Wallace Rae SCHOFIELD

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Service Number:	18931
Enlisted:	1 December 1915, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	7th Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia, 1897
Home Town:	Tamworth, Tamworth Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Auditor
Died:	New South Wales, Australia , 12 May 1974, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Macquarie Park Cemetery & Crematorium, North Ryde, New South Wales Vaughan Roman Catholic Lawn, Row 39, Grave 0062
Memorials:	Nundle Bowling Alley Point Roll of Honour

1 Dec 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 18931, 7th Field Artillery Brigade, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
11 May 1916:	Involvement Gunner, 18931, 7th Field Artillery Brigade, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: ''
11 May 1916:	Embarked Gunner, 18931, 7th Field Artillery Brigade, HMAT Argyllshire, Sydney
26 Jun 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Gunner, 18931, 7th Field Artillery Brigade, Gassed. Invalided to England on the 4 July 1917
6 Feb 1918:	Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 18931, 7th Field Artillery Brigade, Discharged at the 2nd Military District as medically unfit due to Tuberculosis

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Son of Edmund Shaw Schofield and Mary Schofield of the Post Office Hotel, Tamworth, NSW

Commenced return to Australia on 26 September 1917 aboard HT Borda disembarking on the 11 October 1917

During 1929 Wallace married Lucy de Marco at Randwick, NSW

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal