Private Joseph Wallace

Joseph Wallace was the son of Joseph and Ellen Wallace, of Kirkdale, Liverpool. He enlisted into The King’s Regiment (Liverpool) and volunteered for airborne forces.

Private Wallace successfully completed his parachute training on course number 93 at RAF Ringway. The course lasted from 25 November to 13 December 1943 and he was posted to 4 Platoon, A Company, 156 Battalion, The Parachute Regiment. He took part in Operation Market Garden (Arnhem).

Pte Wallace was killed in action on 19 September 1944, aged 27, and was given a field burial by a lane in a wood at Oosterbeek, and was reinterred to Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery on 7 September 1945.

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