Robert Jonathan WALLIS MC

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WALLIS, Robert Jonathan

Service Numbers:	738, Officer, V65575
Enlisted:	17 August 1914, Surrey Hills, Victoria
Last Rank:	Lieutenant Colonel
Last Unit:	8 Infantry Battalion AMF
Born:	Tooboorac, Victoria, Australia, 29 October 1891
Home Town:	Camberwell, Boroondara, Victoria
Schooling:	Scotch College Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Printer
Died:	Natural Causes, Prince Henry's Hospital, Victoria, Australia, 19 March 1972, aged 80 years
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Thomas Simmons Lawn, Row BB, grave 27
Memorials:

World War 1 Service

17 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 738, Depot Battalion (AIF), Surrey Hills, Victoria
19 Oct 1914:	Embarked AIF WW1, Sergeant, 738, 8th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: ''
25 Apr 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 738, 8th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli
25 Apr 1915:	Wounded AIF WW1, Sergeant, 738, 8th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Wounded In Action -- G.S.W. Head -- Gallipoli
15 May 1915:	Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant
20 Feb 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 8th Infantry Battalion
31 Dec 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Captain, 8th Infantry Battalion
5 Jun 1917:	Honoured Military Cross
22 Oct 1918:	Promoted Major, 8th Infantry Battalion
15 Dec 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Major, Officer, 8th Infantry Battalion, Discharge from service -- Appointment Terminated

World War 2 Service

25 Sep 1940:	Enlisted V65575, Melbourne, Victoria
25 Sep 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant Colonel, V65575
23 Jun 1944:	Discharged Lieutenant Colonel, V65575, 8 Infantry Battalion AMF

Link to Percy Lay

Note: In the introduction to James L. Turner's (1983), “The war diaries of Captain Percy Lay” (B. & H. Publisher), Turner notes that Bob Wallis was a good mate of Percy Lay. As you will see from Lay's Diaries at the AWM, he was a good mate to have:
1. The original diaries of Captain Lay held: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1357964.
2. A transcribed version of these diaries, made after WWI https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1357965.

Evan Evans

Submitted 7 June 2017 by Evan Evans

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