Lloyd (Snowy) WALLACE

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WALLACE, Lloyd

Other Name:	Wallace, Leigh Clarence Lloyd
Service Number:	WX4726
Enlisted:	23 June 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/16th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Subiaco, Western Australia , 2 December 1919
Home Town:	Nedlands, Nedlands, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, New Guinea, 9 November 1943, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lae Memorial, Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea - Panel 3
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World War 2 Service

23 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX4726, 2nd/16th Infantry Battalion
Date unknown:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX4726, 2nd/16th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Les Westerlund

Snowy was part of WA's historic 2/1th B. They were protecting th Dumpu landing strip, the 21st Brigade were on recon, and ambushed, Snowy was injured, surverely wounded, and kept the Brengunner goind, while telling his mates to retreat to safer ground. Wallace was not seen again. (p203 of book "A Thousand Men At War".

His parents are: William Clarence Wallace
(1888–1952) and Winifred Jane Fry (1891–1952) are from Melbourne to Perth, WA, and siblings: Joan , Pauline, Bertie and Derrick.

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