Frederic John Walker

Captain Frederic John Walker CB, DSO amp Three Bars was a Royal Navy officer noted for his exploits during World War II. Walker was the most successful antisubmarine warfare commander during the Battle of the Atlantic and was known more popularly as Johnnie Walker .

Walker was born in Plymouth, the son of Frederic Murray and Lucy Selina Walker. He joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1909 and was educated at the Royal Naval Colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth, where he excelled. First serving on the battleship Ajax as a midshipman, Walker as a sublieutenant went on to join the destroyers Mermaid and Sarpedon in 1916 and 1917 respectively. Following the end of the First World War, Walker joined the Queen Elizabethclass battleship Valiant. He married Jessica Eileen Ryder Stobart, with whom he had three sons and a daughter.

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