GUARDSMAN K. WALLACE
SCOTS GUARDS
Easter Sunday 1954
Roy Fletcher 1st Btn Scots Guards 1953-55 remembers:
It happened on Easter Sunday 1954 after the morning church service. I attended this service. Wallace was escort to taking the Padre back to the married quarters at Port Fouad. On the journey back to Golf Course Camp they crossed the canal on the Ginilian Ferry and after the ferry docked in Port Said the shooting happened. I believe the RAOC driver was unarmed. Memory sometimes fade with age, but I believe the above is correct.
The History of Scots Guards 919-1953 (page 495) confirms this:-
“By good fortune, the Batt suffered only one fatal casualty at the hands
of the thugs. This was Guardsman K. Wallace who was fatally wounded in Port
Said during April 1954 while on vehicle escort, a task that occupied many weary
hours.”
Colin Spennock Scots Guards 1953-54 remembers:
The 1st Scots Guards were stationed at Moascar and I can recall one Scots Guardsman being killed at Navy House, Port Said although I forget his name but I believe he was Batman to the Padre.
Some of those servicemen who died in defence of the Suez Canal were returned
home by their next-of-kin so possibly would not be shown as they were not buried
in Egypt during the period of unrest – 1951-54