WALKER, Harold Alexander
| Service Number: | WX9224 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 October 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Greenbushes, Western Australia, Australia , 25 June 1918 |
| Home Town: | Denmark, Denmark, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Denmark State School, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Baker |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Malaya, Singapore, 12 February 1942, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
Kranji War Cemetery 1 A 7 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Denmark War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, WX9224 | |
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| 30 Oct 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX9224, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Harold Alexander Walker (Service No:WX9224) enlisted in the AIF on 30 October 1940 and was posted as Signaller with HQ Company. Private Walker was attached to 2/4 Machine Gun Battalion on 12 February 1942 when he was KiA in Singapore.
Eldest of six children, Harold was born in Greenbushes, Western Australia in 1918 to John (Jack) Walker (b1887 in Antrim, Northern Ireland) and Ivy Alice Hancock (b1897 in Wiltshire, England). Jack was a Shop Assistant in 1911 when he immigrated, arriving in Fremantle, Western Australia on board the Armadale, and Ivy immigrated in 1912 with her parents and siblings on board the Ophir. Jack (a Labourer) and Ivy married in 1917 in Balingup, and Jack joined the WAGR in 1918 at Kirup via Donnybrook. Jack remained with the WAGR until retirement, working as a Ganger and Repairer in Kirup and Mallalyup before settling in Denmark in the mid 1920s.
Harold had just completed his apprenticeship as a Baker in Denmark in 1940 when he enlisted in the Army.
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