The son of Reverend George Sherbrooke Walker and his wife, Jessie Elizabeth Carter, Eric Walker was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham in Warwickshire on 4 July 1887, and brought up in March (now in Cambridgeshire) where his father was rector of St Wendreda's Church.
Eric Walker, the son of Reverend George Sherbrooke Walker and Jessie Elizabeth Carter, was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham on 4 July 1887. He spent his early years in March (now Cambridgeshire), where his father served as a local clergyman at St Wendreda's Church.