| Rank | Warrant Officer Class II (Pilot) |
| Unit # | 421 Red Indian Sqdn., RCAF |
Son of George and Marion Ida Wallace, of CPR Station, Tilbury, Ontario, Canada.
Robert was reported home on a week-end leave in March, 1942. TT 12/03/42; and again in late March, while he was training at Toronto Manning. TT26/03/42, he was home again in early April a weekend leave at home. TT 9/04/42.
In May of 1942 Robert then training at RCAF Toronto was given a weekend pas to visit his parents. TT 7/05/42. In January of 1943 Bob lost a good friend LAC Douglas Weatherbe on the 6th of January while at No. 14 S.F.T.S (Specialized Flight Training School) at Alymer, ON. in a plane crash. Douglas had been a guest at the Wallace home for the New Years celebration. TT 14/01/43.
Age: 21, KIA – Date of Death: 23/06/1944, Service No: R/145315. WO Wallace was flying his Spitfire fighter on a dusk armed Reconn. Flight over the Cean area of France. He was killed when his aircraft crashed 50 miles inland north of Merlierault, France; “likely shot down by Hermann Staiger, a Luftwaffe captain flying a Focke-Wolf Fw190 fighter”.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
| Sources | “The Tilbury Story 1887 -1987”. Index of Overseas Deaths. They Shall Grow Not Old. “A Lost Treasure” – Active Adult magazine Mar/Apr 2011, TT 26/03/42. |
| Supplemental Information | Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead,Cemetery: STE. GAUBURGE-STE. COLOMBE COMMUNAL CEMETERY. |
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