Topic: BW - NSW - NSWCBC
NSW Citizens' Bushmen
Roll of Honour
James Edwin Walker
James Edwin Walker
Service number: 75
Rank: Trooper [Tpr]
Unit: NSW Citizens Bushmen, A Sqn
Service: Colonial Military Forces
Conflict: South Africa, 1899-1902
Date of death: 17 August 1900
Place of death: Elands River
Cause of death: Killed
Source: AWM142 Roll of Honour cards, War in South Africa, 1899-1902
James Edwin Walker was born in 1868 at Yorkshire, England. A drover by trade, Walker enlisted in the NSW Citizens' Bushmen becoming and 75 Trooper James Edwin Walker and allotted to "A" Squadron. Walker is recorded in Murray, p. 78. At the end of the month, on 28 February 1900, the men of the contingent boarded the SS Atlantian from Cowper Wharf where they remained for the next 24 hours. The next day, following Admiralty rules, on 1 March 1900, the ship departed Sydney Heads for South Africa. Walker was wounded in action at Elands River and subsequently died of his wounds on 17 August 1900.
Initially Trooper James Edward Walker was buried in a communal grave along with Staff Sergeant James Mitchell, Trooper James Daniel Duff, and Trooper John Waddell. After 1966 Walker was reburied in a single grave with his own metal head piece.
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Citation: NSW Citizens' Bushmen, Roll of Honour, James Edwin Walker