Military Provost Staff Corps

Soldier Details:

Surname: Wallace

Initials: P.

Rank: Corporal

Army No.: CMP..

Notes: CMP. No regimental number given. Citation for the Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Society Certificate & Bronze Medal. Extract from the Liverpool Echo, 14/10/44. NCO'S RESCUE DIVE. Western Command commendation. Lt Gen D G Watson, GOC in C Western Command, has expressed in order his appreciation of the courage and presence of mind shown by Corporal P Wallace, Corps of Military Police who lives at Windsor Road, Abertillery, in saving a boy from drowning. Whilst resting on the bank of a tidal river after a swim, the NCO noticed the boy was in difficulties in the water twenty five yards out. A youth had already gone to his aid but Corporal Wallace dived in and swam out to the pair to find that the youth was having trouble in trying to support the boy, who was struggling. Corporal Wallace brought the boy safely to a slipway where he applied artificial respiration.

Decorations/Medals/Awards (1)

1. Decoration: Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Soc Bz Medal

Gazette Date: 1944-08-14

Gazette Issue: Soc Log Book

Gazette Page: page 21 1944

Citation: Citation for the Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Soc Cert & Bz Medal. CORPORAL P WALLACE CORPS OF MILITARY POLICE JOURNAL OF THE LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK & HUMANE SOCIETY PAGE 21 DATED 1944 New Brighton, Cheshire Diary entry reads:- Bronze Medal and Certificate each to Corporal Phillip Wallace, Military Police Corps, and Joseph Henry Mainwaring for having rescued a boy from the River Mersey at Egremont, on the 7th August 1944. Award of the Society's certificate and bronze medal.

Surname:	Wallace
Initials:	P.
Rank:	Corporal
Army No.:	CMP..
Notes:	CMP. No regimental number given. Citation for the Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Society Certificate & Bronze Medal. Extract from the Liverpool Echo, 14/10/44. NCO'S RESCUE DIVE. Western Command commendation. Lt Gen D G Watson, GOC in C Western Command, has expressed in order his appreciation of the courage and presence of mind shown by Corporal P Wallace, Corps of Military Police who lives at Windsor Road, Abertillery, in saving a boy from drowning. Whilst resting on the bank of a tidal river after a swim, the NCO noticed the boy was in difficulties in the water twenty five yards out. A youth had already gone to his aid but Corporal Wallace dived in and swam out to the pair to find that the youth was having trouble in trying to support the boy, who was struggling. Corporal Wallace brought the boy safely to a slipway where he applied artificial respiration.