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Details on www.cwgc.org :- Captain 10th Btn Canadian Infantry dies 22/4/1915 age 35 Comem on Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 24-28-30 Son of Mrs and the Late Henry Wallace of Canada, husband of Winifred Laura Jane Wallace of 87 Heene Road, Worthing, Sussex, England. In the Boer War 1899-1902 he served as Pte 3198 in the 14 Company (Northumberland) 5 Battalion Imperial Yeomanry and was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal with clasps Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 In the 1881 Census he is recorded as living at Trench Hall, Lamesley, Chester-le-Street with his parents Henry & Jessie Wallace and 3 sisters. His father was Land Agent to Lord Ravensworth.

The Canadian Great War Project website has some basic service details for Captain Wallace: www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/searches/soldierDetail.as... Captain Wallace appears in the 1891 and 1891 censuses at Lamesley with his parents Henry Atholl Wallace and Jessie Ellis. He had 3 older sisters and by 1891 a further 3 siblings. He married Winifred Laura Jane Archer circa 1902 in Gateshead, Durham and by 1906 they were living in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada where they had been since 1902 according to the census record, so presumably straight after marrying. No children are shown on the 1906 census and Winifred's age is given as 22 (she was born in 1881 in Gateshead), with Henry's shown as 26.

He and Winifred had two children, Harold and Dorothy.

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Fantastique série sur 14/18 Très intéressant !

Merci beaucoup!

This could be: Major Ross Hilliard Anderson, 109th Battalion CEF Officers' Declaration Paper, Library and Archives Canada RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 166 - 30: www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-wo... Joined: Lindsay, Ontario, either November 1915 or April 1916 Born: Monmouth Township, Haliburton County, Ontario, 18 December 1884 Resident: Lindsay, Ontario Next-of-kin: Edith Gertrude Anderson (wife) Occupation: General merchant Religion: Presbyterian Militia Regiment: 45th Victoria Regiment (10 years) Described as a postmaster at Tory Hill, Victoria from 1909 to 1959; succeeding J. H. Anderson (postmaster 1893 to 1908), and succeeded by Ross Harry Anderson Jr. (1959-71) and Howard P. Anderson (1971-73): www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/post-offices/001001... Wikipedia, 109th Battalion (Victoria & Haliburton), CEF: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/109th_Battalion_(Victoria_&_Haliburton),_CEF

Just wondering how you determined this might be Major Ross Hilliard Anderson. The reason that I am asking is this might be my dad's grandpa?

It is always difficult to be absolutely certain about identifications, but I think that I based this one simply on the basic information provided by the Imperial War Museum. Rank, initials, surname, and unit name are not always sufficient to identify someone unambiguously, but in this particular case the details did seem to fit with the information about Major Anderson provided by Library and Archives Canada. The cap badge is definitely that of the 109th Battalion, so there would logically be a link with Victoria and Haliburton. It seems as if the 109th Bn. sailed to England in July 1916, but that members of the battalion were mostly used to reinforce other CEF units: cefresearch.ca/matrix/Army%20Corps/Divisions/Reorganized%...