Lieutenant Robert Cecil Wallace OC 384 10th Regiment South African Infantry (Imperial Light Horse) was killed in action in Tanzania fighting in German East Africa. He was 33 and is buried in Dar es Salaam War Cemetery, Tanzania, Africa.

He immigrated to South Africa where he was employed at the Standard Bank in Johannesburg. He joined the Imperial Light Horse of the South African Field Force as a Trooper and subsequently received a commission. Robert was also a nephew of Dr. Richard Whytock Leslie who was the first Doctor of Campbell College, Belfast

 His younger brother John WALLACE OC 385 served with the 19th Alberta Dragoons and survived the war.

Robert Wallace’s cousin, 2nd Lieutenant James Lytton Millar OC 1206, age 18 was killed in action on 28th July 1916. He was the youngest former pupil of Campbell College to die in the First World War, and he is buried at Vermelles British Cemetery, France.

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