Albert Reginald WALKER

Birthplace
Drayton
Resided
Toowoomba
Occupation
Clerk
Enlisted
05-October-1915
Place
Toowoomba
Age
22
Status
Single
Service No
N/N
Rank
2nd Lieutenant
Unit
47th Battalion, 3rd Reinforcements
Embarked
01-May-1916
Place
Brisbane
Active Service
Western Front
Highest rank
N/A
Honours and Awards
No
Fate
How Died
Killed in action
Date
09-June-1917
Place
Messines, Belgium
Cemetery or Memorial
Ypres Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium
Notes

Name on ROH: R.A. WALKER

 

Also named on Toowoomba Mothers’ Memorial.
Cousin of 183 Private William Taylor Perkins (KIA).

 

Albert Walker arrived in France via Egypt and England in May 1917. One month later in Belgium he was killed in action at Messines. He was 24. His body was never found.