Rowland Wallace HOPE

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Service Numbers:	1048, V92062, V352001
Enlisted:	21 April 1915
Last Rank:	Lieutenant Colonel
Last Unit:	3 Garrison Battalion (Vic)
Born:	Camperdown, Victoria, Australia, 2 January 1896
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Camperdown Grammar School and Geelong College, Victoria
Occupation:	Wool broker
Died:	Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 9 November 1970, aged 74 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Geelong Eastern Cemetery, Victoria Plot - EAS-PRES-OLD-B1-807-37
Memorials:	Geelong College WW1 Roll of Honour

21 Apr 1915:	Enlisted Other Commonwealth Forces, Lieutenant, 1048, King Edward's Horse

17 Mar 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V92062, 3 Garrison Battalion (Vic)
27 Feb 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant Colonel, V352001
1 Dec 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant Colonel, V352001
Date unknown:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V92062, 3 Garrison Battalion (Vic)

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Enlisted 21 April 1915.

Deployed to France 2 June 1915.

Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant 10 July 1915 King Edwards Horse.

Wounded neck and shoulder, during the defence of Vieille Chapelle, Huits Maisons and Fosse Bridgeheads 9, 10, 11 April 1918.

Lieutenant 1919.

His service in the 1st King Edwards Horse is mentioned in "Geelong Collegians at the Great War" (James Affleck)