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    Captain Frederic John Walker, CB, DSO & Three Bars (3 June 1896 – 9 July 1944) (his first name is given as Frederick in the Oxford Dictionary of National...
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  • illustrator Frederic John Walker (1896–1944), British naval officer Frederic Walker (cricketer) (1829–1889), English cricketer Fred Walker (entrepreneur)...
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  • Brothers Frederic John Walker (1896–1944), nicknamed "Johnnie" after the whisky, British Royal Navy officer during the Second World War John Anthony Walker (1937–2014)...
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    Admiral Sir William Frederic Wake-Walker KCB CBE (24 March 1888 – 24 September 1945) was a British admiral who served in the Royal Navy during World War...
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  • Captain Walker may refer to : Captain Frederic John Walker (1896–1944), a Royal Navy officer during World War II Captain Walker, a character in The Who's...
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    36th Escort Group of two sloops and six corvettes under Captain Frederic John Walker, reinforced by the first of the new escort carriers, HMS Audacity...
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    and Library and Southport Arts Centre Bootle Town Hall – Captain Frederic John Walker exhibits British Lawnmower Museum, Southport Crosby Beach – Another...
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    in the Invergordon Mutiny. In 1933, she was briefly commanded by Frederic John Walker, who was to rise to fame as the foremost Allied submarine hunter...
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    the Anglo–Zulu War, buried at sea after dying aboard HMS Serapis. Frederic John Walker (1896–1944), Royal Navy captain known for anti–submarine operations...
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    of the Royal Australian Navy. HMS Starling, commanded by Captain Frederic John Walker, participated in the sinking of 14 U-boats between 1943 and 1944...
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    important role in the Battle of the Atlantic. Royal Navy's Captain Frederic John Walker, the famous U-boat hunter, would rest in the Mayor's Parlour of Bootle...
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    tactics and new weapons. The tactical improvements developed by Frederic John Walker included the creeping attack. Two anti-submarine ships were needed...
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    and bar, completed 101 bombing missions in the Second World War Frederic John Walker, Second World War British Navy captain and U-boat hunter Edward Allan...
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    the Royal Navy, once commanded by the famous U-boat hunter Captain Frederic John Walker. She was one of several ships of that class that took part in the...
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    ISBN 978-0-300-19019-9. Burn, Alan (1993). The Fighting Captain: Captain Frederic John Walker RN and the Battle of the Atlantic (Kindle 2006 ed.). Barnsley: Pen...
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    sloops sank 29 U-boats. The most famous sloop commander was Captain Frederic John Walker. His sloop Starling became one of the most successful submarine hunters...
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    the water. The famous British anti-submarine specialist Captain Frederic John Walker used this tactic from December 1941 to the end of World War II. The...
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    Western Approaches Command in April 1943 under the command of Captain Frederic John Walker, leader of the 2nd Support Group (2SG). This was a flotilla of six...
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    Kent Frederic John Walker (1896–1944), later Captain Frederic John Walker CB, DSO & Three Bars Alan Webb (actor) When the naval aviator Henry St John Fancourt...
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  • Viscount Wakefield: Founder of Castrol Lubricant company. [7] Captain Frederic John Walker: The most successful Anti-submarine warfare commander during the...
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  • Frederic Walker Lincoln IV (15 October 1898 – 7 April 1968) was chairman of the board of trustees of the New York Medical College and the Flower and Fifth...
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    World War I. Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Frederic John Walker Sir John "Sandy" Woodward Anthony Bate, English actor, possibly best...
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    Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period...
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  • of U-434's crew were killed and 42 were taken prisoner. Commander Frederic John Walker, CB, DSO, commander of the 36th Escort Group sank four U-boats on...
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    29 January with the 2nd Escort Group under the command of Captain Frederic John Walker. They were to form a "hunter killer group" in the waters west of...
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    29 January with the 2nd Escort Group under the command of Captain Frederic John Walker. They were to form a "hunter killer group" in the waters west of...
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    with civic leaders in May 1938. Memorabilia associated with Captain Frederic John Walker, who gained a reputation for his successful anti-submarine warfare...
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  • anxious about war against Austria. Frederic reaches an American hospital in Milan. There he is nursed by Miss Gage, Mrs. Walker and their Superintendent Miss...
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    HMS Hesperus (H57) (category Ships built by John I. Thornycroft & Company)
    United Kingdom. In July 1944 the ship conveyed the body of Captain Frederic John Walker for a sea-burial.[citation needed] Later in 1944 she was transferred...
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    ISBN 978-1620456347. Burn, Alan (2006). The fighting Captain : Frederic John Walker RN and the Battle of the Atlantic. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military...
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