Walker was a long time stockman who ended up head stockman at Argyle Downs Station. After retiring, he established a camp he called Roy's Retreat, alongside the spillway from Lake Argyle Dam, running many horses. He picked a place for his burial site, in a spectacular natural amphitheatre in the hills, only accessible by a narrow cleft in the rock. His wife, helped by some other women friends, buried him there and later his wife made a beautiful carved headstone to mark the spot. The installation of the headstone was filed as a program for television by the British BBC. To read the full humorous but loving account and see excellent photos of his burial and erecting his headstone, click on the link. Roy Walker worked on many stations as a stockman, drover, horse breaker, yard builder and saddler and wrote the poetry broadsheets The Fishermen of the Spillway [1987?]; Reflections of the Past [1987?]; and The Stockman (1987).