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	==Early life==		==Early life==
	Walker was born on 26 April 1862 in [[Dilhorne]], [[Staffordshire\|North Staffordshire]], England.<ref name="lh" /><ref name="Who Was Who" /> His father was James Harold Walker, an Anglican clergyman, and his mother was Mary Walker (''[[née]]'' Bridgwood).<ref name="lh" /> He was a descendant of [[George Walker (1645-1690)\|George Walker]]. He was educated at [[Shrewsbury School]]<ref name="Who Was Who" /> and [[Jesus College, Cambridge]].<ref name="cam">{{acad\|id=WLKR881HB\|name=Walker, Harold Bridgwood}}</ref> However, he did not graduate, having left before completing his degree.<ref name="awm">{{cite web\|title=Major General Sir Harold Walker\|url=https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/ART03349/\|website=awm.gov.au\|publisher=Australian War Memorial\|accessdate=26 November ~~2016~~}}</ref>		Walker was born on 26 April 1862 in [[Dilhorne]], [[Staffordshire\|North Staffordshire]], England.<ref name="lh" /><ref name="Who Was Who" /> His father was James Harold Walker, an Anglican clergyman, and his mother was Mary Walker (''[[née]]'' Bridgwood).<ref name="lh" /> He was a descendant of [[George Walker (1645-1690)\|George Walker]]. He was educated at [[Shrewsbury School]]<ref name="Who Was Who" /> and [[Jesus College, Cambridge]].<ref name="cam">{{acad\|id=WLKR881HB\|name=Walker, Harold Bridgwood}}</ref> However, he did not graduate, having left before completing his degree.<ref name="awm">{{cite web\|title=Major General Sir Harold Walker\|url=https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/ART03349/\|website=awm.gov.au\|publisher=Australian War Memorial\|accessdate=26 November 2022}}</ref>

	==Military career==		==Military career==
	Walker was commissioned into the [[British Army]] as a [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)\|lieutenant]] in the [[Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry]] on 14 May 1884<ref name=lh>{{cite web\|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/WALKER5.shtml\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110205223520/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/WALKER5.shtml\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=5 February 2011\|title= Walker, Harold Bridgwood \|publisher= Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives\|accessdate=9 June ~~2020~~}}</ref> and served on the [[Nile Expedition]] in 1884 and 1885.<ref name=lh/> He was promoted to [[Captain (BARM)\|captain]] on 16 December 1891,<ref name=Hart>Hart′s army list, 1903</ref> and served on the [[Military history of the North-West Frontier\|North West Frontier]] of [[India]] in 1897. After the outbreak of the [[Second Boer War]] in South Africa in October 1899, Walker was ordered to transfer there on Special Service, and left Southampton on the SS ''Nile'' in March 1900.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times \|~~articlename~~=The War - Embarcation of Troops~~\|day_of_week=Thursday~~ \|date=15 March 1900 \|~~page_number~~=10 \|issue=36090\| }}</ref> For his service he received the [[Brevet (military)\|brevet]] rank of [[Major (British Army and Royal Marines)\|major]] on 29 November 1900 and was appointed a Companion of the [[Distinguished Service Order]] (DSO).<ref>{{London Gazette\|issue=27490 \|date=31 October 1902 \|page=6902}}</ref> He served during the later part of the war in command of the 4th Mounted Infantry Battalion in South Africa.<ref name=Hart /> Following the end of the war in June 1902, Walker returned home on the SS ''Kinfauns Castle'' in October,<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times \|~~articlename~~=The Army in South Africa - Troops returning Home~~\|day_of_week=Wednesday~~ \|date=15 October 1902 \|~~page_number~~=8 \|issue=36899}}</ref> and received the substantive rank of major on 22 November 1902.<ref>{{London Gazette \|issue=27497 \|date=21 November 1902 \|page=7536}}</ref>		Walker was commissioned into the [[British Army]] as a [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)\|lieutenant]] in the [[Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry]] on 14 May 1884<ref name=lh>{{cite web\|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/WALKER5.shtml\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110205223520/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/WALKER5.shtml\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=5 February 2011\|title= Walker, Harold Bridgwood \|publisher= Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives\|accessdate=9 June 2022}}</ref> and served on the [[Nile Expedition]] in 1884 and 1885.<ref name=lh/> He was promoted to [[Captain (BARM)\|captain]] on 16 December 1891,<ref name=Hart>Hart′s army list, 1903</ref> and served on the [[Military history of the North-West Frontier\|North West Frontier]] of [[India]] in 1897. After the outbreak of the [[Second Boer War]] in South Africa in October 1899, Walker was ordered to transfer there on Special Service, and left Southampton on the SS ''Nile'' in March 1900.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times \|title=The War - Embarcation of Troops\|date=15 March 1900 \|page=10 \|issue=36090}}</ref> For his service he received the [[Brevet (military)\|brevet]] rank of [[Major (British Army and Royal Marines)\|major]] on 29 November 1900 and was appointed a Companion of the [[Distinguished Service Order]] (DSO).<ref>{{London Gazette\|issue=27490 \|date=31 October 1902 \|page=6902}}</ref> He served during the later part of the war in command of the 4th Mounted Infantry Battalion in South Africa.<ref name=Hart /> Following the end of the war in June 1902, Walker returned home on the SS ''Kinfauns Castle'' in October,<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times \|title=The Army in South Africa - Troops returning Home\|date=15 October 1902 \|page=8 \|issue=36899}}</ref> and received the substantive rank of major on 22 November 1902.<ref>{{London Gazette \|issue=27497 \|date=21 November 1902 \|page=7536}}</ref>

