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Walker, Albert John, 528

 

Service No:	528
Occupation:	Carpenter and Joiner
Address:	Montrose/ Surrey Hills
Date of Enlistment:	January 6, 1915
Age at Enlistment:	20 years 9 months
Marital Status:	Single
Physical Description:	5ft 7½in tall, 10stn 7lbs, grey eyes, brown hair, medium complexion.
Next of Kin:	Father, William James Walker
Rank on Enlistment:	Private
Unit Name:	8th Light Horse.
Embarkation Details:	February 25, 1915 Melbourne on HMAT Star of Victoria.

 

Places and dates of service:

1915 May 15: left with the horses to Heliopolis Egypt.
1915 October 25: sick – to hospital (rheumatism).
1916 February 26: to Serapeum Egypt.
1916 December 18: to Kantara Egypt 68th Aust. Flying Corp.
1917 January 13: to Alexandria Egypt and on to Southampton England.
1917 July 1: to Farnborough England.
1917 July 31: to Rouelles France 1st Div. Wireless Station.
1917 November 10: to 16th Squadron R.F.C (air mechanic) France.
1918 September 11: 8 days leave in Paris France.
1918 October 4: sick – in the field France (pleurodynia).
1918 October 5: to Camiers Hospital France (seriously ill).
1918 October 16: died of disease (broncho pneumonia).

Service injuries:
1918 October 16: died of disease (broncho pneumonia) at 4th General Hospital Camiers France. Buried at Etaples Military Cemetery, Nord Pas de Calais France.

Returned to Australia:	Not Applicable
Discharge Date:	Not Applicable
Rank at Discharge:	2/AM at time of death (Air Mechanic)
Honours/Medals:	1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal, Memorial Plaque and Scrol.
Memorials:	Not known

 

Family Story:

Bert was born 1894 Montrose (Mooroolbark) to parents William James Walker and Caroline (Carrie) Margaret Weeks. He had siblings Ivy May (b) 1896, Gladys Victoria 1901-1905, William James (Billy) (b) 1902 who served in WW2 and Rene. He was the grandson of James and Susan Walker and John and Nancy Weeks, both very prominent early Montrose pioneers. He was only 24 years of age when he died of disease 1918 France.

Walker, William Henry, 3305

 

Service No:	3305
Occupation:	Labourer
Address:	Montrose/ Mt. Dandenong
Date of Enlistment:	July 17, 1915
Age at Enlistment:	20 years 3 months
Marital Status:	Single
Physical Description:	5ft 8½ in tall, 10stn 6 lbs, dark brown eyes, dark brown hair, fresh complexion
Next of Kin:	Father Henry George Walker
Rank on Enlistment:	Private
Unit Name:	7/24th Btn.
Embarkation Details:	November 26, 1915 HMAT Commonwealth A73

 

Places and dates of service:

1916 January: sick(mumps) Cairo Egypt.
1916 February 4: Heliopolis (Baalbek) Lebanon
1916 June 15: to France
1916 September 16: France sick( influenza)
1917 February 10: France (septic ulcer  hand) hospital
1917 May 3: France wounded in the field -gunshot wound to ankle.
1917 May 13: to England Bath War Hospital Somerset
1917 June 26 to July 10: Furlo in England.
November 7: to France
1918 July 9: invalided to England (sick)
1918 November 9: Tidmouth England

Returned to Australia:	November 10, 1919: to Melbourne on HT Mahana
Discharge Date:	May 8, 1920
Rank at Discharge:	Private
Honours/Medals:	British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Memorials:	Montrose War Memorial, Montrose State School Honour Board, Shire of Lillydale Honour Board.

 

Family Story:

Will was born April 1895 in Montrose to parents Henry (Harry) George Walker (1862-1919) and Eva Fanny Hand (1863-1956). On the November 23, 1918, Will married and English lass Nora Kathleen Hinds, whom he met while recuperating from his wound in England. They were married in the Parish Church of England in Bath Somerset. Will died in 1977, aged 82 years (Geno) BDM. Possibly Genoa.

Wallace, Charles Henry, 385

 

Service No:	385
Occupation:	Farm hand – fruitgrower
Address:	Seville
Date of Enlistment:	June 3, 1916
Age at Enlistment:	24 years
Marital Status:	Single
Physical Description:	5ft 6½ins, 143 lbs, black hair, blue eyes, medium complexion.
Next of Kin:	Father – James Wallace, Seville.
Rank on Enlistment:	Private
Unit Name:	5R 5 Machine Gun Coy; 22AMGC
Embarkation Details:	September 19, 1916 embarked at Melbourne on the Commonwealth.

