The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Second Lieutenant M J L Walker

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Second Lieutenant Maurice John Lea WALKER, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly Lance Corporal, Royal Fusiliers), killed in action, 3rd May 1917, age 24.

Born Saxthorpe, Norfolk, son of the Reverend John William & Edith Anne Walker, of 5, College Road Eastbourne, Sussex.

3rd July 1892, Corpusty, Norfolk, baptism of Maurice John Lea Walker, son of John William, (Clerk in Holy Orders), & Edith Anne Walker.

Educated at Uppingham, and Pembroke College, Cambridge.

1911 Census - Lorne House, Uppingham, Rutland, Norfolk - Maurice John Lea Walker, boarder, age 18, single, school, born Saxthorpe, Norfolk. 

19th July 1916, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Arras Memorial, Bay 7., France. / Eastbourne Roll of Honour

London Gazette 10th September 1915.

The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)

The under mentioned to be temporary Second Lieutenants. Dated 2nd September, 1915. Maurice John Lea Walker.

London Gazette 29th August 1916.

War Office, 29th August 1916 REGULAR FORCES.

The under mentioned temporary 2nd Lieutenants, from Reserve Battalion (except where otherwise stated), to be temporary 2nd Lieutenants, with seniority stated against their names:

Royal West Kent  Regiment - M.. J. L. Walker. 2 Sept. 1915