Notts Free Press - 23rd May 1919
WALLACE T.
Thomas Wallace
Private 82578
50th Bn., Machine Gun Corps (Inf)
Notts Free Press - 23rd May 1919
Thomas Wallace died on Friday 16th August 1918, aged 21, and was buried at GLAGEON COMMUNAL CEMETERY, Nord, France.
He was born c1897 at Sutton-in-Ashfield to parents William & Mary Wallace. William Wallace was a Coal Miner, and a native of Ruddington, while his wife (formerly Mary Scott) was born in Sutton. At the time of the 1901 census the family were living at 36 Willowbridge, Sutton. His elder brother, Frank Wallace, is also recorded on Sutton's War Memorial.
Notts Free Press - 23rd May 1919
Notts Free Press - In Memoriam - 23rd May 1919
Wallace - In loving memory of Private Thomas Wallace (M.G.C.), the beloved Son of William and Mary Wallace, who died in Germany, August 16th, 1918, aged 21 years. He marched away so bravely, his head so proudly held; His footsteps never faltered, his courage never failed. There on the field of battle he calmly took his place, he fought and died for England and the honour of his race. No one he loved was by his side to hear his last faint sighs, or whisper just one loving word before he closed his eyes. From Mother, Father, Sisters and Brothers.
From
‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 –
Machine Gun Corps’
Research by Heather Faulkes
