Edward Hector Walker
Born 11 Nov 1895 - Died 7 Jun 1917
- Service number
- WWI 26721 AWMM
- Also known as
- Hector AWMM
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Last rank
- WW1 Rifleman AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 2nd Battalion, A Company AWMM
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
About
- Title
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- Forenames
- Edward Hector AWMM
- Surname
- Walker AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Also known as
- Hector AWMM
- Service number
- WWI 26721 AWMM
- Gender
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Religion
- Church of England, Christian AWMM
Images
Documents
About birth
- Birth
- 11 Nov 1895 AWMM
Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM - Date of birth
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- Place of birth
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- Birth notes
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- Address before enlistment
- Pre 30 May 1916 AWMM 246 Great North Road, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
- Post war occupation
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- Next of kin
- Mrs H. Walker (grandmother), 246 Great North Road, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
- Relationship status
- Pre 23 Sep 1916 AWMM Single AWMM
Wars and conflicts
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Campaign
- Messines AWMM
- 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Service number
- WWI 26721 AWMM
- Military service
- Cadets and Territorials AWMM
- Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers
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Military decorations
- Medals and Awards
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Training and Enlistment
- Military training
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Enlistment
- WW1 30 May 1916 AWMM
Age 20 AWMM
Clerk AWMM - Age on enlistment
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- Occupation before enlistment
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Embarkations
- Embarkation details
- WW1 23 Sep 1916-19 Nov 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 65 AWMM Vessel was Pakeha AWMM Lance Corporal/Military AWMM 8th Reinforcements 4th Battalion, H Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM
Prisoner of war
- Capture details
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- Days interned
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- Liberation date
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- POW liberation details
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- Liberation Repatriation
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- POW serial number
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Medical history
- Medical notes
- Height, Unknown Period AWMM
5 feet 10 inches AWMM - Complexion, Unknown Period AWMM
Fair AWMM - Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
9 stone AWMM - Hair colour, Unknown Period AWMM
Fair AWMM - Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
Blue AWMM - Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
- Height, Unknown Period AWMM
Last known rank
- Last rank
- WW1 Rifleman AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 2nd Battalion, A Company AWMM - Last rank
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Biographical information
- Son of the late John E. and Lucy M. Walker.
Servicemen Edward Vazey (26718) and Edward Hector Walker (26721) were close friends; both were killed in WW1.
Named Hector Walker, chum of Edward Vazey on the Vazey family memorial at Waikumete Cemetery. New Zealand at the Front (a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division) 1917 issue, page141. The village of Messines was taken from the 1st Cavalry Division by the German 26th Division on 31 October-1 November 1914. An attack by French troops on 6 -7 November was unsuccessful and it was not until the Battle of Messines on 7 June 1917 that it was retaken by the New Zealand Division. Some H Company sailed on the Devon
Next of Kin: Mrs G. S. Masefiels, Arch Hill, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM
About death
- Death
- 7 Jun 1917 AWMM
Age 21 AWMM - Date of death
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- Age at death
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- Place of death
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- Cause of death
- Killed in Action AWMM
- Death notes
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- Cemetery
- Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Mesen, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM VI.C.31 AWMM
- Cemetery name
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- Grave reference
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- Obituary
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- Memorial name
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- Memorial reference
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Memorial
- Memorial name
- Family grave memorial, Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland AWMM
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
Related objects
Sources
- External links
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22014937
Further Reference - A Street Near You record
https://astreetnearyou.org/person/482732/-
Further Reference - Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/482732
Further Reference - New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.
https://archive.org/details/newzealandatfron00lond/newzealandatfron00lond
Further Reference - New Zealand War Graves Trust
https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
Further Reference
- Military personnel file
- References
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
41: 37 - Information kindly provided by family
See 'The Pakeha', ship's newspaper, October 1916, of the 17th Reinforcements of the NZEF. Copy in the Armoury Vertical File. - Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
Vol. 1: Includes portrait - Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
- HMNZT 65 - Pakeha : the journal of the Seventeenth Reinforcements H.M.N.Z. Transport 65 (S.S."Pakeha"). Pilling, E.G. (Ewen George), editor. McGhie, J.G. (John Gordon), editor. Bell, R.B. (Robert Brown), editor. -- At sea : Officers and men, 17th Reinforcements : 1916.
- Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
- New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
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