Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1914 Star (4953 Pte. M. Wallace, R.A.M.C.) good very fine £50-70

4953 Private Michael Wallace, Royal Army Medical Corps, entered France on 20 August 1914. He was drowned when the hospital ship Salta hit a mine laid by the German U-boat UC-26 and sank off Le Havre, 10 April 1917. Of the 205 passengers and crew, 9 nurses, 42 members of the R.A.M.C. and 79 crew were drowned. The loss was compounded when the patrol boat, H.M.S. P-26 attempting to get alongside to assist, also struck a mine and sank. Wallace, aged 26 years at the time of his death, was buried at St. Marie Cemetery, Le Havre. He was the son of John Wallace, of Shettleston, Glasgow and husband of Kathleen Wallace, of 15 Whiteley Road, Upper Norwood, London. With copied research. Entitled to a clasp to his 1914 Star.