WALLACE, Douglas Edwin
| Service Number: | 126 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles |
| Born: | 1879, place not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Coburg, Moreland, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 126, 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Patricia Schroeder
From the Brunswick and Coburg Leader (Vic.) 17th September 1926.
FORMER COBURG CITIZEN'S DEATH
MRS D.E. WALLACE
We clip the following paragraph from the Rhodesian Herald (South Africa) of September 6th.
"The death of Mrs. D.E. Wallace, of Coburg, late of the Blue Bonnet Syndicate, Duchess Hill, took place on Thursday night (August 26th). For some time Mrs. Wallace had been in indifferent health but the end came very suddenly. The funeral took place on Friday and was largely attended, testifying to the esteem in which the lady was held."
Mrs. Wallace was the daughter of the late Cr. Cherry, well remembered in Coburg as an overseer at Pentridge and a citizen of longstanding and one time President of the Municipality. Known as Fanny Cherry, she was at one time a member of the Coburg Holy Trinity Church Choir. Private advices state that she had an attack of pleurisy and succumbed to heart failure. Mr. Wallace ("Doug") is the son of Mr. E. Wallace, of Loch Street, Coburg, formerly of the Penal Establishment. He left Coburg to serve in the South African War and on his return married Fanny Cherry and took her back to Rhodesia where they were interested in the gold mines.
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