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	==Legacy==		==Legacy==
	Walker Lines at [[Bodmin]] in [[Cornwall]] was a Second World war camp build as an extension to the DCLI Barracks. It was used to harbour men evacuated from [[Dunkirk]] and later to house troops for the [[D-Day]] landings. In the 1950s it was the site of the [[JSSL\|Joint Services School for Linguists]]. The site is now and [[industrial estate]] but still known as 'Walker Lines'.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1064238\|title = Geograph:: Walker Lines Bodmin in 1940's © Colin Day cc-by-sa/2.0~~\|work=geograph.org.uk~~}}</ref>		Walker Lines at [[Bodmin]] in [[Cornwall]] was a Second World war camp build as an extension to the DCLI Barracks. It was used to harbour men evacuated from [[Dunkirk]] and later to house troops for the [[D-Day]] landings. In the 1950s it was the site of the [[JSSL\|Joint Services School for Linguists]]. The site is now and [[industrial estate]] but still known as 'Walker Lines'.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1064238\|title = Geograph:: Walker Lines Bodmin in 1940's © Colin Day cc-by-sa/2.0}}</ref>

	==Personal life==		==Personal life==
	In 1887, Walker married Harriet Edith Coulthard. Together they had two sons.<ref name="Who Was Who">{{cite web\|title=WALKER, Lt-Gen. Sir Harold Bridgwood\|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U218664\|website=Who Was Who\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|accessdate=26 November 2016\|date=April ~~2014~~}}</ref>		In 1887, Walker married Harriet Edith Coulthard. Together they had two sons.<ref name="Who Was Who">{{cite web\|title=WALKER, Lt-Gen. Sir Harold Bridgwood\|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U218664\|website=Who Was Who\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|accessdate=26 November 2016\|date=April 2022}}</ref>

	On 5 November 1934, Walker died in [[Crediton]], [[Devon]], England; he was aged 72.<ref name="lh" /><ref name="Who Was Who" /> He was survived by his wife and children.<ref name="lh" />		On 5 November 1934, Walker died in [[Crediton]], [[Devon]], England; he was aged 72.<ref name="lh" /><ref name="Who Was Who" /> He was survived by his wife and children.<ref name="lh" />
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	Walker Lines at [[Bodmin]] in [[Cornwall]] was a Second World war camp build as an extension to the DCLI Barracks. It was used to harbour men evacuated from [[Dunkirk]] and later to house troops for the [[D-Day]] landings. In the 1950s it was the site of the [[JSSL\|Joint Services School for Linguists]]. The site is now and [[industrial estate]] but still known as 'Walker Lines'.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1064238\|title = Geograph:: Walker Lines Bodmin in 1940's © Colin Day cc-by-sa/2.0}}</ref>		Walker Lines at [[Bodmin]] in [[Cornwall]] was a Second World war camp build as an extension to the DCLI Barracks. It was used to harbour men evacuated from [[Dunkirk]] and later to house troops for the [[D-Day]] landings. In the 1950s it was the site of the [[JSSL\|Joint Services School for Linguists]]. The site is now and [[industrial estate]] but still known as 'Walker Lines'.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1064238\|title = Geograph:: Walker Lines Bodmin in 1940's © Colin Day cc-by-sa/2.0\|work=geograph.org.uk}}</ref>

