Tributes to ex-hospital administrator
Saturday 3rd October 2009, 11:30AM BST.
A former chief hospital administrator for Shrewsbury and long-serving Royal Navy volunteer reserve who witnessed the liberation of Norway during the Second World War has died.
Tributes were paid today to Edward Walker, 89, of Castlefields, Shrewsbury, a retired Lieutenant Commander who died on September 27 from cancer.
Mr Walker, who was also known as Ted, was born in Edgbaston in 1920 but moved to Shrewsbury in the 1950s where he worked as a chief hospital administrator covering 17 hospitals around Shropshire.
During the Second World War Mr Walker lent his telescope to King George VI(the Sixth) who came onboard his ship HMS Renown.
Mr Walker also had dinner with the Queen Mother at Shrewsbury Castle as part of his Naval engagements.
His granddaughter Milly Brown said he had taken early retirement and raised her and her brother Stewart after her mother Judy was taken ill. Mr Walker’s daughter Judy said: “He was an honourable man who was active to the last.”
Mr Walker was married to Cynthia, who he met while working at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. The couple were married for 61 years before she died three years ago.
The great grandfather of three loved spending his time with his family and took his three great grandchildren Hannah, Jack and Dan on various trips around the UK.
The funeral is still to be arranged.
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