WALLACE, Joseph Henry
(Service number 6/568)
From the photograph album of 6/538 Private Hector Hobson Saunderson, 2nd (South) Canterbury Infantry Battalion. (Kippenberger Military Archive, National Army Museum Te Mata Toa, Waiouru 1993.1284)
The postcard bears the slogan and title: "Honour the brave and forget them not" and "Some heroes who fell in this great war, 1915". The men pictured are Sergeant S E Bassett (Rosewill), Sergeant J H Wallace (Timaru), Major David Grant (Timaru), Sergeant W Rutherford (Timaru), and Private C Stevenson (Timaru) [Note it should be C not G Stevenson as it appears to read on the original] (South Canterbury Museum 4033)
| First Rank | Corporal | Last Rank | Sergeant |
|---|
Birth
| Date | 10/03/1892 | Place of Birth | Ashburton, New Zealand |
|---|
Enlistment Information
| Date | Age | 22 years 10 months | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Address at Enlistment | Marsden Street, Timaru, New Zealand | ||
| Occupation | Clerk | ||
| Previous Military Experience | 2nd South Canterbury Regiment | ||
| Marital Status | Single | ||
| Next of Kin | James Wallace, Land and Commission Agent, Timaru, New Zealand | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
|---|
Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | Main Body | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | Canterbury Infantry Battalion | ||
| Date | 16 October 1914 | ||
| Transport | Tahiti or Athenic | ||
| Embarked From | Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand | Destination | Suez, Egypt |
| Other Units Served With | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Last Unit Served With | Canterbury Infantry Battalion | ||
Military Awards
| Campaigns | Gallipoli | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Service Medals | 1914-1915 Star. Plaque and Scroll sent to Mrs M Wallace (Mother) Chalmers St, Timaru 1922 | ||
Award Circumstances and Date
No information
Prisoner of War Information
| Date of Capture | |
|---|---|
| Where Captured and by Whom | |
| Actions Prior to Capture | |
| PoW Serial Number | |
| PoW Camps | |
| Days Interned | |
| Liberation Date |
Death
| Date | 7 August 1915 | Age | 24 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Place of Death | Gallipoli, Turkey | ||
| Cause | Killed in action | ||
| Memorial or Cemetery | Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial, Chunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey | ||
| New Zealand Memorials | On Memorial wall, Timaru | ||
Biographical Notes
Son of James and Mary Elizabeth Wallace. of 16, Chalmers St., Timaru. Promoted to Sergeant 7/5/1915 KILLED IN ACTION AUGUST 7. The following Timaru and South Canterbury men were
killed in action at the Dardanelles on August 7th:
Sergeant Wallace was educated at the Timaru Main School, and in October would have been 24 years of age. After leaving school he was for a while in the employ of Mr Wade, ironmonger. Later he joined the clerical staff of the National Mortgage and Agency Company, where he held the position of shipping clerk for two and a half years. He then joined the Westport Coal Company, and in this firm rose to be traveller until about three years ago when he went into business with his father in the Arcade. He left with the Main body as a private, and quickly received promotion, being made a corporal in New Zealand, and rising to sergeant in Egypt. On the hockey field he was a well known figure, and was a keen player, in addition to which he proved a most capable secretary to the South Canterbury Hockey Association. While hockey was his chief form of sport, he also took an interest in tennis. He was a member of the Wesley Bible Class. News of the death of so popular a young man as Sergeant J. H. Wallace was received with very keen regret in Timaru yesterday and Mr and Mrs Wallace were receiving messages of sympathy practically all day. When the Rev. J. R. Sullivan returned disabled, from the Dardanelles he said that Sergeant Wallace was one of the most highly esteemed of the South Canterbury men on the Peninsula and that one of his keenest regrets in coming away was to part company with so cheerful and capable an officer.
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph, March 2014: CWGC: The Timaru Herald: NZ Defence Force Personnel Records. Archives Reference: AABK 18805 W5557 0118390. Digital Image.
External Links
Related Documents
- Timaru Herald 10 Dec 1915 - St Andrews man's letter (pdf, 36.0 KB updated 01-Sep-2017)
- South Canterbury Herald - 12 Nov 2014 (pdf, 240.6 KB updated 14-Nov-2014)
- South Canterbury Herald 19 Nov 2014 Joseph Henry WALLACE (pdf, 4.5 MB updated 26-Nov-2014)
- Mountainview High School Roll of Honour (pdf, 809.5 KB updated 13-May-2016)
Researched and Written by
Currently Assigned to
Not assigned.
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License unless otherwise stated.
Tell us more
Do you have information that could be added to this story? Or related images that you are happy to share? Submit them here!