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Corporal Olive May Wallace

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Military service

Service number: W/3248
Age: 21
Rank: Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Women's Army Corps
Birth: January 16, 1922 Woodrow, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: February 17, 1942 Ontario
Death: May 11, 1943 Ottawa, Ontario

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Sec. 29. Lot 4. Grave 1 47.
Additional information

Daughter of John Seymour Wallace and Amy Mabel Wallace, of Kingston, Ontario.
Brother of Lorne Wallace of Raymore, Saskatchewan.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 224 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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OTTAWA (BEECHWOOD) CEMETERY Ontario, Canada

OTTAWA (BEECHWOOD) CEMETERY contains 98 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 113 from the Second World War. Many of the graves are in the two veterans plots, where there is also a Cross of Sacrifice dedicated to all service casualties buried in the cemetery.

The OTTAWA CREMATION MEMORIAL is in a shelter adjoining the newer of the veterans plots in the cemetery and commemorates 26 Second World War servicemen whose remains were cremated elsewhere in Canada and the U.S.A.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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