John Walker (officer of arms)

Following graduation from Royal Military College, Sandhurst,[1] he was commissioned a second lieutenant on 2 February 1933.

[4] As an Acting Major with the 11th Sikh Regiment, he was awarded the Military Cross in the London Gazette 18 May 1944 for Burma.

[7] His heraldic career began on 15 October 1947 when he was appointed Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary.

In 1968, Walker was advanced to this same office on the death of Sir John Dunamace Heaton-Armstrong.

He died in 1984 and was buried in the Church of St Benet Paul's Wharf, which has been the religious home of the officers of arms since 1555.