{"id":5617,"date":"2023-12-06T21:17:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T21:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=5617"},"modified":"2023-12-07T07:50:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T07:50:03","slug":"walker-a-t-2nd-lt-8th-rifle-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2023\/12\/06\/walker-a-t-2nd-lt-8th-rifle-brigade\/","title":{"rendered":"Walker A T 2nd Lt 8th Rifle Brigade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5625\" style=\"width: 691px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Walker_A_T_Lt_8th_Rifle_Brigade_Yorkshire_Rugby_Union_Roll_Of_Honour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5625\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5625\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Walker_A_T_Lt_8th_Rifle_Brigade_Yorkshire_Rugby_Union_Roll_Of_Honour-681x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"681\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Walker_A_T_Lt_8th_Rifle_Brigade_Yorkshire_Rugby_Union_Roll_Of_Honour-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Walker_A_T_Lt_8th_Rifle_Brigade_Yorkshire_Rugby_Union_Roll_Of_Honour-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Walker_A_T_Lt_8th_Rifle_Brigade_Yorkshire_Rugby_Union_Roll_Of_Honour-768x1156.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Walker_A_T_Lt_8th_Rifle_Brigade_Yorkshire_Rugby_Union_Roll_Of_Honour-1021x1536.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Walker_A_T_Lt_8th_Rifle_Brigade_Yorkshire_Rugby_Union_Roll_Of_Honour.jpg 1308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walker A T 2nd Lt 8th Rifle Brigade<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source : Yorkshire Rugby Union Roll Of Honour 1914-1918<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5623\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Walker-A-T-2nd-Lt-8th-Rifle-Brigade.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5623\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5623\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Walker-A-T-2nd-Lt-8th-Rifle-Brigade-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Walker-A-T-2nd-Lt-8th-Rifle-Brigade-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Walker-A-T-2nd-Lt-8th-Rifle-Brigade.jpg 586w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walker A T 2nd Lt 8th Rifle Brigade<\/p><\/div>\n<p>WALKER, ANTHONY THORNTON, 2nd Lieut., 8th (Service) Battn. Rifle Brigade, 2nd s. of John Walker, of Bawtry, co. York, by his wife, Dorothy Mary, dau. of Thomas Taplin Wickham, of Bideford, N. Devon; b. Bawtry, 9 May, 1894; educ. Dulwich Preparatory School, from which he obtained a scholarship to Uppingham School, and from Uppingham secured an open scholarship and exhibition at University College, Oxford; joined the Public Schools Battn. Middlesex Regt. Aug. 1914, and was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 8th Rifle Brigade, 2 Dec. following; left for France, 25 July, 1915, and was killed in action at Hooge, 30 July, 1915, the day after he joined his battn. in the trenches; unm. At Uppingham he was captain of football, and played for his college at Oxford. He was also very musical, and was leader of the orchestra at Uppingham.<\/p>\n<p>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source : Yorkshire Rugby Union Roll Of Honour 1914-1918 WALKER, ANTHONY THORNTON, 2nd Lieut., 8th (Service) Battn. Rifle Brigade, 2nd s. of John Walker, of Bawtry, co. York, by his wife, Dorothy Mary, dau. of Thomas Taplin Wickham, of Bideford, N. Devon; b. Bawtry, 9 May, 1894; educ. Dulwich Preparatory School, from which he obtained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rifle-brigade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5617"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5627,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions\/5627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}