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Hi
The walker family Henry and Harriet are also my great grandparents. I have recently started to research our family tree.
Are you still active on here and willing to discuss what we both have?
Have you looked for any of them on the 1939 register
Search Google images with "6th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment" but be careful to check the photo titles as you look at each one.
http://www.thewardrobe.org.uk/research/the-collection/search/category:9/regiment:Wilt/unit:Wiltshire+Regiment%2C+6th+%5BService%5D+Bn
The above link is the search results for images of 6th Battalion at the regimental museum, they can be purchased.
MaxD
Lizdb: I had no idea she'd worked as a servant, is that from a census record?
Yes, 1881 census
RG11 1277 65 11
Harriet Isles 13 bn Highworth
in H/H of Emily Taylor, a school mistress, and family
A little more for your Walker files:
On the 7th July 1916, the day his death is presumed to have occurred, Great Grandfather Henry's battalion of the Wiltshires was engaged in what became known as the Battle of Albert, one of the early phases of the Battle of the Somme. His battalion were in a line along the La Boisselle to Contalmaison road (see trench map and present day map at this link):
http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=15&lat=50.0248&lon=2.7141&layers=101464804&right=BingHyb
They were attacked from the right and from the north by snipers and artillery fire.
MaxD,
Thank you so much for that- we didn't have that information before, this is great! Could you possibly direct me to where I might find some photographs of my great grandfathers regiment? We have no photographs of him, so any help at all would be much appreciated.
Jen
MaxD
