RSM William James Walker, born in Malta in 1881 into a military family. His father Colour Sergeant  William Walker was also a Gordon Highlander. His mother Catherine Louisa Hanna also came from several generations of Gordon Highlanders. Raised in Aberdeen. He was killed by a bomb at field headquarters Poperinghe Belgium and is buried in Hospital Farm Cemetery. His  sister Ada Elizabeth Walker also lost her husband Sergeant Edward Spiller and her son Edward William Spiller an RAF pilot died over Egypt in WW2. The father of William James Walker and Ada Elizabeth Spiller (Walker) Colour Sergeant William Walker senior died in 1919  from Pneumonia / Spanish Flu.

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