WALLACE, George Gilbert
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia, 5 March 1879 |
| Home Town: | Cowell, Franklin Harbour, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Journalist and School Master |
| Died: | Melbourne South, Victoria, Australia, 16 March 1936, aged 57 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Beverley Stocker
Captain Wallace is recorded as In Command of Sea Transport Service. He was the owner/editor of the Eyre's Peninsula Tribune (Cowell) Streaky Bay Sentinel and the Kangaroo Island Courier. He was a highly respected Master at a number of Grammar and High Schools in Victoria. He was husband of Edith and father of four. Two of his sons were drowned in 1928 whilst canoeing in Port Phillip Bay. Capt Wallace died in 1936 aged only 57 and his ashes were scattered on the approximate spot his sons were drowned. (Source: Trove Newspapers)