Walliker, LC
(1896 - 1915)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
1st December 1896
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1911 - 1912
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
230 Willesden Lane
REGIMENT
2nd Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
FINAL RANK:
2nd Lieutenant
DATE OF DEATH:
15th May 1915
AGE AT DEATH:
18
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Boulogne
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Boulogne Eastern Cemetery. II B 49
2nd Lieutenant Lester Charles Walliker
Born 1st December 1896 in Bengal, Lester was the son of Charles Walliker and Ethel Constance. He was a boarder in Ivyholme, known then as Mr Oldham’s House and his name appears on the house Roll of Honour. Upon leaving Dulwich in 1912 he joined the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and was assigned the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the East Surrey Regiment in October 1914.
After war broke out Lester underwent training first at Dover and then at Chichester before proceeding to France. After only a few weeks at the front he was fatally wounded near Ypres. He died of his wounds in Boulogne on 15th May 1915, and is buried at the Boulogne Eastern Cemetery.
