CAPT. THOMAS FRANCIS WALLIS, 12TH BATTN. SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED IN ACTION AT MOISLAINS, N . OF PERONNE, SEPTEMBER 2ND, 1918. AGED 24. At the School 1909—10 (Park House). Capt. T. F. Wallis was the eldest son of the late Robert Francis Wallis, of Sarisbury House, Titchfield, Hants, and grandson of the late R. F. Wallis, J.P., of Old Ridley, Stockfield, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Entering the School from Mr. H. T. M. Wallis, Dent de lion, Westgate-on-Sea, in May, 1909, he left in July, 1910, and in 1912 joined the Oar and General Insurance Company. In 1916 he married Elsie, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Stark, of Exeter. He applied for a commission early in August, 1914, and in the meantime, as there was some delay, enlisted in the 21st (4th Public Schools) Battn. of the Royal Fusiliers on September 14th, 1914. On January 14th, 1915, he received a temporary commission in the 8th Somerset Light Infantry, and going to France to join his Battalion in the following October was promoted Temporary Captain on July 2nd, 1916. In the following August he was invalided home with enteric and was not again fit for active service till July, 1917, when he was sent to Egypt to the 12th Battn., and with them he took part in several actions in Palestine before his Division, the 74th Yeomanry Division, was transferred to France at the end of May, 1918. At the beginning of July he came home on leave, and, his father dying suddenly of pneumonia on July 10th, his leave was extended and he did not return to France till August 4th. On September 2nd he was instantaneously killed by machine-gun fire " whilst gallantly leading his Company forward in an attack " on the village of Moislains, on the Somme, and was buried in a neighbouring cemetery. A subaltern who had been in his Company in Palestine and France since July, 1917, wrote:— " He was, without exception, the bravest man I have ever seen under fire, and he is a great loss to the Battalion and to us all." His Brigadier-General wrote of him :— " He set a magnificent and inspiring example of dauntless courage, determination and devotion to duty. Beloved by all ranks of his Battalion and admired and respected by all as a true leader of men, his loss not only to his Battalion but to the Service in general is a heavy one."