For Karen - Oh, my goodness, yes! Please! You can reach me in parallel at johnmickes@cox.net - I've been working on the Walker data, too, so perhaps we can share stuff. Thank you so very much!

My understanding is that he was captured and spent time as a POW before being repatriated (a la the Illinois guys on that ship). It's stingingly ironic that he survived the war and a prison camp to die so horribly. The end of this month is the 150th anniversary of that event, and (at the very least), I'll don my kilt and grab my pipes to go to the oceanfront and play "Flowers of the Forest" for him and all the others, may they rest eternally in peace.