Born during the December quarter 1898 in the
Manchester R.D. - ref: 8d/237, the son of Richard
& Elizabeth Hannah Walker (nee Owen) who later
resided at 64 Cromwell Road, Stretford.

1901 Census - 18 Castlefield, Manchester.   Son -
aged: 2 born: Manchester.   Head of household -
Richard Walker - Married - aged: 36 - occ:
Stationary Engine Driver - born: Moor, Cheshire.  
Also Elizabeth H. Walker - Wife - aged: 36 - born:
Lancashire.    Plus 3 siblings.

1911 Census - 18 Castlefield, Manchester.   Son -
aged: 12 - born: Manchester.   Head of household -
Richard Walker - Married - aged: 46 - occ:
Stationary Engine Driver - born: Moor, Cheshire.  
Also Elizabeth H. Walker - Wife - aged: 46 - born:
Lancashire.    Plus 4 siblings.

During the September quarter 1926 John Married
Evelyn Jesse Davies in the Manchester South R.D. -
ref: 8d/346.  1940 found them living at
Col-du-Mesnil Grange, Guersey, Channel Islands.

John's was the first Trafford related civilian
death.   He was killed not within the confines of
Trafford, but at White Rock,  St. Peter Port,
Guernsey, Channel Islands.   It was the height of
the tomato export season and it was important to
the Island's economy that as many tomatoes got
away as possible.    In consequence, long queues
of lorries, vans and horse drawn carts were lined
up along the White Rock waiting to unload their
tomatoes into the holds of cargo vessels.    At
18.55 hrs on Friday 28th June 1940, six German
aircraft swept in from seemingly nowhere.    Three
shot off on a recce from east to west over the
Island, the other three swooped down over the
harbour dropping incendiaries and high explosive
bombs, ruthlessly machine gunning the waiting
vehicles.

A total of 34 civilians were killed and 33 injured
in this raid.- the youngest 14, the eldest 81. 
Sarcastically referred to as the Battle of the
Tomatoes and afterwards the German authorities
went to lengths to state that their pilots had
mistaken the vehicles for ammunition or troop
carrying lorries and bombed them ?   I wonder what
they mistook the vehicle with a large Red Cross
painted on the roof and the lifeboat returning
from Jersey for? 

Prior to this incident, the German bombers had
attacked the Guernsey Lifeboat returning from
Jersey and killed a lifeboatman.

CWGC - of Clos-du-Mesnil Grange. Son of Richard
and Elizabeth Walker, of 64 Cromwell Road,
Stretford, Manchester; husband of Evelyn Jessie
Walker. At White Rock.

Commemnorated on the Incident Memorial Plaque on
Guernsey Harbour.