Edward Milton (Mick) WALKER

WALKER, Edward Milton

Service Numbers: F2813, F2813/18
Enlisted: 4 September 1939
Last Rank: Signalman
Last Unit: HMAS Parramatta (II)
Born: Canning Western Australia , 11 September 1918
Home Town: Canning Vale, Canning, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Killed in Action, Mediterranean Sea, 27 November 1941, aged 23 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Fremantle HMAS Parramatta II Memorial, Plymouth Naval Memorial to the Missing / Lost at Sea
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Signalman, F2813
4 Sep 1939: Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, F2813/18
23 Nov 1940: Involvement Royal Australian Navy, Signalman, F2813, HMAS Parramatta (II)

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Frank and Minnie Walker; husband of Joyce Kathleen Walker, of South Perth, Western Australia

Missing, Has Not Seen His Son
Twenty-two-year-old Signalman Edward Melton (Mick) Walker, who has not seen his son, is missing, believed killed in action.  News that he was  missing was received by his wife, Mrs. E. M. Walker, of Canning Bridge Road, Canning Bridge, on the day their child was five months old. Signalman  Walker has been in the R.A.N. since the outbreak of war. Shortly after he became a trained operator he was drafted to an Australian destroyer. Recently he has been serving in the Mediterranean.

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