Commander Duncan C. Walton (1886-1942) was elected to The Lambs in 1914 as an Army/Navy member. At the time, he was a surgeon in the U.S. Navy, on the staff of the Naval Hospital at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
He was destined to join the Navy as he was born at the Naval Academy where his father, Rear-Admiral Thomas C. Walton, was on the staff as a doctor.
In 1916 he was sent to the Naval Hospital at Cañacao, Manila Bay, in the Philippines. During World War I, he commanded the Marine Corps Hospital at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia.
In 1925 he was commended by the surgeon general for his paper, “Gas Poisoning Following Powder Explosions” when he was a lieutenant commander in the Medical Corps. He was a professor at the Naval Medical School in Washington, D.C.
Commander Walton died of heart disease on March 6, 1942, when he was 55 years old. He was buried with full military honors in the cemetery of the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, next to his parents.
–Researched and written by Shepherd Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, 2025.