"Jock" John William WALLACE
Born 30 November 1918 in Wagin, Western Australia [16]
Son of Robert WALLACE and Lila Isabel RICHARDS [P182]
Resided with his parents on farmland in Coorow [P182] and was a student at the Waddy Forest State School [P32]
Boarding Student at Scotch College in the Perth suburb of Claremont 1933-1936 [5: 29-Sep-1933, 10-May-1935] [39: 9-Dec-1936]
Each school holidays he returned home to his parents in Waddy Forest [5: 29-Sep-1933, 10-May-1935. 15-May-1936, 28-Aug-1936]
Member of the Scotch College crew who won the Head of the River on the Swan River in Perth on 4 May 1935 [5: 10-May-1935]
By mid December 1935 he had returned home to Waddy Forest to spend the Christmas school holidays with his parents [5: 20-Dec-1935]
Member of the Waddy Forest Tennis Club in 1935-36 [5: 10-Jan-1936]
He won the R.S. Boyd Trophy for secondary school wool classing at Scotch College in December 1936 [39: 9-Dec-1936]
He and his brother exhibited and won prizes in the Sheep section at a number of Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Shows
They won 2nd prize for Pen of Three Merino Ewes at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 5 September 1934 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
They received the Dalgety's Trophy for export lambs at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 4 & 11-Sep-1936, 20-Nov-1936]
In 1936 also received 1st for Three Lambs Suitable for Export and 2nd for Three Merino Ewes under 1½ years [5]
Resided in Waddy Forest in 1937 [5: 7-May-1937]
After a short period in Perth, including rowing for the Scotch College Old Boys, he returned to Waddy in May 1937 [5: 7-May-1937]
Member of the Coorow Football Club in 1937 [5: 11-Jun-1937, 10-Sep-1937]
Played Madame Pettipwah in the play "The Wrong Flat" at the Toc H Social at the Coorow Hall on 24 June 1937 [5: 2-Jul-1937]
Steward who organised and took entries for the Sheep Judging section for the 1937 Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show [5: 18-Jun-1937]
He came 2nd in the Sheep Judging at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show, which was held on 2 September 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Together as 'J. & W. Wallace' he and his brother he won 1st prize for Three Fat Lambs Suitable for Export [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Their lambs also took out the Dalgety & Company trophy for export lambs and were some of the best the judge had ever judged [5]
Corporal of the No. 2 Troop of the "C" Squadron of the motorised 25th Light Horse Machine Gun Regiment in 1939 [P15]
The No. 2 Troop was a local militia unit made of people from the North Midlands and trained in Carnamah once a fortnight [P15]
Enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force in Perth during the Second World War on 31 March 1941 [16]
He underwent training at Cunderdin and Geraldton in Western Australia and the in Queensland [P182]
Served in New Guinea during the and was involved in using radar and dropping Z Forces behind enemy lines [P182]
At the time of his discharge on 27 February 1946 he was Flight Lieutenant 406743 of the Royal Australian Air Force's 201 Flight [16]
Married Kathleen Cecilia SCOTT on 18 October 1941 at Saint Aidan's Presbyterian Church in Claremont [39: 8-Nov-1941]
He was one of the guests of honour at the Welcome Home to Ex-Service Personnel held in Coorow on 2 March 1946 [5: 15-Mar-1946]
From The West Australian newspaper, Saturday 8 November 1941:
Marriages
"WALLACE – SCOTT. – On October 18, at St Aidan's Presbyterian Church, Claremont, by Rev, E. New, John W., elder son of Mr and Mrs R. Wallace, of Coorow, to Kathleen Cecilia, only daughter of Lt-Col. J. M. Scott and Mrs Scott, of Kellerberrin."
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'John William Wallace' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 19 December 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/jock-wallace [reference list] |
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