Walker, Alexander

Private Alexander Walker

Labour Battalion

1918 - March 18.

PRIVATE ALEXANDER WALKER, Labour Battalion, only son of the late Alexander Walker, postman, Biggiesknowe, Peebles, died in the Canadian Military Hospital, Shorncliffe, Kent, on the 18th March 1918, succumbing" to bronchitis, from which he was invalided from France the previous January. The deceased, who was 41 years of age, and unmarried, was employed in Edinburgh as a tailor previous to enlisting in the King's Own Scottish Borderers in April 1916. When he proceeded to France five weeks later, he was transferred to the Royal Scots, in which he followed his trade as a tailor at the base for some time. He was afterwards transferred to a Labour Battalion, and proceeded towards the fighting zone.

Ah, how we miss him,

Every hour of every day!

Life, since he went, has been a gray

Dull way, wherein we stray,

Neighboured with grief and blinded with dismay.

And yet our faith dare not gainsay

Thy love in taking him away.

Such good is his, such perfect bliss,

How could we wish him back in this

Small world of grim perplexities?

Source: The Book of Remembrance for Tweeddale – Peebles Book 2 - Page 118 and 119

Name: WALKER, ALEXANDER 

Initials: A

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: King's Own Scottish Borderers

Secondary Regiment: Labour Corps

Secondary Unit Text: transf. to (401)

Date of Death: 18/03/1918

Service No: 19692

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: 299.

Cemetery: PEEBLES CEMETERY