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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Walker Thomas Barron
|Army number=138522
|Rank=2/Lt
|Decorations=None yet known.
|Date of birth=17/9/1915 at Hartlepool.
|Age=90 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Joined The Durham Light Infantry - Granted an Emergency Commission as a 2/Lt 4/7/1940. Posted No 4 I.T.C. Brancepeth. Posted to the 11th Battalion DLI 9/7/1940. Served Iceland. Attended Course at Army Radio School. Transferred to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers 24/6/1943 as W/S Lt retaining seniority. From an Emergency Commission to be Captain 1/1/1949. On retirement was granted the rank of Honorary Major.
|Company/Battery=11th Battalion - A Company, B Company, Battalion HQ.
|Task or role=Platoon Commander, Intelligence Officer, Adjutant - as at 1/1/1942.
|Joined Brigade=09-Jul-40.
|Promotions=W/S Lt 4/1/1942, T/Captain 8/9/1942, W/S Captain.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Died 31/8/2006. Cremated and remains held in Nettlesham Cemetery, West Lindsey, Lincolnshire.
|Home address=Father - William Marshall Walker (1884 - 1956), mother - Olive Iley Barron (1881 - 1958). Married Stephanie Pritchard Brown on 5/2/1945 at Tonbridge, Kent.
|Source table=11DLI
}}

Some sources show his middle name as Barren.

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 |Died/Killed in action=Died 31/8/2006.  Cremated and remains held in Nettlesham Cemetery, West Lindsey, Lincolnshire.
 |Home address=Father - William Marshall Walker (1884 - 1956), mother - Olive Iley Barron (1881 - 1958).  Married Stephanie Pritchard Brown on 5/2/1945 at Tonbridge, Kent.
 |Source table=11DLI
 }}

Walker Thomas Barron 2/Lt 138522 - Revision history

70bgadmin at 14:36, 8 August 2019

70bgadmin: Created page with "{{Personnel |Surname and forenames=Walker Thomas Barron |Army number=138522 |Rank=2/Lt |Decorations=None yet known. |Date of birth=17/9/1915 at Hartlepool. |Age=90 at the time..."