Photo: B. Chandler
1030121 Sergeant
J. Wallace
Pilot
Royal Air Force
8th April 1943 age 22
Greater love
hath no man than this
that a man laydown
his life for his friends.
Sgt. Wallace was serving with 1654 Heavy Conversion Unit. He was a crew member of Lancaster I L7545 UG-S which took off from Wigsley on a training flight. The aircraft collided with another, all crew from both aircraft were killed.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses: Vol. 8; Heavy Conversion Units and Miscellaneous Units, 1939-1947;W.R. Chorley; 2003; Midland Publishing; ISBN 1 85780 156 3
He is remembered in Amble on A13.06 and in Radcliffe on R32.01
