Wallace Victor DESCHAMPS

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DESCHAMPS, Wallace Victor

Service Numbers:	508, 9
Enlisted:	21 August 1914
Last Rank:	Driver
Last Unit:	Divisional Engineers Headquarters
Born:	Townsville, Queensland, Australia, 16 June 1880
Home Town:	Townsville, Townsville, Queensland
Schooling:	Public School
Occupation:	Farrier
Died:	Died of Illness (Cancer), Egypt, 23 March 1915, aged 34 years
Cemetery:	Cairo War Memorial Cemetery Row B, Grave 183
Memorials:	Townsville West End Methodist Church Roll of Honour

Boer War Service

26 Mar 1902:	Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 508, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen

World War 1 Service

21 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 9
21 Oct 1914:	Involvement AIF WW1, Driver, 9, Divisional Engineers Headquarters, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orvieto embarkation_ship_number: A3 public_note: ''
21 Oct 1914:	Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 9, Divisional Engineers Headquarters, HMAT Orvieto, Melbourne

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Served in Boer War as Wallace Victor Deschamp

Biography contributed

Wallace Victor DESCHAMPS was born in Townsville, Queensland on 16th June 1880

His parents were August Victor DESCHAMPS & Rose HIND

He married Ida Frances BAYSDEN on 2nd June 1910 in Germiston, Transvaal, South Africa

He served in both the Boer War & WW1 and died of cancer in Egypt on 23rd March, 1915

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His brother William Fraley DESCHAMPS (SN 6407) was killed in Action in Belgium on 21st September, 1917

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