WAS ALSO MEMBER OF THE SCARBOROUGH CRICKET CLUB AND IS RECORDED ON THEIR WW1 CLUB MEMORIAL (16 MEMBERS LOST IN WW1.)