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er the war finished, he went with the regiment to Bermuda
and stayed there until he retired in 1926. He was by then Battery
Sergeant Major, having completed over 21 years in the army.
At his discharge, his birth is still recorded as 1884. He was 5ft 8
½in tall (1.74m) with red hair and grey eyes. He left the colours
with an exemplary record.
WALKER Thomas Henry
Born in the third quarter of 1888 at Kings Cliffe, Thomas Henry
was the son of John Thomas Walker and Maud Mary Walker of
Kings Cliffe.
By the 1911 census he was no longer living with his parents in
Kings Cliffe but was boarding in the next village, Apethorpe, at the
post office, which was run by Charlotte Lucas and her two sisters.
He was working as an estate clerk and was 22 years old.
He was almost certainly working on the estate of Henry
Leonard Brassey, Conservative Member of Parliament for
North Northamptonshire and grandson of the renowned railway
engineer, Thomas Brassey. Henry had bought Apethorpe Hall
and its estates from the Earl of Westmorland in 1904.
The only other thing that we know about Thomas Walker is that
one of his relatives has a silver cigarette box presented to Harry
Walker by Lord Col Earl of Caithness from Northern Command
for Valuable Services to Sergeant H Walker April 1919.
This is likely to be Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso who
was a Major in the Guards Machine Gun Regiment at the end of
the war. Previously, he had been in the 2nd Life Guards, which
had merged into the Machine Gun Regiment.
There are many hundreds of Thomas Walkers in the records,
but we have not been able to find any Sergeant in the Guards
Regiments that could be Thomas or Henry Walker.
After the war, he married Dorothy May Purton in Wakefield,
when he was 35 and was working as a land agent. He was living
in Wakefield at that date.
In 1947, when his mother passed away, he was still working as
a land agent and later (1953) lived in Caversham.
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and stayed there until he retired in 1926. He was by then Battery
Sergeant Major, having completed over 21 years in the army.
At his discharge, his birth is still recorded as 1884. He was 5ft 8
½in tall (1.74m) with red hair and grey eyes. He left the colours
with an exemplary record.
WALKER Thomas Henry
Born in the third quarter of 1888 at Kings Cliffe, Thomas Henry
was the son of John Thomas Walker and Maud Mary Walker of
Kings Cliffe.
By the 1911 census he was no longer living with his parents in
Kings Cliffe but was boarding in the next village, Apethorpe, at the
post office, which was run by Charlotte Lucas and her two sisters.
He was working as an estate clerk and was 22 years old.
He was almost certainly working on the estate of Henry
Leonard Brassey, Conservative Member of Parliament for
North Northamptonshire and grandson of the renowned railway
engineer, Thomas Brassey. Henry had bought Apethorpe Hall
and its estates from the Earl of Westmorland in 1904.
The only other thing that we know about Thomas Walker is that
one of his relatives has a silver cigarette box presented to Harry
Walker by Lord Col Earl of Caithness from Northern Command
for Valuable Services to Sergeant H Walker April 1919.
This is likely to be Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso who
was a Major in the Guards Machine Gun Regiment at the end of
the war. Previously, he had been in the 2nd Life Guards, which
had merged into the Machine Gun Regiment.
There are many hundreds of Thomas Walkers in the records,
but we have not been able to find any Sergeant in the Guards
Regiments that could be Thomas or Henry Walker.
After the war, he married Dorothy May Purton in Wakefield,
when he was 35 and was working as a land agent. He was living
in Wakefield at that date.
In 1947, when his mother passed away, he was still working as
a land agent and later (1953) lived in Caversham.
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