WALKER, Albert Percy
| Service Number: | NX53943 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
| Born: | Parkes, New South Wales, Australia, 30 November 1902 |
| Home Town: | Peak Hill, Parkes, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Butcher |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 9 April 1972, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Redcliffe Cemetery, Qld |
| Memorials: | Peak Hill and District WW2 Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 9 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX53943, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
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| 9 Apr 1941: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX53943, embarked Sydney for Middle East | |
| 18 Apr 1942: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX53943, embarked Middle East for Adelaide on board USS West Point | |
| 15 Sep 1942: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX53943, embarked Brisbane for Port Moresby | |
| 2 May 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX53943, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2), embarked Port Moresby for Sydney on board Canberra | |
| 27 Sep 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX53943, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Albert Percy Walker (Service No:NX53943) enlisted in the AIF on 9 July 1940 (having given his DoB as 30 Nov 1902 instead of 1894) and was attached to 18th Recruit Training Battalion and 3rd Battalion. Private Walker was attached to 6 Division Ammunition Sub Park when he embarked with his Unit from Sydney for the Middle East, returning on 18 April 1942 to Adelaide on board USS West Point. Private Walker served in New Guinea (15 September 1942 - 2 May 1944) and was attached to 102 General Transport Coy AASC (Driver) at Discharge on 27 September 1944.
Born in Parkes, NSW on 30 November 1894, Percy was fifth of ten children of Robert George Young Walker (b1861 at Burrangong, NSW) and Rozetta Thorby Harris (b1866 in Molong, NSW). Robert (a Farmer) and Rozetta married in Molong in 1885 and settled at Peak Hill via Parkes, where they raised their family and Robert was a Farmer.
Percy worked as a Labourer in Peak Hill, and was a Butcher in 1940 when he enlisted in the Army. Following his Discharge, Percy worked in Peak Hill as a Butcher and, in abt 1948 in Marrickville, married Frances Myrtle Walsh (nee Matthews; b1899 at Peak Hill, NSW). Percy and Frances settled in Marrickville in Sydney, where Percy worked in the Metal Trades. In 1969 the couple retired to Kallangur via Brisbane, QLD where Percy died in 1972 and Frances in 1988.
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