Clarrie Wallach

Clarence "Clarrie" Wallach MC (November 1889 – 22 April 1918)[2][3] was an Australian representative rugby union forward and decorated World War I military officer.

Born in November 1889 in Sydney, Clarence Wallach, known as Clarrie, played club rugby for Eastern Suburbs RUFC as a lock.

After training in Egypt, the battalion landed at Anzac Cove on 21 August 1915, and following that took part in the attack on Battle of Hill 60.

He described hearing of the deaths of his Eastern Suburbs clubmates Harold George and Fred Thompson from William Tasker, another rugby contemporary who served at Gallipoli and who, like Wallach, would die on the Western Front.

[5] Clarrie kept a diary at Gallipoli which is referred to by Carlyon for its glib style, e.g."Nothing of note, two skittled by shrapnel"[6] On the Western Front Wallach saw action at the Battle of Pozières in August 1916.

[7] In 1918, the 19th Battalion helped to repel the German spring offensive, and it was during this time, on 7 April 1918, that Wallach, by now a captain and commander of a company, was involved in an attack around Hangard Wood.