Watty Wallace
George Walter Gordon Wallace was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Biography
Wallace was born in Queensland, the son of Charles Wallace and his wife Minnie. He was educated at the Mareeba and Chillagoe primary schools before joining the First Australian Imperial Force in 1916. He had put his age up by two years in order to enlist and saw action in France and Belgium with the 7th and 21st Machine Gun Companies. On his return to Australia he joined the meat industry, working in both Cairns and Gordonvale as a slaughterman and butcher.On 7 December 1920 Wallace married Lillian May Clark and together had one son, Walter Gordon Wallace. Lillian died in 1936 and the next year Wallace married Alice May Kiefel. He died in October 1964 and was buried in the Martyn Street Cemetery in Cairns.