HISLOP, Wallace
| Service Number: | WX35878 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 November 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | West Midland, Western Australia, , 27 January 1917 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 9 May 1995, aged 78 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Pinnaroo Valley Chapel & Crematorium |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 23 Nov 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SN WX35878 | |
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| 26 Apr 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SN WX35878 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Wallace (Bob) was the youngest of twelve children of Alfred Hislop (b1871 in Quindalup WA) and Alice Mary Harwood (b1875 in Quindalup WA). Alfred - a Horse Trainer and Racer - and Alice married in 1896 in Quindalup WA. Alfred joined the Railways and the family lived in Quindalup, Bunbury, Brunswick Junction, Fremantle and Perth.
Bob was a member of the 44th Battalion Militia Band with his six brothers. He was a Labourer in Perth in November 1942 when he enlisted in the Australian Army (Private; Service No:WX35878). He was attached to Australian War Graves Maintenance Section QLD Detail when he was Discharged in April 1946. Six of Bob's brothers served in WWI/WWII.
In 1943 Bob married Pansy Joyce Redford (b1921 in Sussex, England) - Pansy had arrived with her family in 1924 in Albany WA on board the Euripides. Wallace and Pansy lived in Wundowie WA where Bob was a Labourer before relocating to Perth in the 1950s. Bob worked as a Labourer in Perth, where he died in 1995. Pansy died in 2000.