Major General Forster Walker
1781 - 19th January 1843
Born in Yorkshire, Forster Walker joined the East India Company Army as a cadet in 1800 and arrived in Calcutta/Kolkata in 1801. He took part in the 2nd Anglo-Maratha War (1803-05) and an expedition to Ambon Island, part of Indonesia in 1813. He was made full Colonel in November 1841 and raised to Major General the following year. He was appointed to command the Bengal Presidency Division and had been granted furlough to Europe when he died of cholera in Calcutta/Kolkata in January 1943 and was buried there.
Walker married Lydia Sarah Pattle in Bombay 1821 - she died in Versailles 1864. The monument is dated to 1866 and cemetery records show she is the only person interred there. Six children are named on the monument, only Isabella survived infancy. She was responsible for the monument, lived to 90 and is buried in Rome.
The monument is just north of the Anglican Chapel and is Grade II listed.
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Monument on Forster Walker Family Vault
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