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Major David John Wallace
British Army attd. Special Operations Executive King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:West Kensington, London
(d.17th August 1944)
Major Wallace was the Son of Capt. the Rt. Hon. Euan (David) Wallace, M.C., P.C., and of Lady Idina Wallace (nee Sackville), of Petworth, Sussex; husband of Joan Prudence Wallace, of West Kensington, London.
He lost his life while attached as an observer to the 10th Greek Division, the strongest national resistance force fighting against the Germans
He was 29 when he died and is buried in the Paramythia Civil Cemetery in Greece.