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Personal Details of Tom Harry Walker

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Born:	1878
Died:	14/10/1900
Buried:

Please note that this person is not acutally buried in Newtown Road Cemetery, but is remembered here on a family grave or memorial.

Listed below are all the details we have been able to find so far on Tom Harry Walker.

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Birth

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Death

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Burial Register

There is no burial register information available for Tom Harry Walker.
Only three of the five burial register books still exist as far as we know and these are held at the Berkshire Record Office.
Stillborn children were not recorded in the burial register, only in the cemetery accounts.

Memorial Details

	Headstone: In loving memory / of / Annie / wife of Henry Walker / who died at Oxford May 23rd 1899 / aged 52 years / Peace perfect peace / Also of the following children / who died at Leamington / Edgar Percy aged 16 months / Hannah Elizabeth 6 months / Ernest 1 month / Jesus called a little child unto Him / Also of Tom Harry 3rd son of above / who died at Middleburg, South Africa while serving as a Volunteer Royal Berks. Regt. / Oct 14th 1900 aged 22 years / He fought the good fight he kept the faith . Thy will be done / Also of Lucy Meadows / sister of the above and widow of / Martin Meadows of Holbeach Lincs / who died May 14th 1933 / aged 84 years / In death united. Footstone unreadable.

Name on Memorial	Tom Harry Walker
Date of death	14/10/1900
Age	22
Gender	Male

Memorial Type	Large Headstone and Footstone
Construction Material	Marble
Condition of memorial	Reasonable condition, slight lean, readable. Foostone unreable most of the lettering has gone, it is positioned far into the ground.
Pattison Location Code	NCH(H)12
Others named on memorial
Annie Walker
Lucy Meadows
Edgar Percy Walker
Hannah Elizabeth Walker
Ernest Walker

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

Tom Harry Walker

Source:	NWN
Article date:	18/10/1900
Copyright:
Transciption:	The sad intelligence appeared in the casualty list of yesterday's papers stating that he died on Sunday at Middleburg of enteric. Tom Walker will be remembered by his schoolfellows of this town as a popular and cheery chum. After leaving school he went to the Newbury Post Office. whence he was removed to Wokiogham. Whilst there be joined the Volunteers, and when the war broke out and volunteers were wanted, he offered to serve in the Company which was formed to join the 2nd Berks. already out at the front. He had been through some fighting. but at last succumbed to enteric. The case is rendered all the more sad by the fact that the bereaved father was looking forward to the return of his two sons—for there is another son In the same Company —near Christmas time, and knew nothing of the illness till picking up the newspaper yesterday. Tom had written 2 letters home which were published in the NWN - see below
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Pictures and photographs

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Tom Walkers letter in NWN 17 May 1900
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Tom Walker's letter to the NWN 24 May 1900
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Biographical Information

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