Captain Houston Stewart Hamilton WALLACE (1912)

10th (Service) Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
Born 22 June 1892 in Birkenhead, Merseyside
Killed in action 22 July 1916, aged 24
Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Also commemorated by an oak and mahogany crucifix on a cairn beside the Upper Road to High Wood from Bazentin-le-Petit.

Houston Wallace was the son of William Hamilton Wallace and Emily Constance, née Heap, of Birkenhead.

He was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh—where he was a school prefect, captain of cricket and hockey and a Sergeant in the OTC—before coming to Merton in 1912.

He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on 2 October 1914, and was sent to France the following July. He saw action at Ypres and the Somme.

He was killed in action attacking a German machine gun post at Bazentin-le-Petit, on 22 July 1916. His maternal aunt presented eight silver bugles to his regiment in his memory, and in 1924 erected a large wooden crucifix close to where he was killed, which still stands there today.