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№ 468

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20 April 2022

Hammer Price:
£340

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Lieutt. H. E. Walker 1st. Bn. R.W. Fus.) extremely fine £260-£300

Hugh Edward Walker was born in Whitby, Yorkshire, on 22 August 1865, the son of Frederick James Walker M.V.O., of Middlesthrope Manor, and was educated at Eton. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Militia on 30 September 1882, he was granted a regular commission in the Yorkshire Regiment on 25 November 1885, and transferred to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 6 January 1886, serving with the 1st Battalion in Burma from 31 January 1886 to 25 March 1887, and then in India from 26 March 1887 to 24 November 1889; from 17 December 1890 to 26 August 1892; and from 14 Mary 1893 to 20 August 1894. He was promoted Captain on 1 July 1895, and transferred to the Reserve of Officers on 28 March 1896. He died on 26 September 1935.

Sold with copied record of service and a photographic image of the recipient.