condensed discuss document expanded export feedback print share remove reset document_white enquire_white export_white report_white

Cenotaph record

Edward Hector Walker

-
Lay a poppy
Portrait, Auckland Weekly News 1917 - No known copyright restrictions

Portrait, Auckland Weekly News 1917 - No known copyright restrictions

Identity

About

Contribute ›
  • Title
  • Forenames
    Edward Hector AWMM
  • Surname
    Walker AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Hector AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 26721 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion
    Church of England, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

Contribute ›
  • Birth
    11 November 1895 AWMM Parnell, Auckland City AWMM
    Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Pre 30 May 1916 AWMM 246 Great North Road, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs H. Walker (grandmother), 246 Great North Road, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 23 September 1916 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

Contribute ›
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
    • Messines AWMM
    • 1914-1919 Western Front AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 26721 AWMM
  • Military service
    Cadets and Territorials AWMM
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

Contribute ›

Training and Enlistment

Contribute ›
  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 30 May 1916 AWMM
    Age 20 AWMM
    Clerk AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

Contribute ›

Prisoner of war

Contribute ›
  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

Contribute ›
  • 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

Biographical information

Biographical information

Contribute ›
  • 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 AWMM
Read more

Death

About death

Contribute ›
  • Death
    7 June 1917 AWMM
    Age 21 AWMM
    Belgium, Europe AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Killed in Action AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Mesen, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM VI.C.31 AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

Contribute ›
  • Memorial name
    • Family grave memorial, Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland AWMM
    • Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Roll of Honour

Remember Edward Hector Walker by laying a poppy.

Leave a note

Leave a tribute or memory of Edward Hector Walker

Leave a note

Contribute ›
  • Hector, Edward Vazey and my great uncle Tom Kennaway grew up and went to Newton East school together. They signed up and sailed for Europe together, and sadly only Tom survived.
    Public - Leigh - 22 June 2017
    Report 
  • To dear Hector, always in my special thoughts of your young life being taken away to save our country at such an early age of 21 years. Your Aunt Annie Prince (my grandma) never missed a year of going to the cenotaph on Anzac Day.You were so special to her. I continue on in memory. With love & grateful thanks. Judith Carmichael ne Montgomerie.
    Public - judith eileen - Other Relative - 5 February 2015
    Report 

Sources

Sources

Contribute ›
  • External links
  • References
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      41: 37 AWMM
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM
      See 'The Pakeha', ship's newspaper, October 1916, of the 17th Reinforcements of the NZEF. Copy in the Armoury Vertical File. AWMM
    • Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications AWMM
      Vol. 1: Includes portrait AWMM
    • Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2. AWMM

Contributors

Command item
Command item
Add new record Refresh
DateFirst namesLocationRelationshipContact
18 October 2017SarahNew ZealandOther
22 June 2017LeighLower Hutt, New ZealandOther
05 February 2015judith eileen rodney,auckland,nzOther Relative

The development of the Online Cenotaph is an ongoing process; updates, new images and records are added weekly. In some cases, records have yet to be confirmed by Museum staff, and there could be mistakes or omissions in the information provided.

Creative Commons LicenseOnline Cenotaph Data by Auckland War Memorial Museum is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.