Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Book_ Buried in a cemetery on the Rue Petillon, about 3,500 yards south of Fleurbaix. His Commanding Officer wrote: "Your son was killed in action early Sunday morning, 9 May, as we were advancing under heavy cross-firing. He was in charge of our machine-gun section, and had done extremely well. He was very popular with all ranks, and will be greatly missed." Lieut. Banes-Walker was well-known in sporting circles being a fine rider to hounds. He played cricket for Somerset, and hockey for Gloucestershire. [Illustration: =Frederick C. Banes-Walker.=] =GORDON-WALKER, CHARLES NIGEL=, Lieut. and Adjutant, 10th (Service) Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., attd. 8th Battn. Manchester Regt. (T.F.), yst. _s._ of the late Frederick Alexander Walker, of Gravesend, Kent, by his wife, Grace Marion (23, Holbein House, Sloane Square, London, S.W.), dau. of the late David Alexander Gordon, of Culveman and Greenlaw, co. Kirkcudbright, and of Hong Kong; _b._ Milton-next-Gravesend, co. Kent, 3 July, 1889; educ. Westminster School; was in the firm of Messrs. Gilman & Co., Merchants of Hong Kong, and 18, St. Swithin's Lane, London, E.C., and was Corpl. in the Scouts Company, Hong Kong Volunteer Corps; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 10th South Staffords, 21 Nov. 1914, and appointed Adjutant to the battn. 21 Nov. 1914; attd. to 8th Manchester (T.F.), May, 1915; left for the Dardanelles from Plymouth, 15 May, and was killed in action in Gallipoli 7 Aug. following; _unm._ [Illustration: =Charles N. Gordon-Walker.=] =WALL, JOHN THOMAS=, Private, No. 5743, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; _b._ co. Warwick; enlisted 30 Sept. 1904; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 11 Sept. 1914; died in No. 4 Clearing Hospital, Poperinghe, 29 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action. Buried Poperinghe New Cemetery. =WALLACE, ANDREW=, Capt., 1/4th Battn. King's Own Scottish Borderers (T.F.), eldest _s._ of James Wallace, of Castle View, Prestonpans, Headmaster of Prestonpans Public School, by his wife, Barbara, dau. of John Guthrie Smith, of Newmilns, Ayrshire, Manufacturer; _b._ Prestonpans, 3 Feb. 1875; educ. Prestonpans Public School; George Heriot's School, Edinburgh, and Edinburgh University, where he was Gold Medallist in Anatomy, and completed his medical course when he was only twenty. After being assistant to Dr. Nuttall of Leicester for three years, he went as Ship's Doctor to China and Japan on the S.S. Glen Avon, which was wrecked off Hong Kong on her homeward voyage; and then practised for fifteen years in Coldstream, where he took a prominent part in Ambulance Association Work, and in the Territorials. He joined the 2nd Vol. Battn. K.O.S.B. (afterwards the 4th Territorial Battn. of the Scottish Borderers) in 1902 and became Lieut. 8 Aug. 1903, and Capt. 11 April, 1906; and volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war. He left for the Dardanelles on 21 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Krithia, Gallipoli, 12 July following; _unm._ Of his nine brothers, Capt. W. E. Wallace is in France with 8th Battn. Royal Scots, Capt. H. S. Wallace is in Egypt with the Notts and Derby Mounted Field Ambulance Bde., and Cadet R. H. Wallace presently training with University Corps, Bristol. His second youngest brother, Harold S. Wallace, with 8th Battn. Royal Scots, was killed in France, 8 April, 1915, at Picantin, near Laventie. [Illustration: =Andrew Wallace.=] =WALLACE, HAROLD SYDNEY=, Private, No. 893, 8th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), 9th _s._ of James Wallace, of Castle View, Prestonpans, Headmaster of Prestonpans Public School, and a younger brother of Capt. Andrew Wallace (see preceding notice), by his wife, Barbara, dau. of John Guthrie Smith; _b._ Prestonpans, 29 Nov. 1892; educ. Prestonpans Public School; George Heriot's School, Edinburgh, and Skerry's College; was an Officer of Customs and Excise; joined the 8th Territorial Battn. of the Royal Scots in 1912; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war; went to France, 2 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Picantin, near Laventie, 8 April, 1915; _unm._ Buried Rue Tilleloy, Laventie. [Illustration: =Harold S. Wallace.=] =WALLACE, HENRY ATHOLL CHARLES=, Capt., 10th Battn. 2nd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest _s._ of the late Henry Wallace, of Trench Hall, co. Durham, J.P., for many years Agent to the Earl of Ravensworth; by his wife, Jessie (139, Ware Road, Hertford), dau. of Charles Ellis, of New York, U.S.A.; _b._ Trench Hall, Gateshead-on-Tyne, 1879; educ. Uppingham College; served in the South African War with the Northumberland Imperial Yeomanry, 1900-1901 (Queen's medal with two clasps); emigrated to Canada in 1902, and after farming in Manitoba for a short time, turned his attention to real estate; joined the 106th Winnipeg L.I. in Winnipeg, Canada; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war and was appointed Capt. 10th Battn. (Winnipeg L.I.); came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct. 1914; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to France early in Feb. and after serving in the trenches for two months, was killed in action at Langemarck, 22 April, 1915. He always took a keen interest in military matters, and belonged in Canada to the Veterans' Brigade, composed of men who had served their country in any part of the world. He _m._ at St. Mary's, Gateshead-on-Tyne, 1903, Winifred (194, Hill Street, Norwood Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada), dau. of the late Thomas Archer, of the Dunston Engine Works, Dunston-on-Tyne, a well-known engineer and inventor, and had two children: Henry Archer Harold, _b._ 3 April, 1906; and Dorothy Laura, _b._ 15 March, 1909. [Illustration: =Henry A. C. Wallace.=] =WALLACE, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4924), S.S. 104347, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =WALLACE, JOHN=, Private, No. S./7097, 2nd Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 10 Feb. 1915. =WALLACE, JOHN ROGER (ION)=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, yr. _s._ of Roger William Wallace, of 36, Campden Hill Gardens, Kensington, K.C., by his wife, Sarah, dau. of John Thornton; _b._ Kensington, 25 June, 1895; educ. at School House, Rugby, and Oriel College, Oxford; joined the Artists' Rifles as a Private when war began, and went to France with them, 26 Oct. 1914. He was given a commission, 15 Dec. 1914, being gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers. The same month he was invalided home after an attack of pleurisy caught in the trenches, and early this year (1915), after taking out a draft of men from Ayr, was transferred to the 1st Battn. of his regt. He was killed in action, near Ypres, 22 April, 1915, and buried in the Military Cemetery, Dickebusch, Belgium; _unm._ His commanding officer wrote: "His pluck and unselfishness will always be remembered in the Scots Fusiliers. His one idea was that the men wounded at the same time should be ca |