Walker, S
SIDNEY WALKER
Remembered with honour Y Farm Military Cemetery: Row M, Grave 41.
He enlisted in Deptford, Kent; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 18 May 1915, and was killed in action. Unfortunately, Sidney’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
There is an article about Sidney in the Watford Illustrated dated 2 October 1915.
Son of Sarah (nee DWIGHT) WALKER of Watford and the late John WALKER.
His parents married 1880 in the Berkhamsted, Herts, district. John died either 1897 in the Aylesbury, Bucks, district aged 39 or 1898 in the Wycombe, Bucks, district aged 50; Sarah died 1953 in the St Alban’s, Herts, district aged 94.
Sidney was born 9 June 1893 in Buckland, Bucks, and attended Victoria School, Watford; then Beechen Grove Board School, Watford, from 8 January to 7 June 1907. He resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 7 he lived in Buckland, with his widowed mother and five siblings. On the 1911 Census, a shop and house lad aged 17, he lived in Watford, with his widowed mother and four siblings.
Service number
S/6517Rank
RiflemanUnit
2nd BattalionRegiment
Place buried
Date of death
01/08/1915Age at death
22Place of death
Memorial(s)
Notes
There is no trace of a S WALKER, Private, King's Royal Rifle Corps (as recorded in the Borough Roll of Honour) in either the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's dataset, or in Soldiers Died in the Great War- 1st S.W. Herts Scout Troop [in St Mary's Parish Church Watford] (4)
- Abbot's Langley Herts War Memorial (17)
- Aldbury Herts War Memorial (1)
- Aldenham Herts War Memorial (located in Letchmore Heath Herts) (8)
- All Saints Church Croxley Green Herts (12)
- All Saints Church Harrow Weald Middx (2)
- All Saints Church Hertford (1)
- All Saints Church King's Langley Herts (1)
- All Saints Church Leavesden Herts (31)
- All Saints Church Witham Essex (3)