Shipley Alan Reginald Wallace Capt 42023
Personnel Entry
Name Shipley Alan Reginald Wallace
Army number 42023
Rank Capt
Decorations psc, M.i.D. 10/1/1946
Date of birth 23/12/1910
Age
Unit Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry - Commissioned as 2/Lt 29/1/1931, Seconded on attachment to the RAF 14/9/1936 until 1940, Posted No 4 ITC, Posted 11th Bn The Durham Light Infantry 13/3/1940, B.E.F., ?Iceland, Attached to Royal West African Frontier Force - Africa and Burma 1941 - 1945, Retired 15/1/1956, Ceased RARO liability 22/2/1961.
Company/Battery 11th Bn - Bn HQ,
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role Adjutant 10/3/1940 to 5/4/1941,
Joined Brigade
Promotions Lt 29/1/1934, Captain 29/1/1939, A/Major 6/4/1941, T/Major 16/5/1943, Major 1/7/1946.
Wounded
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action Not yet known.
Home address Son of Lt Col Reginald Burge Shipley and Flora Marion, daughter of William Wallace, Oklahoma. Educated Winchester and Christ's College, Cambridge (BA 1932). Married 6/6/1947 Violet, daughter of Edward Harold Kemp RCMP. Yew Tree Cottage, Blackboys, Sussex.
Source table 11DLI
