David Allan Walker | |
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Born | 14 July 1956 |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | Royal Air Force |
Years of service | 1974–2011 |
Rank | Air Marshal |
Commands held |
Training Group RAF RAF Halton |
Awards |
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Officer of the Order of the British Empire |
Spouse(s) | Jane Alison Fraser Calder (m. 1983) |
Other work |
Master of the Household Extra Equerry to The Queen Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire |
Air Marshal Sir David Allan Walker, KCVO, OBE, DL (born 14 July 1956) is a Director at Alexander Mann Solutions, and a member of the Advisory Board of Auticon. He is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer and Master of the Household to the Sovereign.
Walker was commissioned in the Administrative Branch of the Royal Air Force (RAF) on 1 September 1974. [1] He was regraded to pilot officer on 15 July 1977 (seniority 15 October 1975), [2] promoted to flying officer on 15 January 1978 (seniority 15 April 1976), [3] and promoted to flight lieutenant on 15 October 1980. [4] Walker was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) in 1992, and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1995. [5]
Walker became Station commander at RAF Halton in 1997, Director of Corporate Communications for the RAF in 1998 and Director of Personnel and Training Policy in 2002. [5] He went on to be Air Officer Commanding the RAF Training Group in 2003 before being seconded to Buckingham Palace in 2005 as Master of the Household to the Sovereign. [5] Walker was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in the 2011 Birthday Honours, being invested in a personal audience with Queen Elizabeth II on 13 July 2011. [6] [7] [8]
Walker is the son of Allan Walker and Audrey (née Brothwell). In 1983, he married Jane Alison Fraser Calder. [9]