387 - A 1914/15 Star Trio to a soldier of the Gordon Highlanders who was killed in action during the Battle of Arras on the Western Front on 5 May 1917 and has no

A 1914/15 Star Trio to a soldier of the Gordon Highlanders who was killed in action during the Battle of Arras on the Western Front on 5 May 1917 and has no known grave. 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal, all named to: S-2092 Pte D A Wallace Gord Highrs. David Alexander Wallace was born in Govan, Glasgow in 1891. He enlisted into the 1 st Battalion The Gordon Highlanders in Glasgow and disembarked in France on 10 May 1915. He was killed in action on 5 May 1917 whilst serving with ‘B’ Company of the Battalion during the Battle of Arras, aged 26. Pte Wallace has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, Bay No 9, Course ‘H’. The Arras Memorial commemorates 34,809 soldiers of the British, South African and New Zealand forces who died in the Arras sector between Spring 1916 and 7 August 1918 (the eve of the ‘Great Offensive’) and who have no known graves. These medals are accompanied by the (damaged) boxes of issue and are in pristine condition, never having been cleaned or mounted, and with shortened lengths of the original silk, watered ribbons. With copy MIC and other casualty-related documents.