Walter James Bicker

An Engineman with H.M. Drifter Wishful, Walter died on 22nd of July 1916 at the age of 50. 

Walter was born at Aldringham, near Leiston on 16 October 1865. A son of James and Harriett Bicker. In 1871 his family lived at Paradise Place, Leiston, and in 1881 at Aldringham.   

On 23 October 1902 Walter married Laura Amelia Willimott at Saint Mary’s Church, Blundeston. By 1906 they were living at Bicker of 4 Princes Road, Lowestoft. In 1911 Walter was the engineer on a steam drifter and he was being treated at the West Cornwall Infirmary, Penzance.  

Walter joined the Royal Naval Reserve on 10 August 1914 and served with the drifter Wishful. He was discharged medically unfit, due to phthisis, on 2 November 1915. In March 1916 he was awarded a disability gratuity. It seems that Walter died from phthisis.