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gordon22d



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:09 pm    Post subject: Searching for the man whose forename I was given. Reply with quote

My late father ATE Duncan, born Feb. 1923 attended Glasgow High School. His best friend was Gordon Walker. Whilst my father joined the TA after leaving school, all I know about Gordon is that he was killed in an aeroplane during the War. His grave is somewhere in Scotland but I do not know where. He had a sister called Audrey who I met as a small boy, from memory she worked for Mars at Slough.
I have found a Sgt. Gordon Boyd Walker RAFVR 9TH Sqd., died 07/04/43 on the Roll of Honour for The High School of Glasgow and I am hoping someone can tell me if I have the right man. If I have, he would be around 20 years of age when he was killed. It would mean a lot to me to find out how and where he died as well as where his final resting place is.
I regularly curse myself for not having found all this out while Dad was still alive, but I have always made a habit of being late. I was supposed to have been born on Remembrance Day, 11th November 1951 but held off putting in an appearance until nearly two weeks later. Now I am several years too late, unless someone out there can help me.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 1:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here are the man you found's details: (The only Gordon buried anywhere in Scotland)

Name: WALKER, GORDON BOYD
Initials: G B
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sergeant (Air Gnr.)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 9 Sqdn.
Age: 19
Date of Death: 07/04/1943
Service No: 1551590
Additional information: Son of Ernest Gordon Walker and Margaret Boyd Walker, of Newton Mearns.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. D. Joint grave 181.
Cemetery: MEARNS CEMETERY

And from the Scottish National Memorial:

Surname WALKER
Firstname Gordon Boyd
Service number 1551590
Date of death 07/04/1943
Place of birth Glasgow
SNWM roll ROYAL AIR FORCE and DOMINION AIR FORCES
Rank Sgt
Theatre of death R.A.F.V.R. B.C

Anne
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Kenneth Morrison



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 3:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

from lostbombers.co.uk

Lancaster ED662 crashed 0330hrs 7Apr43, during the course of a Bullseye exercise, hitting the ground at Kennyhill, 1 mile N of Mildenhall Airfield, Suffolk. The accident was attributed to a total engine failure. Lt.Johnson RA had been attached from 105 Heavy ant- aircraft Regiment. Royal Artillery. Sgt A.E.Ingram KIA Sgt A.J.McCoy KIA Sgt F.Worrall KIA Sgt G.B.Walker KIA Sgt A.H.Page KIA Sgt H.Wells KIA P/O J.F.Leleu KIA Lt G.P.Johnson RA KIA "
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gordon22d



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 3:30 pm    Post subject: Searching for the man whose forename I was given Reply with quote

Just to say a huge thank you for your posts. I have learnt more about Gordon Walker in four hours than I had in all of my lifetime. Please keep any other details of him coming in if anyone out there has them.
Kind regards
Gordon Duncan
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Kenneth Morrison



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 5:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just checked our "sister" Project - Scottish War Graves
http://scottishwargraves.phpbbweb.com/scottishwargraves-ftopic958.html&highlight=mearns

and found that Gordon's brother John Ian Russell Walker, Sub-Lt. RNVR was killed 27/3/1943 when the escort carrier HMS Dasher exploded and sank in the Firth of Clyde. The brothers are buried together but no photo of the grave.
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David McNay
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 11:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gordon Boyd Walker:



Photo from the High School of Glasgow Roll of Honour. I wasn't sure if you'd seen this. The book also has a photo of his brother, as well as some biographical information about them both.
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