Malvern College First World War Casualty

Lieutenant Stuart Annesley Wallace

Photo of Stuart Annesley Wallace
House and time at Malvern: No 7, 1907 - 1912.

Regiment: Royal Garrison Artillery.
Died: 31 May 1917 aged 23 in France. Killed in action.
Cemetery: Henin Communal Extensiom I D 16

Son of W. V. Wallace, I.C.S., Rock House, Tiverton, b. 1894.
Upper V—Army I. House Scholar. Heywood Prize.
R.M.A. Woolwich; R.G.A. 1914; Lieutenant 1915.

'Stuart Wallace won his house scholarship at the age of twelve, and all his work here and later bore out his early promise: he was unfortunate in his Woolwich career, as a series of illnesses, including appendicitis, deprived him of what had seemed a certainty, a commission in the R.E. His bright wits, combined as they were with an affectionate disposition, and a happy youthfulness of manner, made him an interesting and attractive personality to those with whom he was thrown in his daily life, both in his house and outside it. In the earlier part of the war he was stationed at Gibraltar, and then was sent home as Asst. Commandant of a heavy Artillery Signalling depot, where, as we hear from his C.O., he showed himself an exceedingly efficient instructor: so efficient indeed, that he was kept at home longer than would have otherwise happened, and much longer than he himself wished. He left for the front on May 16, and was killed while firing his gun on May 31. His Battery Commander has written: "In the few days he had been with us he had shown himself to be keen and capable, and his death is a great loss to me."' (Malvernian, Jul 1917).

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