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VC930   Samuel Thomas Dickson Wallace

Name   Samuel Thomas Dickson Wallace   No.     

VC Issue No.   930   Awards   VC    

Regiment   Royal Field Artillery, 'C' Battery

Later   

Now   Royal Regiment of Artillery

Rank VC Won    Temporary Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career  Captain

Place Of Birth   Holmhill, Thornhill, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland

Place Of Death   'Grey Ghyll', Moffat, Dumfries, Scotland

Buried/Location Ashes   Moffat Cemetery, Dumfries, Scotland

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone    Plot/Grave no.   

Gazetted   13 February 1918

VC Presented   17 July 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Moffat Cemetery, Dumfries, Scotland

P  Memorial Bench, St Andrews Churchyard, Moffat, Dumfries, Scotland

P  Named on Panel, Royal Artillery Chapel, Woolwich, South London

P  Named on Memorial Board, Old College, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey

By The Way…

Between the wars, he worked in agriculture in India, where he also met his wife.

VC Held By

Royal Artillery Regiment Museum, Old Royal Military Academy, Red Lion Lane, Woolwich, London, England

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BORN   7 March 1892

DIED   2 February 1968    AGE   75

VC Won   30 November 1917   AGE   25

Place VC Won   Gonnelieu, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1917