Private Walker Private Walker Private Joe Walker is a fictional black market spiv (or Wholesales Supplier, as he politely puts it) and Home Guard platoon member, portrayed by actor James Beck in the BBC television sitcom "Dad's Army". Beck died suddenly in 1973. The character of Walker was possibly one of the most prominent and popular in the show. Following his character's departure (Walker was last mentioned in the episode "The Recruit", although he does not appear in this episode) the series attempted to replace him with a war reporter called Private Cheeseman (played by Talfryn Thomas), who had made a previous
Niel Walker a brigadier commanding 113 Infantry Brigade in April to June 1942. Walker died at Sheffield, Yorkshire at the age of 65. Niel Walker Niel Alexander McDonald Walker (22 August 1895 - 10 August 1960) was a British army officer and a cricketer who played in tournaments in India and for Derbyshire. Walker was born at Poona, Maharashtra, India. At the start of the First World War he was at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant into the Sherwood Foresters on 12 May 1915. After the war Walker saw service in India, where he also