Francis "Frank" Walker was on of three brothers all to play at a good level, Willie, a decade older, as a centre-forward for Queen's Park before The Great War, Jim, three years older, and inside-forward for The Spiders during the War, for Third Lanark after it with a final flourish at Dundee United in 1925-26. They in a sense paved the way for their younger brother, as he began at Hampden late in the conflict and then went on also to play, an inside-forward, for The Thirds for what would in the end be seven seasons from 1919, in 1922 winning a single cap.
The two older Walkers had been born in Paisley, Frank in Lochwinnoch but again raised largely amidst the thread mills, their mother from Beith, their father, who would die in 1899, a Carter cum Dairyman from Kilbarchan. Indeed Frank would learn his football in Paisley, starting out in the junior game with its Grammar School FP before joining the Civil Service as a trainee clerk. It meant that his time on the field, initially with Queen's Park, was limited first by the training and the then the War, he joining the Royal Field Artillery to be posted in 1917 first to France and subsequently to Germany. It also meant that he was already twenty-two when in 1919 he returned and made the decision to go professional, Jim already having done so.
In fact The Thirds were to be his only professional club and his time with them might have better concluded in 1925. Whilst on the one hand it would have meant the end of his on-field career coinciding with relegation, on the other it was also the year of his marriage, in Troon to local girl, Alison Hogg, he recorded not as a footballer but a Civil Servant. As it was, having hung up his boots once he was then persuaded to return for another season, almost immediately broke his leg and had then finally to call it a day.
He and Alison were eventually to settle in Edinburgh with their three children, he working as an Inspector of Taxes. And there they were to remain until both their deaths. His would be in 1949 at the age of just fifty-two in a Civil Service owned nursing-home in the city and following stomach surgery. Hers would be exactly thirty years later in Morningside at the age of seventy-seven.
Birth Locator:
1897 - Meikle Cloak, Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire
Residence Locations:
1901 - 1, Kennedy Place, Hawkhead Road, Paisley
1911 - 82, Williamsburgh, Paisley
1921 - N/A
1925 - 31, Glasgow Road, Paisley
1939-49 - 9, West Camus Rd., Edinburgh
Death Locator:
1949 - Civil Service Nursing Home, Drummond Place, Edinburgh
Grave Locator:
Cremated at Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh
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