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Ab.Sea. John Walker
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Hawke Battalion
from:Ashington, Northumberland
(d.24th Dec 1915)
John Walker was killed in action on the 24th December,1915 at Gallipoli. Although killed in the trenches he has no known grave and is remembered on the Helles Memorial. He was the youngest of four brothers who volunteered for service in the war and the only one of them to be killed. He cheated his age to enlist and was 19 years old when killed. John and his brothers were all born at Ashington, Northumberland, a mining town. The Hawke Battalion was made up almost to a man of north country miners. They were used extensively at Gallipoli for sapping, mining and digging trenches.
