Early Life
Walker was born in Dilhorne, North Staffordshire, England in 1862, a descendant of George Walker, and was educated at Shrewsbury and Jesus College, Cambridge. He was commissioned into the British Army in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in May 1884 and served in the Sudan until 1886. 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 (ANZAC) began forming under Indian Army general William Birdwood, Walker was appointed as corps chief of staff with the rank of brigadier general.
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