 

Places and dates of service:

1917 March 17: France.
1917 October 3: Belgium.
1917 October 4: Killed in Acton, Belgium.

Service injuries:
1917 October 4: Killed In Action, Belgium. Memorial Cross at Perth China Wall cemetery, Zillebeke near Ypres; Panel 31, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

Returned to Australia:	Not Applicable
Discharge Date:	Not Applicable
Rank at Discharge:	Private at time of death.
Honours/Medals:	British War Medal; Victory Medal; Memorial Plaque; Memorial Scroll.
Memorials:	Wandin War Memorial; Seville Honour Roll. Shire of Lilydale Honour Roll listed as C. T. Wallace

 

Family Story:

Charles Henry Wallace was born c1892 at Seville to James Wallace and Mary Jane Wallace nee Henderson. He was Methodist. His father was later Lilydale Shire President. Charles’s brother Perrin Norris Wallace also served in WW1, No 386B. On enlistment, the Wwill of Charles bequeathed everything to Miss Mary Wallace, Seville, witnessed by William Needham Turner and Perrin Norris Wallace.

The Wallace house at 473 Warburton Highway, Seville, is listed on the Yarra Ranges heritage database [vdh.heritage.vic.gov.au]. James Wallace owned it from 1882 to 1944. It is now part of Wild Cattle Creek Estate. In 1896 James Wallace, as a Seville fruit-grower, was mentioned in a Report for the Railways committee on selecting localities for survey of a narrow gauge line [www.parliament.vic.gov.au] On enlistment, Charles was farewelled at Seville Mechanics Institute [Lilydale Express July 7, 1916]

Wallace, James Sydney, 3490

 

Service No:	3490
Occupation:	Labourer
Address:	Seville
Date of Enlistment:	July 14, 1915
Age at Enlistment:	23 years 11 months
Marital Status:	Single
Physical Description:	5ft 4½ins, 10st, dark brown hair, blue eyes, medium complexion.
Next of Kin:	Father – Thomas Wallace, Wallace Rd, Seville.
Rank on Enlistment:	Private
Unit Name:	11R 6Btn; 2nd MGC; 1st MGC.
Embarkation Details:	October 11, 1915 embarked at Melbourne on the Nestor.

 

Places and dates of service:

1916 February 14: Egypt.
1917 October 11 to 1918 March 25: 2nd Machine Gun Coy, France.
1918 April 1: 1st Machine Gun Coy., France.
1918 August 24: wounded, France.
1918 August 26: Died of wounds.

Service injuries: 
1918 March 25: Gassed, France.
1918 August 24: Gun shot wound to neck, France.
1918 August 26: Died of wounds, 1st South African Comm. Hospital, France. He was buried at Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension, France, Plot 4, Row D, Grave 10.

Returned to Australia:	Not Applicable
Discharge Date:	Not Applicable
Rank at Discharge:	Private at time of death.
Honours/Medals:	1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; memorial Plaque; memorial Scroll & King’s Message.
Memorials:	Seville Honour Roll; Wandin War Memorial and Shire of Lilydale Honour Roll.

 

Family Story:

James Sydney Wallace was born at Seville in 1891 to Thomas Wallace and Annie Wallace nee Lappin. Thomas and Anne were married at Fitzroy in 1890.[www.familytreecircles].

He was a cousin of brothers Charles Henry Wallace and Perrin Norris Wallace. James wrote a letter of thanks from the front to an Adelaide woman, for the Christmas billy she had packed. [Lilydale Express March 3, 1916 p5] In another letter he ends: I hope the war won’t last much longer and that we will all be able to get back to good old Australia, which is the best place on earth (bet your life)..[L&DHS File].

Reports of his death followed: News to hand…that Private James S. Wallace has fallen at the front. He was badly wounded in the neck and died shortly afterwards in hospital. Pte Wallace was the only son of Mr [Thomas] Wallace of the Seville district and enlisted over three years ago. he was a nephew of councillor Wallace of Seville. [Lilydale Express September 9,1918 p2].

Mr & Mrs T. Wallace and family of Seville…sincere thanks for sympathy…[Lilydale Express September 9, 1918 p2] The family received his effects on September16, 1918 and April 8,1919. In 1941 parliamentarians, councillors and staff honoured his uncle James Wallace’s jubilee as a councillor. [Healesville Guardian April 5, 1941 p4 in L&DHS File]

Wallace, Perrin Norris, 386B