WALLACE
GEORGE TUCKER
Lance
Corporal 290236

Wallace George Tucker was born in Newton Ferrers on 8 May 1895, the son of George, a fisherman, and Emma Tucker.� He had four older sisters.� The 1901 Census shows his mother as widowed,
with only �George� and Blanche remaining at home.� He was baptised at Holy Cross Church on 5 July 1895, and attended the local school from 30
August 1898 to 19 June 1908 (Roll No. 373 also gives his
name as �George�).
George Tucker enlisted at Plymouth into The 2nd/6th
Battalion (Territorials) of the Devonshire Regiment.� The battalion served almost three years of
the war as a garrison unit in India, initially in Bombay, then moving to the Chakrata
Hills and ending up in Peshawar on the North West
Frontier.� In July 1917 orders were
received to prepare for a move to Palestine, but on reaching Deolali
fresh orders were issued for a move to Mesopotamia.� The battalion sailed on the HT �Edavana� and
arrived at Basra on 14 September 1917.� Based at
Sheikh Saad on the River Tigris in Basra Province, the battalion�s task was to
protect lines of communications. ��
The battalion war diary does not report any deaths in
November 1918, but there is a record of 65 soldiers going into hospital and 54
later being discharged.� George Tucker
may well have been one of the 11 who died.�
He died on 4 November 1918 aged 24, and is remembered with honour at the
Amara Cemetery (Plot XIV.C.25) in Iraq.
