Service Details:

10 March	1915                      Blackboy Hill Training camp
9 June	1915                      Embarked from Fremantle
August	1915                      Embarked Egypt
10 Sept. – 12 Dec.	1915                      Gallipoli
21 March	1916                      France
6/7 June	1916                      Trench Raid
29 July – 27 Aug.	1916                      Pozieres (Sausage Valley)
4 August	1916                      Wounded, Pozieres
30 September	1916                      Rejoined Battalion, Belgium
2 October	1916                      Sick
10 December	1916                      Rejoined Battalion
February	1917                      Warlencourt
March	1917                      Attack on Malt Trench
May	1917                      Battle of Bullecourt (Hindenburg Line)
June	1917                      Bapaume
2 July	1917                      Awarded Military Medal
August	1917                      Cassel
18 September	1917                      Ypres
October	1917                      Broodseine & Passchendale
26 October	1917                      Battle of Passchendale (Ypres)
December	1917                      Red Lodge
7 April	1918                      Dernacourt
20 April	1918                      Ville Sur-Ancre
May	1918                      Morlancourt
27 June	1918                      Villers-Bretonneux
8 August	1918                      Battle of Amiens
29 August	1918                      Somme
2 Sept	1918                      Wounded, Mont St. Quentin
11 November	1918                      Armistice
7 April	1919                      Returned to Australia
10 June	1919                      Discharged

 

 

Biographical Details:

Percy Robert Edward Walker was born in Perth Western Australia to Frederick Walker and Jane Fagg in 1894.
His vocation was recorded as “Metal Ceilings”.  Presumably this referred to the patterned, pressed metal sheet which was a popular alternative to plaster ceilings and walls.
Percy enlisted soon after the call for another Battalion (the 28th) to be raised in Western Australia.  He was given some training at Blackboy Hill and was with the originals who sailed for Egypt in June 1915.  After further training the 28th in Egypt he saw action at Gallipoli.
On the June 6/7th Trench Raid, Percy was one of the three Raiders who comprised the Right Parapet Party . He was among those Raiders who were able to take special leave in England. 
Like so many others, Percy was wounded at Pozieres less than two months after the Trench Raid. He rejoined his unit in October.
Percy’s career was not faultless. On several occasions he was charged with being AWL. This resulted in some Field Punishment and Forfeiture of pay.
In July 1917 Percy Walker was awarded the Military Medal:
'For gallantry and devotion to duty during the bombing attacks in O.G. 1. East of BULLECOURT on the 3rd May 1917. He worked without ceasing carrying bombs forward and also acted as thrower. On one occasion he held up a very strong face of the enemy for some minutes thereby enabling those behind to get clear and reorganise and obtain more bombs. His action saved the whole party.'
Percy was wounded again in 1918 but survived to return to Australia in April 1919.
In 1914 Percy married Nena Glanfield. It is not known if they had children.
Percy Walker died in 1956, aged 62.