Career
He was 25 years old, and a temporary lieutenant in the "C" Battery 63rd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the Venture capital. On 20 November 1917 at Gonnelieu, France, when the personnel of Lieutenant Wallace"s battery were reduced to five, having lost their commander and five sergeants, and were surrounded by enemy infantry, he maintained the firing of the guns by swinging the trails close together, the men running and loading from gun to gun. He was in action for eight hours firing the whole time and inflicting severe casualties on the enemy. Then, owing to the exhausted state of his men, he withdrew when the infantry supports arrived, taking with him all essential gun parts and all wounded.
He is buried in Moffat Cemetery, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland on right side of main gate.
