Lot 509
A 1914 STAR/BAR TRIO & PLAQUE.
A 1914 Star with gilt bar, named to 1578 Pte J R Wallace. 1/28 Lond R. British War & Victory Medals named to 2/Lt J R Wallace. Born on the 5th June 1895 at Kensington, the younger son of Roger W Wallace KC and Mrs Wallace of 36 Campden Hill, Kensington, London W.
Educated at Rugby School and Oriel College Oxford. A distinguished runner at short distances, also a member of the OTC.
Joining the Artists Rifles at the commencement of the war, serving in France he was commissioned 2/Lt in the 2nd battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers, from the General List. Invalided home in the same month with Pleurisy, contracted in the trenches.
Early in April 1915 he took upon recovery a draft from Ayr, to the 1st battalion.
It was with that battalion he was Killed in Action near Ypres on the 22nd April 1915.
The Officer Commanding his battalion wrote,'His pluck and unselfishness after he was hit, will always be remembered in the Scots Fusiliers. His one idea was that the men wounded with him should be treated first.I can only say his loss to us is irreparable .
Memorial Plaque named to John Roger Wallace, in its envelope of issue.
Details from the Bond of Sacrifice and Rugby Memorials.
See Illustration.
