Regiment: R.N.V.R..
Died: 17 February 1945 aged 30 in Barents Sea. Torpedoed.
Battle: Arctic Convoy. Cemetery: Portsmouth Naval Memorial Panel 90, Column 2.
Son of Norman Duguid Walker and Ada Walker, of The Grove, Ryton-on-Tyne, Co. Durham.
Math. VI. House Prefect.
Trinity College, Cambridge. (2nd Cl. Mech. Sci Trip. 1936).
H.M.S. Bluebell, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
'He served with much distinction with the R.N.V.R. and received the D.S.C. after some operations in Norway earlier in the war. The corvette, Bluebell, which he commanded, was sunk with only one survivor when acting as escort to an important convoy on 17th Feb., 1945, but "the convoy got through". In civil life he was a very successful turbine designer.' (Malvernian, July 19145).
H.M.S. Bluebell was torpedoed and sunk by U-711 under the command of Hans-Günther Lange in the Kola Inlet on 17 February 1945 while escorting the convoy RA-64 from Murmansk. She sank in less than 30 seconds at 69°24'N 33°42'E. From her crew of 86 ratings and officers there was only one survivor.
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