Lance Corporal William Wallace

Lance Corporal William Wallace, 12th ( Service ) Battalion, Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. He was killed by shellfire in action in France, aged 21, during the Battle of the Somme on 31st July 1916. He had been born in Edinburgh and was the son of James and Margaret Wallace of 25 Market Square, Duns. He is buried in Vielle Chapelle New Military Cemetery, Lacouture, France. Before the war he had been an apprentice gardener on Manderston Estate before going to work in Yorkshire where he enlisted. The photos show troops on the Somme and the colour image shows a peaceful Somme landscape today with ” no gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now”

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