Notts Free Press, 21st June 1918
WALKER W.
Wilfred Walker
Gunner 183957
76th Siege Bty., Royal Garrison Artillery
Notts Free Press, 21st June 1918
Wilfred Walker died on Wednesday 22nd May 1918, age 19, and was buried in MAILLY WOOD CEMETERY, Somme, France.
He was born c1899 at Stanton Hill, Notts, and was the son of James & Emily Walker. James Walker was a Coal Miner, and a native of Keyworth, Notts, who resided at 115 Stanton Hill, at the time of the 1901 census. By the time of Wilfred's death they were living at 6 Lime Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.
Wilfred's older brother, Albert Radford
Walker, is also remembered on Sutton's War Memorial.
Notts Free Press, 21st June 1918
From
‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Royal Garrison Artillery’
WALKER Wilfred. Born Stanton Hill, Notts, enlisted Nottingham (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts). Royal Garrison Artillery, Gunner 188957, Died of wounds, France & Flanders, 22nd May 1918.
Research by Heather Faulkes