	==Personal life==		==Personal life==

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	Walker Lines at [[Bodmin]] in [[Cornwall]] was a Second World war camp build as an extension to the DCLI Barracks. It was used to harbour men evacuated from [[Dunkirk]] and later to house troops for the [[D-Day]] landings. In the 1950s it was the site of the [[JSSL\|Joint Services School for Linguists]]. The site is now and [[industrial estate]] but still known as 'Walker Lines'.<ref>https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1064238</ref>		Walker Lines at [[Bodmin]] in [[Cornwall]] was a Second World war camp build as an extension to the DCLI Barracks. It was used to harbour men evacuated from [[Dunkirk]] and later to house troops for the [[D-Day]] landings. In the 1950s it was the site of the [[JSSL\|Joint Services School for Linguists]]. The site is now and [[industrial estate]] but still known as 'Walker Lines'.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1064238\|title = Geograph:: Walker Lines Bodmin in 1940's © Colin Day cc-by-sa/2.0}}</ref>

	==Personal life==		==Personal life==

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[[Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-General]] '''Sir Harold Bridgwood Walker''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KCB|KCMG|DSO}} (26 April 1862 – 5 November 1934) was a senior [[British Army]] commander who led Australian and New Zealand forces for much of the [[First World War]]. He was highly regarded by the men he commanded and was only replaced in 1918 when politics dictated that all [[Division (military)|divisions]] of the [[First Australian Imperial Force|Australian Imperial Force]] should be commanded by Australians.

==Early life==
Walker was born on 26 April 1862 in [[Dilhorne]], [[Staffordshire|North Staffordshire]], England.<ref name="lh" /><ref name="Who Was Who" /> His father was James Harold Walker, an Anglican clergyman, and his mother was Mary Walker (''[[née]]'' Bridgwood).<ref name="lh" /> He was a descendant of [[George Walker (1645-1690)|George Walker]]. He was educated at [[Shrewsbury School]]<ref name="Who Was Who" /> and [[Jesus College, Cambridge]].<ref name="cam">{{acad|id=WLKR881HB|name=Walker, Harold Bridgwood}}</ref> However, he did not graduate, having left before completing his degree.<ref name="awm">{{cite web|title=Major General Sir Harold Walker|url=https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/ART03349/|website=awm.gov.au|publisher=Australian War Memorial|accessdate=26 November 2016}}</ref>

==Military career==
Walker was commissioned into the [[British Army]] as a [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] in the [[Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry]] on 14 May 1884<ref name=lh>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/WALKER5.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110205223520/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/WALKER5.shtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 February 2011|title= Walker, Harold Bridgwood |publisher= Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives|accessdate=9 June 2020}}</ref> and served on the [[Nile Expedition]] in 1884 and 1885.<ref name=lh/> He was promoted to [[Captain (BARM)|captain]] on 16 December 1891,<ref name=Hart>Hart′s army list, 1903</ref> and served on the [[Military history of the North-West Frontier|North West Frontier]] of [[India]] in 1897. After the outbreak of the [[Second Boer War]] in South Africa in October 1899, Walker was ordered to transfer there on Special Service, and left Southampton on the SS ''Nile'' in March 1900.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=The War - Embarcation of Troops|day_of_week=Thursday |date=15 March 1900 |page_number=10 |issue=36090| }}</ref> For his service he received the [[Brevet (military)|brevet]] rank of [[Major (British Army and Royal Marines)|major]] on 29 November 1900 and was appointed a Companion of the [[Distinguished Service Order]] (DSO).<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27490 |date=31 October 1902 |page=6902}}</ref> He served during the later part of the war in command of the 4th Mounted Infantry Battalion in South Africa.<ref name=Hart /> Following the end of the war in June 1902, Walker returned home on the SS ''Kinfauns Castle'' in October,<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=The Army in South Africa - Troops returning Home|day_of_week=Wednesday |date=15 October 1902 |page_number=8 |issue=36899}}</ref> and received the substantive rank of major on 22 November 1902.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27497 |date=21 November 1902 |page=7536}}</ref>

