Captain Charles A. Walker DCM

Charles Addington Walker was born in the Himalayan mountains in the 1880s. Prior to the war, he worked as a Hudson’s Bay Company clerk and post manager in northern Alberta. Enlisting in early 1915 with the 49th Battalion (E.R.), Walker served overseas in the transport section and rapidly rose through the ranks. By July of 1916, he was already Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant. During the Battle of Regina Trench later that year, he led a carrying party through heavy fire to deliver supplies to the front line, an action for which he received the Distinguished Conduct Medal, the highest decoration awarded to the battalion in that attack. Walker ultimately became the battalion’s Quartermaster in April 1918 and survived the war. After the war, he became the Indian Agent at Grouard, Alberta, and passed away in 1950.