Robert Walker

1888-1972

Unit

3rd Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37534

About

Born in Australia

26 May 1888
Parents

Mother

Sarah Margaret

Father

Lewis Walker

Settled in New Zealand

1911
Live

Hometown

Karangahake
Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Talisman Gold Mining Company
Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers

British War Medal ribbon

British War Medal

Victory Medal ribbon

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 84

17 October 1972

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5557 76/0118147, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.II, Roll No.45, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 37.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Robert Walker (1888-1972)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/878