===First World War===
Before the outbreak of the [[First World War]] he was serving as a staff officer with the [[British Indian Army]]. When the headquarters of the [[Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (army corps)|Australian and New Zealand Army Corps]] (ANZAC) began forming under Indian Army general [[William Birdwood]], Walker was appointed as [[corps]] chief of staff with the rank of [[brigadier-general]].<ref name=adb>[http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120400b.htm Walker, Sir Harold Bridgwood (1862–1934) Biographical Entry] Australian Dictionary of Biography Online</ref>

====Landing at Anzac====
For the invasion of the [[Gallipoli]] peninsula, it was Walker's role to formulate the landing plans for ANZAC but he deferred management of the planning to his subordinate, Lieutenant-Colonel [[Andrew Skeen]], who was an excellent staff officer. Walker was keen to hold a fighting command and his opportunity arose during the [[landing at Anzac Cove]], 25 April 1915, when the commander of the [[New Zealand Infantry Brigade]], Colonel [[Francis Earl Johnston|Francis Johnston]], became ill.<ref name=adb/> Walker had landed as Birdwood's representative on the beach and was instructed to assume command of the brigade which held the left flank of the Anzac perimeter, occupying a ridge that was given the name "Walker's Ridge". Walker relinquished command of the [[brigade]] when Johnston returned to duty but was soon after, on 30 April, given permanent command of the [[1st Brigade (Australia)|Australian 1st Infantry Brigade]] whose commander, Colonel [[Henry Normand MacLaurin|H. N. MacLaurin]], had been killed during the Turkish counter-attack of 27 April.<ref name=adb/>

When on 15 May the senior Australian general, and commander of the [[1st Division (Australia)|1st Australian Division]], Major-General [[William Throsby Bridges|W. T. Bridges]] was killed by a [[sniper]] in [[Monash Valley]], command of the 1st Division temporarily passed to Walker.<ref name=adb/>

According to the Australian official historian, [[Charles Bean]], Walker was "an officer who, by his directness, his fighting qualities, and his consideration for his men, had in a few weeks much endeared himself to his troops." It was while Walker was in temporary command of the 1st Division that the Turks delivered a massive counter-attack on 19 May which failed to breach the Anzac line and resulted in over 10,000 casualties. The following day he oversaw an informal [[truce]] on MacLaurin's Hill during which time Turkish wounded were retrieved. Standing in [[no man's land]], Walker conversed in [[French language|French]] with some Turkish officers. When he saw the Turks start to collect rifles he called off the truce, stating that if an official armistice was desired a formal request should be made. (An armistice was eventually arranged for 24 May.) The [[Australian government]] desired an Australian to command the division and so dispatched from Australia the then current [[Chief of Army (Australia)|Chief of the General Staff]], Colonel [[James Gordon Legge|J. G. Legge]], to take over command.<ref name=adb/> Walker remained in the post until Legge arrived on 24 June 1915. When Legge was given command of the newly forming [[Australian 2nd Division (World War I)|Australian 2nd Division]] on 26 July, Walker was restored to permanent command of the 1st Division, a post he would hold through the remainder of the Gallipoli Campaign and much of the AIF's campaigning on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]].<ref name=adb/>

====Lone Pine====
Walker now oversaw the 1st Division's preparations for the [[Battle of Sari Bair|August Offensive]] in which the division would play a supporting role to the main attack by the [[New Zealand and Australian Division]] and the [[IX Corps (United Kingdom)|British IX Corps]] landing at [[Suvla]]. The 1st Division's main task was a diversionary attack at [[Battle of Lone Pine|Lone Pine]].<ref name=adb/> A secondary action was an attack on [[German Officers' Trench]] from which Turkish [[machine gun]]s [[enfilade]]d neighbouring positions, notably [[Quinn's Post]] and [[Battle of the Nek|the Nek]]. Lone Pine became the only time during the campaign in which Anzac forces captured and held a Turkish trench system. The attack on German Officers' Trench was to be made at midnight, 7 August, by the [[6th Battalion (Australia)|Australian 6th Battalion]] ([[2nd Brigade (Australia)|2nd Brigade]]), commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel [[Henry Gordon Bennett|H. G. Bennett]]. When the first attempt failed, Walker assumed that the attack had been mishandled and so ordered another attempt to be made. When this second attempt also failed, Walker, aware that failure here would jeopardise later attacks at other points, ordered a third attempt but upon receiving further negative reports, he approached Birdwood and got approval to call off the assault. It is from this episode that Walker learnt never to repeat an attack without modifying the plan to address the causes of its failure. On 29 September Walker was buried when a shell exploded in his dugout and two weeks later, on 13 October, he was severely wounded by a machine gun while visiting the front-line.<ref name=adb/>

Walker was initially replaced by Brigadier-General [[Talbot Hobbs]] until he too fell sick, and then by Brigadier-General [[Harry Chauvel]].

