Educated at
Cheltenham College, Walter was commissioned into the
12th Regiment of Foot on 14 January 1880. He became Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General in India in May 1896, and saw action with the Tochi Field Force and then at the
Relief of Ladysmith in October 1899 during the
Second Boer War. and as Major General in charge of Administration at
Northern Command, India from 1917 before retiring at the end of the War. ==References==