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e out of action on 27th September. After careful enquiries through
the different field ambulances, they have no further information,
although he may probably be a prisoner in the hands of the enemy.”
He was later officially reported missing, presumed dead.
His name is inscribed on the Tyne Cot Memorial at Zonnebeke,
Flanders.
HARKER Walter Henry
Possibly Private 89066 Machine Gun Corps
The eldest son of Henry and Sarah Harker, Walter was born in
Kings Cliffe in 1880.
By 1901 he had left home and was lodging at Crown Street,
Peterborough, and working as an engine stoker.
He married Ada Knighton in 1908 and they lived on Thistlemoor
Road, just around the corner from his previous lodgings. Their
daughter Ruby was born in 1910 (and didn’t pass away until 2005).
It is not certain whether Walter joined up in WW1. If he did, his
detailed records were destroyed in the 1942 fire which followed
the bombing of the archive.
The only clue lies in the reasonably complete medal cards
where a Walter H Harker was Private 89066 in the Machine
Gun Corps. This is the only Walter Harker with a middle initial
of H. Walter had moved to Farcet, just south of Peterborough,
when he died in 1954. He left £1,844-9-4d to his widow, Ada.
HARKER William Michael
Corporal 33451 Beds & Herts Regiment 1st Battalion
Born 1892 in Luffenham, William was the fourth son of Henry
and Sarah Harker of West Street, Kings Cliffe.
After leaving school he moved to Market Harborough where he
worked for the London and NW Railway as a station porter. He
enlisted to a training regiment in Northampton on 9th November
1915. He was 5ft 11 ½in tall (1.82m), and weighed 11 st 7 lb (90kg).
In July of 1916 he was promoted to Corporal and on 16th
December 1916 he was transferred to the Bedfordshire
Regiment just as they moved to France.
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the different field ambulances, they have no further information,
although he may probably be a prisoner in the hands of the enemy.”
He was later officially reported missing, presumed dead.
His name is inscribed on the Tyne Cot Memorial at Zonnebeke,
Flanders.
HARKER Walter Henry
Possibly Private 89066 Machine Gun Corps
The eldest son of Henry and Sarah Harker, Walter was born in
Kings Cliffe in 1880.
By 1901 he had left home and was lodging at Crown Street,
Peterborough, and working as an engine stoker.
He married Ada Knighton in 1908 and they lived on Thistlemoor
Road, just around the corner from his previous lodgings. Their
daughter Ruby was born in 1910 (and didn’t pass away until 2005).
It is not certain whether Walter joined up in WW1. If he did, his
detailed records were destroyed in the 1942 fire which followed
the bombing of the archive.
The only clue lies in the reasonably complete medal cards
where a Walter H Harker was Private 89066 in the Machine
Gun Corps. This is the only Walter Harker with a middle initial
of H. Walter had moved to Farcet, just south of Peterborough,
when he died in 1954. He left £1,844-9-4d to his widow, Ada.
HARKER William Michael
Corporal 33451 Beds & Herts Regiment 1st Battalion
Born 1892 in Luffenham, William was the fourth son of Henry
and Sarah Harker of West Street, Kings Cliffe.
After leaving school he moved to Market Harborough where he
worked for the London and NW Railway as a station porter. He
enlisted to a training regiment in Northampton on 9th November
1915. He was 5ft 11 ½in tall (1.82m), and weighed 11 st 7 lb (90kg).
In July of 1916 he was promoted to Corporal and on 16th
December 1916 he was transferred to the Bedfordshire
Regiment just as they moved to France.
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