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Personal data

• Name NESS-WALKER
• Initials WP
• First name WILLIAM PERCY
• Place of birth Leyburn
• Country North Yorkshire, England
• Family Elder son of William and Sarah Ness-Walker, of Danby-in-Cleveland. Yorkshire; 29 Westlands, Sunderland
• Education Richmond Grammar School and Fettes College, Edinburgh
• Profession Sollicitor in Whitby
• Extra info Commemorated on a brass tablet in Danby Church and on the local war memorial

Military service

• Rank Major
• Medals M C
• Regiment and unit 251st Brigade Royal Field Artillery "B" Bty.
• Army - Corps - Division 50th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Attached or transferred from Durham Light Infantry
• Other data related to military career Formerly n° 7/2655; gazetted 2nd Lt. in the 2nd Northumbrian Brigade (RFA), April 1913; to France 20 April 1915; MC for gallantry with his Battery at Arras in May 1917 as temporary Captain, acting Major;

Death

• Wounded 30 December, about 2.15 pm, when on his way to brigade headquarters
• Type of wounds Died of wounds
• Date of death 31 December 1917
• Died at the age of 32
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVI - D - 6

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