Major David John WALLACE (1937)

King's Royal Rifle Corps, attached to Special Operations Executive
Born 3 October 1914
Killed in action 17 August 1944, aged 29
Buried at Paramythia Civil Cemetery; also commemorated on the Eton College Roll of Honour.

David Wallace was the son of Capt The Rt Hon Euan Wallace, MC, PC and Lady Myra Idina, née Sackville, of Petworth, Sussex. David married Joan Prudence, née Magor, on 24 January 1939, and they lived in Kensington. They had two daughters.

He was educated at Eton College, and came up to Balliol in 1933, taking a first in Classics in 1936 before coming to Merton as a Harmsworth Senior Scholar the following year.

Wallace served in the KRRC and was part of the SOE. He was an observer attached to the 10th Greek Division, the strongest national resistance force fighting against the Germans. He was killed during the conquest of Fort Menina.

He is buried in the only Commonwealth War Grave in an old churchyard in Greece. He is marked by a memorial inscribed in Greek:

Here rests amongst his guerilla comrades an Englishman, Major David Wallace, killed on 17th August, 1944, in the battle of Meninas. The soil of Greece is honoured to give shelter to this hero

Two of his three brothers, Gerard and Peter, were also killed whilst serving during the war.