====Western Front====
In March 1916, following the evacuation of the Gallipoli peninsula, Walker resumed command of the 1st Division and moved to [[France]] in April, initially on a quiet sector near [[Armentières]]. With the [[Battle of the Somme (1916)|Battle of the Somme]] going badly for the British, Birdwood's [[I Anzac Corps]] was called upon in mid-July, joining Lieutenant-General [[Hubert Gough]]'s [[British Reserve Army]]. Gough tried to pressure Walker into making a hasty assault on [[Battle of Pozières|Pozières]] but Walker refused, insisting on adequate preparation and delivering a successful attack on 23 July. Walker led the division during its two tours on the Pozières ridge<ref name=adb/> and then later holding the line near [[Flers, Somme|Flers]] during the Somme winter. In April 1917 Walker and his chief of staff, Colonel [[Thomas Blamey|T. A. Blamey]], planned the capture of the fortified villages of [[Boursies]], [[Hermies]] and [[Demicourt]] during the German retreat to the [[Hindenburg Line]] which preceded the [[Battle of Arras (1917)|Battle of Arras]]. Walker also led the 1st Division through numerous phases of the [[Third Battle of Ypres]]. When the Germans launched their final offensives in 1918, Walker's 1st Division was attached as a reserve to Lieutenant-General [[Herbert Onslow Plumer|Sir Herbert Plumer's]] [[British Second Army|Second Army]], and was instructed to build defences in front of [[Hazebrouck]] in [[Artois]], where the division helped in halting the German [[Battle of the Lys (1918)|Operation ''Georgette'']] offensive. It had long been a policy of the [[Australian government]] to have command positions in the [[First Australian Imperial Force|Australian Imperial Force]] held by Australians or at least members of the AIF – Walker was neither. On 5 March 1918, General Birdwood informed the headquarters of the [[British Expeditionary Force (World War I)|British Expeditionary Force]] (of which the [[Australian Corps]] was part) that all non-AIF commanders could be replaced by AIF officers once suitable positions in [[British Army]] units could be found. However, Birdwood insisted that Walker be the last officer to be replaced and so Walker was still in command of the 1st Division during the fighting at Hazebrouck.<ref name=adb/>

When Birdwood was promoted to command of the reformed [[British Fifth Army]], Walker was next in line for the command of the Australian Corps but, believing an Australian should hold the post, he made no claim on the position which was eventually taken by Major-General [[John Monash]]. Finally, at the beginning of July 1918, Walker was given command of the [[48th (South Midland) Infantry Division]], which at the time was stationed in Italy.<ref name=lh/>

===Later career===
In 1920, Walker returned to England was made commanded of the [[48th (South Midland) Division]], a division of the [[Army Reserve (United Kingdom)|Territorial Force]].<ref name="Who Was Who" /> In 1923, he was promoted to [[Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)|lieutenant-general]].<ref name="Who Was Who" /> From 1924 to 1928, he served as [[General Officer Commanding-in-Chief]], [[Southern Command (India)|Southern Command, India]].<ref name=lh/>

Walker retired from the army in 1928.<ref name="Who Was Who" />

==Legacy==
Walker Lines at [[Bodmin]] in [[Cornwall]] was a Second World war camp build as an extension to the DCLI Barracks. It was used to harbour men evacuated from [[Dunkirk]] and later to house troops for the [[D-Day]] landings. In the 1950s it was the site of the [[JSSL|Joint Services School for Linguists]]. The site is now and [[industrial estate]] but still known as 'Walker Lines'.<ref>https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1064238</ref>

==Personal life==
In 1887, Walker married Harriet Edith Coulthard. Together they had two sons.<ref name="Who Was Who">{{cite web|title=WALKER, Lt-Gen. Sir Harold Bridgwood|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U218664|website=Who Was Who|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=26 November 2016|date=April 2014}}</ref>

On 5 November 1934, Walker died in [[Crediton]], [[Devon]], England; he was aged 72.<ref name="lh" /><ref name="Who Was Who" /> He was survived by his wife and children.<ref name="lh" />

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