William George Walker

Major General William George Walker, VC, CB (28 May 1863 – 16 February 1936) was a senior British Indian Army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross.

[1] He was commissioned in the Suffolk Regiment in August 1885,[2] seconded to the Indian Staff Corps in May 1887,[3] and promoted to captain in 1896.

Walker was 39 years old, and a captain in the 4th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army, attached to the Bikanir Camel Corps during the Third Somaliland Expedition when he won the VC.

This they succeeded in doing, and when the officer in command of the column, Major John Edmund Gough, arrived, they managed to get the wounded man on to a camel.

[13] Walker died at the age of 72 on 16 February 1936 in Seaford, East Sussex,[5] and was cremated at the Woodvale Crematorium in Brighton and is commemorated there.