LONDON (October 23, 2012)--William Walker, whose poem is part of
a national monument to his comrades in the Battle of Britain,
has died at age 99. The Battle of Britain Trust said Walker died
Sunday at home in London. Walker, a Spitfire fighter pilot, was
shot down and wounded in his right ankle on Aug. 26, 1940, as
British pilots engaged a German bomber force. His poem "Our
Wall" is inscribed on the memorial on the Dover cliffs to the
nearly 3,000 men who flew in the battle from June to October
1940 After retiring as chairman of the Ind Coope brewery, Walker
wrote poetry including tributes to the fliers hailed by Winston
Churchill who said, "Never in the field of human conflict was so
much owed by so many to so few."