William George Walker

A Private with the 1st Battalion, William died on 3rd of August 1918 at the age of 21. 

William was born at Pakefield in 1897, a son of William and Annie Bessie Walker. In 1901 his family lived at Beach Street, Pakefield, and by 1911 at 35 Saint George’s Road, and William was a telegraph messenger. 

William enlisted in the Army at Bury St. Edmunds. He joined the Middlesex Regiment, service number G/50024, and was posted to the 9th Battalion and then to the 1st Battalion in France. There is no record of where, when, or how, William was wounded, but he died of wounds and the fact he is buried at Croix-Rouge Military Cemetery suggests that he died at 44 Casualty Clearing Station.