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Military service
Age:
24
Rank:
Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
15th Bn.
Birth:
October 24, 1892
Drayton, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 10, 1915
Niagara Camp, Ontario
Death:
April 9, 1917
France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Arras Road Cemetery, Memorial 1.
Additional information
Son of William and Alice A. M. Wallace, of Cannington, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Major Robert Eugene Wallace
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War Memorial
War Memorial in Cannington, On. Submitted by 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH -
War Memorial
War Memorial in Cannington, On. Submitted by 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH -
War Memorial
War Memorial in Cannington, On. Submitted by 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Inscription
Inscription (John & Anne Stephens 2013) -
Cemetery
Nine Elms Cemetery – The Nine Elms Cemetery, located at Roclincourt, France. It is about 5 kilometres from Canada's Vimy Memorial in France. (John & Anne Stephens 2013) -
War Grave Register
E-13 War Grave Register, Library and Archives Canada -
Newspaper Clipping
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Cap Badge
Cap Badge 15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada). Submitted by Capt V Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Shoulder Patch
Shoulder patch 15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada). Submitted by Capt V Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Grave marker
Gravemarker. Photo BGen G. Young 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team DILEAS GU BRATH. -
Grave Marker
Gravestone of Major RE Wallace. Nine Elms Military Cemetery, Thelus. -
Vimy Cross
The Vimy Cross was returned to the 48th Highlanders after the war by the CWGC and currently rests in a place of honour in their Regimental Museum. All the names of those 15th Battalion members killed during battle at Vimy Ridge remain clearly visible on the cross. Photo by BGen (ret) G Young and submitted by Capt (ret) V Goldman of the 15th Battalion Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Vimy Cross
Vimy Cross erected by the 15th Battalion following the 9 April 1917 battle at Vimy Ridge to commemorate those who fell during the engagement. Photo from the archives of the 48th Highlanders Museum, Toronto. Provided by BGen (ret) G Young and submitted by Capt (ret) V Goldman of the 15th Battalion Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Photo of ROBERT EUGENE WALLACE
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Document
Pt II Orders 15th Bn dated 17 April 1917 noting Major Wallace as KIA. Submitted by 15th Bn Memorial Project Team courtesy 48th Highlanders of Canada Regimental Museum. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Paying respects
Private Bernard Frank Dunnett (b. 1889, Ipswich, England; d. 1955) of Cannington, Ontario, visits the grave of his fallen comrade Major Robert E. Wallace, also of Cannington, in 1936 during the Vimy Pilgrimage. -
Cenotaph
The 15th Battalion Vimy cross memorial was erected and dedicated at Ecurie, France close to the site where the original wooden cross was erected on the battlefield near Nine Elms Cemetery on 10 April 1917. The memorial is a granite replica of that cross and bears the names of fifty-four of the battalion's fallen that were inscribed on the original including Major Wallace. Photograph was taken in September 2018 at the dedication ceremony and is submitted by the 15th Battalion Memorial Project. Dileas Gu Brath -
Cenotaph
Memorial to Major Wallace found on Wallace Family gravestone, Cannington Cemetery. Photo courtesy Rosemary Dennis -
Photo of ROBERT EUGENE WALLACE
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Major Robert Eugene Wallace
Digital gallery of
Major Robert Eugene Wallace
Digital gallery of
Major Robert Eugene Wallace
Digital gallery of
Major Robert Eugene Wallace
Digital gallery of
Major Robert Eugene Wallace
Digital gallery of
Major Robert Eugene Wallace
Digital gallery of
Major Robert Eugene Wallace
Digital gallery of
Major Robert Eugene Wallace
Digital gallery of
Major Robert Eugene Wallace
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 344 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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NINE ELMS MILITARY CEMETERY (France) Pas de Calais, France
Thelus is a village about 6.5 kilometres north of Arras and 1 kilometre east of the main road from Arras to Lens. The NINE ELMS MILITARY CEMETERY is on the western side of the main road and about 1.5 kilometres south of the village.
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