Note: Walter's parents died when he was a child and he was brought up by his aunt Margaret, only 10 years older. A farmer, he inherited his grandmothers' farm in Napperby in 1922. He married Eva Myrtle Roe Bartrum on 24.4.1923 at St Paul's Church, Port Pirie. They lived at Flinders View, where Walter died on 27.2.1947. Eva moved to Bordertown in 1955. She died on 17.9.1961.