Linda Gowans has supplied the following:-
Wallace was born in Sunderland in 1894, two years after his brother Alexander In the 1911 census he is at 24 Fernville Street, and is an Apprentice Engineer at a turbine engine works.
Wallace enlisted in Sunderland, and like his brother must have joined the DLI at an early stage of the war. No records of his military service have survived, but the website Durham At War tells what he went through: The 7th Battalion DLI, formed in 1908 from the old 3rd Volunteer Battalion DLI, was a Territorial Force battalion with headquarters and six companies in Sunderland and two companies in South Shields. On 25 July 1914, 7 DLI left Sunderland for annual camp in North Wales with the rest of the Northumbrian Division. On 3 August, however, following Germany’s declaration of war on France, the order came for the division to return home and prepare for war. Over the next nine months, 7 DLI’s part-time volunteer soldiers, formed into four companies, were trained at Boldon, Ravensworth, and Gateshead for full-time active service overseas. Under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Ernest Vaux, a member of the Sunderland brewing firm, the 1st/7th Battalion left Newcastle railway station on 19 April for France. Within days, the raw Durham soldiers were fighting for their lives in the Second Battle of Ypres, suffering heavy casualties from shelling and gas attacks at Zonnebeke and in the GHQ line, the last trench defence before Ypres itself.
The last battle of Second Ypres was the Battle of Bellewaarde Ridge, which took place on May 24th-25th 1915, so it may be here that Private Eggleston was killed in action. He is remembered, with more than 54,000 others who have no known grave, on the Menin Gate, perhaps one of the best-known war memorials in the world.
Wallace Eggleston is remembered at Sunderland on S140.009, S140.010, and S140.048 part 2
He is also remembered in The DLI Book of Remembrance page 129
