{"id":5638,"date":"2023-12-07T08:26:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T08:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=5638"},"modified":"2023-12-07T09:31:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T09:31:58","slug":"walker-s-r-pte-1876-9th-royal-scots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2023\/12\/07\/walker-s-r-pte-1876-9th-royal-scots\/","title":{"rendered":"Walker S R Pte 1876 9th Royal Scots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5653\" style=\"width: 228px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Walker-S-R-Pte-1876-9th-Royal-Scots.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5653\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5653\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Walker-S-R-Pte-1876-9th-Royal-Scots-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Walker-S-R-Pte-1876-9th-Royal-Scots-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Walker-S-R-Pte-1876-9th-Royal-Scots.jpg 518w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walker S R Pte 1876 9th Royal Scots<\/p><\/div>\n<p>WALKER, SAMUEL REID, Private, No. 1876, A Coy. 1\/9th Battn. (Highlanders) Royal Scots (T.F.), yst. s. of John Walker, of Wentworth, Newmarket Road, Norwich, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Samuel Reid, of St. George&#8217;s, Norwich; b. Norwich, 13 Feb 1893; educ. Belle Vue and King Edward VI Middle School, Norwich; apprenticed to the Drapery Trade, first at Mr. Moll&#8217;s, Norwich, then to Messrs. Bryant and Bryant, St. Ives, Hunts, and lastly to Messrs. Jenners, Edinburgh; volunteered and joined 1\/9th Royal Scots (A Coy.), 6 Aug. 1914; left for France, 24 Feb. 1915, and died at No. 8 Hospital, Bailleul, 27 April following, of wounds received four days previously during the Second Battle of Ypres. Buried Bailleul Cemetery; unm. Corpl. W. M. Clarke wrote: &#8220;I thought it would perhaps comfort you to know how much he was appreciated by his comrades, and how great a shock his death was to them. His bright face and willingness made him a valued man in my section and won him everybody&#8217;s affection. Our only consolation, and I hope it may be yours Samuel Reid Walker. also, is that he died like a man fighting for the Old Country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WALKER, SAMUEL REID, Private, No. 1876, A Coy. 1\/9th Battn. (Highlanders) Royal Scots (T.F.), yst. s. of John Walker, of Wentworth, Newmarket Road, Norwich, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Samuel Reid, of St. George&#8217;s, Norwich; b. Norwich, 13 Feb 1893; educ. Belle Vue and King Edward VI Middle School, Norwich; apprenticed to the Drapery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-scots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638","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=5638"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5654,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions\/5654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}